Grant County supervisors recently approved a $51.3 million budget for next year. County board members also approved the taxing mill rate, which will drop by 10 cents per $1,000 from this year to $3.76 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The budget includes a combined maintenance manager position for the county administration building, the Grant County Courthouse and the new Grant County Community Services Building. The position was added to the budget after it was approved by the county Executive Committee. It has a fiscal impact of about $71,000. That funding was made available via cuts to the budgets of the sheriff’s department, Grant County Department of Social Services and the county maintenance budget and the transferring of $25,000 from the general fund. The budget also includes a 1% pay increase for nonrepresented county employees on January 1st and again on July 1st. The county board chairman will receive a similar pay increase, boosting the salary for the position to just more than $51,400 by the end of next year.
