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Property owners complain about proposed tax hike in Oakwood
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Oakwood Mayor Lamar Scroggs talks with residents at the city’s public hearing Monday at Oakwood City Hall. The possibility of a 50 percent property tax increase had the residents worried and there were suggestions to hold the meeting at a later time when more residents were off work and could attend.
Oakwood property owners, including three from the same neighborhood, criticized a proposed 50 percent hike in the city’s property tax rate Monday, saying they believe officials should have eased in increases rather than hit residents all at once. “I think we’re coming at this (tax hike) a little late in the game, and a lot of people are a little upset about it,” Delores Pearson told Oakwood City Council, which held the first of three public hearings on the increase. “I’m not arguing at all that we don’t need the money, but I think we just waited a little too long to step into the field to do something.”