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Committee presses staff for clearer budget visuals and worksheets before next meeting
Summary
Members asked staff for clearer budget presentation materials — darker print, pie charts and a worksheet showing cash balances, reserves, and target amounts — so the public can better understand resort-tax, property-tax, and fee revenue assumptions; staff committed to providing updated numbers once mills are known.
Members told staff the budget packet is difficult to read in printed form and asked for a more accessible presentation. Staff proposed adding pie charts and trailing five-year visuals to show where revenue comes from (resort tax, property tax, fees) and committed to preparing a worksheet that breaks out cash balances, reserves, appropriations and target amounts by fund for committee review before the next meeting.
"I still want pie charts that basically say, here's how much it is," a staff member said while describing a revised slide presentation to make the budget more understandable to the public. Members also requested a worksheet that shows cash balances and expected incoming revenue so the committee can confirm reserve levels and finalize allocations once mill numbers are available.
Staff said they will have the additional information and a draft resolution available by the next meeting after mills and attorney input are received. The committee agreed to review the materials in advance and to finalize the budget allocation at the next substantive meeting, subject to minor changes.
