Hearing on FY23 budget will be March 14
~by Janice Harbaugh for GreeneCountyNewsOnline
During the regular board meeting on Feb. 28, the Greene County board of supervisors held a public hearing to hear comments about the county’s proposed maximum property tax dollars for general and rural county services.
Auditor Jane Heun told the board any increase over 2 percent requires board approval.
A proposed increase of 6.92 percent ($316,960) above FY22 for general county services brought that category to a total of $4,900,015 for FY23.
A proposed increase of 2.36 percent ($43,881) above FY22 for rural county services brought that category to a total of $1,903,673 for FY23.
No written or oral objections were heard from the public during the hearing and the supervisors unanimously approved Resolution 2022-05: Maximum Property Tax Dollars Resolution.
The supervisors also set a public hearing date on the proposed FY23 budget for March 14 at 9 am.
Supervisor Pete Bardole showed the board photographs of the four sculptures recently chosen by the Tower View Team for this year’s Ring Out for Art display on the courthouse plaza.
County attorney Thomas Laehn advised the board they will need to consider a public art resolution to approve the four sculptures.
“The board has editorial control,” Laehn said. “The board can object to any sculpture for any reason.
“The sculptures (on their bases) should be approved by the county engineer. If something falls on someone, the county can be sued,” Laehn said.
“We reserve the right to closely examine them,” said board chair John Muir.
Also, engineer Wade Weiss reported secondary road crews have been preparing bridges for inspection by cleaning up around the bridges.
“Bridges less than 20 feet long don’t have inspection requirements, but we check them, too,” Weiss said.
The board unanimously approved moving secondary roads employee Dan Nation from fulltime to part-time at a rate of $22 per hour and increasing the part-time wage of secondary roads employee Randy Fox to $22 per hour. Both changes became effective Mar. 1.
