A Concerned Citizen recently
attended a Finance Committee meting – here’s the report:
Three agenda items that I
believe are the most critical were up for discussion and brainstorming only.
No motions were made on them.
1.Wheel Tax
A "wheel tax" is a
dollar amount added to your vehicle registration every year. The State will collect the funds and
distribute them to the county for a minimal charge. Not all committee
members were for this, but several were open to the idea and wanted more
information as to where the funds would end up and how much money would be
potentially collected in a year's time. One supervisor views this not as
a tax, but as a "fee" because everyone does not own a vehicle. I did scratch my head over that thinking.
Are property taxes not a tax because not everyone owns a home?
2.County
Board
Information was handed out
showing what other counties do. Most discussion was around the fact that
some Committees meet more often than others, so the idea of salaried
Supervisors wasn't agreed upon. Because of some re-organization and
consolidation items that apparently have been in the works for the last two
years at the County
Committee
3.County
Board
As of right now there is one
budget for the entire Board. When Committee Members attend seminars and incur
expenses, those costs are paid from the general Board budget. This leaves
no way for tracking which Committees might be spending a lot and which
Committees may be frugal. The Finance Committee would like to keep better
track of these expenditures.
There will be more
discussion on these three items at the next Finance Committee meeting on March
13, at 9:30 am.
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