Taxes increasing 3% in Columbia school budget
Property owners in the Columbia Borough School District will face a 3.06 percent tax increase under a new $22.3 million school budget approved on June 19.
The budget, passed unanimously, will raise Columbia's tax rate to 28.2 mills — one of the highest rates in the county.
The 0.838-of-a-mill increase will mean an additional $67.46 in taxes per year for a property assessed at $80,500 — the median homestead value in Columbia.
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Columbia has to concede they are no longer able to have their own School District
The expenses (salary, pensions, healthcare) have far outpaced the income of this small town.The number of taxpayers has stayed the same & can't grow like its neighboring districts can.
This all adds up to a system with no future,& the leaders of this town need to convey that to the state. There only recourse is to regionalze with another district.
The income of the boros residents have dropped due to plant closings or downsizing of companies like ( Armstrong, Catterpillar,& Harley) to name a few.
Let's not forget the power to tax is the power to destroy, and they are killing us.
If this is what our leaders are looking to compare to, we've really set our goals low.
They are rated highest in taxes in the nation every year. The common workers in those areas have to commute hours each day because they can't afford to live there. They are continually losing businesses to lower cost areas.
Great example
Its the cost per lot
Those lots aren't small either
I wonder what the assessed value is and what property taxes (if any) they are paying.
oh but it was ok for the water co to take the first whole parcel eminent domain??? what... like the water co isn't making enough money off us already? and then they had the ba--- to ask for a 23% increase JUST for COLUMBIA???? WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE. KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT!