City residents are a step closer to getting their civic property taxes in the mail.
Third reading passed Monday at North Battleford council to sign and seal the two mill rate bylaws — one to establish mill rate factors, the other to levy taxes and set the minimum and base tax and downtown business improvement district levy. Both carried by a unanimous vote.
But one more bylaw still needs to be passed at council. Also introduced was the Base Tax Bylaw, to fund the underground pipe and asphalt replacement program for 2015.
This last bylaw is for the special tax that is to be levied at $3 per foot frontage measurement. The bylaw was introduced at the meeting and made it through two readings, but did not receive unanimous consent for third reading. It will come back for that final passage at the next council meeting in May.
There was one other bylaw passed at the meeting, for imposing penalties to cover the non-payment of taxes. Third and final reading carried unanimously.
