Berlin's tax rate drops

The city's new finance director, Holly Larsen, attended her first city council meeting Monday night. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO)

BERLIN — The city council was quiet Monday night when City Manager James Wheeler put up the proposed 2020 tax rate of $35.93 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation.

“We’re speechless,” one councilor quipped as the rate came in $3.89 lower than the 2019 rate of $39.82.

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