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Essex supervisors outline budget priorities; broadband, maintenance facility, YMCA highlighted
Summary
At a joint town hall the Board of Supervisors presented the county's adopted '26 budget allocation (52.8% to education) and described capital projects including broadband rollout, a joint vehicle maintenance facility and potential YMCA programming; debt analysis shows staged borrowing capacity up to about $25 million over eight years.
Chairman Acres and county staff used the town hall to explain how Essex County spends tax dollars and to preview major capital projects.
Budget snapshot: Using the adopted '26 budget as the presentation baseline, Acres said 52.8% of expenditures are for education, 17.4% for public safety, 18.1% for general operations, 7.8% for social services, 1.6% for outside agencies and 2.4% for capital projects. He reiterated the county's tax rate decline over eight years from $0.88 to $0.55 per $100 of assessed value and said each one-cent change in the tax rate now…
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