Mehlville agency will seek lower tax rate:
The Mehlville Fire Protection District will propose yet another reduction in its property tax rate at next week’s tax rate hearing.
The Board of Directors will propose a tax rate of 69.8 cents per $100 assessed valuation for 2007, Chairman Aaron Hilmer said.
“The reason we lowered it even further than we originally intended was (that) as we looked at the amount of reserves that we had, they were just stunning . . . what we built up in the last 18 months,” Hilmer said. “This is in addition to building a new firehouse, buying a new fire truck, ordering another one, getting three new ambulances, new staff cars, upgrading medical, etcetera. So we looked and saw we were projecting eight to nine million dollars in reserves, in addition to new taxes we’re bringing in, and that’s why we decided to lower it even more.”
I’m writing in the name Aaron Hilmer for 3rd District Congressional Representative this year.
