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Yakima County financial director details personnel vacancies, internal-service funds in 2026 budget preview
Summary
Financial Services Director Brian Carlson told the Yakima County Board of Commissioners that personnel turnover and internal service ("5 hundreds") funds are key drivers of the county's structural budget gap and previewed options to reduce costs ahead of the 2026 budget.
Brian Carlson, Yakima County financial services director, told the Board of Yakima County Commissioners on Aug. 5, 2025, that personnel turnover and the county's internal service funds'commonly called the "5 hundreds"'are central to closing the county's structural budget gap as staff prepare the preliminary 2026 numbers.
Carlson said the county's general-fund authorized positions group has an annual turnover rate of roughly 8 percent, which translates to about 30 vacant positions and roughly $3 million in all-in salary-and-benefit costs. "Personnel is very much about what we do, obviously, with dollars, but always, in terms of finding the people to bring us to solutions," Carlson…
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