Clay County property owners will pay more in taxes next year

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Millage complaint volition spell up from 8.101 to 8.601

Millage complaint volition spell up from 8.101 to 8.601.

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Clay County spot owners volition wage much successful taxes adjacent year.

The Clay County Board of County Commission voted to rise spot taxes, referred to arsenic a millage increase, for the archetypal clip successful six years.

The millage complaint volition spell up from 8.101 to 8.601. So, if you person a $250,000 location with a $50,000 homestead exemption, that volition adjacent retired to $100 much a twelvemonth you wage successful spot taxes.

The crushed is to assistance money the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Clay County Fire Rescue. The Sheriff’s Office, particularly, has struggled to support employees who person made little wages than successful different counties.

“We can’t people money, truthful we person to look for different sources of revenue,” Clay County Commissioner Jim Renninger told News4Jax. “And if idiosyncratic says determination are ways you tin prevention wealth successful different areas of the budget, well, archer maine wherever they’re at.”

Renninger says 37% of Sheriff’s Office employees were making beneath marketplace minimum.

“We mislaid 180 deputies successful the past 3.5 years. We became a grooming ground. That costs money. It was implicit $6.1 cardinal successful being a grooming crushed for JSO (Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office), arsenic good arsenic St. Johns,” Renninger said.

But determination are concerns. Commissioner Betsy Condon represents Keystone Heights and Middleburg wherever wages are lower. Condon says she afloat supports constabulary and occurrence but voted against the taxation hike, saying it volition beryllium hard connected her constituents.

“The citizens of District 4 asked maine to — those that were not connected with the Sheriff’s Office oregon Fire Department. I talked to a fig of them who said marque bash with what you have,” Condon said.

There were a assortment of reactions successful the News 4 Clay County Facebook group.

“Near the bottommost of the authorities for compensating our deputies and our existent staffing levels bespeak that,” 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

Another wrote: “So overmuch discarded successful the section system that could person been utilized for this and not rise our tax’s (sic).”

Renninger says that contempt the taxation hike, Clay County is 25th successful colonisation but 62nd successful Florida successful wide taxation spending.