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Supervisors debate advertising higher tax rate to preserve reserves and contingency in FY27 draft budget
Summary
County staff presented a $48.9 million draft FY27 budget and proposed advertising a 51¢ tax rate; some supervisors favored advertising a higher rate (55–57¢) to preserve options for reserve deposits and a contingency fund, and the board set a work session to run numbers and determine the advertised rate.
County staff presented the draft FY27 budget and tax-rate options to the Northumberland County Board of Supervisors at the May 7 meeting, prompting a substantive debate about whether to advertise a higher tax rate to protect reserves and maintain contingency funding.
The draft budget presented was $48,878,924 and included a proposed advertised rate of 51¢ with an equalized rate quoted at 0.4721; staff also proposed a 2% salary…
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