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Board votes to allocate $400,000 from local-option sales tax to supplemental fund
Summary
Supervisors voted 4-1 to contribute $400,000 from the county's local-option sales tax to the supplemental fund, a move staff said would reduce the county's levy increase compared with a smaller transfer and leave the county with a projected fund balance of roughly $1.6 million by fiscal year end under current projections.
The Carroll County Board of Supervisors voted to deposit $400,000 of local-option sales tax revenue into the county supplemental fund as part of the fiscal 2026 budget process.
County finance staff presented two options for the supplemental transfer. Using $300,000 as the transfer would have produced an additional tax ask for fiscal 2026 of about $225,635, staff said; using $400,000 reduced the additional tax ask to about $125,006.35 under current valuation estimates. Staff noted the county's local-option sales tax receipts are estimated at roughly $1,400,000 annually, with about $700,000 going to the rural fund and the remainder available for supplemental purposes. Staff said current the supplemental fund balance is roughly $1.2 million and that with the $400,000 transfer the fund could be near $1.6 million by the end of fiscal 2026 absent large new commitments.
After discussion about fiscal prudence and the risk of setting future levy expectations, a motion to place $400,000 in the supplemental fund passed on roll call. The roll call recorded Anderson and Hausman voting yes, Johnson voting no, Miners and Craig voting yes; the motion carried.
Board members said they want to be careful not to set the county up for future levy problems and acknowledged that commitments already exist for some economic development items, but several supervisors favored the larger supplemental transfer to provide flexibility and to keep levies down.
