With no Nash residents present to offer input on the city’s proposed real property tax rate, the City Council closed its final public hearing Monday.

The council will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 22 to vote on the proposed tax rate increase, from 32 cents to 36 cents per $100 valuation.

They are also expected to approve the city’s budget for fiscal year 2008-09.

Fifteen years ago, Nash’s tax rate was 44 cents per $100 valuation. Between 1996 and 1998, the council managed to get the tax rate dropped to 28 cents per $100 valuation.

During the last few y...

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