Clinton City Council to look at tax rate during a budget meeting Monday & it could be lower than this year even if an emergency levy is reinstated. Click ‘read more’ for detailsThe Clinton City Council continues their budget sessions Monday afternoon. The session starts at 3 o’clock at City Hall.
The topics for the meeting are debt service, capital projects and special revenue funds.
Included in the items is information on the overall tax levy. The material points out that the city wide property valuation for the next budget year is lower than the current year – so the tax dollars the city would receive would be less than allocated for this year. A recommendation to re-instate the emergency levy is proposed. That levy was eliminated last year to reduce the tax rate.
Finance Director Anita Dalton points out that even with the emergency levy included the tax rate for the next budget year would be less than the current rate. The levy would be 15 dollars and 88 cents per thousand dollars of taxable value while the current rate is 16 dollars and 32 cents.
Employee benefits and a reduction the health insurance rates are the biggest factors in lowering the rate.
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The Camanche School Board meets on Monday.
One item on the agenda is a report about an update for the school district website.
The meeting will be at 7:30 at the Camanche School’s Administrative Center.
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Tuesday morning will be the regular meeting of the Clinton County Board. The board will consider amendments to the agenda and resolutions procedures. The business session will start at 9:15.
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The Clinton Traffic Study Commission will review proposals to adjust a couple of four lane city streets to three lanes with the middle lane a left turn lane. Reports will be presented to make the adjustments on 2nd Avenue South from South Bluff to South 14th Street and Springdale Drive from North Bluff to 13th Avenue North.
Previously a similar proposal to adjust 13th Avenue North to a three lane street had been introduced.
The Traffic Study Commission meeting is Tuesday at 4:45 at city hall.
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A couple of committees of the Riverbend School Board will be meeting on Tuesday.
The Citizen Advisory Committee meets at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon at the Fulton High School. Among the agenda topics is the 2015-2016 school year public calendar. The committee will also discuss deficit reduction planning.
The Riverbend School Finance Committee will be meeting at 5:30 on Tuesday at the Fulton High School at 5:30. They will review financial projections, a review of the one-percent sales tax and determine areas to reduce expenditures.
The board of the Fulton based school district will meet on Tuesday evening. Some of the committee discussions will be a part of the meeting including the sales tax use and budget reductions.
The meeting will be 6:30 at the Fulton High School Cafeteria.
The Riverbend School Board will meet in a special session on January 26th for the purpose of the Superintendent’s evaluation.
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The Northeast School Board meets on Wednesday evening this week.
The school calendar for the 2015-2016 school year will be discussed. The board also plans a closed session concerning a legal matter.
The meeting will be January 21st at 6 PM at the Elementary Building Library.
