BERLIN – Officials in Berlin are expected to consider a two-cent property tax rate increase as the budget process moves forward.
Following discussion at this week’s work session, Mayor Zack Tyndall instructed staff to include a rate of $0.835 per $100 of assessed valuation in the tax rate ordinance to be considered by the council following a public hearing April 24. While council members have mixed feelings on an increase, Tyndall said it would help balance the budget.
“To cover the $220,000 deficit, we suggest a two-cent increase on the tax rate and then covering the remaining capital items, which should be a delta of about $100,000 or so, with impact fees,” he said.
On Monday, Tyndall and town council members discussed the tax rate during an enterprise fund budget work session. Tyndall said the town needed to overcome a $220,000 deficit in the proposed budget. Noting that that figure had been about $325,000 last week when officials were working under the assumption Worcester County would not be providing the requested extra $122,000 in EMS funding, Councilman Steve Green asked what had changed. Tyndall said he was simply basing the budget on the assumption that the town would receive its usual $465,000 unrestricted grant as well as the requested $122,000 from the county.
“We’ve asked for it and we’re relying on that,” he said.
GOVERNMENT HOUSING also known as SECTION 8
COMING TO BERLIN
If the Town of Berlin needs money, why don’t they sell that run down chicken plant they have owned for years?
I told you a couple of months ago that the politicians in Berlin were going to do this.
They are democrats.
This is what they do. Raise your taxes, fees, surcharges and fines, and promise you the world.
BUT NOTHING EVER GETS BETTER.
If you vote democrat, you are, without a doubt, one of the stupidest people possible.
Here’s ANOTHER prediction that will come true — they will soon come up with “specific” taxes and surcharges that will be, (supposedly) used for ONE purpose only (school improvement, certain road improvements, tourist attraction, etc.) which will then be diverted to the general fund to cover “unexpected” costs in their whack-ass democrat budget.
Being a resident of Berlin is being a target for democrats.
It’s like swimming in a pond and when you get out, leeches are all over you.
Keep cheering.
Keep believing these leeches are concerned about you and care about your life. They just want your blood.
Democrats are the enemy of this great country — everywhere they are and everywhere they go.
Just ask the residents of Portland, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Baltimore (how much time do you have???), Oakland, Chicago, Detroit, Washington, DC, and EVERY place the democrats have entrenched themselves as “leaders”.
Might as well add Berlin to that list. Salisbury, too. 32% POVERTY RATE IN SALISBURY??? My God…..
DEMOCRATS.
Cant spend unless one taxes. Yeppers