THE FOLLOWING IS A BILL PICKETT STORY PREVIEWING THE NOV 14TH VERMILION COUNTY BOARD MEETING
The Vermilion County Board is set to vote Tuesday evening on the county’s proposed new budget and tax levy. The overall levy amount for fiscal year 2023-24 is just over $17-million, 171-thousand dollars, compared to $16-million-284-thousand dollars for the current fiscal year. And the proposed tax rate (including the Rossville and Grant Ambulance and Northfork special service districts) is 1.74148 compared to 1.63969 for the current fiscal year.
County Board Chairman Larry Baughn feels the levy is a good one…
AUDIO: The tax levy, you know, the percentage it’s raised is under the truth in taxation; as we’ve heard. And, of course, with the EAV rising, that’s a big rise in there; and I think we can attribute that to the flyover that we did that reassessed a lot of properties throughout the county. And that was attributed to the supervisor of assessment’s office back in 2020.
County Board member Jerry Hawker voted against the levy during a Finance Committee meeting last week…
AUDIO: Well, I didn’t go along with the tax levy because it’s going to be an increase of 5.99%; and I believe that the taxpayers of this country deserve a break, not an increase in our taxes right now. I cannot go along with any property tax increase, period, in our property taxes. I don’t care what it’s for.
The County Board will also see the swearing-in of two new members, Lon Henderson and Jim McMahon. They are filling vacancies created by the recent death of Bruce Stark and Tom Morse’s move out of his district. The Board meets at 6 o’clock Tuesday evening, (November 14, 2023) at the Joseph G. Cannon Building at 201 North Vermilion Street in Danville.
