The entire Greene County Commission will be invited to a budget workshop next week to discuss options presented by the Budget and Finance Committee.
The committee met again Thursday at the annex to hear from those whose county appropriations would come through the hotel/motel tax.
At the end of the nearly three-and-a-half-hour meeting, a balanced budget document requiring no tax increase and containing a 3% pay increase for all county employees was approved.
The full commission will review the proposal during a workshop at 5 p.m. Monday at the Greene County Courthouse.
Adjustments still remain, including appropriation amounts from the hotel/motel tax. Some of the delay in finalizing those figures is related to the Greene County Partnership. Jeff Taylor, Partnership president and CEO, and five staff members attended the meeting Thursday, a day after a city council workshop in which the Partnership saw its hotel/motel tax appropriation reduced.
It remains unclear what actions the city or county will take regarding the Partnership’s budget requests. The county workshop Monday comes a day before Greeneville City Council reconvenes Tuesday afternoon to discuss Partnership funding and a possible vote on first reading of the city budget.
