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Commissioners finalize budget draft, set publication schedule and agree follow‑up review
Summary
After hours of line‑by‑line discussion, commissioners agreed to send a revised budget packet for publication and to publish the notice for a public budget hearing in early September. The board approved a draft with several adjustments (housekeeping and selective restorations) and agreed to meet again if the published packet requires final tweaks.
Bourbon County commissioners spent extended time reviewing departmental budgets and revised a proposed general‑fund budget before agreeing to send the draft for publication and schedule a public hearing.
Commissioners and staff worked page by page through the budget committee’s proposal, comparing the Budget Advisory Committee’s figures with draft alternatives. Discussion focused on employee wages, line‑item commodities, dispatch/911 funding, the county jail and sales‑tax…
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