The Dane County Board of Supervisors passed a nearly $500 million county budget Monday night.
The tax levy in the 2011 proposed in the budget will be about 2.9 percent, a significant decrease from this year's budget, which put the levy over 7 percent.
""We balanced the needs throughout county government while keeping the taxpayer firmly in mind,"" County Board Chair Scott McDonell said in a statement.
The budget will amount in an average of $655 for the average Dane County homeowner.
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk originally proposed the budget in October and will need to sign the amended budget in order for it to go into effect.
The most significant change the Board of Supervisors made to the budget was increasing the Dane County Conservation fund by $1.4 million.
