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Board adopts Greenlee County fiscal 2025–2026 final budget, holds primary property tax rate steady
Summary
After a public hearing, the Board adopted the fiscal year 2025–2026 final budget, set the primary property tax rate at 0.8036 per $100 of assessed value, and approved related rates for the public health services district and flood control district; the budget totals were announced in the motion.
Following the statutorily required public hearing under ARS 41‑17104, the Greenlee County Board of Supervisors adopted the fiscal year 2025–2026 final budget and set related tax rates.
County staff opened the public hearing on the published proposed final budget and reported no members of the public wished to comment. The county manager and finance staff then summarized the budget highlights: across‑the‑board 3% raises for employees, continued prioritization of federally funded capital projects, a $400,000 placeholder for potential grants during the fiscal year and a capital improvement plan that will draw on both federal project funds and county capital reserves. Staff reported that, overall, sales tax revenues had exceeded the year’s projections and that a deep line‑item review reduced structural spending assumptions.
After the hearing, the board took several motions in sequence. It set the fiscal‑year 2025–2026 primary property tax rate at 0.8036 per $100 of assessed value; set the Public Health Services District tax rate at 0.25 per $100 and the Flood Control District rate at 0.24 per $100. The board then moved and passed a consolidated motion to adopt the budget figures and related resolutions. The motion recorded the following budget numbers as adopted: general fund $22,134,729 and total budget $41,569,789. The flood control budget was recorded as $569,931 and the Public Health Services District budget as $2,742,588.
Staff noted specific policy points adopted with the budget: a capital improvement plan, an unassigned fund balance (reserve) policy to maintain a multi‑month cash cushion, and a PSPRS (public safety personnel retirement system) pension‑funding amortization policy to address a small unfunded liability over a 20‑year schedule. Finance staff described health‑care cost increases and pension funding levels, and reiterated the board’s emphasis on living within available revenues rather than increasing property taxes.
The board approved the set of tax‑rate and budget motions by voice votes.
