(Havre) The Hill County Commissioners are putting out a ballot for the rural communities, that is anyone outside of Havre and Hingham city limits, to double the mills levied on their taxes for the road maintenance section.
Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson told us more.
“We passed a resolution earlier this year to increase the mill levy. If you look at the mill levy today, it is 37.89 mills. What we’re asking to do is double that mill. So if you go to your tax sheet and you look on the left-hand side of that tax sheet, go down about half way you’ll see a place that says road,” said Peterson. “If you look at the far right of that column it has a dollar amount. If you take all your tax slips and add that dollar amount up, then you will see what you’re paying for your road maintenance”
Once you’ve totaled that number, says Peterson, multiply it by two. That’s what you would pay if this resolution passes.
Peterson has mentioned before during Commissioner business meetings that the road department in Hill County used to have a reserve of one million dollars, the time frame of which he pins in the mid 70s.
Since then though, he tells us that the tax hasn’t be risen, besides the par-for-the-course, universal raise to all taxes that happens each year equal to half the rate of inflation, other than special ballots like this one in which the public voted to voluntarily increase their own taxes.
This tax ask is among 4 others that commissioners have chosen to put to ballot in June. Stay tuned into New Media Broadcasters stations to stay in the loop on this and other stories.
