Despite small levy increase, county tax rate would drop

Without knowing what health costs will be or how much sales tax revenue is likely to come in, Ozaukee County Administrator Jason Dzwinel Wednesday morning presented county supervisors a 2019 budget that would raise the county levy less than 2%.  

The county tax rate would be just shy of $1.75 per $1,000 valuation, or about 5 cents less than last year.

Dzwinel projected the tax levy to rise $401,275 to about $20.94 million, up from the 2018 levy of $20.54 million, a 1.95% increase.