[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Well, the BoCC proved me wrong! The proposed budget, available from the minutes of the recent working group, shows the property tax remaining the same as this year PLUS the MSTU for TVPSDDD PLUS the increased MSBU. My effective tax rate will be going up, even in an election year!

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I need to spend time calculating what my effective property tax increase is going to be.

If I have misstated something above or appear to be misunderstanding anything, please let me know.


EDIT: It seems there will be a POA meeting tonight where the County Administrator will discuss the 24-25 budget. He will not be able to talk about the TVPSDDD budget but he SHOULD be able to explain why ALS Readiness in 24-25 will cost more than 50% of what ALL fire protection plus ALS cost in 23-24 AND why fire protection costs were reduced by $16M yet property tax rates were not able to be decreased below the rollback rate.

Still checking the math and really need the 2024 TRIM to be completely accurate but it looks like:
- My payment for fire protection (including ambulance) will increase 17%
- My payment for non-fire protection will increase 10%
- My overall effective property tax rate will be 13% above the rollback rate.

So for me, a 13% tax increase will be passed off as, "a net change of -.2728 mills (5.26% reduction) from FY 23/24 to FY 24/25."

This will be on my mind in August (corrected this per post below).