By a 23-3 vote the Brown County Board approved the 2010 budget. The Press Gazette reports:
The next step belongs to County Executive Tom Hinz:
The Brown County tax levy will increase by about $2.026 million for 2010 under a budget approved Monday by the Brown County Board.Both the supervisors themselves and the non-union county employees get a pay cut under the approved budget. There would also be furlough days for all employees with the details yet to be worked out.
The budget is about $589,086 lower than county Executive Tom Hinz's proposed budget and would increase the county's portion of the property tax about $6 on every $100,000 of property value.
The new tax levy, if signed by Hinz, will be $84,152,149 — about $2.026 million, or 2.5 percent — more than 2009. The tax rate would be 4.5801, up from 4.5444 this year.
The next step belongs to County Executive Tom Hinz:
Hinz has until the Dec. 16 County Board meeting to sign the budget or submit his vetoes.
"I'm going to sit back and look at it but not make any rash decisions," Hinz said following the 23-3 vote, with supervisors Adam Warpinski, Andy Nicholson and Dave Kaster voting against it. "The furloughs are something that has to be fine-tuned."
5 comments:
Just curious, but why does Brown County have a 26 person board? The bureaucrats required to staff them must cost a lot. My city in Arizona has a 7 person council and it has 200,000 more people than all of BRown county. Is this how all counties are in WI? Not criticizing, just wondering.
Johnny,
I don't know how they came up with the 26 number, but I'm going to try and find out.
How many supervisors does Maricopa County have? I can't remember.
Maricopa Cty. has 5 members on their so called board of supervisors
Johnny,
I looked at Maricopa Cty. and noticed that the salary for each supervisor is $76,600.
In Brown Cty., each supervisor salary is just under $8,000. Additionally, we don't have staffs or an office.
So, all in all, our budget for the positions are actually less costtly than Maricopa's and we smaller districts.
Rodger that, i was just wondering when i saw that tally of the vote on the budget.
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