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KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— The city council unanimously voted to hold the municipality’s millage rate for next year at the current rate of 4.2901 mils during a special July 27 meeting.
The council may later lower the tentative rate before the Sept. 30 deadline.
City Manager Lynn Rutkowski said that if the council chose to adopt the rolled-back rate of 4.0344, it would have to make $20,000 in cuts to the municipality’s proposed 2022-2023 budget.
Mayor Karen Lake said she favored holding the rate as is.
“We’ve kept the millage rate the same these last few years, and it’s worked out financially for us in terms of being able to do some projects that we wanted to do to improve facilities and other things inside the city limits,” she said.
Added Vice-mayor Steve Hart: “With inflation running at nine percent, if we go to the rollback rate and stretch that over a couple of years, who knows what mess we’re going to be in, so I think the 4.2901 makes a lot more sense and it is consistent with past practice.”
