At Monday’s meeting of the Brown County Commissioners Court, approval was given to a new County budget and a new County Ad Valorem tax rate. The total of the three is $0.49482 per $100 valuation, which the Commissioners approved as the total ad valorem tax rate. The new tax rate is an increase of 4.83% over the current ad valorem tax rate of $0.4720. The new tax rate times the new homestead value will produce an average ad valorem tax of $936, an increase of 11.29% over the current average tax of $841. The total ad valorem tax levy on all properties in Brown County will be $20,118,520, an increase of 6.42% over this year’s total tax levy of $18,903,509.