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Chair presents draft budget, cites reserve targets and tax-rate increase
Summary
During a budget workshop, the Chair presented a draft proposed budget showing a general-fund reserve of 20.059% and an all-funds reserve of 17.035%, and said the proposed tax-rate increase was driven by efforts to fulfill department requests.
The Chair opened the budget development workshop by distributing the draft proposed budget and directing attention to the revenue and reserve figures, telling the group the general-fund “reserve balance of 20.059%” and that “if you go all the way to the last page, page 43 ... the reserve balance is 17.035%.”
The Chair said the budget attempts "to fulfill as many of the budget requests as possible," which he described as the primary driver of the proposed tax-rate increase. Commissioners pressed staff for clarifications about which expenditures were included in the projections, whether projected revenues and actual expenditures were aligned, and how dedicated funds affect the all-funds reserve percentage. The meeting included requests to verify spreadsheet formulas and confirm whether any property sales or grant receipts should be expected but were not included in the baseline budget.
