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Assessor, facilities and public-works budgets on track, commissioners told
Summary
Finance Director Kathy Funk Baxter told the Board that the assessor, facilities and public-works budgets are generally on target through May, with one vacant facilities FTE and timing-driven service payments inflating early-year service spending.
Kathy Funk Baxter, Cowlitz County finance director, told the Board of County Commissioners that departmental budget reviews show generally expected spending patterns for the assessor’s office, facilities and public works.
Baxter said the assessor’s office "have very little in the way of revenues, coming in," noting the office budgeted $24,050 for goods and services and had received $8,770 through May, mostly recording fees. "A portion of the recording fee goes to their office and, their general funds," she said, and added personnel is the assessor’s largest expenditure: about $2,105,000 budgeted with…
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