LAHARPE — LaHarpe property owners should expect to pay largely the same in property taxes to support the city’s budget in 2021.
City Council members gathered for a special meeting Tuesday to draft the city’s spending plan for 2021.
The $1.3 million budget is supported in part with an ad valorem tax levy of about 71 mills, roughly the same levy as was used for 2020.
That means the owner of a $75,000 house will pay about $615 in taxes to replenish the city’s general fund, or about $5 more than was spent for this year.
The city’s general fund — the only part of the budget supported by property taxes — was pegged at $228,563.
Council members scheduled a budget hearing for their 7 p.m. Aug. 12 meeting.
If no one objects, they are expected to ratify the budget at that meeting.
