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Print this story KAREN MIKOLS If Salina city commissioners go along with a proposed $784,508 tax increase, that money won’t go to help fund city operations. Instead, City Manager Jason Gage told commissioners at a Monday study session, “It’s to help fund fixed-route transit, the five-year capital improvement plan and to offset the machinery exemption (commercial and industrial machinery in 2006 were exempted from state and local property taxes).” An estimated $471,000 of that new money would be needed to implement a fixed route public transportation system in Salina,. “We’re using our mill levy to reinvest in our community,” Mayor John K. Vanier II said of the proposed $71.47 million budget for 2009. The city is considering raising the mill levy — the taxing mechanism — for the first time in several decades from the current 23.96 mills to 26 mills. Reporter Karen Mikols can be reached at 822-1416 or by e-mail at kmikols@salina.com.
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