The Monroe County Commission will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Courthouse to vote on the budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year.

The budget process has been less controversial this year, as there is no property tax increase proposed for county residents.

Last year, the commission passed a 37-cent property tax hike.

There are some new expenses this year, as county employees are slated to get a 2.5 percent pay raise if the budget passes as proposed and there are some one-time expenses that will dip into the county's reserve funds.

"We currently have $874,272 more budgeted for this fiscal year than we expect to take in," County Finance Director Libby Hicks said at last week's budget workshop. "But about $600,000 of that is for one-time only items, mainly in software upgrades."