A public notice (shown above) posted by the City of Fishers has created lots of online chatter the past couple of days. This is a requirement under state law to give the city an option to increase a tax rate, but does not mean the city in now proposing a rate increase.
The same Notice was posted this time last year and no rate was raised as a result.
According to Ashley Elrod, spokesperson for the City of Fishers, the Notice simply provides the city with a maximum potential tax rate for 2022.
“This does not mean we are raising taxes,” Elrod tells LarryInFishers. “The tax rate for 2021 has been set.”
As stated in the Notice, a public hearing will be held on the matter at the next Fishers City Council meeting, March 15, at 7pm.
Of course this will mean we have a tax increase. When they give away as much infrastructure fees for these multi-purpose mega projects and miscommunicate the actual costs on ‘shared’ projects, they’ve got to look for ways to shore up the city’s balance sheet.
Until they can show just how ‘we’ can afford everything they’re doing without ‘aiding’ some of these projects/initiatives with city funds, then I’m very suspect of seeing postings like that.