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By Mikaela Porter
mporter@postandcourier.com
I recently read that Charleston City Council is considering spending $3 million on Volvo Car Stadium and between $500,000 and $3 million to save two old smokestacks.
The kicker is that the City Council is discussing raising property taxes and reducing rebates in order to balance the 2021 budget.
This comes just after the 2020 reassessment which, for this household, rose about $100, causing an escrow shortage.
I had to supplement the escrow in short order to prevent my mortgage holder from increasing escrow withholding even more next year, which will already be increased from the recent reassessment.
I do not golf, yet $2 million goes to the Charleston Municipal Golf Course, nearly $1 million to recreational athletics and about $500,000 to youth sports.