{"id":8521,"date":"2025-11-26T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:27:33","slug":"washington-county-2026-budget-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/8521","title":{"rendered":"Washington County 2026 Budget Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/alert.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"13\" border=\"0\">The Washington County Board of Supervisors, at their November 21, 2025 meeting, approved a 2026 budget that increases the property tax levy by 16.97% and cuts 22 jobs. (10 full-time and 12 part-time county jobs). This is a decrease in the number of jobs proposed to be eliminated under the tentative budget.<\/p>\n<p>The board had previously voted to override the tax-cap for 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington County Board of Supervisors, at their November 21, 2025 meeting, approved a 2026 budget that increases the property tax levy by 16.97% and cuts 22 jobs. (10 full-time and 12 part-time county jobs). This is a decrease in the number of jobs proposed to be eliminated under the tentative budget. The board had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/8521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Washington County 2026 Budget Approved&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-landing","category-washington-county"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}