Baltimore County Council members Thursday night agreed to a one-and-a-half-cent property tax cut, saving the average homeowner an estimated $23 each year in the first such reduction since 2001.

The agreement came following deliberations on proposed trimmings to an already lean 2007 draft budget and included a $1.2 million tax credit for about 9,000 of the county?s low-income residents, most of which are seniors.