PORTALES — If the city of Portales nearly doubles the mill levies that determine property taxes, it will come close to bridging what the city manager described as a long-running budget gap. City Manager Scott Mitten told city councilors Nov. 3 that raising the city’s operating property tax rate to the state maximum – from 4.50 mills to 7.65 mills – would nearly close a $736,678 general fund shortf... ...read more read less