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Commissioners scrutinize draft county budget, question cash-reserve math and ambulance sales tax totals
Summary
County commissioners at a budget work session pressed staff on apparent duplicate carryforwards, differing cash-reserve figures and how ambulance sales-tax receipts were shown in the draft budget; they scheduled a follow-up work session to reconcile numbers before the revenue-neutral (RNI) hearing.
County commissioners met at the New York County Courthouse for a budget work session to review Draft 4 of the proposed 2026 budget and raised questions about how cash reserves, ad valorem projections and ambulance sales-tax proceeds were displayed in the worksheet.
The most immediate concern centered on two carryforward/cash-reserve lines that commissioners said looked duplicative. “It looks like to me it's in there twice,” a commissioner said, noting an unencumbered cash balance of roughly $2 million and a separate cash reserve of about $1.7 million. Commissioners asked staff to reconcile how the draft moved the county from a reported deficit in 2024 to the higher…
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