The Wicomico County Executive and Council are at odds over the changes made in the 2018 budget.
County Executive Bob Culver charges that the council may have violated the county charter when it altered the spending plan.
The council trimmed Culver’s budget proposal by nearly $685-thousand using the cuts to provide a reduction in property taxes and $328-thousand for the school district to buy laptop computers.
But the Salisbury Daily Times reports that Wayne Strausburg, the director of administration, wrote in a letter to the council that the changes made by the council put the budget out of balance.
Council member Joe Holloway told the paper that the council had balanced the spending plan “to the dollar”.
And Council President John Cannon said he hoped the county executive would not drag out the budget process.
In addition, in a letter Strausburg sent to the council he complained that the Executive Office did not have a chance to discuss the council’s proposed changes.
