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Rock County board adopts 2025 budget after votes on $1.9 million transfer, staffing changes and AV project

Rock County Board of Supervisors · November 13, 2024
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Summary

The Rock County Board of Supervisors approved the 2025 county budget following votes to transfer $1.9 million in excess interest to the debt service fund, several staffing reclassifications and a courtroom audiovisual capital project. The final budget passed on a 28–0 roll call.

Rock County’s Board of Supervisors adopted the county’s 2025 budget after a series of amendments and votes that included moving $1.9 million in unanticipated interest income into the debt service fund and several staffing and capital adjustments.

The board voted 28–0 (one absent) to approve the final recommended 2025 budget. Earlier in the meeting supervisors approved a resolution to transfer $1,900,000 in excess interest into the debt service fund to offset expenditures and help hold the tax levy steady; that resolution passed on a roll call of 23–5, with one member absent.

Why it mattered: supporters said the unplanned interest income made it possible to provide modest tax relief and avoid raising the levy this year, while opponents said using one-time funds creates a shortfall that will complicate the…

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