What happened to Our Promised Tax Cut?

By ARCritic

Back in the November election Weber County residents voted to allow the consolidated dispatch center to become an independent taxing entity and levy a property tax to fund themselves. This is outside of the county and cities that had been previuosly supporting it. The cities of Weber county all supported the creation of the taxing authority and promised to lower their taxes by what the new tax the dispatch center proposed.

Now that all the cities have adopted their tentative budgets, I have not heard word one from the Standard about how all these cities are proposing significant property tax cuts. The center was proposing something like a 0.00036 tax rate. This would be little less than a 10% rate reduction that Ogden City would have to propose and since all other cities have lower rates than Ogden, their rate reductions would all be higher.

I would think budgets that included that sizable of Property tax rate reductions would be BIG NEWS. So what gives?

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Editorial note: This thoughful query was submitted to us by one of our long-time gentle readers, for which we offer our thanks. Where, exactly are our promised tax reductions anyway?

A tip o' the hat to gentle reader ARCritic for reminding us of this issue.

We think this is something that ought not fall "between the cracks."

It's a 10+% tax reduction we're talking about here.

Comments, anyone?