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Gloucester supervisors debate 4.3-cent tax increase, fund-balance use and cuts to school requests
Summary
At a Gloucester County Board of Supervisors work session, members debated whether to advertise a 4.3-cent-per-$100 real-estate tax increase, raise the personal-property rate, use fund balance and trim school requests including Chromebook replacements and an expanded school meal program.
Gloucester County supervisors spent hours Thursday probing ways to balance the county—s proposed fiscal 2026 budget, including advertising a 4.3-cent increase in the real estate tax rate and a higher personal-property rate, while weighing use of the county—s fund balance and possible program cuts.
The board considered a mix of options to close a roughly $1 million gap created after members added school and nonprofit requests to the county administrator—s proposal. Staff—s current calculations showed an advertised package that would include a 4.3-cent real-estate increase and a 15-cent personal-property rate, and would use about $321,000 of unassigned fund…
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