HEATH —
During the Sept. 18, Heath City Council meeting the council not only approved the 2013 fiscal year’s budget and maintained the current tax rate, but also executed a change order to the new water tower, saving the city thousands of dollars.
As the price of nearly everything is increasing, Heath residents can count on their tax rate to be the same as it was when it was set in 1992, $.3433 per $100 assessed valuation on all taxable properties within the city limits.
“I’m very happy to report to our citizens that their taxes are not going up,” Mayor Lorne Liechty said. “We have gone 21 years now with the same tax rate and that is a tribute to a lot of things; it is a tribute to the growth of the city because as we have had more houses and more revenue and values have gone up there has been more tax revenue. Frankly the way things have been going the last couple of years, it is a tribute to our staff and their management because we have really had to trim our budget and to tighten our belts.”
Liechty said that even though the city has added two new employees, a police officer and an engineer, they have been able to maintain the tax rate through the tough economy. The tax rate and new budget for fiscal year 2013 were approved unanimously of council.
Also approved unanimously by the council was a change order to the new water tower that will save the city $14,202.
“This is the second time that the designs have been changed on this tower to help the city, based on the way designs were initially anmd given the way things have changed,” council member Rich Krause said.
Change order number five comes from the city’s engineering department reviewing the original designs and simplifying their mechanisms based on plans that the city has made to improve parts of the water system.
This change order is expected to be swift but ordering the new parts could take as long as 60 days.
Discussion and action regarding the failing retaining wall at Terry Park were on the agenda; however no new developments were made.
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