Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 38, DeMotte, Jasper County, 19 August 1949 — $26,000 More In Taxes Needed For Next Year [ARTICLE]

$26,000 More In Taxes Needed For Next Year

Predict 21c-24c Levy Increase To Care For Additional Expenses The county tax budget to be ; published this week will show I among its huddle of figures a I proposed rate of 65c for the coming year, an increase of 24c per hundred taxable property over the : current rate of 41c, County Auditor Curtis Rardin revealed today as he recited a list of extra j expenses that must be met itt 1 1950 by the county’s taxpayers. The proposed budget shows an expansion of $26,000 over the one adopted last year for taxing pur- ; poses this year. Various new i miscellaneous items from here , there when stacked make up this | $26,000. | To that may be added a proj posed $17,000 for additional ap- | propriations needed to carry on ] routine business. Add to that an additional $2,250 for increase in the salaries of the circuit court judge and county surveyor ai*l (then pad the total with $15,000 I increase in the working balance j over that of a year ago and you r wiH find a grand total of $60,250, lor an Increase of approximately I 20 per cent over the current rate. The $17,000 additional appropriation is for expenditures' related to the re-assessment of property. There is an item of $3,000 expenses for the county treasurer’s office accruing from an act of the last legislature which prescribes the county treasurer must mail tax statements.