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No tax increases in Gloucester

Gloucester residents will see no tax increases in next year’s budget. The $133 million proposed budget was presented to the county’s board of supervisors during its meeting Tuesday night in the colonial courthouse.

County administrator Brenda Garton said the proposed budget was developed under the assumption that there would be no increase in the current tax rates and there would be no borrowing. It was the consensus of the board during its first meeting of the year to direct Garton to form the budget with those two premises. 

The board voted unanimously to advertise tax rates at their current levels, which are 65 cents per $100 of assessed value on real estate; $2.95 per $100 of assessed value on personal property and $1 on boats ahead of the public hearing on the budget, which is scheduled for March 24 at the T.C. Walker Education Center at 7 p.m.

“There’s really not a lot to say about it,” Garton said, as she was unable to fund any new programs ...

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