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Commissioners approve proposed tax rate and consider three budget amendments
Summary
The court discussed and advanced three budget amendments — a repair request, a sheriff's budget correction, and county-housing line adjustments — and approved a proposed voter-approval tax rate to avoid a public hearing.
Commissioners reviewed three budget amendments and took action on a proposed tax rate.
Speaker 5 presented three amendments: a repair request listed as $3,030,000 (attached to the amendment), a $50,000 amendment for a sheriff’s contract paid in 2024 that rolled into 2025, and adjustments to the county housing/LHC account that had been budgeted at 40 but spent 117 (a shortfall described as roughly 78). Speaker 5 said these are line-item amendments intended to clean up accounts; the court noted the county’s overall budget position is not short.
On the proposed tax rate (agenda item 11), Speaker 5 recommended adopting the voter-approval tax rate rather than the no-new-revenue rate because the voter-approval rate is lower this year and avoids the need for a hearing. The figure discussed was 0.554359. Speaker 3 moved to approve the tax rate and the court heard "All in favor," indicating acceptance of the proposed rate at the meeting.
Other routine business included approval motions for reconciliations and routine bills; Speaker 5 also noted an additional jail payment of $55,000 not listed on the bills packet that the court will address in budgeting.
Next steps: line-item amendments were directed to be added to the final budget materials; the proposed tax rate will be included with the proposed budget to be finalized next month.
