Budget staff demonstrates interactive model showing reserve impacts and options

Aug 24, 2026

County staff used an interactive spreadsheet to show how returning $3 million in franchise fees and different pay-increase rates would affect the general fund, unincorporated MSTU and adjusted reserves.

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County staff introduced a modeling tool that starts from a flat baseline and lets the board adjust percentages to see impacts on reserves, departments and recurring costs. Pete explained the tool was seeded with last year's $2,000,000 capital addition and that commissioners could change percentages to immediately view recalculated surpluses and adjusted reserves.

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