With two votes for and two votes against, the Pima County Board of Supervisors failed to pass a tentative $1.23 billion tentative budget for the coming fiscal year.
After a sometimes tense back and forth between Supervisor Ally Miller and the three other supervisors present, Miller and Supervisor Ray Carroll voted no and Supervisors Sharon Bronson and Richard Elías voted yes. Supervisor Ramón Valadez was not present and attempts to reach him by the Star after the meeting were unsuccessful.
The tentative budget, which sets a spending ceiling that can be lowered when the final budget is approved, will be reconsidered at the board’s regularly scheduled meeting June 7. That will likely push adoption of a final budget back to the board’s first meeting in July, instead of June 21, according to County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry.
The tentative budget calls for a total property tax increase of 12.3 cents for every $100 of taxable assessed value, raising the combined primary and secondary rate to $6.0395 per $100 of assessed value.
