… I talk to mayors and stuff across the city where there are years where they can lower their go below the levy cap. However, the way the system's set up, If you lower your levy cap you go down one year, you can't ever get that back. That's your new cap. And many municipalities levy to the limit when they don't really need to, just because if they don't, then their cap gets lowered. (08:07–08:15)
CLAIM
Asserts that if municipalities lower their levy cap, they cannot raise it back to the original level.
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