Thu, Sep 16, 2010
St. Augustine Airport Authority To Celebrate "Airport
Independence Day"
In a time when most local taxing authorities are looking for
ways to increase their base or millage rate, something very much
out of the ordinary is about to happen at St. Augustine Northeast
Florida Regional Airport next week.
On August 16th, the St. Augustine - St. Johns County Airport
Authority voted to lower the property tax assessed to homeowners to
pay for the Airport Authority so drastically that the average
homeowner would pay nothing. Since that time, the Authority
received an opinion from the state Attorney General
allowing the rate to be eliminated altogether for this coming
tax year. That action is expected September 20th at the final
public hearing.
“In 2004, we promised the taxpayers we would remove the
Authority from the tax rolls in seven years,” said Wayne
George, a member of the Board of Directors. “After much work
to position ourselves so this could actually be done, we have
arrived.”
To commemorate this event, a special "Airport Independence Day"
signing ceremony will take place at the airport on Monday,
September 20th, at approximately 1730. In addition to current board
members, past members of the Authority will be invited to sign a
Resolution recognizing this significant achievement. They and the
Airport Authority Staff have all contributed to this success. Local
and state dignitaries will be in attendance and members of the
public are cordially invited.
“It is most refreshing to have something as unusual as the
elimination of a tax to celebrate,” said Ron Sanchez, County
Commission Chairman. “I wouldn’t miss it for the
world.”
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