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Wallowa County auditor presents 2026 draft budget showing $5.9 million shortfall
Summary
County Auditor Karen Martin told the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 9 that department expenditure requests for 2026 exceed projected revenues by about $5.9 million; commissioners discussed fund balances, retirement-rate changes and the long-term impact of tax increment financing on county revenue.
On Sept. 9, 2025, the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners received the county auditor’s draft budget for fiscal 2026. County Auditor Karen Martin told the commissioners she had balanced the formal budget document for reporting purposes but that, as submitted, departmental spending requests exceed projected revenues by about $5.9 million.
The draft, Martin said, shows department revenue estimates of roughly $23,000,134 and expenditure requests of about $29,064,000, producing the approximately $5.9 million gap. “I am here today to present to you the request for the 2026 budget for Wallowa County,” Martin said when she opened her presentation. She also provided the board a summary cover sheet and the usual multi-year reports that show beginning fund balances, revenues, expenditures and ending fund balances for each fund.
Martin and the commissioners discussed how those totals compare with recent years. Martin told the board that historically the…
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