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Elbert County commissioners review draft 2026 budget; finance director outlines figures, staffing and fairgrounds proposal
Summary
Finance Director Tiffany Hermas presented Elbert County’s draft 2026 budget, including fund-level projections, 25 additional FTE requests, a proposed 3% COLA (with an optional 2% merit), equipment requests for the sheriff and Road & Bridge, and a proposed fairgrounds ‘crow’s nest’ upgrade. The board asked staff to refine costs for a December final budget.
Elbert County finance director Tiffany Hermas presented the county’s draft 2026 budget at the Board of County Commissioners meeting on Nov. 5, 2025, laying out fund-level projections, staffing requests and several equipment and capital items the board must decide before a final budget scheduled for Dec. 15.
Hermas told commissioners the county-wide figures discussed in the presentation showed revenues and expenditures that are broadly flat year over year. In the transcript she stated county revenue for 2026 at $53,000,000 and expenditures at $54,000,000 (presented in the meeting as "54" in millions). She said the general fund revenue was projected at about $23.6 million against expenditures of about $23.6 million to $23.6 million range, and that current modeling would put the general fund about $1.5 million into using fund balance. Hermas presented audited 2024 fund balances and a forecast for 2025 to help frame the December finalization…
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