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Madera County hears user-fee study and first-quarter budget report amid projected deficits
Summary
County staff presented a user-fee study showing departments recover about 58% of costs and outlined options to raise municipal fees; separate first-quarter budget updates showed a $1.3M FY24–25 deficit and projections that reserve could hit zero in 2026 without transfers or new revenue.
Madera County staff on Nov. 18 summarized a countywide user-fee study and a first-quarter budget update that together framed near-term choices on fees, transfers and potential service-level changes.
Lauren Guido of NBS, the consultant on the user-fee study, told the board the data-driven analysis measured fully burdened hourly rates and compared current fees to cost-recovery benchmarks. "So when we look at the county departments that we studied as a whole, currently, they're recovering about 58% of the costs," Guido said, adding that existing fee revenue for the studied departments is roughly…
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