Less than a month before the new fiscal year begins, the Rock Island city council is ready to adopt a new budget. Monday night aldermen will consider a budget totaling 131 million dollars.
Finance director, Cindy Parchert, is proposing the the property tax rate stay at its current level of 2-dollars and 38-cents per 1,000 dollars assessed value. But the tax levy would rise to 11 million dollars.
The new budget does not include any rate increases for Rock Island home owners but Parchert says the water service charge will go up - that's the cost of being connected to the city's water system. The proposed increase is 29 per cent, from 23-dollars and 20 cents per quarter now, to 30 dollars next year.
Water rates, however, would go up 5 per cent a year from now (1/1/17), and by the same amount in each of the following two years.
