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Budget office rolls out new planning system and timeline for FY26; wage study due mid‑April, finance using AI cautiously
Summary
Budget director Michael Thompson said the county’s new EPM budgeting system is live and departments will feed FY26 requests in February; Director of Human Resources Gerald Thornton said the wage-study report is expected April 16; finance staff and the trustee said they are using AI tools in limited, audited ways.
Michael Thompson, Shelby County Director of Budget and Fiscal Planning, told the Budget & Finance Committee that the county’s new enterprise performance-management (EPM) planning and budgeting system is live and that the county will use the system to assemble a proposed FY26 operating budget of about $1.6 billion and a capital-improvement program exceeding $1 billion.
Thompson outlined a multi‑phase budget calendar: revenue-projection requests to departments on Jan. 27, the first budget subcommittee meeting on Jan. 29, department budget input and CIP requests in February, and consolidation through March. The…
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