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Klamath County budget workshop: software costs, opioid settlement transfers and tight staffing discussed
Summary
At a budget workshop commissioners heard that the county is largely flat with last year’s budgets but faces higher software/internal service costs, planned transfers from reserves (including opioid settlement funds to juvenile services), and continued pressure on DA staffing and overtime.
Klamath County commissioners spent the bulk of a budget workshop reviewing department budgets and reserves, with officials flagging higher software costs for finance, planned transfers from reserves including opioid settlement funds, and ongoing staffing pressures in the district attorney’s office.
Finance staff told the board the county will face significant internal service increases driven by software: Springbrook is budgeted at about $75,000 annually and the Tyler subscription was reported at $219,002.68 in subscription costs; implementation and duplicate‑software costs will keep spending higher in the near term. County staff described three Tyler modules under consideration — an inventory module (implementation cited as…
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