Commission grapples with $1.783 million valuation error as budget talks intensify
Residents and commissioners pressed staff about an apparent $1.783 million overestimate in taxable valuation that inflated this year's revenue baseline; commissioners signaled cuts and a mill-levy target heading into the next budget cycle.
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Roger Lamch, a county resident who presented budget charts, told the Crawford County Commission that an error in calculating taxable property produced an "$1.783 million increase in tax revenue" that did not stem from new houses but from miscounted taxable values. "That $1.783 million increase in tax revenue that did not come because 400 people built new houses. It came because there was an error in calculating what was taxable property," Lamch said.
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