According to the BND accessor Darlene Laub gave US Steel another huge drop in their property tax bill. WTF is that about? Their rate has dropped 25% in three years according to the article. Where has my tax bill gone? Like yours it went up Then she blames the county for misuderstanding a phone call that cost the city $100,000. Why is business of this magnitude done on the phone?
US Steel just built major additions on their site and then tell Laub many former operation buildings are now warehouses and aren't used for manufacturing. So she sends some clerk over to verfy that yet the clerk takes no pictures for proof. How convenient.
US Steel is an important part of this town but so are we. You raise our accessment and lower those why? They're more oimportant to your next election I guess.
My favorite line in the article is where Darlene tells the other taxing bodies to, "tighten" their belts. Maybe they should do that by laying off all of Your relatives Darlene. Budgets could be stretched plenty to cover the cost when you wanted your son, niece, son in law , sister in law and husband to have jobs.