Real Estate Tax Increase Coming for Manassas Residents

Real Estate taxes in Manassas will be a little higher when July rolls around, with city council set to finalize the adoption of its Fiscal Year 2014 budget.

Manassas City Council voted 4-2 on Monday to adopt the $328,392,966 budget. A second reading of that adoption is on Wednesday.

Councilmen Marc Avent and Ian Lovejoy both voted against the budget and tax increases, the Washington Post reported.

The budget calls for a total real estate tax rate of $1.393 per hundred dollars of a property's accessed value—2.7 cents more than the current rate of $1.366.

The general property tax rate, which is part of the total real estate tax rate, did not increase, but will remain at $1.192.

Part of the 2.7 cent tax increase will go toward funding the city's Capital Improvement Plan which is an outline of city and school division projects for the next five years and beyond. 

The plan includes funding for: a new fire station, improvements to Prince William and Main Streets and drainage improvements on Portner Avenue, Battle and Main Streets.

It also includes more than $57 million for Manassas City Public Schools.

The schools will use that $57 million to build a new Baldwin School and address division-wide maintenance issues. The new school is expected to cost around $38 million and could be completed as soon as 2016, if things go as planned, Manassas City Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Catherine Magouyrk told the Washington Post.

There will be a final vote on the adoption of the budget at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Manassas City Hall.

Read more about this spring's budgeting process here:

Manassas City Council Proposes Tax Increases for Residents

$50,000 in Trash Cans Part of Manassas Budget

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