Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith proposed a property tax credit for low-income families and senior citizens in his annual budget message Wednesday, offering to help more homeowners and spend more than a County Council-sponsored bill introduced earlier provided.

Worried many seniors are getting taxed out of the homes they?ve lived in for years, Council Members T. Bryan McIntire, R-3, and John Olszewski, D-7, last week proposed a property tax credit for residents 65 and older who meet the eligibility requirements of a newly adopted state tax credit. The program would cost the county $1 million.