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Boyd County Fiscal Court approves package of local tax rates, including rise in school district levy
Summary
At a special Aug. 28 meeting, the Boyd County Fiscal Court recorded and approved special-district tax rates to be placed on property tax bills, including a Boyd County School System rate increase to 70.5 cents per $100 assessed value; votes were procedural and carried by unanimous roll calls.
The Boyd County Fiscal Court met in a special session Aug. 28 and approved a series of special-district tax rates and fees to be added to next year's property tax bills.
Presiding Official said the court's role is limited: it records rates submitted by special taxing districts and authorizes their inclusion on tax bills, while only the county (fiscal court) rate is set by the court itself. "All that we do is essentially we just put the seal on it," the Presiding Official said, explaining the process and announcing an upcoming video to explain how tax bills are calculated.
Among the rates adopted were a county ambulance rate reported as 0.01 (one cent per $100), a county extension rate of 3.5 cents per $100, a health department rate of 6 cents, and a library rate of 10.6 cents. The court voted to keep the county (fiscal court) rate unchanged at 16.2 cents per $100.
Notable changes approved included the Ashland Independent district at 78.7 cents and the Boyd County School System at 70.5 cents per $100, both reported as increases from prior figures. The Cowlitzburg Flood Wall rate was adopted at 28.9 cents, up from about 22.5 cents; Ashland City and Calixburg city rates were reported as declines from prior values.
There was a brief technical clarification about decimal notation early in the meeting and a later question about the Boyd County Conservation rate, which the Presiding Official clarified as approximately 0.048672 (reported in the packet as 0.0486). The court proceeded through the list item by item; for each the Presiding Official requested a motion and second, and the clerk called a roll. Each vote recorded Commissioners Stapleton, Holbrook, Salisbury and Judge Cheney voting in the affirmative.
An attendee reminded the room that the fiscal court does not set school district taxes; "we do not raise those," the Unidentified Speaker said, adding that the court only approves placing the school board's requested rates on the tax bill so the districts can collect the funds. The Presiding Official urged voter participation as the primary avenue for changing those rates.
The court also set the Boyd County 911 fee at $50.
The tax-rate approvals were procedural; no item produced a recorded dissent during roll call. The court moved afterward to the general section of its agenda.
