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By Brendan Clogston
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he City Council unanimously voted to adopt a split levy rate on Monday night, shifting the burden from residential to commercial, industrial and personal property (CIP) at the highest shift of 175 percent. The FY 18 tax rate will be $13.78 per $1,000 of valuation on residential properties and $33.74 per $1,000 of valuation on CIP properties. If the council
hadn’t approved the shift, the flat rate for residential and CIP properties would have been $19.28 per $1,000. The shift will not prevent homeowners from seeing a small increase in their actual taxes, as home values have skyrocketed in the city over the last year. On average, single-family home values rose by about $39,000 since the
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he press conference was coming to a close when Mayor Carlo DeMaria returned to the mic, taking under his arm the last speaker, seventh grade Madeleine English School student Araceli Flores, and asked the assembled crowd to imagine what could happen should her family be deported to a
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