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Linn County commissioners trim contingency to reach revenue-neutral budget, discuss sales tax for ambulance service
Summary
At a Linn County budget workshop commissioners directed staff to reduce contingency and capital outlay by roughly $143,186 to reach an estimated revenue-neutral mill rate and discussed placing a sales-tax measure on the ballot to support ambulance services.
Linn County commissioners at a budget workshop directed staff to reduce contingency and capital outlay to bring the 2026 budget to an estimated revenue-neutral mill rate and spent more than an hour discussing pay adjustments and a possible sales-tax measure to fund ambulance operations.
Commissioners instructed staff to adjust the general-fund contingency by about $143,186 and reissue the budget document reflecting that change. County staff said the adjustment would bring the levy to a revenue-neutral rate estimated in the workshop at 35.086. Commissioners said they preferred taking the one-time reduction from contingency and capital outlay rather than revising individual department budgets already reviewed.
The worksheet staff circulated applies each department's share of total expenditures to the shortfall to produce one option for reaching revenue…
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