Cheney public safety's next steps
City offiicials prioritizing list of police and fire needs after voters approve of levy lid lift
Last updated 11/19/2015 at 4:01pm
Even though election certification doesn’t take place until Nov. 24, city of Cheney officials have begun the process of implementing the results of voter-approved Proposition 1.
The measure does a one-time lift of the city’s property tax assessment levy, a lift that will remain permanently in place. While that lift is estimated to provide about $410,975 annually in new revenue for the city to use in meeting public safety needs, that money won’t come in immediately, nor will it arrive as a separate budget line item.
Because property tax collections make up the majority of revenue in th...
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