Where it all goes (‘09)
Last year I put up an itemized list of where my property-tax money was going, according to the County Assessor’s official breakdown, and I figured I’d do it again this year. Figures in [brackets] are for last year, and they’re of course lower.
- City of Oklahoma City: $130.71 [$125.46]
- Oklahoma City Public Schools: $517.11 [$439.83]
- Metro Tech Center: $136.73 [$129.49]
- Oklahoma County general: $113.81 [$94.29]
- Countywide school levy: $36.64 [$34.70]
- County Health Department: $22.92 [$21.71]
- Metropolitan Library System: $46.02 [$43.58]
- Total: $1003.94 [$889.06]
This is about as much as they could raise it without running afoul of either the cap law or the patience of the taxpayers, and I’m not so sure about the latter, especially since the notices haven’t gone out yet.
The actual rate chart is here. Many of the individual levies are actually the same as last year, though the OCPS levy is up 11.3 percent.
