Agenda Item Request
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Presentation of the FY28 Managers Proposed Budget and remanding the budget to the Finance Committee
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Background and Purpose of Request
In September, County staff started the process of establishing an FY28 proposed budget. This year, we moved away from the sixty-five sheet Excel spreadsheet full of formulas and created the FY28 budget in a new budget software program. I thank the Commissioners for their support and Deputy Finance Director Alyssa Johnson for tackling this big project in learning and setting up the software over the summer. We are already experiencing benefits and efficiencies.
With this new software implementation, it will be a learning curve for all of us. Formatting of the budget document has changed and being that it is our first year using it, we don’t have the luxury of looking back historically too many years. This will build year over year and we are seeing great benefits already.
Now it’s time to sound like a broken record. I went into this budget season thinking we may have a solid opportunity to do some great things, while reducing the impacts to the taxpayers. As much as the FY27 budget created fits for us, the FY28 budget wasn’t far off from where we ended with the FY27 budget.
The current budget is up 8.36% from the FY27 budget. As the Commissioners are aware, staff continue to work on the budget into the new year in hopes of making it tight.
Staff will be prepared to take the Commissioners through the FY28 budget and through the presentation staff will provide insight in the alternative way to determine jail funding and the County’s revised way to budget for wages and overtime.
Funding Amount and Source: Tax Rate, Grants, State/Federal Allocations and Contract for Services.
Attachments: FY28 Proposed Manager’s Budget Narrative & Detail