Flowery Branch leaders approved next year’s budget along with a tax increase at Thursday’s meeting, but it wasn’t without some dissonance. “I think it’s time, as a council, for you all to sit down and take a look at the budget and see what you can do to take the burden off me,” said resident Craig Lutz during the public hearing prior to the vote. “Because a couple of those items, like (the title ad valorem tax) and (the local option sales tax) were designed as taxpayer relief items that we never saw.