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Gage County outlines FY2025–26 budget priorities; reassessment funding for Beatrice highlighted
Summary
Commissioners reviewed budget priorities including increased reassessment funding for Beatrice, sheriff equipment needs, roadway armor coating plans, and capital projects to be grant-funded and reimbursed.
At the July 9 meeting the Gage County Board discussed headline items for the fiscal year 2025–26 budget, including property reassessment work, sheriff equipment requests and road maintenance and capital plans.
Staff reported approximately $220,000 in additional funds earmarked for reassessment work in Beatrice; a previously noted rural reassessment allocation (around $150,000) will be adjusted, leaving an anticipated county reassessment total in the low hundreds of thousands (transcript language: "3 to 400,000 now for the it's 180 on 1 and so it'll be at 300 some thousand"). Staff said the assessor's office will continue rural reassessment work in phases and expects residential and commercial reassessment in Beatrice to continue into subsequent years.
On law enforcement budgets, staff and commissioners discussed the sheriff's requests for equipment including weapons upgrades, body-worn cameras and potential in-car video upgrades. Road and bridge priorities included a planned 5–7 year armor-coat cycle with an expectation to armor-coat 20–30 miles in the coming cycle, site-specific guardrail repairs and a potential motor-grader purchase planned in the budget. The board also discussed managing grant-funded blacktop projects that would require the county to front costs and be reimbursed by grants.
Ending: The board instructed staff to continue working on line-item details and to bring refined figures and proposed adjustments back to the board during the budget process.
