County Budget Committee Recommends 9% Tax Hike

May 28, 2015 at 01:56 pm by bryan


Rutherford County Commission Budget Committee members recommended a nine-percent hike in property taxes to balance this year's budget. The committee met Wednesday and passed the recommendation on to the full county commission, which will consider it on June 26th. A big portion of the county's budget is for the school system. An amount of 326-point-1-million dollars was appropriated for schools, which is a six-point-three-percent increase. A portion of that is for teacher pay raises, which was partially funded by the state in Governor Haslam's budget.

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