County staff and members of the budget team said Wednesday they had completed most line‑item corrections and could move toward publishing the county’s proposed budget after a final pass to reconcile revenues and carryforwards. "So can she this shows the proposed budget and nontax money? I'd like to publish at the high $33.05 99," Speaker 9 said during the meeting.

The discussion centered on three bookkeeping tasks that staff said must be finalized before publication: (1) reconciling nontax revenue and tax revenue totals, (2) ensuring impact fees and other newly added revenue lines appear in both revenue and expenditure sheets, and (3) deciding whether to show certain one‑time balances as cash carryforward. Speaker 1 said staff would reprint the L2 (summary) with current changes to check final totals.

Budget staff walked through many expense‑line corrections — e.g., adjusting employee step increases, correcting transposed digits on salary lines and changing several office phone and utilities amounts — and confirmed most had been applied to the working spreadsheet. Staff flagged an outstanding discrepancy where a $500,000 ARPA cash‑forward figure appeared in the revenue sheet; participants agreed to show $200,000 as the ARPA carryforward in next year’s operating projection and to label the remainder as cash forward tied to ARPA until decisions are finalized.

Staff also recommended keeping the patch‑oil line in the budget for now to avoid showing a misleading shortfall; budget staff described that road‑oil and patching revenues had not come in this year as expected and proposed reducing the road‑oil expense by about $200,000 now with the option to add funds back later if revenue arrives. "So we're about $7.01, $7,000,001.85, and we're 7,447,000. Yeah. We'll probably have a couple 100,000 there," Speaker 6 noted in the meeting.

After corrections and a final printout, staff said they would run one more reconciliation and email the updated pages so leadership could sign off and proceed to publish. "When you print it, let's see where we're at," Speaker 1 said. The meeting record shows no formal vote on the published amounts; staff described the remaining steps as administrative finalization rather than policy changes.

The meeting ended with a procedural motion to adjourn.

Why it matters: The items discussed — revenue recognition, ARPA/carryforward treatment and patch‑oil budget sizing — determine how close the county appears to balanced in the published proposed budget and affect flexibility for contingency and capital purchases in the coming fiscal year.

Details and next steps: Staff will reprint the L2 summary with corrections, add the agreed impact‑fee and ARPA carryforward entries, and circulate the updated pages. The county intends to publish the proposed budget with the revised totals once staff confirm the L2 and revenue sheet match.