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delay implementation of the new assessment values until 1982-83.
Decrease For Sheriff Projected expenditures for the sheriffs department, operating for the second year with county-owned cars, shows a reduction of five percent or S6.S08.
The largest percentage increase in the proposed county budget, 371 percent, comes for volunteer fire departments, originating from the probability of the county having to pay for dispatch service for the first time. The projected $10,000 contribution brings the total for volunteer fire departments to $11,500.
Also for the first time, the proposed budget contains a total of $5,000 for a building inspection program, a state requirement that the county has ignored in the past.
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