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2025 Jefferson Co budget adopted

By Greg Bebermeyer

09/06/2024

The Jefferson County, KS Courthouse/Credit: Facebook

(KNZA)--The Jefferson County budget for 2025 has been finalized.

The Jefferson County Commission last week adopt a budget that calls for total expenditures of $31.1 million and slight mill levy increase.

The Commission also adopted a resolution to exceed the revenue neutral rate.

The action followed two separate hearings, during which, several county residents voiced their concerns about the budget proposal.

The budget contains an estimated tax rate of 67.9 mills, a .373 mill levy increase over this year.

It calls for the county to collect $18.8 million in tax revenue.

The county's assessed valuation increased $16 million to nearly $277 million.

Commission Chairman David Christy noted the county was 9.6 mills over the revenue neutral rate in 2021 and that has been lowered to nearly 4.4 mills. He said the county could have been revenue neutral if they had the nearly $1.2 million in current unpaid taxes.

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