City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, we will start this city council special meeting public hearing on August 20th, 2026. Roll call.

All right, if you'll stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pam, you want to do the invocation?

All right, this time we will open up the mic for citizens' comment. Do we have any cards for tonight? Do we have anybody in the audience who would like to speak in citizen's comment? If not, we will move forward. To new business, this is the City Council's schedule to continue the public hearing. That was open on August 20th and considered option of the proposed property tax rate of .481878 per 100 of taxable value. This is a 7.99% increase in the tax revenue. The tax rate will effectively be raised by 3.5%. And we'll raise taxes for maintenance and operations on a hundred thousand dollar home

So we have a motion on the floor. Does anybody second the motion? I'll second. We have a second. We have to do a roll call. Roll call.

I'll second. We have a second. Roll call.

All right. So neither motion passes. So before we move on, I'm just going to state that Pam, the last?

Pam voted nay. Oh, you already voted? Yeah.

No, it doesn't. It requires a four to one vote.

It's because you don't run the day-to-day operations. It's not our job.

How come you voted in favor of the tax rate? I did not. You voted in favor of the ratification of the tax rate.

You did. It's on record. You voted against the budget for the tax. She voted in favor. And then the next item up, you voted in favor of the ratification of the tax. no yes you did it is on record that last the last meeting you voted in favor of the ratification yeah she was it's in the minutes i pulled the minutes and looked down you voted in favor of the ratification i'm just asking on the voting wise i have given my reasons and i stick by my reasons i'm only stating i feel like sometimes we don't know how are we going to lower we don't even know what we're voting for i don't i'm not voting i

All right, don't do that. We don't want to see it.

is anyone online that wants to speak up they're not allowed to so i don't have to make the i'm gonna all right the floor is closed i'm gonna for the next uh meeting we don't have to have a motion or nothing to set the next one or i can so where do we go from here because there's we're gonna have another hearing we're gonna have another public hearing and this will go on until we come to a resolution

Yeah, this is the max we can go if it was approved because that's what we advertised.

And all the questions for the emails were answered.

So we want our employees, half of them, walking.

It goes down. The no new revenue rate goes down.

Well, that economic director is going to be huge with the things that are, which can't be spoken of, that are moving in the discussions that are already happening.

Maybe. They're talking. There's people out there.

We've definitely tied in the bill. We've dropped the tax rate since I've been on council for 10 years, 13 cents. It used to be 0.61. So there's been a lot of adjustments and they're growing.

But we made cuts. We're not going to get to that agreement. Right, we made cuts. We made cuts. We made a lot of cuts.

I mean, we could have went out even further, but we didn't.

Which is a big cost usually for most cities, local governments. so the um are you making a motion on that so to answer your question i i i that's a possibility all you have to do is read the motion that was read yeah just change just change the number i i think it's too low i think we're going to end ourselves

The current one on a $100,000 home is approximately $13.76 a year. A year, yeah. That's a year, yeah. But that's a year. She's speaking in months. So if you have a $300,000 home, that's a $39 increase a year.

There's an increase in engineering because of the growing of...

Do we have a motion? Do we have a second?

All right, we have a motion that passes that sets the tax rate at .481878 per 100 taxable value. Motion passes.

And whenever you start rolling in the commercial, you can always roll that tax rate right back. But you can only go so far if you're in a negative. So anyways.

There's a justification because of the fire department. That's the only reason.

And when the ambulances are running around here shortly that have the city of Josephine on the side of them. Right. It's going to be appreciated, and they're going to be stationed here, always here. Anyways, if you were at a council meeting, you heard that, but that will be a big news drop by the fire department here in the coming days. So I'm looking for a motion to adjourn.

Voting signs in favor? This meeting is adjourned.