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Mason County budget director outlines 2026 spending plan, highlights WIC risk and policy-level requests
Summary
Budget staff presented a maintenance-level 2026 general-fund plan with estimated revenue of $46.63 million and expenditures of $57.24 million and flagged $2.76 million in policy-level requests.
Budget staff presented commissioners with a preliminary maintenance-level general-fund budget for 2026 and detailed policy-level requests (PLRs) and special-fund items departments have proposed.
At maintenance level, staff said estimated general-fund revenue is $46,630,556 and budgeted expenditures are $57,244,998; beginning fund balance was estimated at about $24 million and ending fund balance for 2026 was projected to land between $18 million and $20 million depending on revenue and expenditure actuals. Policy-level requests across departments total $2,757,142 and include seven full-time-equivalent positions (estimated $691,899) and…
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