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Supervisors approve shifting communications costs into emergency management pass-through

Wright County Board of Supervisors · January 12, 2026
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Summary

The board agreed to move certain communications funding and the emergency-management budget (including wages) into a pass-through arrangement under emergency management for FY2026–27, a change the presenters said could raise county levy needs while giving cities more flexibility on per-capita levies.

The Wright County Board of Supervisors heard a fiscal-year 2026–27 presentation from emergency-management staff and voted to shift certain communications costs into an emergency-management pass-through and to move elements of the emergency-management budget into general supplemental accounting.

Emergency management (introduced in the meeting as Jerica Beach, emergency management director) described a…

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