Farmland preservation vote is scheduled
The vote on a farmland preservation millage for Leelanau County has been scheduled for Nov. 7 by the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners. The levy would be a 15-year, 0.5 mill tax.
According to this Record-Eagle story, a 0.5 mill tax equals 50 cents per year per $1,000 of taxable value and would raise almost a million dollars during its first year. George Wellman of Save Leelanau Farmland says that the tax could preserve more than 2,900 acres of farmland over the next 15 years.
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In this week Leelanau Enterprise there was a article about the Farmland Preservation tax vote that is coming to Leelanau in the November 7 election. Only a .5 mill could be taxed to each 1000 of taxable value says the Traverse City Record Eagle on Thursday May 18 page 3. That small tax will raise 998,300.00 the first year. My question is how come this could not have been done to save the only hospital in Leelanau County which is now closed. The small tax could have kept the hospital open and the extended health care needs in northern leelanau county
Posted by: Duane Straubel | May 22, 2006 10:31 PM