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Washington County Proposes to Cut Spending

This is great to see.

Washington County Administrative Coordinator Doug Johnson presented a $116 million county budget proposal — down approximately $9 million from the 2008 budget — to the county Finance Committee Wednesday.

   Over the next week, the committee will review budget requests from each county department before settling on a proposal it will advance to the full County Board.

   Johnson’s $116,225,255 proposed budget would be supported by a tax levy of $40,093,700, but the levy would drop to $38,343,700 if supervisors agreed with his plan to put $1.75 million in county sales tax revenue toward the levy, he said. The 2008 levy is $38,551,251.

Good for Doug Johnson for putting up a responsible budget that shows that Washington County won’t put an extra burden on its citizens during these difficult economic times.  Now let’s just hope that the County Supervisors will show the same kind of consideration for the taxpayers.

Posted by Owen at 0719 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Which services is he cutting and what fees will be increased?  there’s a lot more to a budget than just tax inputs.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 02, 2008 at 1251 hrs
   
   
   

2. Read the story.  The cuts seem very reasonable.

   Posted by Owen on October 02, 2008 at 1324 hrs
   
   
   

3. Glad to see they aren’t taking their cue from the Germantown School Board where an increase will result in lowering the tax rate.

   eh?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 02, 2008 at 1357 hrs
   
   
   

4. such a good read you gave us here, I really appreciate that.

   Posted by online dating on October 20, 2008 at 0642 hrs
   
   
   

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