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Budget workshop: council to keep military millage, discusses fire assessment, buyer-fee exemptions and electronic billing options
Summary
Budget staff recommended maintaining the current 2.99-mill military tax rate and briefed the council on fire-assessment and buyer-assessment fee mechanics and potential administrative exemptions for city parcels; staff also opened discussion on an electronic-billing incentive to reduce mailing costs.
City budget staff updated the Milton City Council on several budget-related items during the work session, recommending the city maintain the current military millage rate, explaining proposed adjustments to the fire-assessment and buyer-assessment fees, and opening discussion about electronic utility billing incentives.
Budget director Laura McDill told the council preliminary property valuations show a roughly 7% increase in taxable values compared with the prior year and that maintaining a 2.99-mill military tax rate would yield roughly $200,000 additional revenue compared with last year (the staff figure cited in the meeting). McDill recommended…
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