Ward county and Minot budgets have popped up in the Minot Daily the last 2 days.
If the county commissioners leave the budget as is without trimming spending it will raise property taxes $128.00
on a $200,000 house.
The city budget (if they use some of the $20 to $30 million they have in cash) would decrease taxes $21.00 per $100,000 of home values.
The city is contemplating what to do with the police\old city hall building. Remodel the old city hall at a cost of around $50 million to enlarge the police dept. building or build a new police dept. for around $70+ million. This is the estimate from a year ago from a consulting firm the city hired.
My grip is that they just redid the retaining wall that is on the east and south sides of the police dept. at a cost of $9 million to expand the parking lot for the dept.
If they are going to move the dept. to a new location why did the city spend $9 million on a retaining wall??