The mood was jubilant at last night’s meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency board of directors. Reporter Mike Lipsitz was there and tells us about the source of all the happiness…
Last night, directors for the water agency that serves Landers and Flamingo Heights voted to set the ad valorem taxes for those within the Bighorn Mountains Improvement District at zero dollars. The vote was a formality but what it represents is the impending retirement of a $1.8 million loan that property owners there have been paying down for nearly 40 years. For property owners within that improvement district, which is roughly north of Reche Road and west of Gibraltar, retirement of the bond measure nets out to an annual property tax savings of $380 per $100,000 of assessed property value. Later the board focused on 113 delinquent accounts which together owe more than $35,000. Directors voted to turn those accounts over to the county for collection via property tax liens. There remains, however, a short window until September 1 for accounts to be settled with the water agency and avoid the tax liens.
A JUBILANT BIGHORN DESERT VIEW WATER MEETING
