Paris, Tenn.—At Thursday evening’s Paris City Commission meeting, City Finance Director Traci Shannon said retail sales are up and nine businesses were issued licenses in February.
“Our retail sales were back up for the month of January. We had a 3.33% increase compared to January of last year. We are still ahead for the fiscal-year-to-date by 3.75%,” she said.
The city received 40% of the payments for the 2017 property tax billing during the month of February. The overall total collected was 90% of the billing, which is average compared to the last few years. Due to the property tax increase, the amount collected was approximately $150K more than last year.
The city issued nine business licenses in February:
New Business: Candy Lane, Paris Yoga, Southern Builders, God’s Blessing Handy Man Service, K & J Meat Processing LLC, The Inspector LLC, Jorge Reyer dba Ward Elkins
New Owner: Pattman, LLC dba Wendy’s
Change in Type of License: Veteran’s Maintenance
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