Ben Sorensen
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8,911 appearances
39 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 2 Sep
Ben Sorensen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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rather than to get hit a year or two years down the road with a larger percentage, sometimes it's a softer, gentler approach to the taxpayers to do it at small amounts versus one big percentage fee, whatever.
The challenge here is for you as commissioners is you have to set, if I stand corrected, please, but that has to be set the maximum millage rate by,
July 2nd, which is fastly approaching.
Right, understood.
CORRECT.
AND AS RUTH,
I've always kept, and I think some of the fellow board members, when you look at the increase in assessed values, irregardless of what that percentage is, be it 7%, 8%, the first 5% every year in assessed value roughly covers salaries and benefits.
If you give a 3% raise, then you have health insurance costs, you have increase in pension plans and everything.
So that's why, as a rule of thumb, you use about 5%.
So that just covers 5% of any assessed value.
It's just for salaries and benefits going for future years.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Commissioner Glassman, and I shared initially.
No, I'm good.
I also want to say thank you very much for the work, and I look forward to further discussions on this.
So thanks so much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Great.
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