by Morinville News Staff
On the agenda for the Apr. 9 regular meeting are a number of items, the most significant of which for residents is First Reading of the 2019 Tax Rate Bylaw.
According to the Apr. 9 Council agenda package:
“The increase in assessments combined with the increase in annual tax requirement of 4% has resulted in an increase of approximately 5% for residential accounts and approximately 15% for non-residential accounts. Accordingly, a home assessed at $300,000 in 2019, municipal taxes will increase by 5% or about $104.59 per year.”
Last Dec. 11, Council approved the 2019 budget at $9,998,847.00 for 2019. At the time the budget was prepared, tax rates were based on a growth assumption of 2.5%, a 4% tax increase along with a split mill rate of 1:1.1 assessed on the nonresidential assessment classes for 2019.
When the numbers came in, real growth for residential property was 1.35%, more than a point below projections.
Additionally, property assessments have decreased by 2.32% on the residential side, while averaging an increase of 15% on the improved commercial side and 7% on the industrial side.
SCHOOL TAXES YET TO BE KNOWN
Part of the local tax bill is monies municipalities collect for schools on behalf of the provincial government. With an election underway, there is no Property Tax Requisition from the province, nor is there likely to be known before municipalities must pass third reading of their tax rate bylaws.
As such, municipalities will have to take a guess at what school levies may be and raise or lower tax bills in 2020 to balance things out.
Council will address first reading of the Tax Bylaw Apr. 9 with second and third readings tentatively set for Apr. 23.
If approved, tax notices will be mailed at the end of May with taxes due by the end of June 2019.
We will have full coverage on Council’s discussion on this and other agenda items after Tuesday night’s meeting.
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Kris Wick
Great news. Roads will be fixed in no time.
With this, I hope they will replace the death tree in front of my place. Was dead when I move in 4 years ago, I think the tax are high enough. We are reaching St-Albert taxed and doesn’t make our town appealing for new family. Specially with our road condition.
Myriam Potvin fixing the roads would be nice!
Rob Houle
Alicia Houle joy!!
Rob Houle getting ridiculous!
Sad when they could have gone after money to help out with the new arena
15% Wowzer
Need to pay for the fresh load of gravel on 642
The province is responsible for that road.
Shit this is just about St. Albert bad… at least they have a couple of pools 😂😂😂
Bullshit.
OMG
Hey Morinville how about lowering the taxes this year for once. The taxes is this town are outrageous. I vote for less spending and lowering taxes. Oh and bye the way money doesn’t grow on trees and if it did Morinville doesn’t have a lot off trees.
Stewart King I agree they should lower taxes for once
I haven’t got a wage increase this year yet to give tax increase
Stewart King I’m thinking all residents appeal their land tax values as they have been decreasing for the past 3 yrs. No one in Morinville is going to sell their house for the assessed value that our taxes are based on. That should save us all more than the 5% proposed increase🤷🏼♀️
I pay way too much as it is for having access to shit!
Brutal 😡
Morinville should become a hamlet of Sturgeon County like Sherwood Park is to Strathcona County. Taxes are MUCH lower.
Hopefully this will help costs to ferry people across the lakes that were once sidewalks
Andrew Curry my dog drowned on that sidewalk 😡 he died saving me.
So this is 10-11% increase now in taxes over 2 years?? Didn’t it go up 6% last year as well?
The tax increase last year was less than 1%. Council got it down from 6%.
Just wait for the pool
April Starling
Jon Gravelle humm again argggg
AJ R Shackleford and they wonder why all the businesses go under….