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Tight budgeting

As the Brown County and New Ulm budgets approach approval, it is apparent that real measures are being made to hold down spending.

The Brown County Commissioners are actually looking at a budget for 2015 than cuts actual spending by about $1 million, or 3.3 percent of last year’s budget. Even with the cut, the county’s tax levy will go up about 5.15 percent.

The City of New Ulm is looking at a 4.6 percent increase in tax levy. That’s about half the original 9 percent increase predicted in the preliminary budget earlier this year. An expanding tax base and lower health insurance costs than expected are helping lower the levy.

The local units of government continue to provide a more than basic level of services while keeping costs and tax increases in check.

Local taxpayers should have little to complain about.

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