Oconee County Fiscal Year 2018 Budget To Be Presented To Public On Tuesday

Oconee County Finance Director Wes Geddings has presented the Board of Commissioners a $26.9 million General Fund budget for Fiscal Year 2018, which will be before the public for review on Tuesday.

Geddings told the commissioners he has not yet made his final revenue projections but he is “confident we have the revenue stream to support the expenditure request” without increasing the county’s millage rate.

The budget includes a $1,200 across-the-board salary increase for each of the county’s 262 full-time employees and an additional adjustment that will represent a 7 percent increase for those in Animal Control, the Fire Department, and the Sheriff’s Office.

The budget includes an 8 percent increase in health insurance costs.

The budget adds funding for only one new full-time position in the county, in the Parks and Recreation Department.

Geddings gave his overview of the budget to a called meeting of the Board of Commissioners on May 11 and will provide a more formal presentation at 6:30 Tuesday in the Courthouse in Watkinsville in the first hearing on the budget with the general public.

For details of the FY 2018 budget, please go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Budget Meeting Of May 11, 2017.