The Brookfield City Council held its annual tax hearing during Wednesday night’s council meeting and set the tax levy for fiscal year 2010-2011 at the maximum allowed under state law without voter consent: $1.38 per every $100 of assessed valuation. The new tax rate is virtually the same as it was last fiscal year; there is only a difference of .0074 as the total levy for fiscal year 2009-2010 was $1.3726 per $100 of assessed valuation, so there little appreciable difference in tax revenues the City of Brookfield will be collecting.
Brookfield’s municipal tax revenues will be allocated as follows: $.7128 for every $100 of assessed valuation will go to the General Fund, which pays for the provision of most municipal services; $.3672 for every $100 of assessed valuation will go toward support of the Public Library; $.20 for every $100 of assessed valuation will go toward maintaining the public parks; $.10 for every $100 of assessed valuation will provide upkeep for the public cemeteries. There have been very slight increases in tax revenues dedicated to the General Fund and Public Library: $.0049 and $.0025, respectively.
The assessed valuation of real property (i.e., real estate) has increased by $119,338, and the assessed valuation of personal property has declined by $298,201. There will be a net decline in total assessed valuation of $178,863.
Parish Council Returns
Accompanied by fellow members of Brookfield’s Immaculate Conception Church, Council Parish member Nancy Saccaro attended Wednesday evening’s meeting of the Brookfield City Council to discuss the two dilapidated structures they brought to the Council’s attention during the June council meeting. Representatives from the Linn County Historical Society/Museum and First Presbyterian Church were also present in a show of support.
Saccaro began by thanking the Council for encouraging Sue Ann Lanham to attend to features of the house she owns just south of Immaculate Conception (309 N. Livingston) that the two churches and Historical Society regard as public safety hazards. Saccaro also expressed her gratitude to Lanham for her efforts to improve conditions around the unoccupied house that sits between Immaculate Conception and the Tillman House Museum.
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