Montgomery County Council approves $4.8 billion budget

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Montgomery County taxpayers will begin paying higher property taxes on July 1 as the County Council approved a $4.8 billion budget on Thursday that includes multimillion-dollar pay raises for members of three county labor unions.

The county will spend about $34 million for pay increases ranging from 7 to 10 percent in fiscal 2014 for the county’s firefighters, police and employee unions.

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