PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners will ask voters this fall to approve a levy lid lift on their property taxes.

Commissioners voted 2-0 during a special meeting Monday to put a one-year permanent levy lid lift of up to 95 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value on the Nov. 4 ballot.

“What you’re talking about is not moving the county to the maximum,” County Administrator Todd Mielke said. “We are currently at 76 cents. Ten years ago, we were at slightly more than $1.44. The county, under this proposal, would still be well below its maximum.”

The maximum is $1.80 per $1,000 of assessed property value, he said.

“If the voters were to approve a levy lid lift, that buys us substantially more time to think about planning for the next few years and to learn about what other cha

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