Budget cycle nine month process
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Alright, so Our budget cycle again it's a nine month process. It's a nine month process of planning, of discussions, of Pencil sharpening and number crunching And we start in January with a workshop with the board where we look at the progress we've made in our strategic plan so far, and then we talk about priorities for the upcoming year. It is a five-year plan, so we like to chunk it into one year. action plans to help us figure out what should be prioritized in our budget.
Then we do an internal countywide kickoff where everybody Um, I say it gets to work on their budget, but they get to work long before we kick off. Then in February we
We look at our major revenue projections and how those are predicting to shake out over the next few years. We have briefings with the board where we look at the status of our general fund and our municipal services taxing units. In March through May were pretty busy. The our leaders with the budget team and the executive leadership team. We start looking at all the details in everyone's line item budgets. We come in April typically and we workshop
with the constitutional officers. This year was a little bit different. There was a lot happening at At the state level this year. So we delayed that workshop a little bit and we joined it with the board's workshop in June, which is part of why we're here today because we weren't able to cover the totality of the board's budget. We went through the constitutional officer budgets, we highlighted some important stuff under the board side, and now Now we're here today to cover the remainder of the proposed budget and a large propensity of that is the capital budget.
Alright then. Next week, yep, fast forward one week. And we're gonna be at a board meeting and we're gonna set trim, which is basically we like to explain that as setting the ceiling on millage rates. So that's the highest the millage rates will be When we come back to the final public hearing, those millage rates can always come down, but they can't come up. And what the board sets in July is what goes out on property tax notices in August. Then our first and then our final public hearing will happen in September.
Alright, so Again, we use our strategic plan to help us build that roadmap for what the next five years is gonna look like. And in all the discussions and the dialogue with the board, you can see here almost every single one of our addressable challenges is up here. Well, because our board has taken us to task, team. And we are responding, and we're responding not just with new resources, but we're also able to allocate some of our existing resources to make sure we're moving the needle on the board's strategic
plan. It's a budget we should all be very proud of.