Clayton slated to approve FY 2014 budget on June 11

Clayton County Board of Commissioners are set to vote on the county’s FY 2014 budget on June 11. The proposed general fund budget is $172.8 million, a decrease of $19.6 million - or 10 percent - from the 2013 amended budget. The decrease is due to bond refunding and a 7.5 percent drop in residential home values which adversely affected the tax digest, commission chairman Jeff Turner noted in a prepared statement to the community. The tax digest is down 3 percent. The county held a public hearing on the budget Tuesday.