Sunflower County has set its preliminary budget for 2024-25 with no plans to raise taxes.
Bolstered again by relatively new tax revenue from the Ruleville solar farm, the county trimmed a proposed $19 million operational budget two weeks ago to around $17 million.
The Sunflower County Board of Supervisors is now operating in fiscal year 2023-24 with a projected total budget revenue of $25,604,172 of which 41% or $10,636,868 of such revenue is obtained through ad valorem taxes.
For next fiscal year, 2024-25, the proposed budget has a total projected revenue of $26,641,350. Of that amount 58% or $15,498,699 is proposed to be financed through a total ad valorem tax levy, according to the county’s advertisement for the public hearing that appears on page 21.
The public budget hearing will take place on Friday, September 13 at 9 a.m.
The board of supervisors received and approved the notice of a public hearing and the proposed tax levy for Fiscal Year 2024-25 this past Monday. The total millage is projected at 123.71.
“The decision to not increase the County ad valorem tax millage rate for fiscal year 2024-2025 above the current fiscal year’s ad valorem tax millage means you will not pay more in county ad valorem taxes on your home, automobile tag, utilities, business fixtures and equipment and rental real property, unless the assessed value of your property has increased for fiscal year 2024-25 or increases are mandated by other agencies for which Sunflower County is the levying and collection authority,” according to the county’s ad.
Any citizen of Sunflower County is invited to attend this public hearing on the proposed budget and ad valorem tax levies and will be allowed to speak for a reasonable amount of time and offer tangible evidence before any vote is taken.
The adoption of the budget, a final decision on the proposed tax revenues, and setting of the tax levy is anticipated to be made at 9:30 a.m., Friday, September 13 in the supervisors’ meeting room in the Sunflower County Courthouse.
