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ST. GEORGE — Washington County is looking at a potential 2024 budget of up to $186 million that continues to grow with the county and covers capital projects related to public safety and emergency services.
Capital projects being funded for the next year include an expansion of the Purgatory Correctional Facility, a dedicated storage facility for the county's emergency management department and the interior renovation of the county's Boulevard office building in St. George.
While it would have been easy to raise taxes this year, Commission Chairman Adam Snow said, county officials have spent over 1,000 hours cutting back on what was initially over budget.
"This was a difficult year," he said, adding that inflation has impacted the county just as much as everyone else. However, after all the hours of work on "cutting and tightening the budget again and again," they came up with something that wouldn't necessitate a tax hike.
Indeed, because of the new growth, this year's general tax burden for county residents went down as more people moved to the area and helped spread around that burden, Snow said.
