Jefferson County commissioners approved two 1 percent property tax levy increases Monday as they passed a $40.5 million budget.

Commissioners Dan Titterness, R-Port Townsend, and Glen Huntingford, R-Chimacum, voted in favor of the budget.

Commissioner Pat Rodgers, R-Brinnon, abstained.

Rodgers, three weeks into his term to complete a three-year term, said he hadn’t been involved enough in the budget process.

Revenue from the larger of the levies, $5.2 million, will go toward operating funds, mental health services, veterans’ relief services and developmental disabilities services.

It will bring in about $300,000 more than this year, according to county estimates.

A smaller streets levy is expected to raise $2.9 million, about $100,000 more than this year.

Both levies take effect next year.

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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.