NORWICH – The 2013 Chenango County government spending plan should be in place today as members of the board of supervisors convened to cast their votes at a special budget meeting held this morning at press time. The plan calls for a slight average tax rate increase of about 30 cents per $1,000 of assessed value.

A large group consisting mainly of town and City of Norwich supervisors and department directors filled the supervisors’ chambers in the Chenango County Office Building in Norwich Tuesday night for a public hearing on the draft budget. After comments from the board chairman and county treasurer, and an invitation to anyone in the audience to speak – no one did – the hearing was declared closed.

Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Lawrence Wilcox, R-Oxford, thanked department directors for their “outstanding work” and for delivering their respective budgets “on time and with very few increases.” He also acknowledged the “hard work” completed by committee members, the supervisors who make up the finance committee and the county treasurer.