MAYVILLE – The Chautauqua County Legislature has approved a 2015 budget that contains no tax increase. In fact, the spending plan that was approved unanimously by lawmakers actually contains a slight decrease in the tax rate of 2 cents per $1000 property value.
In what may have been the shortest meeting on record for voting on a county budget, the legislature approved the spending plan as amended by the Audit and Control Committee earlier this month. That plan found more than $700,000 in savings from the budget that was initially submitted by County Executive Vince Horrigan in September. As a result, the tax rate for property owners in 2015 will be $9.15 per $1000- a two-cent decrease from the current year’s rate and 11 cents lower than what Horrigan had proposed in his executive spending plan.
Lawmakers made no comments prior to voting on the budget, which was the only item on the agenda for the 6:30 portion of the monthly meeting. The legislature had convened the meeting earlier on Wednesday to deal with non-budgetary items.
Following the meeting, Horrigan said he was fine with the changes and had no plans to veto any of the ten amendments that were approved by lawmakers.
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