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Hickman commission advances ordinance setting municipal property tax rates and penalties
Summary
On second reading the commission read and moved to adopt Ordinance 25-1-53 setting municipal ad valorem tax rates, a clerk fee and late-payment penalties; a motion by Commissioner Howard was seconded and roll-call affirmative responses were recorded in the transcript.
The City of Hickman commission reviewed and moved to adopt Ordinance 25-1-53 on its second reading, setting the municipal ad valorem tax rates and related fees and penalties for the coming year.
As read into the record, the ordinance text sets an ad valorem tax rate of "47.2" for municipal purposes on every $100 of assessed valuation of real property and cites an ad valorem rate of "78.9¢" on personal property (as phrased in the reading). The text also includes a levy of 4.7¢ to raise revenue for fire apparatus and equipment, a provision that taxes unpaid before January 2026 will incur a 20% penalty in addition to interest at 12% per annum, and imposition of advertising costs and a clerk fee of $0.75 per tax bill.
A motion to accept the ordinance was made and recorded in the transcript as "motion by Commissioner Howard, seconded by [commissioner]." The meeting record captures multiple affirmative roll-call responses following the motion. The transcript is partially garbled in places where individual votes were read; it records many "Yes" responses but does not present a clean, explicit tallied vote listing all names and the final count in one place.
The ordinance language read on the floor contains procedural provisions allowing the city clerk to exonerate tax bills exonerated by the county and to exonerate city tax bills under $100. The text states the ordinance will be "in full force and effective immediately on and after its enactment following second" reading as read into the record.
The transcript does not include a printed ordinance document, a finalized roll-call tally, or a stated effective date beyond the language read aloud; those items should be confirmed in the official minutes or ordinance text for precise legal effect.
