Fiscal Stability

Board Objective

Maintain the County’s financial stability and core services.

The Challenge

Maintaining the County’s financial stability is essential to the efficient and effective delivery of core services to the community now and into the future. A core service is defined as that which is essential to the public’s health and safety. Areas funded by the County in this category include:

  • Roads
  • Jail
  • Law enforcement
  • Required maintenance of effort to leverage state or other sources of revenue for basic public/mental health services and other social services

County Initiatives

  • Actively monitor the health of the County General Fund
  • Engage in long-term planning for ongoing infrastructure needs, such as:
    • County facilities
    • Information Technology infrastructure
    • Roads and bridges
  • Manage core service levels through evaluation of staffing levels and identifying opportunities for reorganization and/or streamlining
  • Ensure the full collection of tax-based revenues

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Progress Report

View our most recent quarterly report to see our progress on this Board objective.