City’s LID assessment: $500,000

At yesterday’s budget study session, Mayor Garland French said the City of Ocean Shores has total assessments for the Street LID of “around a half million dollars.” Mike Folkers, the finance director, said these will be paid annually. City Hall, for example, has a $60,000 Street LID payment, in its 2011 budget. Copies of  budget up-dates and the third quarter financial report that were referred to were not provided to the press and/or a handful of public spectators. A “recommended 2011 budget” is now posted on the City’s web site here. The budget “includes a 1 percent property tax increase,” French writes, in a cover letter. Also from the Mayor’s cover letter: the budget “also includes a property tax levy of 0.22 cents per thousand of assessed value for the Library, 0.35 cents for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and continuation of the EMS Ambulance Utility of approximately $2.38 per month per billing unit. ‘