FD 1 awaits figure to adjust millage

By Anne Lautzenheiser
St. Tammany News
Published on Monday, September 22, 2008 9:59 AM CDT

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The St. Tammany Fire District 1 Board of Commissioners has delayed a vote on an adjusted millage rate until its October meeting.

The board was scheduled to vote on the adjusted rate during public meeting Tuesday but could not do so as the St. Tammany Parish Assessor’s Office has not yet released its property assessment values.

The current rate is 35 mills, and since 2008 is a reassessment year, the assessor’s office is expected to lower, or “roll back,” the rate due to increases in the property tax base, as required by state law.

State law also allows the agency to then vote to roll up the rate to a level not exceeding the previous year’s maximum, which would make it possible to collect more revenue.

Parish Assessor Patricia Schwarz Core has promised to release the figures by Oct. 22. Since the board’s next meeting was set for one day prior, Oct. 21, they voted to move the meeting back a week, to Oct. 28, to allow time for the information to be received.

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