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Mills County reviewer outlines budget proposal, schedules tax-rate vote next week
Summary
County budget officer Charles Miles presented the 2025–26 budget outlook, reporting roughly $8.0 million in receipts net of transfers and projecting near‑term debt under $1 million; the commission will consider a proposed tax rate at next week’s meeting.
Charles Miles presented the county’s proposed 2025–26 budget, telling the commissioners that the county’s "Total receipts net of transfers is $8,000,002.84" and describing an approximate prior‑year surplus. He walked the court through the assumptions used to project 25/26 revenues and expenditures, including equipment spending, payroll assumptions and operating transfers; the draft shows projected net debt near $964,965.
Michael Hall of the Appraisal District explained how changes in taxable value affect the county’s options for raising the tax rate without an election. Hall said, "Your revenue tax rate is 1.099. Your voter approval rate is 1.105," and cautioned that with little difference between those rates any increase could require voter approval unless taxable value grows. The court’s chair said a proposed tax rate and salary/allowance figures will be presented and voted on at next week’s meeting.
