Good News for Dormont Taxpayers

Dormont Council voted at its meeting Monday night to advertise an ordinance that will keep the tax rate at 14 mills next year.

The millage rate is calculated by multiplying the assessed value of your property by the millage rate, which for Dormont would be .014. One mill equals $1 for each $1,000 of assessed valuation on property.

Under that rate, the owner of a home assessed at $100,000 would pay $1,400 in taxes to the borough next year.

The vote was 5-0 with council President Kim Lusardi and Councilwoman Joan Hodson absent from the meeting.

Council hopes to adopt the ordinance at its Dec. 5 meeting.

Mayor Tom Lloyd asked to have the figures for the assessed valuation of the borough as a whole, which is calculated by the county each year. Borough Manager Gino Rizza did not have that information available at the meeting but promised to provide it to council members and the mayor by Friday.