For the first time in more than 30 years, the Brown County Board unanimously passed a budget plan.
Officials say the 2021 budget will cut the property tax rate to its lowest level in four decades. Officials say the 2021 mill rate will decrease by 20 cents, dropping the rate to $3.98. That means that a home valued at $200,000 dollars will see an equalized tax rate fall more than $40 dollars to $795.84.
County officials say they will pay off more than $64 million in debt by the end of 2021, and that will save taxpayers millions of dollars in interest payments.
