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County reports fiscal-year-end figures: spending under budget, revenues slightly over
Summary
Finance staff told supervisors the county ended FY26 with overall spending at about 81.6% of budget, revenues at 100.58% of budget, and identified $2.9 million in delayed county engineer projects and roughly $1.5 million in unspent capital funds.
County finance staff (speaker 7, introduced in discussion as Megan) presented fiscal-year-end numbers for FY26 (June). She reported expenses came in at approximately 81.6% of the total budget for the fiscal year, leaving more than $9 million unspent overall; the largest unspent amounts were about $2.9 million in county engineer projects and roughly $1.5 million in capital projects (including the Great Western Trail). Revenues finished at about 100.58% of budgeted levels, the general basic fund is up about 8.5% over last year, and multiple supplemental funds also showed increases.
Megan also summarized pending state tax-law changes affecting county budgeting: the county may be tied to a 2% limit (with exemptions for new growth) and guidance that no more than 35% of budgeted expenses should be held as unassigned general-fund balance. Board members discussed the implications and requested further information from a webinar Megan planned to attend with ISAC and NACO.
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