The Pima County Board of Supervisors officially adopted all tax rates and levies for the 2016-2017 fiscal year Monday, with a 3-2 vote. As with the approval of the final budget in early July, District 4 Supervisor Ray Carroll and District 1 Supervisor Ally Miller were the two “no” votes.
The supervisors control only four property tax rates in Pima County: the primary and secondary county rates, the library district tax and the flood control district The tax. Those rates for the coming year will be $4.29, $.70, $.52 and $.33 for every $100 of valuation, respectively. Their combined levy is about $458 million.
The remaining 90 rates approved Monday were for school boards, fire districts, and a number of special taxing districts across the county, like improvement districts. A PDF of the full list of levies and rates is included with the online version of this story.
Supervisor meetings are generally held on the first and third Tuesdays of every month, but was held Monday this week to meet a statutory deadline that tax rates and levies be adopted on or before the third Monday of August.
Also at the meeting Monday, District 4 Supervisor Sharon Bronson recognized the Tucson Fire Department and Tucson Police Department for participating in her rescue last Tuesday, when floodwaters carried her car an eighth of a mile near Fort Lowell and Oracle roads.
“I would not be here today if not for your efforts,” she said, before offering her rescuers a pizza dinner.
