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Residents urge Park County to consider departmental contingency planning, working plumbing at museum
Summary
During public comment at the Aug. 13 budget workshop, residents asked whether departments should hold individual emergency funds and urged the commission to restore a museum plumbing capital request; staff explained legal limits on using taxable funds for general savings and said CIP accounts are restricted to capital projects.
Two residents used the public-comment period at the Aug. 13 Park County budget workshop to press the commission on contingency planning and a museum plumbing request.
A resident (Speaker 6) asked whether departments should maintain their own emergency funds so they would not repeatedly ask the commission or finance staff to reallocate money for unexpected needs. The presenter (staff member) responded that taxable funds are constrained by levy and tax rules and cannot be broadly accumulated as a…
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