A public hearing on Tupper Lake’s preliminary budget was held Thursday as the village board has a slim spending plan to work with. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports currently, the preliminary budget proposes spending $3.3 million, a 4.5% increase of $140,500 from last year. With this budget, the tax levy — the money collected from village taxpayers — would be $2.3 million, a 9.4% increase from last year. This represents an 8.9% tax rate increase.