NATCHEZ — Both Adams County governments will meet to discuss their budgets for the coming fiscal year today.

The Adams County Board of Supervisors will meet for its regularly scheduled meeting at 9 a.m., but is also scheduled to make a final decision on tax millage and the proposed $23,846,086 budget.

The supervisors have already approved a 2.24 mill increase requested by the Natchez-Adams School District following a public hearing last week.

The county budget adoption has been scheduled for 11 a.m.

While the county board will be addressing a finalized budget, the Natchez Board of Aldermen will be reviewing for the first time together the city’s proposed budget.

The city board will be meeting at 4 p.m. for a special-called work session in the conference room at City Hall.

City Clerk Donnie Holloway said the proposed budget was developed in conjunction with the city’s department heads, who turned over their budgets to the clerk’s office, which input the numbers and forwarded the final product to the mayor’s office and aldermen.

Last year’s budget was for approximately $37.8 million in revenues and $36.4 million in expenditures.

The proposed budget is for approximately $2 million more in expenditures.

Holloway said the higher expenses reflect two million-dollar projects, a Natchez Water Works project to improve drainage in the Highland Boulevard area and the renovation of the historic railroad depot on Broadway Street.

The majority of the depot renovation is being funded by grants.

Mayor Butch Brown said the board would have to pay special attention to projected revenues, as the city’s projected revenues for the current year haven’t held up.

“We will make adjustments where we can and try to run a good solid ship again,” Brown said.

“We have not laid anybody off or cut programs or done anything extravagant, but we have got to have a much more reliable set of numbers because if we are going to budget against revenues, we have to have a good set of revenue numbers.”

Holloway said the projections for ad valorem collections were off by approximately 13 percent and auto ad valorem revenues were off by approximately 12 percent.