Clinton passes budget with no tax increase

June 26, 2024 by Ben Pounds

The Clinton City Council unanimously passed the budget for the next fiscal year with no tax increase.

Clinton City Manager Roger Houk said this is the 13th year since he has been city manager that the city had passed a balanced budget, adding that the city had raised taxes in only one of those years.

By March 2026, he expects the main city budget to be debt free, he said, adding that there are still debt issues with the Clinton Utilities Board.

The property tax rate will continue to be 8.646 cents per $100 of taxable property value.

Total expenditures are expected to be $15.529 million, while revenue will be $15.532 million.

City employees will get a 6% pay raise.

Houk credited the balanced budget to the city’s residential, commercial and industrial growth.

“We’ve just been very fortunate,” he said, crediting the growth to the city maintaining good services while keeping taxes low.