Council meeting set to establish tax request

Sidney’s City Council will hold a special meeting Wednesday at noon set its tax levies for the general, street department and debt services funds.

The special meeting is needed after council needed more information following its regular meeting last week due to uncertainty on bonding for debt payments coming due in December. The city has been working with bonding agencies to see what rates it might need to pay for the bonds.

Council will review two options as it works to provide for the city’s needs.

First of those is for a request of $1,580,016, which would result in a levy of 0.4803, or just...