Over the past five months, Johnson County commissioners have stressed that they are searching every nook and cranny for ways to make the budget ends meet without slashing the services residents enjoy.
At Tuesday night’s public budget hearing, a mostly dissatisfied crowd of about 175 begged to differ.
Thirty-six people spoke at the two-hour hearing, the overwhelming majority of whom were upset that despite the commission’s cost-cutting efforts, rising property values will mean that the county’s essentially flat property tax rate will still trigger higher out-of-pocket payments…