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San Juan County staff propose roughly $3.4 million in midyear 2026 budget adjustments
Summary
County staff presented three ordinances to amend the adopted 2026 budget — correcting beginning cash balances, adding emergency appropriations and adding supplemental appropriations — together increasing appropriations by just under $3.4 million and scheduling a public hearing for May 26.
County staff presented a three-part amendment to San Juan County’s 2026 budget on May 12 that would increase appropriations by just under $3.4 million if approved.
At the meeting, county staff summarized three proposed ordinances: one to correct the 2026 beginning cash balances to actual values, a second to add emergency appropriations for unanticipated expenditures, and a third to add supplemental appropriations to match newly received revenues with corresponding expenditures.
Jessica Hudson, county manager, reviewed department requests the amendment would capture. Among the items she listed were a $220,000 request related to Oakland Community Services’ affordable-housing home-equity loan program, about $62,000 for affordable-housing awards from Health and Community Services, $72,000 to carry forward and replace emergency-dispatch radio consoles, roughly $200,000 for capital projects in environmental stewardship, an $85,000 inter-fund transfer for water-resiliency planning, and a $43,000 adjustment tied to LTAC-related arts and fair expenditures. Hudson said some items were carry-forwards from 2025 and others reflected updated revenue actuals.
Staff said the beginning-balance corrections alone would increase the budget by about $3.3 million. Combined with emergency and supplemental appropriations, staff said the 2026 total appropriations would rise from the adopted figure to about $159.8 million for 2026.
Council members asked for more detail on capital carry-forwards and the Tyler Enterprise financial-software implementation; Hudson agreed to request an update from the county auditor and noted that some of the carry-forward adjustments offset one another across projects. Hudson also asked the council for an early "head nod" on adding a temporary five-month fair-parking seasonal position (wages and benefits about $29,000; the overall package impact for the amendment was roughly $43,000).
No formal roll-call vote on the amendment package was recorded at the May 12 meeting; the chair stated the item would move to final approval at the next meeting and staff said a public hearing is scheduled for May 26, giving council time to request edits ahead of that hearing.
