Property valuation notices will be mailed Thursday.
Homeowners can expect residential property values to increase about 2.8 percent on the average, Appraiser Sandy Drake told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning.
Drake said she was unsure whether the county’s total, a touch over $91 million last year, would increase.
“Commercial property is pretty flat and valuations for agriculture is mixed, some went up and some down,” she said.
Spring valuation figures aren’t tax statements, commissioners stressed. An individual’s property valuation coupled with tax levies that will be approved this summer by local governing bodies will determine tax bills mailed in late fall.
COMMISSIONERS ap-proved a 15-cent-an-hour raise for all nine 911 dispatchers.
The raise was approved to bring the dispatchers in line with what they earned while working for Iola, a promise commissioners made before taking control of the service in January.
Angie Murphy, dispatch director, asked for a 20-cent raise. Commissioners said they would consider the other 5 cents in August when they had a better handle on county finances.
A Planning Commission recommendation to rezone about three acres on the west side of State Street north of Haldex Brake from agricultural to commercial was approved by commissioners. County Counselor Alan Weber said a Pittsburg firm that had had a fireworks business on the property in past years wanted to build storage units there.
