The county commission approved a budget of nearly $30 million for the fiscal year beginning on July 1st at its March 25 meeting. The budget looks quite different from the budget which the commission approved in 2024 for the current fiscal year.

The 2024-2025 budget projected expenditures of $24 million. The 2025-2026 budget projects county expenditures of $29.5 million, an increase of $5.5 million or nearly 23%. A sizable portion, $3 million, of the increase…