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Kootenai County finds $342,000 overtime tax-and-benefits shortfall; staff to use contingency, return for approval
Summary
County staff discovered a configuration error in its finance system that left FY26 overtime budgets short $342,000 for payroll taxes and benefits; staff proposed using contingency funds and will return to the board next week for formal approval.
Kootenai County staff told commissioners on Jan. 13 that a software setting and a recent vendor update revealed a long-running error that left FY26 overtime budgets without associated payroll taxes and benefits, creating a $342,000 shortfall.
Brandy Falcon, who presented the finding to the Board of County Commissioners, said the county's New World financial system had a setting dating to 2008 that relied on a now-fixed bug. A Tyler Technologies update last year removed the bug and caused overtime lines to stop including the associated employer payroll taxes…
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