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Ellis County Commission approves 2025 budget, votes to exceed revenue-neutral rate
Summary
The Ellis County Commission approved the countys 2025 General Fund and Fire District No. 1 budgets and voted unanimously to exceed the revenue-neutral rate, citing employee wage and benefit increases and the addition of dispatch staff as primary drivers of the increase.
The Ellis County Commission voted to approve the 2025 General Fund and Fire District No. 1 budgets and separately authorized exceeding the states revenue-neutral rate for budget year 2025, the commission recorded. The roll-call votes on both items were recorded as unanimous: Nathan Meicher, Michael Burgess and Neil Younger voted yes.
Commissioners and staff said most of the increase in the proposed county budget stems from implementing a recent pay wage study and absorbing employees from the county dispatch function into county payroll. "The increase that I see is almost all attributed just to that," Commissioner Michael Burgess said, pointing to wages, benefits and the…
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