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Commissioners request departmental "stress test" presentations, ask for cuts impact and statutory breakdown ahead of June 24 meeting
Summary
Commissioners directed department heads to run a hypothetical stress test of general-fund operations and present quantified impacts at the directors meeting on June 24, including what reductions they would make and how cuts would affect statutory services, staffing and turnover costs.
Commissioners at the June 9 Davis County budget meeting directed department heads to prepare short presentations that quantify how hypothetical reductions would affect operations and residents, and to schedule those presentations for the directors' session on June 24. The commission described the exercise as a stress test to inform choices about a combination of revenue increases, fund-balance spend-down and spending cuts.
Commissioners asked departments to: identify what reductions they would make under a model (the county provided example parameters including a $3,000,000 spend down of fund balance and a $2,500,000 tax increase), explain how those reductions would affect services and the people…
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