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Kane County Commission adopts 2025 budget, trims some public-health spending and reallocates tourism tax for fire and projects
Summary
The Kane County Commission unanimously approved the 2025 fiscal-year budget on Dec. 17, 2024, including a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment and a 10% rise in medical premiums; commissioners reduced the county's Southwest Public Health contribution to $100,000 and directed $40,000 of TRT funds to wildland fire response.
KANAB, Utah — The Kane County Commission voted unanimously Dec. 17 to approve the county's 2025 fiscal-year budget after a public hearing and discussion that included cuts to county-funded public-health services and targeted reallocations of tourism tax dollars.
Shamil Lamb, the county clerk and auditor, presented the recommended budget, saying, “the budget right now includes a proposed increase for the cost of living of 2.5%” and that the county's medical-insurance costs are projected to rise about 10%. Lamb told commissioners the recommended general fund for 2025 is $16,412,602, an increase of $917,732 from 2024, driven mostly by salary and benefit changes and several one-time capital projects.
The budget funds multiple capital projects the commission discussed during the hearing: a Sand Dunes road project supported by an anticipated roughly $5.4 million federal grant; construction of a community outreach building that will house recovery…
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