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Show Increases 6 Davis Approves Mill Levy Of 15.41 Mills By MARK D. MICKELSEN FARMINGTON The Davis County Commission Thursday adopted a fiscal year 1981 mill levy totalling 15.41 mills. The .16 mill increase over 1980 w ill mean a six percent increase in property tax rates for county landowners. Residents whose homes are assessed at $60,000 will pay an additional $9 when tax notices go out in the fall. COUNTY officials estimated the 1981 mill levy at 16.95 mills during final budget hearings last December, but were able to reduce the levy 1.54 nulls by cutting mill appropriations in the library and library construction funds. The proposed lex y w ill provide the county coun-ty with 100 percent of the revenue allowable allow-able under state tax law s passed during the recent legislative session. However, the county will still have to pick up an additional addition-al $190.1 15 by December, or be forced to open the budget, or use federal revenue sharing funds to strike a balance. ACCORDING to House Bill 104. passed into law by the 1981 state legislature, counties coun-ties whose assessed properly valuation increases in-creases more than ten percent may not increase in-crease their property tax revenues by more than six percent. A four percent growth factor is added onto the stipulation. Com. Chairman Ernest Lberhard termed the new law "one of the worst pieces of legislation I've ever seen." IN ADDITION to the mill lev y. Auditor Ludeen Gibbons said. "We hope to save enough out of some departments to take care of it ($9,000,000 budget)." She said the county is also "picking up" some of its revenues from other sources. She did not say what those "sources" are. BROKEN DOW N the approved mill levy calls for: A total of 1,76 mills for library financing. A TOTAL of 1 .79 mills for flood control. con-trol. 1.0 mills for capital improvements projects. pro-jects. A REDUCED .09 mills for library construction. con-struction. . The overall levy was approved at 10.77 mills by the commission. Mill appropriations appropria-tions for the library, flood control, construction con-struction and capital improvements are added onto the overall 10.77 figure. TO MEET legislative restrictions, the commission was forced to reduce the library lib-rary fund from 1.90 to 1.76. The library construction fund was reduced from one mill to .09 mills. "I think our departments have done very well." Com. Eberhard said, praising Mrs. Gibbons for "keeping watch" over budget appropriations throughout the county. W HILE THE 15.41 mill levy represents only a . 16 mill increase over 1980, residents may face relatively higher prorcrty tax rates this year due to a countywide reassessment reas-sessment program aimed at updating 1973 property assesements to 1978 state-assessed state-assessed values. |