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That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It’s unclear if it’s drones or something else, but for sure the nighttime sightings are producing tons of talk, a raft of conspiracy theories and craned necks looking skyward.
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York County commissioners kept taxes steady by approving the county’s 2025 budget, a plan totaling more than $688 million in spending that was adopted Wednesday.
The county’s general fund, primarily covered by property tax revenue, should spend nearly $265 million next year. This covers basic operations and departments, including things like tax assessment, elections, parks and elected row offices.
County commissioners Julie Wheeler, Doug Hoke and Scott Burford declined to speak about the budget after the meeting, deferring questions to chief clerk Greg Monskie.
The county saved on its employee health insurance package, Monskie said, by bringing down premium costs. “Health care is a big piece of it,” he said.
Officials negotiated six of the county’s 13 collective bargaining agreements this year, Monskie explained. That included wage increases yet allowed the county to save almost $6 million on its employee health insurance for union and non-union employees.
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And so far, the county has spent about 15% less than what was budgeted for health care claims this year, creating further savings.
County officials routinely look at vacant positions – the county employs around 2,200 people – to see where else they can save money, Monskie explained.
“In the end, we’re talking about taxpayer money, so we do our best,” he said.
The county’s 6.9-mill tax rate is anticipated to bring in around $198 million in real estate taxes for the county, several million more than prior years.
The rate includes a tenth-of-a-mill tax for land preservation, budgeted for slightly more than $3 million next year and just less than that for the county’s dedicated library tax that annually sends $2.7 million to York County Libraries.
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The total rate equates to a $932 tax bill for the average York County property, which is assessed around $135,000. The 2025 budget marks the third consecutive county budget without a tax hike.
At $338.3 million, the biggest piece of the county’s budget consists of human services agencies such as Children, Youth and Families; Area Agency on Aging and funding streams like the Community Development Block Grant.
Included in this is an expected $1.4 million, part of the county’s share of money distributed as a result of the 2022 nationwide opioid settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and some distributors that cleared the way for $26 billion to reach state and local governments in the country.
In other business, the county’s election board approved increasing Election Day salaries for judges of elections to $200 and salaries for inspectors of elections to $175 — both of them $25 pay increases that will take effect in 2026.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
— Reach Mark Walters at [email protected].
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