A bump in the 2016 budget, few attendees and even fewer questions sums up Minocqua’s annual budget meeting last night.
Department heads and town officials outnumbered the half dozen audience members. But all voted to approve the budget which calls for a general levy of $3,.8 million, an increase of $99,000 over last year’s levy. The 2016 budget totals $5.7 million, an increase of about $476,000 from the 2015 budget..
Minocqua’s tax rate will be $2.60 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The prior year’s tax rate was $2.54. The owner of property valued at $100,000 will now pay $260 to support town services. But there are other property taxes to pay, including for county, state and the three school districts.
Minocqua’s portion represents a quarter of the nearly $16 million in levies.
