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County heads present figures
DAVENPORT — If you hate finances, you didn’t want to be in the Lincoln County Commissioners’ chamber Monday, Nov. 6. But those interested in county budgets and the allotments disbursed to various county departments got a treat at the annual all-day budget meeting.
The initial 2024 budget presented, which is not final, projects the following revenue sources for the current expense budget in 2024 that total over $100,000. Revenue sources totaling less than $100,000 weren’t included in the article for spatial reasons.
• $2,516,591 from property taxes
• $1,500,000 from local retail sales taxes
• $120,000 from criminal justice sales taxes
• $200,000 from buildings, structures and equipment
• $250,000 from Dept. of Interior in lieu of taxes
• $5,218,072 from the State Broadband Office in COVID-19 state and local fiscal grants
• $4,162,072 from the state Public Works board in COVID-19 capital projects grants
• $100,000 from the Dept. of Health and Human Services for child support enforcement
• $111,000 from the state legislature for half of the county prosecuting attorney salary
• $1,264,357 from the Dept. of Commerce as a matching Public Works Board grant
• $300,000 from the state in city/county assistance
• $315,000 from the state for criminal justice
• $160,000 in Superior Court civil, probate and domestic family filing fees
• $125,000 in Superior Court record services
• $130,000 in motor vehicle license fees for the Auditor’s Office
• $120,000 in motor vehicle license fees for the county
• $135,000 from data processing, printing and duplication for Information Services
• $315,000 from the City of Davenport for law enforcement services
• $180,000 from the Town of Wilbur for law enforcement services
• $450,000 in investment interest
• $816,896 in operating transfers in COVID-19 state and local fiscal
• $500,000 in operating transfers for civil services
The current projected revenue with the preliminary budget is $20,222,121 with an estimated beginning balance of $1,252,885.
Department heads met with the commissioners all day Monday to present their proposed budgets. Those heads projected the following figures:
• Noxious Weed Control Board coordinator Farren Reinbold projected $271,011 in revenue, $286,767 in expenditures, $50,348 in beginning cash balance and $34,572 in ending fund balance.
• Information Services director Keith Nelson projected $546,002 in expenditures for data processing and $438,526 in expenditures for information services.
• Public Health director Ed Dzedzy projected $2,135,322 in revenue, $2,205,356 in expenditures, a beginning fund balance of $1,400,000 and an ending fund balance of $1,329,966.
• District Court administrator Renee Honey and judge Dan B. Johnson projected $373,913 in expenditures.
• Planner Courtney Thompson projected $238,538 in expenditures.
• Public Works director Dave Orvis and road operations manager Dave Sanford projected $12,797,052 in county road revenues, $959,112 in county road beginning fund balance, $5,597,500 for county road maintenance, $1,517,500 for county road administration, $276,950 for county road engineering services, $910,070 in solid waste revenues, $100,000 in solid waste beginning fund balance, $951,110 in solid waste expenditures, $36,960 in solid waste ending fund balance, $441,400 in equipment rental and revolving expenditures, $1,202,000 in pits and quarries revenue and $787,550 in pits and quarries expenditures.
• Prosecuting Attorney Adam Walser projected $634,674 in expenditures.
• Juvenile Services director Bill Dehler projected $242,696 in expenditures.
• Assessor J Scott Liebing projected $525,063 in expenditures.
• Clerk Traci Gants projected $378,178 in expenditures.
• Treasurer Emily Hansen projected $474,400 in expenditures.
• Superior Court Judge Jeffrey S. Barkdull projected $250,494 in expenditures.
• WSU Extension director Don Llewellyn projected $139,938 in expenditures.
• Fair director Dawn Canfield projected $657,700 in revenue, $628,868 in expenditures and $21,532 in ending fund balance.
• Sheriff Gabe Gants and chief civil deputy Denise Liebing projected $676,046 in expenditures for administration, $1,492,855 for operations. $330,953 for law enforcement in Davenport and $180,000 for law enforcement in Wilbur.
• 911 coordinator Brad Sweet projected $1,195,135 in expenditures for the jail.
• Auditor Chandra Schumacher projected $643,916 in expenditures.
The full 2024 budget will be approved by the commissioners before the end of the calendar year. The next regular meeting is at 8 a.m. Monday, Nov. 20.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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