York County Press Release
YORK – The York County Commissioners have approved the budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
After months of work and long conversations, the financial plan has been formulated.
This week, the commissioners held their budget hearing at 6 p.m., instead of 8:30 a.m., in the hopes of having a larger attendance from the public. However, the crowd on hand was pretty much typical of a regular Tuesday morning, numbering about 10.
No one from the public made comment about the budget during the hearing.
The property tax levy went down from .21 last year to .17 this year, due to a $1 billion increase in overall county value. The county’s valuation came in at $4,872,007.87.
The total property tax request for the county came in at $8,674,007.87. Of that, $7,868,712.87 is for operations and $805,295 is for principal and interest payments on bonds.
York County Commissioner Chairman Randy Obermier noted how they utilized some inheritance tax dollars as an additional revenue source, and reduced the payment to reserves by $150,000, in an effort to keep down the property tax asking.
“And we trimmed a fair bit where we could, some areas we hit pretty hard,” said Commissioner Daniel Grotz, who sits on the budget committee with Obermier. “But we did what we could to limit spending. One of the bigger funds is the roads department and personnel wise we will need to operate leaner and I think we can do that.”
Obermier also said they would be looking at “ways to tighten the belt in places where there could still be more work.”
Part of the budget included how employees within the sheriff’s department will now be able to earn overtime pay after 80 hours in a two-week period, like all other employees. Previously, the threshold didn’t come until 86 hours.
