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Caroline County runs detailed FY27 budget workshop; commissioners debate fire-company increases, OPEB, capital priorities and a 2-cent tax-change proposal
Summary
During a March 24 workshop, commissioners reviewed FY27 operating and capital priorities ahead of an April 13 deadline, discussed a proposed 2-cent property tax decrease, competing proposals for volunteer fire company increases (5%'10%), LOSAP actuarial timing, and capital placeholders including courthouse parking and public-safety radios.
Commissioners spent the bulk of a March 24 workshop reviewing and adjusting draft FY27 operating and capital budgets, with staff warning of hard deadlines to prepare advertising for an April 13 proposed budget and a May 5 public hearing.
Budget staff walked through line-by-line items and recommended modest reductions in a few areas; one staffer suggested removing $12,000 from the commissioners' PAB expenses and flagged roughly $1.3 million in in-and-out grant revenue that inflates year-over-year totals. Commissioners discussed specific department lines, judicial parking-lot needs and shifting some capital items into design reserves.
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