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Board sets 2007 tax levy, budget CASS COUNTY BOARD Correspondent WALKER - The Cass County Board set the 2007 property tax levy Tuesday at $17,840,214. This anticipates the county will receive $790,5664 in county program aid.
The board set a 2007 budget at $45,628,378 in expected revenues from all sources and expenditures at $45,435,151, with the difference to be set aside in a fund for unexpected costs the county might incur during the year.
Budgeted expenditures include $15,953,855 for general operations; $4,137,000 for self-insurance; $9,521,312 for road and bridge; $12,077,330 for health, human and veterans services; $451,000 for capital improvement projects; $235,000 for unorganized townships; $1,738,263 for land department; $20,000 for the environmental trust; and $301,391 for Kitchigami Library.
Annual salaries for county board members in 2007 will be $23,617.76, a 3 percent raise over 2006. That is the same percentage increase granted to employees in union contracts for the coming year.
The board set 2007 per diem payments to board members at $75 per day (the same as 2006) for meetings other than the first board meeting each month and for any committee meeting where a commissioner represents the board. If a board member attends more than one meeting in a day, that commissioner may collect only one per diem for that day.
Citizen appointees to any county commission or committee also will receive $75 per day for meeting attendance. However, state law prohibits counties from paying a per diem to people serving on the civil service commission.
The board set 2007 salaries for the following elected officials: County Attorney Earl Maus, $97,896; County Recorder Katie Norby, $57,504; and Sheriff Randy Fisher, $84,444. Maus and Fisher already are at the top step of their pay ranges so they did not receive salary increases. Elected officials, however do qualify for an annual longevity payment under county personnel rules.
As proposed earlier, the board set the Longville Ambulance District budget at $400,000. That levy will be applied only within that ambulance district. It assumes advanced life support will be provided on or before July 1 and service will be provided 24 hours a day seven days a week.
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