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Finance director tells departments mental-health-tax funded positions will not be included automatically in preliminary budgets
Summary
Finance Director Kathy Frank Baxter instructed departments to exclude positions funded by the mental health tax from their initial budget submissions and to present strategies to retain those roles; jail positions tied to mandated medical services will be treated as an exception.
Kathy Frank Baxter, county finance director, told the Board of County Commissioners that departments should not assume positions previously funded by the county’s mental health tax will be automatically included in their preliminary budgets. "Their budgets will not have those positions in, automatically in or funded," she said, and departments must request funding or present alternative strategies during upcoming budget workshops. Baxter said available mental health tax revenue is insufficient to fund all previously supported positions through the 2026–27 biennium and laid out options departments can pursue: convert an existing vacant position to the mental-health-tax role, reallocate other budget lines, move the position to another fund, apply for grant funding,…
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