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Cowlitz County staff recommend cutting finance director post as part of budget trimming; landfill lease remains major revenue
Summary
Finance Director Kathy Funk Baxter told the Board during a budget workshop that she will retire in December and county staff are recommending eliminating her position (1 FTE), producing an estimated $130,000–$138,000 in savings; nondepartmental revenues remain anchored by a $7.5 million annual landfill lease payment.
Kathy Funk Baxter, Cowlitz County finance director, told the Board during a budget workshop that she plans to retire in December and that county staff will recommend eliminating the finance director position, a reduction of 1 full-time equivalent in the finance department.
Baxter said the county could “maintain status quo, with 2 FTEs, which is a finance manager and our finance analyst,” and estimated that personnel changes tied to her planned retirement would reduce the finance department budget by about $130,000; after modest cuts to supplies and services, she said the total department reduction would be about $138,000. Baxter also said travel-related lines were the largest nonpersonnel reductions.
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