In the end, what tipped the scale doesn’t matter.
With the Hamilton County Commission’s approval on Sept. 6, the county could see upgrades in education, public safety, infrastructure and economic development with $25.5 million in new revenue that can be leveraged into more than $180 million in bond money.
The commission will discuss this morning and vote next week on a resolution by Mayor Jim Coppinger that, by law, reduces the county property tax millage rate to the new Tennessee Comptroller’s Office-approved 2017 certified property tax rate. Then it will vote on a second resolution to reset the millage rate to where it is today.
The result would be millions in new revenue and, as the mayor told a crowd gathered in front of the Hamilton County Courthouse Tuesday, an “opportunity before us to move the county forward.”
If ever there was a time for the stars to align on boosting county revenue, this is it.