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County manager previews 2027 budget; board faces $1.9 million shortfall
Summary
Dunn County's county manager gave supervisors an early look at the 2027 budget, outlining major assumptions — including $3 million in proposed highway borrowing and a projected $1.9 million gap — and schedule for committee review ahead of an October executive committee finalization and November submission to the full board.
The county manager told supervisors the first-round departmental budgets are complete and that standing committees will review them before a scheduled budget workshop next month. "So right now, we're looking at a deficit of about 1,900,000," the county manager said, cautioning that the figure depends on several assumptions the board can still change.
He said the draft assumes $3,000,000 in highway borrowing and includes a 2 percent variance and a 98 percent salary-fill assumption built into line items. The county manager noted total salary and fringe for the county is about $54,000,000 with an expected increase of about $2,600,000; after excluding divisions that do not use levy funds, the amount the levy must cover was presented as about $611,000. He also spelled out one-time capital items ($777,000) and an anticipated $1,100,000 rise in placement costs for human services that drive the budget pressure.
The manager said new levy-available revenues under current assumptions total about $794,000 but that the package of increases and one-time expenses leaves a roughly $1.9 million shortfall. He told the board the executive committee will review and refine the proposed budget in September and finalize the proposed budget in October for the full board in November. The board scheduled a budget workshop for the end of next month to review department presentations and refine priorities.
