Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith Monday proposed a $2.53 billion budget that increases spending without increasing taxes but includes controversial, cost-cutting changes to employee benefits.

The spending plan represents an overall 5.8 percent increase from this year?s operating budget, a more modest growth compared with prior budgets, officials said. The proposed budget is within spending affordability limits set by the County Council, Smith said in his fifth annual State of the County address in Towson.

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