NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Because of an oversight when publishing the Revenue Neutral Rate notice, the Hutchinson City Council will actually have two meetings on the first Tuesday in September.
"We recently caught that the city, in its intentions to exceed the Revenue Neutral Rate, when the mailings were sent out, the time was Sept. 3 at 9 a.m., to have the meeting," said City Manager Enrico Villegas. "That's the date we were going to start our evening meetings. To make that right, we would have to have a special meeting for the morning, to have the hearing at that time."
Mayor Greg Fast wanted to make sure the public knew when both meetings are supposed to be.
"I suggest we have a special meeting in the morning and then we have our previously scheduled nighttime meeting," Fast said.
It was suggested by council member Stacy Goss that the hearing could be opened in the morning meeting and continued to the evening. Villegas had not decided on that, yet.
"I hadn't thought about that," Villegas said. "Let me think about that one, how we want to handle it."
The city's intent is to exceed the revenue neutral rate, but keep the mill levy flat, which will raise a typical homeowner's taxes to equal the increase in their home's valuation.