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The City Council adjusted its draft budget proposal at its most recent meeting, in preparation of an anticipated vote on Dec. 19 at its next meeting, scheduled for 8 p.m. at Rye City Hall, 1051 Boston Post Road.
Here are some key points about the revised budget proposal:
- The new property tax rate would increase taxes for the owner of a home assessed at the city average of $26,200 by about $86 a year over the 2012 budget. That is a decrease from an estimated $97 initially proposed by the Rye city manager’s office. Under the new budget, the proposed property tax rate would be $148.91 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. In Rye, a home assessed at the city average has a market value of $1.44 million.
- The proposed 2013 property tax levy is now $20,563,249 a decrease of $64,991 from the initial proposal.
- The proposed levy tax remains $117,000 below the state-mandated tax levy cap.
- Revenues budgeted for 2013 – including property taxes – are $30.9 million, up $1 million, or 3.3 percent, from the 2012 adopted budget of $29.9 million. The City Council revised the proposed budget to include $40,000 in building permit revenue as well as $25,000 in sales tax revenue.
- Expenditures for 2013 are about $31.7 million, up $1.6 million from the 2012 budget. The 2013 expenditures would include capital spending, while there was no budgeted capital spending in 2012.
- The City Council deducted $5,000 from Fire Department’s initial proposed budget. The council also deducted $20,000 from the Police Department budget that would have funded two new crossing guard positions. The council deducted $25,000 from the Engineering Department because there was a surplus of unused funds from 2012. A combined $30,000 taken from the Fire and Engineering budgets will go toward increasing the Rye Free Reading Room’s budget.
Details of the initial proposed 2013 budget are available online.
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