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Cowlitz County moves ahead with fourth‑quarter budget amendments; creates sheriff equipment fund and dissolves lodging reserve
Summary
Finance Director Cathy Funk Baxter presented a fourth‑quarter budget amendment package that establishes a new Sheriff Equipment and Technology Fund, dissolves a long‑unused cumulative lodging reserve to move roughly $915,333 to tourism, and makes a series of technical adjustments to fund balances and interfund transfers ahead of the 2026 budget.
Cathy Funk Baxter, Cowlitz County finance director, presented the county’s fourth‑quarter budget amendment and said the package will be on the consent agenda at the next meeting. She told commissioners the net effect in the general fund of the recommended adjustments is positive: the general fund ending balance would grow by about $346,000 based on current estimates.
The amendment establishes a new Sheriff Equipment and Technology Fund and records approximately $932,000 of initial funding from multiple sources to seed that fund. Baxter said…
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