Northampton County Exec Lamont McClure will be unveiling his 2025 budget in Council Chambers on Wednesday, October 2, 2 p,m. (It will be livestreamed on the county's YouTube channel). I have no idea whether he plans to propose a tax hike, but it's unlikely. As Jeff Ward observes in LVNewsBriefs, "McClure has presented six budgets since he was elected in 2017. Five of the budgets left the property-tax rate unchanged, and one of them cut taxes." As I just mentioned, he's a cheap bastard. But his budget does have some good news for the county's career service workforce.
Career service workers, who make up about a third of the county's 2,200 employees, are nonunion. They are slated for a step when McClure announces his spending plan next week. A step is a promotion to the next level of a payscale, and amounts to a 4 1/2% raise.
