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Supervisors give preliminary approval to FY2027 public health, HR and facilities budgets
Summary
At the Jan. 14 meeting the Linn County Board preliminarily approved the Public Health ($8.5M), Human Resources ($1.18M) and Facilities ($3.6M) FY2027 budgets; motions passed by voice vote and supervisors discussed positions, contractual increases and chargebacks.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors preliminarily approved three department budgets for fiscal year 2027 during its Jan. 14 meeting.
Public Health: Finance Director Don Shindrich presented a public-health appropriation of $8,502,178 and revenues of $3,947,262, which he said "comes in right at guidelines." Discussion covered staffing (59 positions, 57 filled), a 3.55% salary placeholder, a separate special-revenue air-quality enterprise fund (about $2.5 million) with restricted uses, capital outlay for air-monitoring equipment, and changes to grant revenues (including the PREVAIL grant ending). The board preliminarily approved the public-health budget by voice vote with all supervisors saying "aye."
Human Resources: Budget director Scribe Barrows and HR director Lisa presented a $1,183,015 HR request, slightly over guidelines because of contractual increases for software and event costs. Lisa outlined training and recruitment work and proposed a full-time HR recruitment coordinator as an "offer" costing approximately $103,148 to reduce time-to-fill and improve retention (the department reported time-to-fill reductions from 108 to 67 days and higher retention where HR assisted). The board preliminarily approved the HR budget by voice vote.
Facilities: Facilities staff presented a facilities appropriation totaling about $3,604,007, above guidelines by roughly $38,430. Drivers included increased custodial and maintenance-supply costs, multiple contractual increases (plumbing/HVAC, generator maintenance, elevator preventive maintenance), and added chargebacks for the Engineering Building. The board preliminarily approved the facilities budget by voice vote (all aye).
Each approval was preliminary and part of the county's FY2027 budget process. Supervisors asked staff to continue reviewing chargeback options, grant opportunities and constrained funding lines and pledged to consider staff-offer items as the budget process proceeds.
