York County supervisors were pitched a $200 million operating budget at their Tuesday evening meeting that would raise spending by 5.8% and raise property taxes by nearly $8 million, including the county’s first real estate tax increase in 9 years.
The general fund budget, which covers most of the services taxpayers use, is part of a proposed overall budget of $288 million that includes construction spending, paying down debt and operating self-sustaining budgets like garbage collection.
Solid waste charges would increase by $2 every other month for all categories except the discounted senior citizens rate, which would go up $7.
“This budget is basically a maintenance budget with no new programs that were not already in place,” County Administrator Mark Bellamy said.
He said he had cut $15.2 million in budget requests from county staff before bringing supervisors the budget proposal.
Bellamy stressed this would be York County’s first real estate tax increase in nine years,…