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Davis County adopts 2025 budget; records SLFRF obligations and approves 2024 amendments
Summary
The Davis County Commission unanimously adopted the countys 2025 final budget, approved amendments to the 2024 budget and recorded multiple obligations from State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF/ARPA), including public-health and public-safety projects.
The Davis County Commission on Dec. 10 adopted the countys 2025 final budget and approved amendments to the 2024 budget, actions officials said were needed to finalize funding for programs and record federal recovery fund obligations.
Curtis Koch of the auditors office presented the final budget and noted changes since the tentative budget, including moving a data-privacy coordinator position to the clerks office and adding $100,000 in personnel costs related to operating the county shooting range. Koch said fund 10s beginning balance was revised to $41,784,704, with a projected year-end balance of $32,302,743.
Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt the 2025 budget after a brief roll call. The commission also opened and closed a public hearing on amendments to the 2024 budget and approved additional appropriations, again by unanimous vote.
Koch outlined a long list of SLFRF (American Rescue Plan) obligations the county intends to record to comply with federal guidance. The items included a $250,000 obligation to the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program; roughly $340,772.40 for an environmental health database; $47,062 for enhanced air monitoring; multiple vaccination and clinic-capacity projects (including approximately $403,516 for a drive-through vaccination project); and administrative funding for a contract/grant administrator ($400,000). Public-safety and infrastructure obligations included $2,000,805 for correctional-facility wastewater screening and sewer lift station work, $16,379,000 for an emergency operations center, and $600,000 for jail ankle-monitoring and remodel work. Koch also said the county plans to record $10,000,000 as lost revenue replacement for general government wages as allowed by SLFRF rules.
Koch said the obligation process is intended to make the countys use of federal recovery funds auditable: "We are doing everything we can to show that we are just trying to comply with what has been required," he said.
Commission discussion included confirmation that the 2025 budget accounts for all county funds and that the county has not had a property-tax increase since 2017. Several consent items tied to the budget were approved together, and commissioners directed staff to correct minor paperwork items noted during the meeting.
The commission adjourned at 11:06 a.m.
