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County lays out budget assumptions; employee compensation flagged as top priority
Summary
Administrator Leonard and committee chair discussed 2026 budget assumptions, noting shared-revenue and insurance uncertainties and signaling a likely pay-scale increase after a 2023 wage scale implementation that has not been updated.
Marathon County administrators outlined initial assumptions for the 2026 budget at the July 17 board meeting, emphasizing uncertainty in shared revenue and insurance markets and identifying employee compensation as the top priority. Administrator Leonard told supervisors the assumptions are an iterative starting point for department budget submissions and warned several numbers will change as the state and markets update projections. He said recent state budget actions that exempted certain sales-taxable items — notably some…
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