New spending in the new budget year was the featured topic during a town hall-type meeting Tuesday with District 4 Supervisor Carl Flanders at the helm.

Broken out, the county will spend $872,817 more in its 2006-07 budget, one that will have a general fund of $13,757,348 according to an initial draft.

County Administrator John Smith told about 30 people where the money is going and that no increase in tax rates is planned.

&#8220The good news is that we’re not planning to raise the millage rate,” Smith said.

The exact figures have shifted throughout the summer-long process of setting the budget and could be adjusted again. Supervisors are not expected to vote on a spending plan before a public hearing Sept. 5.

Broken out, new funding entails: