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Curry County budget committee forwards proposed 2025–26 budget to commissioners after corrections, votes 5–1
Summary
Curry County budget committee members voted 5'to—2 to forward a proposed fiscal 2025'26 budget to the Board of Commissioners for final adoption after finding and correcting a $944,000 revenue misclassification that lowered the draft contingency to about $93,565.
Curry County budget committee members voted 5–1 on June 16 to forward a proposed fiscal 2025–26 budget to the Board of Commissioners for final adoption, after identifying a misclassified federal revenue item that reduced the committee's operating contingency.
The committee moved quickly through a review of the draft budget, which the committee chair described as "a statement of intent" emphasizing fiscal stewardship and a balanced approach. During the review staff and committee members identified that $944,000 in recent O&C (ONC) receipts had been recorded in a miscellaneous revenue line in addition to an ONC line, effectively double-counting the payment in the draft. After staff agreed to correct the classification, committee staff said the operating contingency would fall to roughly $93,565 from the higher, incorrect figure that had been printed on recent worksheets.
Why it matters: committee members said the correction reduces the…
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