The Franklin County Commission has given final approval to next year’s budget.
The 43.5 million dollar budget was approved 4 to 1 with Commissioner Pinki Jackel voting against it.
The amount that will be paid by local taxpayers is a little over 10.5 million dollars – that’s about 717 thousand dollars more than last year.
Next year’s millage was set at 6.47, representing a nearly 8 percent tax increase.
County workers will see a pay increase under the new budget – the across the board raise of about 1100 dollars is the first county pay increase since 2008.
District 1 commissioner Pinki Jackel had a list of about 300 thousand dollars in cuts she said she would like to see the board adopt before agreeing to the budget.
Her cuts included about 75 thousand dollars from professional fees and 77 thousand dollars from a road and bridge contingency fund.
She also requested the county cut about 20 thousand dollars from the Supervisor of Elections office and 20 thousand from the property appraisers office and 15 thousand dollars from the health department.
She also wanted to see Weems memorial hospital pay off a 100 thousand dollar loan to the county.
The rest of the commission, however, was unwilling to approve the cuts.
They argued that much of the money in contingent funds is needed in the case of a storm and that it would be unfair to start cutting office budgets this late in the process.
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