Havre City Council passes resolutions, approves annual budget

Havre City Council Wednesday unanimously passed the city budget, including renewing tax levies for services in the city, as it resumed its council meeting from Tuesday to hold its budget hearing.

The council on final reading of the motions renewed tax levies, with some having small decreases and some small increases in dollar amounts.

It unanimously passed a resolution levying and assessing a tax to defray the cost of maintaining street lights for the city of Havre for the fiscal year 2018-19. Havre City Clerk Doug Kaercher said a slight change had to be made to the document due to incorrect square footage in the original, but the problem had been corrected.

The council also passed a resolution levying and assessing a tax on property within the city limits to defray the cost of Bullhook maintenance.

It also passed a resolution levying and assessing a tax on property within city limits to defray the cost of maintaining streets in Havre for the fiscal year 2018-19 and a resolution levying and assessing a tax to defray the cost of solid waste services for the city for the fiscal year 2018-19.

A resolution adopting the final budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, and ending June 30, 2019, was passed by the council.

The council also passed a resolution fixing the annual tax levies for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, and ending June 30, 2019, in Havre.

Kaercher, a Democrat who is facing Sun River Republican Randy Pinocci in the race for Public Service Commission, added that Tuesday he notified the council of some minor changes made to the budget. One was a change in the general fund because the pool’s pump had a failure, with a replacement cost of $5,700. The other was making some adjustments to match the Tri-Agency Task Force grant recently approved by the council. Neither change altered the total appropriations.