On Monday morning, November 5th the Box Butte County Commissioners held a meeting. One of the items on the agenda was the Audit Report from Jim Gardner of Gardner, Loutzenhiser, and Ryan, P.C. Gardner said, “We encountered no significant difficulties in dealing with management in performing and completing our audit.” When Gardner discussed taxes collected for all entities including the cities, schools, counties, colleges, etc. he noted, “You can see through the years that the tax revenues have increased, from $16 million in 2011 to over $20 million in this past year”. Gardner says, “We are seeing that in all the entities, especially school districts, they are a big part of that property tax call; we are seeing the state aid decreasing every year and more reliance on local property tax.”
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