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County reviews budget retreat ideas and weighs using reserves as rural-sales-tax rebate faces uncertainty
Summary
County finance staff presented suggestions from a June budget retreat to reduce reliance on the general fund; commissioners discussed researching options and whether to use reserves to finish Scott Hill Park while awaiting a state decision on a rural sales-tax rebate that supplies about $2 million a year.
County finance staff on Tuesday presented ideas generated at a June budget retreat to reduce general-fund expenditures and identify new revenues, and commissioners discussed researching feasibility while weighing whether to use reserve funds to complete local park work as a state rebate may be at risk.
Finance Director Kathy Funk Baxter told the Board of County Commissioners the retreat produced roughly five pages of suggestions, ranging from vendor prompt-payment discounts to shifting eligible expenses from the general fund. "None of the items were researched, as far as feasibility," she said, and the list will require follow-up analysis before implementation.
The discussion centered in part on the county—eing designated no longer rural in the state—orecasting data, which could end a rural sales-tax rebate the county has used for…
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