Commissioners Pass 2025 Budget with No New Taxes

The Bucks County Commissioners today approved the County's $500 millionOperating Budget for 2025.

The Commissioners passed the budget in a unanimous vote taken during Wednesday's regular public meeting of the Board of Commissioners. The new year's budget balances expenditures and revenues without increasing taxes.

"The responsible stewardship of tax dollars is the most important part of our job as Commissioners - without it none of the critical services our departments provide to County residents are possible," said Commissioner Chair Diane Ellis-Marseglia.

"This responsibility is one my fellow commissioners and I take extremely seriously, and I think that is demonstrated in the budget we've considered and approved today, which provides the high level of services Bucks County residents expect and deserve without adding financial strain to their household finances."

Chief Financial Officer Dave Boscola, whose department works for months to prepare and propose the County budget, thanked the County's departments as well as his own staff for their diligence and cooperation this budget season.

Having begun 2024 with a General Fund balance of $67 million, the county is set to start the new year with a balance of $68 million.

Prepared each year by the Finance Department for approval by the County Commissioners, the County's operating budget includes funding for departments and agencies serving county residents including the Area Agency on Aging (AAA), Behavioral Health/Developmental Programs, Board of Elections, Children & Youth Social Services Agency, Community Services, Corrections, Emergency Services, General Services, Health Department, Neshaminy Manor, Parks and Recreation and Veterans Affairs, among others.

The County's budget also provides funding for the courts and the County's nine elected Row Offices, including the Clerk of Courts, Controller, Coroner, District Attorney, Prothonotary, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Sheriff and Treasurer.

The full 2025 operating budget can be reviewed here.

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