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Broadband grants increase current expense fund
DAVENPORT — After originally tabling a motion to approve the 2024 Lincoln County budget Monday, Dec. 18, the County Commissioners approved said budget Thursday, Dec. 28.
After using reserve funds to close a roughly $1.4 million budget gap that usually besets small counties like Lincoln, the current expense fund balanced at $22,004,444.
That large sum is almost double what it normally is because $11,820,601 in broadband grants were allocated to the non-departmental fund within the current expense budget.
Commissioner Scott Hutsell said those funds were on a reimbursement basis and therefore needed to be allocated somewhere in the county budget.
Between the current expense fund and several other funding categories and services not funded by current expense, the county plans to operate on $56,994,046, according to the budget ordinance provided by Auditor Chandra Schumacher.
Current expense funds totaling over $75,000 include the following allocations:
• $528,278—Assessor
• $647,769—Auditor
• $381,186—Clerk
• $617,911—Commissioners
• $267,537—Planning
• $140,580—WSU Extension
• $461,589—Courthouse
• $546,002—Data processing
• $491,656—Information services
• $375,839—District Court
• $99,024—Probation
• $1,195,639—Jail
• $243,605—Juvenile services
• $11,820,601—Non-departmental (broadband grants)
• $567,251—Prosecuting Attorney
• $676,256—Sheriff administration
• $1,493,233—Sheriff operations
• $331,079—Davenport law enforcement
• $180,000—Wilbur law enforcement
• $251,900—Superior Court
• $477,249—Treasurer
• $97,000-Financing uses
Other funds outside the current expense fund totaling over $75,000 include the following allocations and are funded by a variety of sources:
• $250,620—Elections
• $3,672,322—Public Health
• $667,700—County Fair
• $13,868,664—County Roads
• $197,601—Auditor’s M&O
• $1,133,793—Coronavirus state and local funds
• $884,393—Special funded services
• $97,640—Affordable housing trust
• $102,600—Law library
• $128,601—Davenport special reserves
• $116,000—R.E.E.T. fund
• $86,000—Trial court improvement
• $623,970—Homeless housing
• $252,000—Crime victims
• $554,700—Traffic policing
• $77,000—Marine enforcement
• $815,600—Enhanced 911
• $400,500—Emergency communications
• $95,500—Domestic violence prevention
• $156,720—County broadband
• $321,359—Noxious Weed Control Board
• $119,243—Wilbur special reserves
• $618,729—Public safety
• $240,885—County LTGO bond
• $376,738—Capital improvements
• $417,000—Rural county development
• $1,010,070—Sold waste management
• $2,493,000—Equipment rental
• $1,402,000—Pits and quarries
• $86,391—Employee self-insurance fund
• $2,814,100—Martin Hall operating
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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