The magic calculator
Check this out: http://maps.ci.missoula.mt.us/special/.
If you go there and plug in your name or address — or geocode or legal description — the calculator tells you how much you’ll pay in the current fiscal year for the parks and streets districts.
I’m in for about five bucks. I gotta honey and we’re together paying $10.07. Neat tool. I think it’s all still an estimate, but there you have it.
– Keila Szpaller
July 28th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Super cool tool, it is fun to plug in your name or address and see what the initial rate will cost. Even more fun to plug in the city council members name/address and see what they will pay. about 1/2 pay more than the $13 average, about 1/2 less than. 2 are not listed as owners. The mayor would pay more.
for more fun check out the commentators on Bob Jaffe’s listserv, both pro and con on the subject, see what they are paying. the general theme is, it seems easier to justify spending other people money.
July 28th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
$10 this year for the City, more for the County and Schools. The tax collectors have a way to promote things so they don’t seem to be a lot but nickles and dimes add up. $10 a year for Schools, X for county, Y for open space, S for pools, F for fire stations, how much for a “cop Shop”. I have to setaside $275 every month to pay property taxes and since 1991 mine have gone up 100%. How much is too much!For those living on fixed incomes any increase is too much. Jerry Ballas
July 28th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Good point, Jerry. The cop shop still is looming out there, and that’s on top of the OTHER possible public safety levy next year to pay for raises.
August 8th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
I’m opposed to the tax increase