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The 2013 Fulton city budget is nearly complete and many weeks of trimming and cutting has produced a budget that raises taxes but fits under the state property tax cap, Mayor Ronald Woodward said. Im seeing the budget in my sleep, Woodward said at a budget work session Saturday. stanley cup 聽 Ive probably seen it 100 times. He, city Clerk/Chamberlain Jim Laboda and Council President Jay Foster discussed with members of the Common Council a $15.4 million budget that does not cut services, cuts two positions in the fire department through retirements and raises taxes about 3.23%.Under the states complicated rules for calculating the cap on increases in tax levies, Woodward said the proposed increase would be below the cap level. 聽City lawmakers will probably approve a waiver of the tax cap anyways, because the state imposes stiff penalties on those who stay with the cap and exceed it.The increase in the tax rate to $17.07 per thousand would add about $25 per year to the tax bill of a $50,000 home before exemptions such as STAR.The budget uses $300,000 from the citys reserve fund, its appropriated fund balance, to keep down the tax levy.Expenses the city can control are generally budgeted to be down. 聽Among those that are stanley quencher up are those that are controlled either by the state or by labor contracts:Employee life insurance benefits, up 34%Employee medical insurance, up 10%A general insurance stanley tumbler fund, up 9%Fire and police employee benefits, up about 4%Woodward said the insurance increase was une |
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