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League offers an alternative to HB236: single budget with impact schedule and restricted hold
Summary
In response to Representative Karen Peterson's HB236, League staff proposed a single-budget approach that preserves transparency: present the budget including a contemplated tax increase while attaching a department-by-department "schedule of impacts" showing what would not occur without the increase and place the increment-equivalent amount in a restricted hold until final adoption.
Gary Hill, Bountiful city manager and League consultant Carrie Nakamura have been working on an alternative to Representative Karen Peterson's House Bill 236. HB236 in its current draft would require taxing entities to produce two full budgets — one reflecting a contemplated property-tax increase and one without it — a requirement staff said would be technically burdensome and unwieldy for many jurisdictions.
Gary described an alternative approach the work group developed in state-conversations: local governments would adopt a single proposed budget as they do now, but if a property-tax increase is being contemplated they would also…
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