{"id":286259,"date":"2026-09-15T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286259\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:58:08","slug":"glasgow-city-council-advances-2026-property-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286259\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow City Council advances 2026 property tax rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">What This Story Is About<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow City Council gave first-reading approval to Ordinance 20-26, which sets the city\u2019s 2026 property tax rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Why It Matters<\/p>\n<p>The rate affects how much residents pay in property taxes while funding police, fire, streets, water and gas services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">What Happens Next<\/p>\n<p>The council will hold a final vote on the ordinance at a later meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">GLASGOW, Ky. (WBKO) &#8211; Glasgow City Council held the first reading of Ordinance 2026 Monday night, which establishes the 2026 tax rate for the city of Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Council members said they are trying to keep taxes affordable while still paying for police, fire, streets, water and gas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe have pretty low property taxes here in Glasgow. \u2026 I\u2019m comfortable with going to one-sixty-four as long as we understand we cannot continue to lower these prices below what\u2019s necessary for us to keep the city running,\u201d Glasgow city council member Joe Trigg said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After discussion, the council voted unanimously to approve the tax rate on first reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A final vote on the ordinance will come at a later meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials said they are watching every penny to avoid raising the burden on taxpayers while still keeping essential services funded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"dfb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/EVKYGGIYLNE4VENWPWOZEJKTMY.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBKO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What This Story Is About Glasgow City Council gave first-reading approval to Ordinance 20-26, which sets the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[119213,119214,57322,119211,119212,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-286259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-2026-tax-rate","tag-city-services-funding","tag-glasgow-city-council","tag-glasgow-property-tax","tag-ordinance-2026","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}