No Poperty Tax Hike In Proposed 2017 Bucks County Budget

The Bucks County Board of Commissioner released the proposed 2017 budget Wednesday and residents can rejoice: no property tax increase is proposed in the budget.

This marks the 10th times in 11 years that county residents have not seen a property tax hikes, according to the county.

As it stands, the 2017 proposed budget is $415 million, a 3.1 percent increase over the 2016 budget which was $402 million.

The largest expenditure in the proposed budget was in the county's Human Services Department. For 2017, the department's expenditures are listed at $85.6 million, which is slightly up from 2016's $85 million.

Taxes remain the county's largest source of revenue, despite the 2017 revenue of $154 million being down 2.2 percent from the 2016 tax revenue number.

The county will enter 2017 with a remaining fund balance of $52 million, and county officials said over the next several weeks they will work to reduce the amount of money needed from the fund balance going into 2017.

A public regarding the budget meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22 in the Bucks County Administration Building Commissioners’ Meeting Room, 55 E. Court St., Doylestown, the county said.

The budget is slated for adoption at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, during the Commissioners’ Meeting, according to the county.

See the entire proposed 2017 budget online here.

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