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County manager presents FY 2025-26 recommended budget with no tax increase
Summary
County Manager Lance Metzler presented a FY 2025-26 recommended budget with no tax increase (rate remaining at 58.01¢), a $129.2 million general fund and $175.2 million total budget, recommending about $4.5 million from fund balance and personnel adjustments including a 3% COLA.
County Manager Lance Metzler presented the Rockingham County recommended fiscal year 2025-26 budget to the Board of Commissioners on May 19.
Metzler said the recommended budget carries no property-tax increase and recommends keeping the rate at 58.01¢. The proposed general fund totals $129,235,240 (a 2.73% increase from the prior year) and the countywide total budget is $175,238,368. Metzler said the county projects ad valorem collections to yield approximately $72,900,000 and that he was recommending…
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