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County manager presents FY2025-26 recommended general fund: just under $112M, tax rate unchanged
Summary
Haywood County's manager presented a proposed general fund budget that trims department requests from about $117M to just under $112M, keeps the property tax rate at 55¢, and identifies a roughly $10.96M gap to balance the budget; a public hearing was scheduled for May 19, 2025.
The Haywood County manager presented the recommended FY2025-26 general fund budget at the May 5 commissioners meeting, describing a plan that trims department expenditure requests from a little over $117,000,000 to just under $112,000,000 while leaving the county's property tax rate unchanged at 55¢.
"The general fund departments requested a little over $117,000,000 in expenditures. We've whittled that down to right under $112,000,000; the tax rate is unchanged at 55¢," the county manager told commissioners during the budget overview. The manager said the county's taxable valuation base is a little over $10.28 billion and that the proposed budget requires roughly $10,961,097 to balance.
The presentation covered revenue assumptions (cautious sales-tax growth, flat investment earnings, small increases in PILT and alcohol taxes) and expenditure drivers including personnel, foster care, public safety and debt. The manager proposed a 3% cost-of-living adjustment effective in July and up to 2% merit increases on anniversary dates, and said most of the $5.5 million reductions from department requests came from personnel costs.
The board accepted the presentation and the manager called for a public hearing on the budget at the next meeting, scheduled for May 19 at 5:30 p.m., with possible adoption at the June 2 meeting.
