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VICKSBURG, Miss. – Mayor Flaggs hinted at the possibility of a tax increase stating that “I’m not ever going to tell you that option is not out there.”

At his “Vision for the Future” meeting held at the Robert M. Walker building on January 8, 2025, Mayor Flaggs said he won’t take the option of raising taxes off the table.

The statement was made at a point in the meeting when Flaggs responded to a question about managing the city into a budget deficit. “After 12 years as Mayor how did we manage ourselves into a $700,000 deficit?” the Mayor replied “Because we haven’t raised taxes.”

When asked if he a tax increase is possible, the Mayor responded, “I didn’t say that.” Mary Jane Fant, a local developer and business owner, spoke up to say the Mayor told her that he was going to raise taxes in a meeting with her on September 13, 2024.

Flaggs rejected that saying that what he had said was, (at 28:00) “I told you there are two things we are going to be looking at. And that is, one, that we were going to look at. You can’t use the general fund for trash or look at raising the millage for that. Okay? And that’s what I was telling you, that we’re not going to be able to do it. Now, we can do a whole lot of other things but I’m telling you this city will not be able to sustain just trying to do all these things at once. Can’t do it.” Flaggs then said, “But I’m not ever going to tell you that option is not out there.”

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