The Prince George’s County Council passed a $5.46 billion operating budget in a majority vote Thursday, focusing on priorities such as public safety while faced with limited funding.
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May 28, 2024The council’s budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 offers little variation from County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks’s proposed budget.
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“The budget this year and over the next few years is going to be the biggest challenge facing our county,” Ivey said in a statement before the all-Democratic body, comparing the county’s budget process to family accounting. “Families have to plan for the future and save for emergencies, and our county needs to also consider long-term sustainability.”
Ivey’s remarks mirror thoseof County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D), who proposed a $5.46 billion budget in March while announcing that more than 800 county positions would be frozen. Alsobrooks, who recently won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, said difficult decisions had to be made amid lackluster revenue and increased state mandates for education spending. To avoid raising taxes on county residents, she pivoted to finding new ways tofill the budgetgap by securing money from local telecommunications and energy taxes that went to fund schools and dipping into the county’s reserves.
