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County budget officer files requested 2025 budget; general fund shortfall nearly $2.3 million
Summary
Sheridan County’s budget officer filed the requested 2025 budget and presented a third-quarter financial update covering January–March, reporting a general-fund cash shortfall of roughly $2.2–$2.3 million and noting a planned—but not yet finalized—requested budget to begin the board’s review process.
Ida, the county’s budget officer, presented Sheridan County’s third-quarter financial report and filed the requested 2025 budget during the April 21 staff meeting.
The third-quarter materials cover January through March and include line-by-line revenue and expenditure summaries for the general fund, the county’s 1% capital facilities excise tax fund and the employee health benefit fund. Ida told commissioners the documents highlight receipts and expenditures that exceed adopted budgets and single out public-works capital as a department that is over budget because of a $119,000 backhoe purchase; that purchase was previously approved and Ida said it will be covered by future refunds or reimbursements from the Remington, Elk and Badger fire incidents via a later budget amendment.
On the requested 2025 budget, Ida said the numbers she filed are not final but are the formal requested budget the board will use to prepare a proposed and then a final budget. She told commissioners the county faces a general-fund shortfall of about $2.2 million — “almost $2.3 million,” she said — based on current estimates. She also noted that some revenue estimates remain listed as “to be determined” in the statewide revenue-estimating manual used by Wyoming counties, and that certain figures will be updated as state guidance arrives.
Ida reviewed pension changes and revenue-estimation process: she reminded commissioners of differences between public and law-enforcement retirement plans and said the law-enforcement pension plan contribution is scheduled to increase. She credited coordination among the assessor, treasurer, the board’s administrative director and her office for assembling revenue estimates.
Board members asked questions and thanked budget staff for preparing the request on an accelerated timetable. Ida told the board that, after filing the requested budget, any changes required to reach a proposed and then a balanced budget will be made by the board during the standard adoption process.
Next steps: The requested budget has been filed and the board will work with staff to adjust revenues and expenditures to reach a proposed and then final balanced budget, including any necessary amendments or use of earmarked reimbursements for capital purchases.
