AUBURN – Androscoggin County leaders unveiled a proposed $10.2 million budget Wednesday that included cuts in spending and cuts in property taxes.

The three-member County Commission is scheduled to give an overview of the spending package to members of the county Budget Committee on Nov. 12.

Most details on how county departments plan to spend the money will await that meeting, also scheduled to include a public hearing.

The bound, 77-page document was distributed to members of the committee and is slated to be sent to town and city offices throughout the county.

Overall, spending would drop almost $150,000 or 1.45 percent. The amount to be raised by taxes, $7.7 million, would represent an increase of just under 1 percent.

Sheriff Guy Desjardins said his department has worked to keep his budget tight.

His civil processing division, which serves court papers, has seen a sharp revenue increase as a result of the squeezed local economy.

“It’s bittersweet,” Desjardins said. Much of the boost comes from serving people with notices of eviction and foreclosure.

Revenue for this year, most of it in costs to attorneys’ offices, may hit $250,000. Expenses for 2008 were budgeted at $196,000.

Desjardins hopes the department can fund itself next year, too.

According to the commissioners’ proposal, dispatching costs would jump by nearly $280,000 to $619,000 and the patrol budget would go from about $1.25 million this year to $1.64 million in 2009.