Tarrant County works to keep employees, tax rate at present levels while nixing salary increases

by PegNews wire

The news on the Tarrant County side of the Trinity seems grim, on the face of it: Investment earnings are poor, property values have stagnated, and health insurance costs are higher. As a result, county commissioners warn that employee raises are unlikely to be part of budget plans for 2010. (On the bright side, the tax rate is likely to remain the same.)

Tarrant County employees can take heart that they don't work for the City of Dallas, whose budgetary woes are far more serious (with 840 layoffs in the offing, and now talk of raising taxes.)

Looks like, in the battle across the Trinity, the west side is whipping the east side by being less far behind in the budget balancing race.

posted by JM