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Kootenai County keeps three-month emergency reserve, directs staff to draft FY26 fund-balance resolution
Summary
At a March 19 meeting, the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners agreed to maintain a three-month emergency reserve, reassign a seldom-used grant-match line to zero, boost the health insurance assignment to $4 million, and place roughly $2.577 million of remaining surplus into the facilities master plan; staff was directed to prepare a resolution and to present more detail on 911 revenues and infrastructure needs.
Kootenai County commissioners on March 19, 2026 instructed staff to keep the county’s emergency reserve at three months and to prepare a resolution formalizing FY26 assigned fund-balance decisions, while asking for a fuller briefing on 911 revenue and infrastructure needs.
Brandy Falcon of the auditor’s office told the board that "assigned fund balance is the surplus in the general fund that is left over after the board has set aside a dollar amount for the emergency reserves for the county," and walked commissioners through multi-year figures showing assigned balances rose from $14.39 million in fiscal 2018 to about $33 million in fiscal 2025. Falcon said the county returned about $13 million to fund balance in FY24 and roughly $5.9 million between fund 10 and fund 15 in FY25.
Falcon said calculating a…
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