 Spring Cleaning is here and Appalachian Wireless has the deal to get you started. Get a Samsung Galaxy S8 for a penny or a Galaxy S8 Plus for only $89.99 on the region's best network. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. So your agreement requires you to store for details. The Pye County Fiscal Court held a special called Meeting Thursday to discuss the upcoming fiscal year and hold a first reading of the budget. Similar to meetings held in the past few weeks, the treasurer presented the budget to the court and Pye County Judge Executive Bill Deskins and the magistrates went through it line by line to see if anything needed to be changed, added or taken out. We tried to use the same figures as we've had in the last three years on stuff coming in. And there wasn't any place that we thought that we would have revenue shortage. In 2016, we had that big decrease in the assessment of property by the state that we didn't know about. That sort of took us back a little bit. Everything is technically correct and it's a 36 million dollar budget. Almost everything in the budget is the same as previous years. However, property owners will see a 10% decrease in their taxes. That's what we've proposed and a 5% raise for employees and we think that's fair. We've been pretty good stewards of the money that we've had this year and we wanted the employees and the people in the county to share that. The court is pleased with the budget submitted Thursday. It's a pretty good budget. These have been hard times in the mountains but we're holding our own and making the best of what we've got and trying to go forward. The final budget will likely be passed on June 19th. In Pikeville, Shelby Porter, EKB News.