Category: County Budget Series

JoAnn Kalenak, DCCR Senior Blogger — After several days of public hearings and work sessions, Delta County is close to completing the 2019 county budget. Top on the list of budget requests from most department heads were staff raises above Read on…

JoAnn Kalenak, President DCCR Board of Directors — Last week, Administrator Robbie LeValley kicked off the county’s 2019 budget process with a fact-sheet and slide presentation to commissioners and department heads. To some of the points made during the presentation: Read on…

County Administrator Robbie LeValley posted a revised 2018 budget today to the county website proposing total spending of $34,427,531 and estimated $17 million in reserve and holdover funds at the start of the new year.   An earlier proposed budget, Read on…

By JoAnn Kalenak, Senior Blogger — For more than a year, I’ve listened as representatives from many worthwhile organizations deliver their pitch for financial help to Delta County’s Commissioners. Most have walked away with the same response, “Sorry, we don’t Read on…

Everyone deserves fair and equitable pay for a good day’s work. But what does “fair and equitable” look like to a county employee — or to the taxpayer footing the bill — when typical comparisons just don’t line up? Determining Read on…

One of the first questions Citizen Report readers ask when talking about the county’s budget is “what do staff and commissioners earn?” To help answer that question, we obtained annual salaries from the county’s accounting department and developed a spreadsheet Read on…