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Show City, County Take Unique Move, Decrease Mill Levies Cedar Property Tax Levy Lowered At Council Budget Revision Meeting Property tax mill levy in Cedar City was lowered from 26.30 to 25.80 at the meeting of the City Council held Thursday evening, Aug. 6. The lowering of the mill levy makes Cedar City one of the unique communities In the state with trends based on rising costs forcing most tax levies up, rather rath-er than down. According to Mayor Arnold Anderson An-derson the lowering of the levy was brought about by two factors. fac-tors. First factor in the lowering of the levy was the Increased assessed valuation of the city. At the beginning of the fiscal year, Jan. 1, 1959, the assessed valuation valua-tion of Cedar City was $5,396,025. ' On the basis of this valuation the 26.30 mill levy would bring an anticipated $139,285.46. The new valuation of the community com-munity of $5,492,494, an Increase of $196,469, will bring In an estimated es-timated $141,706.35, on the lower mill levy of 25.80. A second factor In the lowering lower-ing of the mill levy Is the amount of unappropriated fundi that were left from the 1958 city budget The lowering of the mill levy was made at the council meeting when the budget for the 1959 year was revised to accommodate the purchase of the new garbage collection truck and the instal-latlon instal-latlon of the new sewer line In the north sector of the city. In addition to the revision of the tax levy the budget was revised re-vised to accommodate these Improvements Im-provements and other Inadequacies Inadequa-cies in the budget that have cropped up during the first six months of the year. Biggest Charge Biggest change In the mill levy was In the bond redemption and interest bond issue. Mill levy for this portion of the budget was reduced re-duced from 5.03 mills to 2.75 mills. General fund mill levy remained approximately the same but showed a slight Increase In-crease from 21.07 levied for the first six months, to 22.85 under the revised budget plan. Sewer and drains portltn of the gener-al gener-al fund received the largest Increase In-crease In mill levy from .72 to 2 full mills. Under the sewer and sewage disposal portion of the budget the original expenditure was set at $12,288.77. The revised budget opproved by the council Increased Increas-ed this budget Item to $39,435.01 for the purpose of covering the cost of the new sewer Installation Installa-tion now under way. waste removel was Increased from $9,275.98 to $24,835.05. This increase includes the purchase of the new garbage disposal unit and the adding of an additional employee to handle the Increased pickups within the community. The new disposal unit was $11,-317.55 $11,-317.55 and salary expenditures ww Increased from $7,680 to $10,568, the mayor stated. Other minor changes In the various budget Items were ap-proved ap-proved by the council to bring 'the budget Into balance In all departments. |