Meeker

Cemetery district approves mill levy holiday

MEEKER | In a welcome move for taxpayers—and for the second year in a row—the Highland Cemetery District Board voted in its Dec. 6 meeting to again implement a temporary lowering of its mill levy from 0.869 to 0.696 for its 2019 budget due to a surplus of funds and the board’s cutting of expenses.

As previously reported in the HT(Feb. 10, 2017), the mill levy is the tax rate that is applied to…