The JIPSD Ways and Means Committee met Monday night.
The Commissioners reviewed several budget alternatives. They voted 6-1 for a budget that increases their millage 3.9% from 51.1 mills to 53.1 mills. This budget includes a 7.5% average wage increase and a shift from two day a week to one day a week garbage pickup staring at the first of the year.
The budget also involves another 3.9% millage increase in later years (I am not sure when,), for a total increase of 7.8 percent over the next five years.
The Commissioners reviewed several budget alternatives. They voted 6-1 for a budget that increases their millage 3.9% from 51.1 mills to 53.1 mills. This budget includes a 7.5% average wage increase and a shift from two day a week to one day a week garbage pickup staring at the first of the year.
The budget also involves another 3.9% millage increase in later years (I am not sure when,), for a total increase of 7.8 percent over the next five years.
In terms of taxes, I think this is much better than the other alternatives, three of which involved 25% tax increases over the next five year and one involved 22.9%.
The Commissioners plan to make great efforts to explain why it is necessary to go to one day a week garbage pickup--presumably to avoid the 20% to 25% increase in property taxes over the next five years in the other alternatives.
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