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Audubon County Board adopts FY27 budget, approves 3% wage adjustment for elected officials
Summary
Audubon County supervisors approved Resolution 2026-23 adopting the FY27 budget and certifying taxes and passed Resolution 2026-22 setting elected-official salaries (generally a 3% increase) at their April 28 meeting. The board also assigned fund balances and approved routine claims and canvass dates.
The Audubon County Board of Supervisors adopted the county’s fiscal year 2027 budget and certified the tax levy at its April 28 meeting, approving a set of salary adjustments for elected officials that primarily raise pay by 3% effective July 1, 2026.
Chairman Kent Grabill said the board considered the Compensation Board’s recommendation of a 2.8% increase but opted to round to a 3% adjustment when approving Resolution 2026-22. The resolution lists approved salaries for elected offices and applies slightly larger comp adjustments for the county attorney and sheriff to account for position-specific adjustments. The resolution passed with ayes Mosinski, Hansen and Grabill and no recorded nays.
Audubon County Auditor Lisa Frederiksen told supervisors she had provided comparative stipend figures for Budget Director and TIF Director positions as part of budget deliberations. The board also assigned specific uses for fund balances in Resolution 2026-23, including a $25,000 Fairboard allocation and an estimated reserved sheriff revenue balance of $70,691 to be used in compliance with Iowa Code 356.7(5).
During the same meeting the board approved routine items tied to the budget process: meeting minutes for April 21, 2026; departmental claims totaling $33,987.88 to be paid; and canvass-of-votes dates for the June 2, 2026 primary (canvass June 9 at 1:00 p.m.) and the November 2026 election (canvass Nov. 10 at 1:00 p.m.). All motions were made by supervisors Hansen and Mosinski and recorded as "vote-all in favor."
The public hearing on the proposed FY27 budget opened at 10:00 a.m. and closed at 11:30 a.m. The board addressed wages, stipend comparisons and other budget details during that hearing; no additional formal amendments to the budget were recorded at the meeting. The resolutions adopting salaries and the budget were filed as Resolutions 2026-22 and 2026-23, respectively.
