A $161,535,766 general fund budget for the 2019 fiscal year was proposed at the May 1 regular meeting of the Henry County Board of Commissioners.
While citing nearly $6 million in new budget items, it is an overall decrease from the FY2018 budget of $161,906,971 which was adopted at this time last year. But it is nowhere near the $120 million or so in 2012. If adopted, the new budget would keep the millage rate at 12.733 with no across-the-board pay increases, no funding of planning studies and no money toward capital projects. Projections show 50.69 percent of the budget being funded by property taxes and 25.17 percent coming from sales and use taxes. As for expenditures, 53.58 is allocated for public safety, 13.07 percent for legislative/executive expenses and 10.92 percent for the judicial system.
The budget is scheduled for adoption May 15.
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