CLARKSVILLE — Purple River County commissioners voted to set Aug. 22 because the date for the general public listening to on the county tax price for fiscal 12 months 2022-23 and to shave $1,000 from the final fund by dropping its contract with the Metropolis of Clarksville for using the town’s trash dump web site.
The county has a contract legitimate by means of the tip of September for county residents to go away trash at Clarksville, however that may finish Oct.1 when the brand new county price range takes impact.
The county determined to drop the contract when members discovered the worth of the service was going to be $12,000 as a substitute of final 12 months’s price of $4,000.
No different choices for trash disposal have been accredited and County Choose L.D. Williamson stated it could seemingly result in extra trash being illegally dumped across the county.
The county court docket members voted to approve County Tax Assessor-Collector Tonya Martin’s calculated tax price for the final and street and bridges funds for the approaching fiscal 12 months. The vote was 3-2.
The 2022-23 funds are constructed off a tax price of .6634 cents per $100 valuation which represents a lower of 12 cents from final 12 months’s price.
Because the whole property valuations are up the lowered tax price will nonetheless herald 3½ extra in income.
The proposed price range features a 5% wage enhance for all county staff.
It additionally takes under consideration the rising price of meals for the jail and gas, which Williamson famous the county has no management over.
“That is nonetheless a really lean price range,” he stated of the $5,585,206.19 proposed common fund.
The fee additionally discovered that the month-to-month telephone invoice was dropping from $4,500 to only over $4,000 and the county was getting newer telephones with extra features.
Hurley Miller, the Texas AgriLife district 4 administrator, requested the board to call Purple River County native Jessica Humphrey to the county agent opening. The fee voted to take action.
“She is coming simply in time as we’ve got a good developing,” Williamson stated.
The court docket members voted to ship a brand new rent for the Sheriff’s Workplace to the East Texas Police Academy as he serves as a deputy for the county.
“We’re going to take that cash (about $2,000) out of coaching and sponsor him to go to the academy,” stated Sheriff Jimmy Caldwell. “He’ll give us two years.”
That provides yet one more deputy to Caldwell’s drive which nonetheless wants 4 extra deputies to be at regular energy, he stated.
