Finney County staff recommend September budget hearing, present 2.53 revenue‑neutral rate option

A county administrator recommended that the Finney County Commission set a date and time in September for a public hearing on the county budget and presented a revenue‑neutral property tax rate option of 2.53, according to the meeting transcript.

The recommendation asked the commission to authorize the county administrator to set the hearing, notify the county clerk and publish the required public notices in a newspaper and on the county website. The transcript records staff presenting a proposed “revenue‑neutral” rate of 2.53 and refers to other rate figures during the discussion; the transcript does not clearly record the precise alternative rates or how those alternatives would be applied.

At the work session, staff framed the requested action as scheduling and notification: authorizing the administrator to select a hearing day and time in September, to complete statutory notice steps and to return to the commission with a formal hearing date. The transcript records repeated references to publishing notices in the county newspaper and on the county website and to notifying the county clerk as part of the process.

The transcript supplied for this article does not show a formal motion, roll‑call or other vote by commissioners on the recommendation. Because no formal action is recorded in the provided transcript, the commission’s final determination on a hearing date, the final tax rate to propose at that hearing, and any ordinance or resolution language were not specified.

If the commission later schedules a hearing and adopts a rate, that action would typically require formal adoption of a tax rate or related ordinance at a subsequent public meeting; those steps were not recorded in the supplied transcript.