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You have an impossible job. You’re required to find a middle ground between funding county services that are already faced with dire cuts and inflation, while keeping taxes low for many homeowners in this county who are faced with property value increases, inflation, and who are barely able to afford their mortgages in the first place.

  27 May 2025