Carlisle County adopts funding ordinance and sets 2024–25 tax rates

Carlisle County officials adopted Ordinance 150307 and set several 2024–25 tax rates at a regular meeting, approving the measure after a public hearing and then moving through a series of rate votes.

The ordinance adds a mechanism for the county to use general-fund monies and distribute a determined amount to local volunteer fire departments based on a set of percentages (the ordinance text was presented as Ordinance 150307). After opening a public hearing with no substantive questions from attendees, the court voted to adopt the ordinance.

The meeting then entered a public hearing on proposed tax rates for fiscal 2024–25. Commissioners voted to accept the compensating rate for 24/25 and set the general-fund real-estate rate at 20.3. They also set the motor-vehicle and watercraft rate at 12.6 and approved an ambulance real-estate rate of 8.9. Personal-property rates and other levies were handled in sequence, with motions moved, seconded and carried.

The court acknowledged and recorded several special-purpose levies: a bank-franchise/local-deposit rate at 0.025, the health-district real-estate tax at 3.2, the school tax at 58.9 and watershed tax rates (West Fork/Mayfield Creek at 6.7; Obine Creek at 5.26). The timber tax was set at 3¢ per acre. Members noted that the compensating-rate action resulted in a modest overall change from prior years.

The tax-rate votes and adoption of Ordinance 150307 were procedural actions taken during the meeting; no public objections were recorded on the ordinance during the hearing. The court scheduled a second reading for a separate budget amendment (carryover) at the next meeting.

The court’s actions set the county’s rates for the coming fiscal year and put in place the ordinance language to distribute a determined amount for fire-department funding via property tax billing.