City again looking at levy to repair streets

Havre City Council voted for the second time in three years to place a mill levy increase proposal on next November's ballot to repair city streets and passed on first reading two ordinances related to pets at the council's Monday meeting.

Council members voted unanimously to bring the proposed annual increase of 66.30 mills before Havre voters. If approved, the levy would cost the owner of a home with a taxable marketable value of $100,000 an additional $89.50 in annual property taxes for the next 20 years and the owner of a $200,000 property $179 more in property taxes.

The resolution...