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Chickasaw County supervisors adopt 2025–26 budget after public hearing; board approves several routine measures
Summary
After a public hearing with more than a dozen speakers about cuts and service reductions, the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors adopted the fiscal year 2025–26 county budget and approved a package of routine resolutions, including elected-official wages and several administrative items.
Chickasaw County supervisors on April 14 adopted the county’s fiscal year 2025–26 budget after a public hearing that drew multiple residents urging the board to reconsider cuts to services, especially public health.
The board approved the budget and its levy rates as published: general basic at 3.50, general supplemental at $1.85 and secondary roads at 3.50, and adopted Resolution No. 4-14-25-16 certifying the budget. County Auditor Sheila Shuckerton conducted the public hearing and confirmed notice of the hearing had been published and posted as required by state law.
The budget passed after public comment focused on a stated roughly $300,000 gap between expenditures and revenues that officials said has been covered in recent years by drawing down fund balances. Several speakers pressed the board to preserve public-health staffing and questioned the distribution of cuts among…
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