Commission agrees to 'bite the bullet,' address capital needs

In what appears to be an otherwise ordinary budget year, the county commission has agreed by consensus to look at budgeting for building needs.

The move will likely cause an increase in property taxes. Although that facet of the plan was not discussed at Monday's meeting, County Manager Don Adams said the commissioners would need to increase revenues to offset any additional expenditures. Adams has not presented his budget proposal to the commissioners, noting that he is waiting for numbers from the school board. He presented a sheet to the commissioners listing other budget requests from departments in April. Since allocations to schools account for about one-fifth of all county expenditures, the budget picture is woefully incomplete without those numbers.

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