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Kootenai County assessor presses for five personnel changes; commissioners approve several conversions and progressions
Summary
Assessor Veil Kovacs urged the commissioners to keep five requested positions and career progressions in the FY26 budget; commissioners agreed to several conversions (including a business intelligence analyst and appraiser promotions) and discussed downgrading a planned commercial appraiser grade from 3 to 1 to limit near-term cost.
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho ' The Kootenai County assessor briefed the Board of Commissioners on a package of staffing requests and career progressions during the July 11 FY26 budget deliberations, and commissioners agreed to retain several personnel progressions while asking for follow-up on timing and fillability.
Assessor Veil Kovacs told commissioners his submitted budget is "an extremely lean budget" and that the five full-time equivalents (FTEs) he requested are priorities. Kovacs said the assessor's request totaled about $6,800,000 for his office in the proposed package and described the request as roughly $139,000 lower than the current year in his calculations.
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