Commission shoots down low-income tax rebate Thursday Written by Geoffrey Plant on January 29, 2021
Worried about the county’s bottom line, Grant County commissioners voted 3-2 Thursday against a push to adopt an ordinance that would have allowed Grant County’s lowest-income property owners to take advantage of a tax rebate available under state statute.
Only Santa Fe and Los Alamos counties currently offer the rebate, and Grant County officials have repeatedly shot down the idea, which individual counties must choose to adopt, every other year at least since the early 2000s.
According to Section 7-2-14.3 of New Mexico tax law, ※In January of every odd-numbered year in which a county does not have in effect a [low-income property tax rebate] ordinance adopted pursuant to this subsection, the board of county commissioners of the county shall conduct a public hearing on the question of whether the
Last week, Silver City and the New Mexico Office of Natural Resources Trustee announced an agreement that will provide $1.3 million to extend municipal sewer service to as many as 27 homes in the Indian Hills neighborhood currently served by individual septic systems. The approximately 3,900 lineal feet of new 8-inch sewer pipe will start where the Blackhawk Road sewer extension terminates a project also funded by settlement dollars along Cain Drive between Grandview Road and Blackhawk Road, then run east along Cain, stopping just short of Swan Street and also extending north up Arrowhead Road from Cain until just before Arrowhead takes a 90 degree turn. The town of Silver City will operate and maintain the system, which will also include a lift station to pump sewage to the existing gravity line along Cain just west of Grandview. ※We will waive the connection fee for one year” should residents choose to install at their own expense their own connecting sewer line, Si