Oconee County citizens will get their second and final chance to comment on the Fiscal Year 2015 budget on Tuesday night just before the Board of Commissioners takes final action on the $36.6 million spending plan.

The budget was outlined to the public for the first time in a 26-minute PowerPoint presentation by county Finance Director Wes Geddings last Tuesday night.

No one came forward in the four minutes remaining in the public hearing to offer any reactions.

The budget calls for no change in the property tax rate and is balanced by a transfer of $777,224 from the county’s reserve fund, compared with the $627,636 taken from the reserve fund to balance the existing budget.

The budget includes increases in water and sewer rates, in fees for use of a variety of park and recreational facilities and programs, and in fees for space rental at the Civic Center.

The second hearing on the budget is the first substantive item on the agenda for the Commissioners’ meeting on Tuesday night, which begins at 7 p.m. at the courthouse in Watkinsville.

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