County Supervisors Association briefs board on data tools, legislative priorities and county impacts

Craig Sullivan, representative of the County Supervisors Association, told the county board the association spent the last year building data tools, tracking state legislation and supporting counties as they respond to budget and policy changes. Sullivan said the association’s research team has compiled roughly 8,000,000 data points into a county database designed to let officials compare property tax rates, special-district types and other county-level metrics. “The database that we've developed has about 8,000,000 data points in it now,” Sullivan said. The association also worked through a long legislative session to limit unfunded shifts to counties and to seek amendments to bills affecting county operations, Sullivan said. “Session went really long this year,” he said, adding that lawmakers focused much of the budget on…