County OKs budget without new jail

Published 12:05 pm Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Property tax rates levied by Warren County will be left alone this year, but work to build a new jail appears officially delayed for the 2010-11 fiscal year in a $14.8 million budget OK’d by supervisors Tuesday.

The board pushed through a “zeroed-out” general fund for next year, that is, one that has no surplus or deficit due to cuts in the chancery and circuit clerk’s offices and to the Buildings and Grounds department. Pay raises for sheriff’s deputies and road workers were scrapped in the name of building up cash reserves, though $220,000 in new sheriff’s department vehicles and nearly $2 million in road resurfacing projects highlight a 35 percent spike in gaming fund spending compared with last year.

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