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[0:35] All right. Welcome to the special board meeting of the Laramie County Commissioners to hold the public hearing to set the mill levies for the upcoming year. Go ahead and start with roll call, please. Commissioner Thompson, here, commissioner levitt here.
[0:51] here, Commissioner Holmes, here, Commissioner Heath, here, Chairman Mom, here, first item.
[0:57] Item one, public hearing regarding the 2021 mill levies pursuant to Wyoming State Statute, 39-13-102G.
[1:06] Counties, that's your yield.
[1:08] Thank you, commissioners.
[1:10] Again, just to repeat what Dale said, this is in pursuant to 39-13102G, where it states that honor before the first Monday in August,
[1:20] the Board of County Commissioners shall by order, entered of levy, the records of taxes for the year, and then it goes on to tell the assessor what to do from there and the treasure.
[1:33] Before you have a packet that I provided to you, it shows the levies for this year for all of the taxing entities in Laramie County.
[1:42] I won't go through each one, but I would take questions on any of them if you have them.
[1:47] The total amount raised from the levies this year would be 136,628,541 dollars, and that's county-wide.
[1:58] I would say that the Laramie County Weed & Pest only took 8 tents of their full mill, and they did not levy anything for the special leafy spurge management, and other than that, all of the entities are at their full maximum levy.
[2:16] We do have two bonding entities in Laramie County, one being the Laramie County Community College, and we have bonded, we have levied to, to pay those bonds at, for principle at .77 mills, and for interest at .27, the other bonding entity that we do have is Fire District 1, and the voters approved that in 2019, and we are levying 2.20 mills and .05 mills for interest.
[2:46] for that taxing entity, and that would be just for the property owners in District 1.
[2:53] And with that, I would like to thank the clerk's office for all their help of gathering all the budgets from the taxing entities because they work very hard to get those on the website and make sure that I'm aware they're there.
[3:04] And also a big thank you to Matt Butler.
[3:07] He reached out to all the fire districts that we had not heard from, and I really appreciate Matt reaching out to make sure that we did get those budgets.
[3:15] And with that, I would stand for any questions.
[3:17] Are there any questions for Ken before I open up the public hearing?
[3:21] Any questions?
[3:24] Okay.
[3:26] This is a public hearing if you'd wish to come forward and speak about any of these mill levies.
[3:31] Go for it now or call 633-4422 and we will wait just a minute for the video to catch up.
[4:13] How many phone calls?
[4:17] At this time we have no phone calls or e-comments.
[4:19] Okay? Seeing that no one is calling and no one is coming forward, public hearing having
[4:24] made its purpose, the public hearing is closed.
[4:27] Mr. Chair, move to approve.
[4:29] Second.
[4:30] I have a motion and a second discussion by the commissioners.
[4:34] Discussion? Discussion?
[4:37] Roll call, please, Dale.
[4:38] Commissioner Thompson?
[4:39] Aye.
[4:39] Commissioner Leather?
[4:40] Aye.
[4:41] Commissioner Holmes?
[4:42] Aye.
[4:43] Commissioner Heath?
[4:44] Aye.
[4:44] Chairman Moong?
[4:45] Aye.
[4:45] All right, is there any other business to come before us today?
[4:48] Mr. Chairman, there's no other business.
[4:50] All right, we are adjourned, thank you.