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City Council Meeting <br />August 16, 2000 <br />Page 3 <br />few phone calls and did find out that they clean the park up, but what they find <br />is just more than condoms. Ms. Wilcoxson said she was told that the city can <br />not control this, but she feels, as a concerned mother, that there is possibly a <br />way to control who is hanging-out at the park at night. Ms. Wilcoxson said that <br />there is a fence around the play areas already, but if the city could possibly <br />raise the fence higher and have locked gates on these fences after daylight <br />hours and post signs saying that park hours are from a certain time, that this <br />might help the problem. <br />No one else appeared and the public hearing was declared closed. <br />Mayor Pfiester announced that the Council would go into a budget workshop <br />session. <br />City Manager Malone said that he would like to go through and highlight some <br />of the requests that have been made by the various departments for this fiscal <br />year budget. <br />Gene Anderson, Director of Finance, came forward explaining the effective tax <br />rate notice that will be published in the Paris News in the next week. He <br />explained how the effective rate is calculated, stating that in theory the <br />effective rate is the rate that brings in exactly the same amount of money as <br />was brought in the previous year. Mr. Anderson said there are some <br />adjustments to that number that are allowed under the law and so that is not <br />exactly 100% correct, but theoretically that is what it represents. Mr. Anderson <br />called the Council's attention to the last number on the front page. He <br />explained the rollback rate as representing the maximum tax rate that can set <br />without being subject to a rollback petition and a rollback election. Mr. <br />Anderson said the average home value in the City of Paris in the year 2000 is <br />$47,286.00, and if you applied the current year's rate to that, city taxes would <br />be $277.08. Mr. Anderson said if you took that same average home value and <br />applied the rollback rate to it, the taxes for the year would be $307.22, so from <br />the current rate to the rollback rate, there is a difference of $30.14 a year, <br />