BRUNSWICK - Glynn County property owners could see a 35 percent property tax increase to make up for a shortfall in revenue needed to fund the County Commission's pared-down budget.
Last month, the commission instructed County Administrator Alan Ours to find more ways to cut what was then a proposed $51.3 million budget for fiscal year 2012.
Even after $600,000 was whittled away, the resulting $50.7 million general fund budget is $4.8 million more than the county expects to collect in property taxes, fees and other revenue, Ours told the commissioners during a Tuesday work session.
The fire protection and solid waste funds are coming up short, and the county needs another $2 million to replace vehicles that would have been bought with sales taxes had voters not rejected continuation of a 1-cent sales tax. All told, county residents could be looking at a tax increase of up to two mills.
"A two-mill increase would bring everything back into balance and give us some money for a capital improvements plan," commission Chairman Richard Strickland said.
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