Controller Brian Hurter News Today

Lancaster County’s board of commissioners on Wednesday approved a $168 million budget for 2022. The Republican chairman, Josh Parsons, boasted that property tax rates won’t change under the plan –

“I’m pretty reserved about this budget,” said Lehman, a Democrat who worked as a budget analyst for the state before winning election to county leadership. “It is not surprising, given COVID-19, that the county was not able to put together a structurally balanced budget for 2021.” Structural balance in a budget is when ongoing expenditures — those occurring every year — are fully funded by revenue sources that occur every year, like taxes. Lehman’s concer...