MIDDLEBURG – Although Snyder County Commissioners adopted a tentative budget that includes a large tax increase, one commissioner says the final millage amount could be lower. Commissioner Malcolm Derk says although the tentative budget calls for a 4-mill increase, there is still work to be done.
Derk said, “We are all committed to doing everything we can to find any revenues that we possibly can, as well as look at any place we can reduce the budget to bring it into balance. But, of course, we have been faced with some very difficult challenges over the past year.”
Derk says the state being without a budget is a big challenge, “Right now the state owes us just about a million dollars. It’s very difficult to know what we are going to do next year with that kind of liability.”
He says in the past eight years, they have always had a tentative budget that is higher than the actual budget passed. He said they will work hard in the next two weeks to try to lower the anticipated 4-mill tax increase.
