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Commissioners outline 2026 budget pressures, flag EMS, pictometry and legal-cost increases
Summary
County staff presented budget line changes including a 6% workers' comp and liability increase, a pictometry imagery upgrade, ongoing EMS contract costs and a maintained $25,000 litigation reserve; commissioners debated moving funds into an EMS lid while warning of a possible $900,000 property-tax revenue loss next year.
County staff reviewed key changes in the commissioners’ proposed 2026 county budget, citing increases in insurance, technology and public-safety costs and noting one-time and recurring items that will affect the bottom line.
The county administrator said workers' compensation and liability insurance line items were increased by 6% to reflect trending estimates. The assessor's office will pay more for pictometry, the county aerial imagery program: a higher-resolution one-inch imagery flight every three years raised the expected cost by roughly $20,000, staff said. "It literally makes it easier for the…
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