The Escanaba City Council approved the city’s 2022-23 operating budget with a city millage rate of 17.442 mills, a 2.6% increase in property taxes from the current-levied 17 mils. During the public hearing, Miron VanEffen said the increase in the tax rate and a proposed 25 percent increase in wastewater rates is too much.

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