How much are your taxes going up?

[tikkalover]

The city of Minot's home owners tax is going up 27.5%. Ward county, so far is talking about taking on a 13% increase(this isn't finalized yet). I understand that it takes taxes to pay for the operations of the city and county but this is a little ridicules. And the city is restructuring its sales tax because of the flood projects cost ($1 billion of which $350 million is the cities responsibility) this will increase home owners taxes more as of right now 30% of that tax goes for home owners tax relief, which will be dropped down to 10 to 0%. I thought this new city counsel would take it easy for awhile but evidently not. The park is digging 2 feet of dirt out of 3 ball diamonds (2 at south hill complex and Corbet field) and redoing them with I think artificial turf, 2 parking ramps that someone should be fired over, a new oversized airport, plus a hole bunch of other stuff that they really don't need to do. Sorry for the ;:;rant but it is getting really sickening. So how much are your taxes going up?

 

[walleyeman_1875]

Local governments are like a leech. They keep sucking as much out of you as they can. Voicing your opinion really doesn't matter. Best thing to do is to vote for any city or county commissioner runs on the platform of cutting taxes.

I believe all of the Bismarck city commissioners, and possibly county, that voted in support of extending the TIF downtown have been voted out.

Only other option is to move out. The smaller towns around the larger cities should start seeing a rise in population as the large cities keep pulling this crap year after year.....or that leave taxes alone so they can claim we aren't raising the mill levy but they bump your taxable house value by 20%.

Problem with government is that they are spending everyone else's money which means there is no responsibility to stay within our cut the budget.

 

[Sum1]

It's called the "Swamp" for a reason. Its not only in Washington.

 

[huffranger]

Morton County has racked up some bills here recently..... wonder how much much that will take away from my family..

 

[littlefish]

i live in a one horse town in the east part of the state, average rambler, big garage, storage buildings, 2 1/2 lots and my taxes are around $400. Don't know how you guys pay what you do

 

[Davy Crockett]

We just went through a multi billion dollar oil boom, I wonder why property taxes are climbing so high ? :::

 

[BX2]

31%. Mostly for the school.sunzabitches. glad I live in a cheap house.

 

[johnr]

You are supposed to be happy to pay more

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Means you are lucky and all

 

[shorthairsrus]

Johnny is back ��

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1. Hockey parents I'm should pay x2
2. In wa they send the kid to college in 11th grade. Average tuition in nd for a high schooler is 17 to 18k. U can send to college for 10k less. Nobraner

 

[tikkalover]

In the budget for next year, a home in Minot with a median value of 187 thousand dollars will see an increase of roughly 16 dollars per month.
Alderman Shaun Sipma said that in order for the city to move forward... some sacrifices have to be made.
“I'm not at all crazy about or in favor of increasing taxes at all but knowing very well that past budgets have put us in this position to where we have a lot of debt services that we now are facing and we have to move forward and we have to pay our bills. So moving forward I think this is a first step and I think there will be many more steps down the road,” said Sipma.
The Budget passed by a vote of six to one, with Alderman Stephan Podrygula as the lone dissenting vote.
Podrygula objected to a hotly-debated part of the proposed budget--whether to freeze city employees’ salaries for six months in 2018.
Podrygula said employees such as law enforcement would go to find work elsewhere if the city cannot pay them adequately.
You know we are facing significant cut backs in the quality and quantity of city services and I just can't justify that and again not to be disrespectful to the people who are so kind to me at the zoo from the park district I can't see spending a million dollars on a cat house when we can’t spend half a million dollars on our employees,” said Podrygula.
Meanwhile, Alderman Josh Wolsky, a proponent of the salary freeze, said the freeze would lessen the hit on Minot residents who would already be paying more property taxes in 2018.
“I think the citizens of Minot need to see us make a gesture that we are paying attention that we understand and appreciate the very significant increase that we are putting upon them with this large increase in mills and buy and large there is nothing we can do about that… and a reduction in the amount of that raise is the appropriate gesture,” said Wolsky.

I wonder who will be making the sacrifices in the near future, the city or the residents? I also wonder what the steps are down the road he is talking about, will be? My guess it will be raising property taxes some more.
This flood protection is a joke. The engineer for this project is Ryan Ackerman , a while back he made a statement that the city can't wait for funding, that we have to proceed right away and get funding later. What happens if the funding doesn't come? Raise the taxes some more? I heard he gets $200,000 for every million spent, I guess if I got paid like that I would be pushing the issue to. I do feel sorry for the people that got flooded, but as the saying goes "If you build in a low spot\next to a river, your going to get wet".

 

[Brian Renville]

There is also that valuation thing. According to the government "appraisers" we live in gold houses.