Category: County Budget Series

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…

On Sept. 14, County Administrator, Robbie LeValley, kicked off the 2018 budget development process with a presentation to the county’s department heads and County Commissioners Doug Atchley and Don Suppes. LeValley began the presentation with a look at the county’s Read on…

Delta County Commissioners, administration and staff department heads have begun developing the 2018 county budget. Citizen Report will cover the budget process in a series of stories designed to help the community understand what’s involved in developing a county budget Read on…