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March 8, 2010, 7:38PM
 
Commissioners Court today will consider a $1.4 billion budget that cuts spending by about 3.2 percent from the fiscal year that ended on Feb. 28.

The spending blueprint does not call for a property tax increase or layoffs. The court will set the property tax rate in September.

Nor should the average county resident detect a change in government services, county budget officer Dick Raycraft said Monday.

The proposed belt tightening goes deep in the Sheriff's Department, where the budget calls for capping spending at $376 million, 11.5 percent less than the department spent in the last fiscal year.