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Finance division housing large contingencies; ERP and jail‑management systems remain multi‑year investments
Summary
Commissioners were shown a finance division budget that includes large contingency buckets and the ERP and jail‑management system implementation; staff said classification artifacts in reporting software partly explain the appearance of an outsized finance budget.
The Santa Fe County finance division budget presented for FY26 includes large contingency amounts and the remaining implementation funding for the county’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) and jail‑management systems.
Manager Schaefer and Finance Director Herrera said the contingency amounts are intentionally concentrated in the finance division because the county initially budgets cross‑county contingencies and then moves resources to departments as needed. Schaefer told commissioners the contingency and…
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