OGDEN - The Weber County Commission has approved a budget for 2007 that has the best of both worlds: pay raises for employees and no property-tax hike for residents. Under the $104.6 million budget approved Tuesday, all employees will get 2 percent cost-of-living raises and 2 percent merit raises. And although the budget is about $10 million higher than last year - nearly 10 percent - it won't require residents to pay more property taxes, according to Dan Olsen, comptroller. That's because $6 million of the increase is due to the new county library expected to be under construction in Washington Terrace in the spring. The commission raised the library property tax a couple of years ago to get ready for the expense, and those taxes will pay off the 20-year bonds sold this fall, Olsen said. The only tax that will go up in the new year is the tax on hotel and motel rooms. That increase - from 3 percent to 4.1 percent - will raise about $220,000 a year, which will be spent on marketing the county as a recreational hub, Olsen said. It takes effect Jan. 1. The 2007 budget is based on the projection that property values and tax revenues will rise by nearly $1 million in the year ahead. It also includes eliminating one vacant full-time position in each of two offices: the attorney's and recorder's; adding a full-time administrative assistant in the commission office; and upgrading a part-time position to full-time in the planning office. - Kristen Moulton