Tax rate increase by Puntam County commissioners seems inevitable

With the Putnam County Board of Commissioners set to finalize its 2023-24 general fund budget a couple of weeks from now, at least one confounding question lingers: with the county’s tax digest up 20 percent, why do extra revenues from that growth not eliminate any need for an additional millage rate increase, the first in six years? The short answer? It’s the state’s oft-cited – and just as…