Florissant Council Discusses Reducing Utility Tax Rate
Council members also talk about refinancing bonds, charter review during Monday's work session.
Florissant City Council members received good financial news and discussed reducing one a tax as a result. During a Monday work session, Finance Director Randy McDaniel told the council that projected for the rest of the year, Florissant would come about $760,000 ahead of its budgeted utility tax receipts. While putting together the 2011 budget, McDaniel projected the city would receive $5.7 million from the revenue. On Monday, he said Florissant likely would wind up with $6.4 million from utility taxes. Through July, tax collection is $600,000 ahead of projections due to utility rate hikes and higher bills, he said. The city raised the utility tax from 5 percent to 7 percent last year as the council struggled to balance its budget. “I …
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RM
6:18 pm on Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Perhaps instead of "robbing peter to pay paul" so to speak, we should look back to the audit that was done on Florissant that listed many things that were being done that were not in the best interest of the citizens of Florissant but were technically not illegal because of the "strong mayor" form of government that we current have. Perhaps the city should ALWAYS operate in the best interest of … more ›