Washington County Commissioners unanimously approved a fiscal 2015 budget, making very few changes to the budget that was proposed previously. The $296 million operating and capital budgets hold the line on taxes and flat funds most agencies.

As reported by the Hagerstown Herald-Mail:

The Washington County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 to approve the budgets in two separate motions after a brief discussion with county officials.

One motion finalized the operating budgets, which include a balanced general fund of $204.5 million, and the other motion approved the 10-year Capital Improvement Plan of $45.1 million.
Also approved as part of the first motion were other operating funds, including those for highways, environmental, recreation and human services-related funds, totaling $46.5 million.

Commissioners also approved changes to water and sewer rates as a part of the budget.

…the commissioners on April 29 approved water and sewer rate increases to keep up with operational costs, as well as state regulatory mandates and funding capital-improvement requirements.

User fees for the average residential customer were increased by 2.9 percent for water and 3.5 percent for sewer.