MONROE - The Green County Board of Supervisors will decide tonight whether to ask voters for additional tax revenue to fully fund operations at Pleasant View Nursing Home.
The board will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Green County Courthouse circuit courtroom. The resolution must be approved by two-thirds of the board to pass.
The resolution, recommended Aug. 14 by the Green County Finance and Accounting Committee, would ask voters Oct. 6 to approve spending up to $890,000 a year for each of the next five years on the nursing home.
If the resolution fails, or if the referendum fails, the County Board will be forced to make cuts in other county departments to fully fund the nursing home.
The county has to hold the referendum quickly because the county's 2010 budget must be completed by mid-November. If the referendum fails, county department will have four weeks to make cuts in their 2010 budget.
Whether the referendum passes or fails, or even occurs, the county has no intention of closing Pleasant View next year.
The county's estimated tax levy for 2010 will be about $12 million. If voters approve the referendum, the total will be about $12.9 million, an increase of about 7.5 percent.
The 2009 tax rate was $4.93, compared to $4.66 in 2008. The new rate means that a person with a house valued at $150,000 will pay $739.50 in county property taxes in 2009 compared to $699 in 2008. The owner of a farm valued at $250,000 will pay $1,232.50 in 2009 compared to $1,165 in 2008.
In 2008, the nursing home had a deficit of about $900,000.
This year, it's estimated the nursing home will have a deficit of about $1.2 million. The county was to receive about $650,000 from the state for the Pleasant View budget. However, the state Legislature decided to keep some of the federal money ordinarily sent to the nursing home to help cover its Medicaid Trust Fund deficits.
The board will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Green County Courthouse circuit courtroom. The resolution must be approved by two-thirds of the board to pass.
The resolution, recommended Aug. 14 by the Green County Finance and Accounting Committee, would ask voters Oct. 6 to approve spending up to $890,000 a year for each of the next five years on the nursing home.
If the resolution fails, or if the referendum fails, the County Board will be forced to make cuts in other county departments to fully fund the nursing home.
The county has to hold the referendum quickly because the county's 2010 budget must be completed by mid-November. If the referendum fails, county department will have four weeks to make cuts in their 2010 budget.
Whether the referendum passes or fails, or even occurs, the county has no intention of closing Pleasant View next year.
The county's estimated tax levy for 2010 will be about $12 million. If voters approve the referendum, the total will be about $12.9 million, an increase of about 7.5 percent.
The 2009 tax rate was $4.93, compared to $4.66 in 2008. The new rate means that a person with a house valued at $150,000 will pay $739.50 in county property taxes in 2009 compared to $699 in 2008. The owner of a farm valued at $250,000 will pay $1,232.50 in 2009 compared to $1,165 in 2008.
In 2008, the nursing home had a deficit of about $900,000.
This year, it's estimated the nursing home will have a deficit of about $1.2 million. The county was to receive about $650,000 from the state for the Pleasant View budget. However, the state Legislature decided to keep some of the federal money ordinarily sent to the nursing home to help cover its Medicaid Trust Fund deficits.