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KEY BUDGET NUMBERS: 1) Total allocations* = $40,628,278 up $5 million from 2020. The large increase is due to capital improvements budgeted but not spent in 2020 and emergency government funding resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. 2) Total budgeted revenue Read on…
JOANN KALENAK, DCCR SENIOR BLOGGER — Delta County government enjoys substantial taxpayer revenue from three major sources: Commercial and residential property tax collection, and regular sales tax collection. Since 2017, these combined sources of income have increased 22% growing from Read on…
JoAnn Kalenak, DCCR Senior Blogger — Contract auditor Pete Blair presented Delta County Commissioners his 2020 audit of county finances earlier this week. In the snapshot report, Blair told Commissioners that the county had ended 2020 with $19.3 million in Read on…
1) Total allocations = $36,827,509 2) Total revenue = $34,600,973 2) Total starting reserve in 2021 = $16,194,592 (44% of total allocations) 3) General operating fund = $13,602,022 4) General operating fund starting reserve = $6,018,335 Read on…
JOANN KALENAK, DCCR, OCT. 17, 2020 — Delta County Administrator Robbie LeValley presented County Commissioners with the 2021 Draft Budget during a public meeting on Oct. 15. LeValley’s budget message painted a picture of healthy reserves (savings accounts), dramatically increased Read on…
JOANN KALENAK, DCCR, Oct. 7, 2020 — Two months later than last year’s report, contract auditor Pete Blair presented Delta County Commissioners and the public his 2019 audit of county finances. Blair summed up his 93-page examination in just a Read on…
