Rockland County legislators approved a real property tax rate hike of 10.38 percent for 2014. The increase raises the tax rate per thousand dollars of assessed home value from the 2013 rate of $2.51 to $2.89 in 2013 or by 38 cents.

The legislators voted Monday night and approved the total property tax levy of $105,960,167 for the county. The adopted 2014 county budget is $752,6.45,134.

Budget & Finance Committee Chair Michael Grant said the approved budget is almost $9 million less than what was originally proposed for the coming year.