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- Cable Franchise Fee: City Code 15-1. The fee is 3% of gross subscriber revenues within the city. These funds are used for street and sidewalk maintenance. The cable company is granted to install, construct, operate, maintain, reconstruct and expand a cable television system within the public streets, ways, alleys, rights-of-way and places of the city.
- Water, Sewer and Garbage
Special Assessments
- Greenland and Parkway Assessment
- Stormwater Assessment
- Street Assessment:
- Maintaining the streets, avenues, alleys and other public roads in the city. Maintenance includes
- Chip Sealing
- Flushing
- General Cleaning
- Graveling
- Leaf and Debris Removal.
- Oiling
- Overlaying
- Seal Coating
- Snow Removal
- Sprinkling
- Sweeping
- Treating
- The cost of and expenses of maintaining the streets, avenues, alleys and public roads shall be assessed against each lot or parcel within the city street maintenance district on the basis of street frontage
- Maintaining the streets, avenues, alleys and other public roads in the city. Maintenance includes
Property Tax
- The market value of property times taxable percent equals the taxable value
- Taxable value times the total mill levy of all taxing entities equals total property tax bill
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District
The Whitefish Urban Renewal Plan was adopted in 1987. The plan identified infrastructure blight as a major deterrent to economic development in Whitefish and identified several "redevelopment" objectives. A large portion of the city was included in a TIF district using tax increment financing (PDF) to fund redevelopment projects (PDF).
The TIF district will sunset in July 2020 and property taxes collected within the district will return to a normal distribution to all taxing entities. In 2013, the Mayor and Council identified the priority of future projects (PDF) and cash flow before the TIF sunsets.
Resort Tax
The City of Whitefish has a 3% Resort Tax that is collected from lodging, retail, bars, and restaurants.