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Frederick County board agrees to advertise proposed tax rate of $0.48; capital cuts and timeline outlined
Summary
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors reached a consensus at a work session to advertise a proposed real-estate tax rate of $0.48 per $100 of assessed value as part of its budget calendar; staff said the advertised rate can be lowered after the public hearing but not raised without additional advertising.
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors reached a consensus at a work session to advertise a proposed real-estate tax rate of $0.48 per $100 of assessed value as part of its budget calendar; the advertised rate can be lowered after public hearing but cannot be raised without separate advertising, staff said.
County administration presented updated capital adjustments and a five-year capital plan used to model the budget scenarios that produced several candidate advertised rates. The administrator described reductions of roughly $3.4 million in county capital requests compared with an earlier draft and identified transportation and school capital transfers that staff treated as adjustments in the revenue model.
Board members heard that key items…
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