Employees from the Water District attended the Monday, November 1 County Commissioners meeting. The group was seeking grant money from the council to assist with unforeseen expenditures associated with running their company. By Jacob Spencer.
After hours of discussion the Cherokee County Clerk, Kyle Rennie, approved the county’s mil rate at 39.017 mils a decrease of 12.623 mils from the 2020 budget. This will result in a decrease of $2.28 million in property taxes.
This savings was brought about by two major moves in the past year, those were the shifting of the ambulance funding from the property tax rolls to a one-half cent sales tax …