Hall County government presented a proposed $86.4 million spending plan for fiscal year 2013 at Tuesday’s budget open house.The drafted budget, which is still open for public comment and tweaking, is a slight decrease from the current year’s budget of $86.8 million.The presentation at the Georgia Mountains Center, which was open to the public and was attended by county department directors, will kick off what many hope to be a budget process with a lot less drama than last year’s.The fiscal year 2012 budget process last summer, which included an $11.5 million budget gap, received criticism for not allowing the public enough time see the proposal and offer input on cuts.This year, the budget proposal is coming earlier.“Certainly we want to provide ample opportunity for questions,” County Administrator Randy Knighton said at the hearing. “This open house is one piece of that process.”The proposed budget, Knighton said, takes into account an estimated “$4.5 million deficit situation” in the general fund. Vickie Neikirk, Hall’s finance director, said this year’s budget restraints included a $2.8 million estimated decrease in the tax digest and increases in insurance and fuel costs.