Use this
handy dandy calculator from
The Lens to calculate what your taxes will be
if Mayor Mitch gets his wish to raise our property taxes.
Use the
Assessor's Website if you need to check what your value your property is currently assessed. (And while you're at it make sure that it says you have a homestead exemption if your property is owner occupied!)
Please note that it looks like the proposal for JUST Fire & Police is 20 mills total, 10 mills each.
Oh and these 20 mills are JUST for Fire & Police. Go ahead .... now....
Use the
handy dandy calculator
Shocked? Probably. But not surprised, right?
When so many neighborhoods were jumping on the "Security District" bandwagon,
NorthWest Carrollton did our research and decided against requesting one for our area.
WHY?
Well for one we have a number of fixed income older neighbors and they were against it.
*and*
We believe that taxes for NOPD should come from and be used for the benefit of the WHOLE city.
Crime doesn't conveniently stop at neighborhood boundaries.
Neither do Police Districts.
The "I got mine" Security District approach may randomly and rarely benefit a few or give a false sense of security to the neighborhood willing to tax themselves extra but if there aren't enough sufficiently paid police on duty.... it won't matter much.
What I am wondering is just how much of an increase in our property taxes can we take before the boom that New Orleans is seeing begins to bust.
