Sharon Hallberg

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/24/2001    Last Visited: 7/25/2003  

  "We can't give them money," said county treasurer Sharon Hallberg.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/27/2005    Last Visited: 1/28/2005  

  Retiring county treasurer Sharon Hallberg called attention to the erosion of the county's cash position at a special meeting Dec. 17.Hallberg told the Daily Globe the DTRF generates about $200,000 in interest, but the county took some $450,000 out of the fund to settle the 2004 budget.
  
  She said the contribution to the 2005 budget will leave the fund with only enough money to meet its obligations.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/29/2004    Last Visited: 12/30/2004  

  The quiet public hearing came less than two weeks after retiring county treasurer Sharon Hallberg told the board its proposed budget would begin to bankrupt the county.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/20/2004    Last Visited: 12/21/2004  

  Retiring county treasurer Sharon Hallberg sounded an alarm about plans to tap the revolving fund in excess of its interest earnings for a second consecutive year.
  
  "I've very concerned with settling your budget with $500,000 from the revolving fund," she said."Maybe cuts need to be made next year."
  
  Hallberg told the Daily Globe the DTRF generates about $200,000 in interest, but the county is planning to take some $450,000 out of the fund to settle the 2004 budget.
  
  At the same time, the proposed 2005 budget of $5.5 million (up from just under $5.4 million this year) calls for a $500,000 contribution from the DTRF.
  
  Hallberg said this will leave the fund with only enough money to meet its obligations.
  
  "You've blown it now.There's nothing left," she said.
  
  "Are you talking about personnel cuts?"
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  Hallberg asked.
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  "By not borrowing the dollars, the interest we saved and the interest we get (on invested funds) was then to go to the general fund," said Hallberg, describing the plan established by earlier county commissioners.
  
  "Without hurting the principal, it could provide $200,000 to the budget," she added.
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  Hallberg said the policy costs for 2005 will be up an average of 14 percent.
  
  "Our criminal costs, and our court costs keep going up," she said.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/26/2004    Last Visited: 7/27/2004  

  Gogebic County Commissioners will consider the matter of treasurer Sharon Hallberg's retirement when they meet at 5 Wednesday.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/29/2004    Last Visited: 4/29/2004  

  BESSEMER -- Sharon Hallberg has indicated she will retire as county treasurer at the close of this term.
  
  "It's hard to say good-bye," she told the Daily Globe.
  
  Hallberg was appointed treasurer on Jan. 1, 1986, replacing Katherine Karjala, who had retired.
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  Hallberg was the first Upper Michigan resident to be named to the Michigan Association of Public Retirement Systems board.
  
  "Being on the MAPERS board is something I hate to give up.I was named to that board two years ago," she said "Pension, especially in government, is getting to be a major issue."
  
  "I can't thank the voters enough for the support they've shown me, and friendship," she said."The people, through my years, have been so supportive."
  
  "I hope to do some volunteer work," said Hallberg.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/15/2004    Last Visited: 4/16/2004  

  After hearing a brief report from treasurer Sharon Hallberg, the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners approved sending $1.2 million in checks representing 2003 delinquent taxes to the respective local taxing units.
  
  Hallberg said the checks do not reflect state payments in lieu of taxes, which were withheld.Those payments apparently will be reinstated, she said.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/26/2004    Last Visited: 2/26/2004  

  BESSEMER -- Two budget initiatives in Lansing may cut revenue to Gogebic County government by nearly $600,000 per year, county treasurer Sharon Hallberg told the county board of commissioners Wednesday.
  
  The first will, in effect, eliminate an annual $300,000 in state revenue sharing.A second cuts personal property taxes, costing the county an estimated $296,707.
  
  Hallberg recently attended a Michigan Association of County Treasurers meeting which shed further light on a budget proposal by Gov.
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  According to Hallberg, the plan won't help Gogebic County.
  
  "The governor should just come out and say 'We're taking away the counties' revenue sharing,'" she told the Daily Globe.
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  That levy would be put into a reserved bank account that we would draw down," said Hallberg."In our county, we would draw it down for the next 7 1/2 years, instead of revenue sharing.That would be our revenue sharing payment."
  
  Gogebic County has only a $300,000 general fund balance, Hallberg said.
  
  "We would no longer have our December levy, so we would have no operating capital to work with until next July," Hallberg said.
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  Hallberg said general opposition to personal property taxes -- and the relative difficulty of assessing and collecting them -- may be driving a proposal to cut property tax assessments by the first $10,000 of tax value.
  
  Wakefield Township, home of a ski resort and several pipelines, would see collections drop by an estimated $100,000, according to figures supplied by the county equalization department.
  
  "Personal property typically is owned by businesses," said Hallberg.
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  "This hurts us and it isn't going to help the state," Hallberg told county commissioners.
  
  Hallberg said the revenue sharing plan is a burden on taxpayers and full of complications.The change would, for instance, leave cities with almost no taxes to collect during the winter cycle.
  
  "They're going to charge me for the extra work," she said."I don't blame them."
  
  "I see it as creating a burden for the taxpayer," Hallberg said.
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  Hallberg said richer counties, with big fund balances, may do well under Granholm's plan.
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  Hallberg will participate.
  
  "If (the governor) wants to collect a July levy, this has to be on a fast track because treasurers need to know what they're doing," Hallberg said.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/14/2004    Last Visited: 2/14/2004  

  Gogebic County Treasurer Sharon Hallberg said the program appears to be of little or no help.
  
  "I don't know what I'm missing here," said Hallberg.
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  Hallberg has expected a change in the schedule of tax collection.
  
  "They've been talking for a long time about going to a once-a-year tax.This is not a surprise for me," she said."No matter what, we're going to get the same dollar amount unless we increase our tax levy."
  
  Hallberg agrees that counties will make some minor gains in investment revenue by collecting taxes early.
  
  "We're going to make some interest, granted, but not that much.And I see it as a burden for our taxpayers," she said."You're not even making 1 percent on your investments."
  
  Michigan's county treasurers will gather next week and the impact of the proposed change is on the agenda.
  
  "I'm going to my county treasurer's conference," Hallberg said.

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  Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, USA | News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/24/2003    Last Visited: 9/24/2003  

  BESSEMER -- Sharon Hallberg, Gogebic County Treasurer, wants property owners to be aware of changes in the Michigan property tax law regarding Homestead Exemptions.

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