Wicomico County Budget Discussions Center on Tax Increases
As budget deliberations begin for the FY 2012 operating budget, the central question confronting the Wicomico County Council is whether to support a property tax increase of 6.5 percent to fill an anticipated $4.5 million budget deficit. County Executive Rick Pollitt, who introduced the tax increase in his proposed budget, notes that without it would require a second straight year of layoffs, decreased funding levels to Wor-Wic Community College, and call for an additional $2…