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Comptroller presents 2026 recommended budget: $1.4 billion expenditures, tax levy up $12.1 million driven by debt service
Summary
The county comptroller’s research team presented the County Executive’s recommended 2026 budget summary: roughly $1.4 billion in expenditures, a $12.1 million tax-levy increase (4.1%) driven mainly by rising debt service, and accounting shifts reducing reported revenues and expenditures.
Milwaukee County’s office of the comptroller presented an overview of the County Executive’s recommended 2026 budget to the Committee on Finance, summarizing totals, key drivers and constraints tied to the county’s tax-levy cap.
The overview, delivered by Steven Cady, director of research and policy, said the recommended budget shows roughly $1.4 billion in total expenditures (a decrease of about $15 million versus the prior year presentation) and about $1.1 billion in total revenues (a decline of about $28 million). The presentation attributed much of that apparent drop to an accounting change shifting approximately $34 million in Children's…
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