WICOMICO: Budget sails to passage today

Trimming the budget to what was available is the right thing to do. Continually whining and crying about the revenue cap is not going to change the fact that you cannot spend money you don't have.

Here is the Daily Times article that will provide more details on Wednesday.
SALISBURY — The Wicomico County Council today adopted a $124.6 million budget for next year that avoids employee furloughs, but defers payments to employee retirement funds.

There were a lot of things on the table that a year ago, I’d never had thought we’d support,” County Executive Richard M. Pollitt Jr. told council members after they unanimously voted in favor of the budget, with no discussion.

Starting July 1, the property tax rate will drop to about 76 cents per $100 of assessed property. This year’s rate fell by five-and-a-half cents, due to charter restrictions under the revenue cap.

See continuing coverage in Wednesday’s The Daily Times