How to Use millage in a Sentence
millage
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That means the total millage rate for living in the city is 15.
— John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 20 July 2023 -
Thus a levy on the ballot is needed; the questions are when and how much the millage should be.
— Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 22 May 2020 -
Without the money from the millage, Cantrell said the city would not have the money for the program next year.
— Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 21 Nov. 2020 -
To receive the state funding, voters must agree to the millage.
— Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023 -
The other is to renew the city’s library millage for six years.
— Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2021 -
If this millage does not pass, the library will likely close.
— Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2022 -
Reedy Creek issued bonds to pay for the construction and levies a millage on the district to pay off the debt service.
— Gabrielle Russon, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017 -
The county would receive roughly $42.8 billion from the change if the millage rate remains the same.
— Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024 -
Brudno said this bond millage fluctuates from year to year and is based on what the district needs to pay its debt.
— Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021 -
But if the proposal fails, the property tax millage would drop from 9 mills to 6 mills as the other debt is paid off.
— Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2020 -
Therefore, the millage on the levy renewal continues to change while still bringing in the same amount.
— John Benson, cleveland, 12 Oct. 2022 -
The millage for the district’s bond retirement has been reduced from 4.3 mills to 4.2 mills, Brudno said.
— Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021 -
The new millage would bring in roughly $15.4 million more a year, city officials said.
— Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2022 -
The library system in Bentonville doesn't have its own millage but depends on the city budget.
— Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2022 -
The special election for the millage increase equates to the library re-joining the 21st century, Gates added.
— Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2023 -
Enough has pointed to Craighead County having one of the highest county millage rates in the state.
— Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2022 -
So, in this election, the results of the millage question will change nothing, regardless of what the vote outcome is.
— Nyssa Kruse, Arkansas Online, 18 May 2021 -
The board is also nine years behind on audits of millage spending.
— Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 17 Nov. 2022 -
Upon a vote of its citizens, cities can utilize it to levy millages.
— Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2020 -
Some said the zoo’s change of heart would drive them to oppose the next renewal of Macomb’s countywide zoo millage.
— Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2022 -
The city’s millage rate was one of three topics scheduled to be discussed at Monday night’s meeting.
— USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2019 -
To make up the shortfall, the board voted to increase its millage rate while also cutting its workforce.
— Anthony McAuley | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2020 -
If the millage is approved in December, the revenue collected in the first year would be more than $9 million.
— Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2019 -
The most dramatic changes would impact the library millage.
— Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2020 -
So, due to inflation over the years, the effective rate of the existing levies has dropped to .88 mills - about half the millage approved by voters decades ago.
— Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017 -
The library also receives a .922 millage rate from city taxes.
— Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2021 -
With the apparent renewal, the millage will be in place for another decade.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2020 -
In Jamestown, that millage accounted for 84 percent of the library’s budget.
— Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023 -
The assessment is multiplied by the millage rate to determine the taxes owed.
— Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2023 -
Hackel and Wickersham decided not to ask voters in August 2020 to vote on a new countywide millage to fund a new lockup.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2024
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