At the August 2018 County Board Meeting, we decided to responsibly borrow $10 million dollars to fund our roads. Unlike most government agencies, however, we decided that we were NOT going to raise taxes, but instead decided that we were going to live within our means.
A few supervisors strayed from that plan, and proposed using this borrowing decision to raise taxes by $10 million dollars. Fortunately, it only got 6 votes. I joined 17 other supervisors in voting no. We had the means to make our payments on this debt without increasing taxes, and we decided that we were going to hold the line on taxes. I thank Supervisors Deiss, Kist, Jenkins, Bassill, Kelling, Krebs, Bertam, Blanchard, Brandt, Michalak, Burg, Bulawa, McCune, Kriefall, Gallitz, Sorce, and Schleif for presenting a united front, which I was proud to be a part of, and holding the line on taxes.
I wrote about that at the time here: https://district3bossert.blogspot.com/2018/08/this-weeks-county-board-meeting.html.
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