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Commissioners approve payments to cover state underbilling and authorize nearly $1.9 million roof expenditure

Kent County Commissioners · May 12, 2026
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Summary

Kent County approved $56,120 from contingency and $21,006.37 from fund balance to cover a State Department of Assessments and Taxation underbilling and authorized $1,894,458 from FY26 fund balance to move the Wharton School roof project into the current fiscal year.

County finance staff reported an administrative underbilling by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation that produced a cumulative deficit. Pat Merritt (speaker 6) told commissioners the state underbilled the county for prior services and asked for a one-time allocation of $56,120 from contingency to cover prior-year charges and $21,637 from the…

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