VIDEO: Despite positive financial signs, the Pima County administrator says the county will need to raise property tax rates in the next fiscal year. The county needs to raise rates by 12.3 cents per $100 of taxable assessed value, due in large part to cost shifts from the state, County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry wrote in an April 29 memo to the Board of Supervisors. “In a year of improving taxable assessed values, the State has placed the County in a position where, despite reducing costs and increasing other revenues, we must raise our primary property tax rate,” Huckelberry wrote. “It is important the taxpayers are made aware of this shift in tax burden.” Huckelberry proposed a $1.23 billion budget for fiscal year 2016-17, an increase of about $60 million, or 5.1 percent, over the fiscal year 2015-16 budget. Property taxes fund 38 percent of the county’s annual expenditures. The rest of the budget is funded almost entirely by service charges, intergovernmental revenue and grants. The state shifted $101 million to the county in the past two years — including nearly $19 million in costs to the county for 2016-17 — which accounts for 30 percent of the county’s primary property-tax rate, he wrote.