By Scott Unger • Of the News-Register • 

Budget committee recommends 50-cent tax levy increase in ’25

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fiddler

Hellllooooooo out there? Is anyone listening?

The city has collected almost $2,000,000 in excess of a bond issue, and it CONTINUES to collect on a fire department that does not exist.

How about taking that money for your general fund? You'll have to get voter approval first, though, because what you've done by spending the overages is illegal.

Take responsibility: either refund the excesses or eat the new fifty-cent hike.

mikes

The city does not make it easy for a couple old folks on a fixed income, who might own property that could be developed, to afford the cost of asking and other unknown costs. Thousands just to ask, more to pay city staff to review. Requirements up to the Director and other Department's discretion. And if requirements are too expensive. Sorry. Don't get your asking fee or anything returned. It is set up for deep pocket developers, not us ordinary old folks who would like to put a nice little house in town.

Don Dix

2022 - Fire district formed - $1.50/K removed from McMinnville's tax for first year (fire dept. share). Then $.50/K added back in the second year.

Now, the city wants at least half of the $1.00/K left over, and scheming to get it all ASAP.

Exactly where was the first $.50 used or designated? And where/what is the destination of the second? The third?

This is a large amount of cash we are talking about (42% increase). How 'bout someone with the information step up with an explanation where this money went or is going.

'Promising to be accountable' means very little if it never occurs, right?

Otis

Don't be hot and bothered about city fees when your own salaries have been kept low for the past 40 years to help make fat cat trillionaires richer. The city is strapped for cash...just like the rest of us. We're all still waiting for fat cat table scraps to trickle to the floor. Wake up and vote for people that want to TAX THE RICH.

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