MONROE - The tax levy for Green County residents will increase 6 cents next year, under the county's proposed 2013 budget.
Green County supervisors received the proposed $41.5 million 2013 budget Tuesday, Oct. 16. The budget is a 1.36 percent decrease from last year's $42.1 million budget.
The total tax levy is $16,914,392. The county plans to use almost $2.2 million in sales tax collected in 2011 to reduce the levy to $14,730,674.
Under the budget plan, the tax rate is projected to be $5.78 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. Taxes on a $100,000 home would be $578, compared to $572 in 2012, an increase of about 1 percent.
Harvey Mandel, the county's first vice chair and the chairman of the county's finance committee, said each department was asked to submit a budget with no increase to the tax levy.
"It was a difficult task as they deal with reductions in revenue combined with increased expenses such as utilities, supplies and fuel," Mandel said. "It's a good solid budget within the state's parameters."
County board supervisors are expected to vote on the proposed budget at their next meeting Tuesday, Nov. 13.
Mandel said this is the fourth year of a voter-approved referendum that allows the county to use $890,000 a year to offset costs of operating the Pleasant View Nursing Home.
County leaders are planning to transfer $234,225 from the capital projects fund to pay for the repair of infrastructure at the nursing home.
Mandel said the county has included $375,000 in the budget to replenish that fund and provide additional money to pay for a sprinkler system that is required to be installed by the middle of 2013.
Mandel said the sprinkler system is estimated to cost $500,000 to $600,000.
The tax levy also includes several items excluded from the levy limit, including a little more than $1 million debt service payments and $446,813 in library payments.
Green County supervisors received the proposed $41.5 million 2013 budget Tuesday, Oct. 16. The budget is a 1.36 percent decrease from last year's $42.1 million budget.
The total tax levy is $16,914,392. The county plans to use almost $2.2 million in sales tax collected in 2011 to reduce the levy to $14,730,674.
Under the budget plan, the tax rate is projected to be $5.78 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. Taxes on a $100,000 home would be $578, compared to $572 in 2012, an increase of about 1 percent.
Harvey Mandel, the county's first vice chair and the chairman of the county's finance committee, said each department was asked to submit a budget with no increase to the tax levy.
"It was a difficult task as they deal with reductions in revenue combined with increased expenses such as utilities, supplies and fuel," Mandel said. "It's a good solid budget within the state's parameters."
County board supervisors are expected to vote on the proposed budget at their next meeting Tuesday, Nov. 13.
Mandel said this is the fourth year of a voter-approved referendum that allows the county to use $890,000 a year to offset costs of operating the Pleasant View Nursing Home.
County leaders are planning to transfer $234,225 from the capital projects fund to pay for the repair of infrastructure at the nursing home.
Mandel said the county has included $375,000 in the budget to replenish that fund and provide additional money to pay for a sprinkler system that is required to be installed by the middle of 2013.
Mandel said the sprinkler system is estimated to cost $500,000 to $600,000.
The tax levy also includes several items excluded from the levy limit, including a little more than $1 million debt service payments and $446,813 in library payments.