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Advisory board forwards tentative 2026 budget to County Commission after revenue update
Summary
The county auditor presented updated sales/use and transient room tax projections and a draft tentative 2026 budget that would require an estimated $740,000 draw from the general fund to balance; the board voted to forward the tentative budget to the County Commission for review.
The county auditor presented updated revenue projections on Oct. 31 that include monthly data through October (collections tied to activity through August) and explained the projection methodology recommended for the tentative 2026 budget. The auditor said the methodology uses a three‑year trend line (2023–2025) to avoid noise from isolated year‑to‑year swings and to better reflect the recent pattern of collections.
For transient room tax (TRT) the presentations showed a 2025 full‑year baseline using a 4.25% rate for apples‑to‑apples comparison across 2023–2025 and then adjusted the figure to account for the rate increase that…
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