2007 Operating Budget

The Operating Budget is in. This only represents General Operating Funds. If you want a more detailed explanation of the additional $445.8M in spending and revenues you will have to wait for future postings. Suffice it to say that it is not suffeciently detailed in the budget documents, you would have to go to the County Financial Statements to drill down.

The proposed budget includes $67.9M in new spending fueled by $50M in increased revenues from Property and Income taxes. I have to say that I am disappointed in the $9.4M tax cut proposal - I think Mr. Robey could have done a lot more for tax payers considering the increases in property tax assessments.

Couple of notes here.
County Administration is getting $5.6M more than they requested
Board of Elections is getting $300K more than they requested
States Attorney is getting $400K more than they requested
DPZ is geting $160K more than they requested
County Executive is getting $115K more than they requested

I will be interested to learn what happened between the department budget request period and the proposed budget. That $6.5M could have been used a number of other ways such as:

Fully fund the Board of Education's request
Deeper Tax Cuts
Fully fund Public Safety




Headings
2006 Approved: County Council Approved Budget
2007 Robey Request: What the County Executive is asking for
$ Increase: Increase or (decrease) from 2006 approved over 2007 request
% Change: Percentage difference between 2006 approved over 2007 request
% Requested: Percentage difference between department requests and CE Request
Bold: CE requests larger than Department Request