County facing budget crunch SNYDER – Years of what was described as “frivolous” spending have finally caught up to Scurry County commissioners. During Tuesday’Ss 2020 budget workshop, County Judge Dan Hicks said he was proposing to build a $20.5 million budget on a 44.98 property tax rate — the same rate the 2019 budget was built on. But he and other elected officials agreed they will have to campaign to do that. The county’s effective tax rate for 2020, which would bring in the same amount of property tax revenue as 2019, is 36.06 cents per $100 valuation. The rollback rate,