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Doña Ana County approves $312M revenue preliminary budget; expenditures total $387M with planned reserve draw
Summary
The county approved its FY2026 preliminary budget on May 27; staff outlined a $312 million revenue plan, $387.38 million in expenditures and an anticipated draw on reserves of roughly $75.2 million, plus requests for new positions and capital projects to be finalized in July.
Doña Ana County commissioners on May 27 approved a preliminary fiscal year 2026 budget that budgets $312,000,000 in revenues and $387,380,000 in expenditures, creating a planned draw on reserves of roughly $75,200,000, Budget and Research Officer Lucio Luttrell told the board.
Luttrell said the revenue figure reflects a $98.7 million grant budget and that the county's largest single revenue source is gross receipts tax. "We are budgeting $312,000,000," Luttrell said during his presentation, and he told commissioners the preliminary plan assumes a recurring operational surplus of about $2.6 million after accounting for grant-funded and one-time items.
Key figures Luttrell presented include: $165.3 million in tax revenues (about 53 percent of total), $98.7…
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