Budgets presented to Oconee County Council

The Oconee administrator proposes a tax increase, along with a re-application of debt millage, as a way to arrive at a balanced budget for general county government in 2016-17.  Scott Moulder, the administrator, recommends a 2-point-1 tax mill increase and moving 2-point-5 mills from debt service to the general fund.  Combined those mills, Moulder estimates, would bring in 2-point-3 million dollars that he has figured into the overall spending plan of $44.7 million dollars.  The council also last night received from the Oconee School District a budget request that would bring in the same amount of money to apply to its overall spending plan for the next 12 months.  Unlike the county general budget, the school budget is figured without a tax increase—although school budget writers are projecting a deficit budget of $860 thousand dollars.