Town Council Millage Hearing #2 - 08/17/2021

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[0:25] do
[0:51] good time it is nine o'clock in a few seconds
[0:57] um or as the clock says in the back it's 903
[1:03] and so this meeting is called to order and
[1:06] we're going to have our invocation and our pledge so
[1:11] if we could please stand
[1:16] god thank you for the rain it's uh
[1:20] it's a hassle sometimes we know it's it's what you want and
[1:25] we need it so we thank you for it we
[1:30] i want to pray for those who are impacted by covet right now and as it
[1:37] seems to be coming back on us there are a lot of people who are
[1:42] are having to go through it i specifically think of my uncle right now
[1:46] who's who's
[1:48] been put in the hospital with low oxygen and i just
[1:53] pray that you will restore his lungs and make them
[1:58] powerful once again and he can go home today
[2:04] i pray for
[2:06] all those once again that are impacted by the situation in
[2:10] in uh afghanistan and what a horrible situation that is
[2:18] controlled by evil and something's going on that is a part
[2:24] of your plan and we don't know what it is but
[2:27] we just pray that the those poor women and children will will be safe in that
[2:32] country and god please protect our troops and
[2:37] thank you for the opportunity to govern this town and may we do so
[2:42] responsibly may we do so wisely and we
[2:47] pray that we will do do those things this morning in christ's name amen
[2:54] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america
[3:00] and to the republic for which it stands one nation
[3:04] under god indivisible with liberty and justice for
[3:08] all
[3:18] there any public comments about matters that do not appear on the agenda
[3:23] hearing none is there a motion to approve the agenda i make the motion
[3:28] that we approve the agenda second any discussion
[3:32] all in favor aye aye opposed is there a motion to approve a consent agenda i
[3:37] make a motion that we approve the consent agenda
[3:42] second is there a discussion
[3:45] all in favor aye opposed
[3:48] we now have our second public hearing on the millage rate
[3:52] and once again
[3:55] this this body is has proposed that we
[4:01] could keep this millage rate again uh the same again for the 14th year
[4:07] and um we will now have
[4:11] is there any need for presentation by staff this morning
[4:17] production if you don't mind okay
[4:23] good morning good morning um i'm not gonna bore you with all the
[4:26] major details like i did last night um but just very quickly
[4:31] the pie chart for anybody who wasn't here last night the pie chart up on the
[4:36] screen shows
[4:38] back in last year's 2020 property taxes what a tyron resident would have paid
[4:44] for by percentage the big large one was 61.3 percent went
[4:50] to the fayette county schools from the orange little orange section
[4:55] was the school bond then the gray section is what went to
[4:59] the county uh the yellow is what went to fire so it
[5:04] went to the county for fire then the little uh purple
[5:10] light purple or lavender i guess section is what we spent for ems
[5:16] and then the dark purple that little tiny sliver is what went to e-911 which
[5:20] is your 9-1-1 calls and the green 9.2
[5:25] of your tax dollars actually went to the town of tyrone here that funds your
[5:30] police department excuse me your roads
[5:34] um your recreation the staff to fund the town and
[5:38] everything else that has to do with the town
[5:42] so that's just a good example of exactly
[5:45] where your tax dollars go
[5:51] basically as the mayor said we're trying to propose another
[5:56] 2.889 for the 14th year in a row um
[6:00] housing values were assessed higher as a whole that doesn't mean that everybody's
[6:04] housing value went up some went down some went up higher but
[6:09] as an average they increased
[6:12] a little bit which makes a tax increase of six point
[6:18] i think it's 6.78 um as a as an average um so that means
[6:24] that tyrone if everybody pays their taxes would get approximately 6.78
[6:30] more money than what we did last year which is needed
[6:34] for the fact that we suffered last year just like everyone
[6:39] else and also because um things cost more now it's not just
[6:46] just not it's not just citizens that food went up it's also it cost us more
[6:50] to pave roads it costs us more to do anything we want to do
[6:54] um the citizens have let us know they want uh golf cart paths and as you know
[6:58] we're working towards that we have to buy right aways and we have to build the
[7:02] paths and that also costs a lot of money and so in order for us to to fund the
[7:06] town the way we feel like we need to that's the reason for the increase
[7:11] um basically if you own a housing value of
[7:15] 350 000 which is the average home value in tyrone your tax bill would increase
[7:21] 21.94 for the year
[7:24] so it's a little less than two dollars a month
[7:28] if anybody has any questions i can answer them now and otherwise we can go
[7:32] to the public hearing i i do do
[7:36] sandy um the 21 dollars that you're talking about
[7:39] the increase is that just for the tyrone that part
[7:43] that is just the tyrone part i have no control over anything else right okay
[7:47] thank you or i should say you have no control over anything else because you
[7:50] are the ones that decide what to do thank you and that's if your home is
[7:53] valued that's if your home is valued exactly at
[7:57] 350 000 yes
[8:04] okay thank you thank you
[8:08] we will now hold our public hearing is there anyone here that would like to
[8:13] speak in support
[8:16] of maintaining the military at the current
[8:20] at the current rate
[8:24] hearing none is there anyone here that like speak in opposition to maintaining
[8:28] the millage rate at its current rate
[8:34] hearing none uh we will now close the public hearing
[8:38] and uh is there anyone here that would like to
[8:43] engage in public comments oh
[8:47] same rules apply as usual three minutes please fill out a form
[8:51] uh give us your name and address
[8:56] hearing none are there any counsel comments
[9:02] hearing none we will now move to motion to adjourn is
[9:06] there a motion to adjourn i make a motion that we adjourn it's
[9:10] there all uh in any discussion all in favor
[9:16] opposed
[9:18] now adjourned yay