I got the authorization to sign a doc to potentially participate in a Administrative Review and/or Capital Improvement Plan that may be partially funded by Story County. It has some merits, but I'm no sure I am going to sign it yet. We actually are handling a bunch of that in house. It is only a couple hundred bucks, so it is not that big of deal. So I shall see if more info is forthcoming before I sign that.
Our biggest time spent in the meeting was regarding the budget. And thanks to some tough decisions, and penny pinching, the council and I were able to come up with a budget where we could keep the mil rate (property tax charge) the same as last year for general operations.
One caveat to this, we are going to have a 2 cents per thousand increase because our bond payment schedule required us to increase the payment on the Bryan/Arthur street project. So on a $100,000 house that will be about a dollar and ten cents higher payment to fund the increased debt payment this year.
So Roland is going to go from $10.07 per thousand to $10.09 per thousand.--and again the increase is strictly for the debt payment--funding our general operations will stay exactly the same as last year. AND THAT IS FREAKIN' AWESOME!
With what those jackwagons in Washington do, our city staff, our boards, and our council/mayor have made the tough decisions that allow us to hold the line on spending.
With that said, we are not starving the city either. We still were able to fund a good portion of our proposed new city hall, provide for some more construction in Britson Park, maintain services at our library, get some fixes done at the pool, and pool park, as well as street and water/sewer planned maintenance. And when we can keep taxes down, that is more money you get to keep, and make Roland a more attractive place to live, which helps maintain home values.
So I'm really excited about what we were able to pull off, and again, the credit goes to a lot of people within Roland.
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