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Sheridan County Passes $25 Million Budget for FY 2024-25
During their last regular meeting the Sheridan County Commission discussed their budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2024-25.
According to Resolution No. 24-07-015, the county’s annual appropriation shows projected revenues of roughly $22.5 million; and expenditures of just over $25.2 million.
To balance their budget, the commission will use cash reserves of $2.7 million to make up the difference.
Commissioner Holly Jennings said she likes some items in the budget, but was concerned with dipping into reserve funds.
The commission voted to approve and accept the budget for FY 2024-25 on a split vote, with Commissioner Jennings voting against.
Dennis Fox
July 22, 2024 at 5:09 pm
Spending more than you take in, is a recipe for ruin. Our local gov’t (like the feds) spends too much of our money and taxes us too much. Something has to change!
Ray Olson
July 23, 2024 at 11:28 am
Gee- where did those reserve monies come from? What really needs to happen is the contrarians like you and the Jennings clan need to get out of the way of real politicians who are interested in actually governing, as opposed to grandstanding. No should not be the only word in a public servants vocabulary.
Dennis Fox
July 23, 2024 at 2:51 pm
Balancing a budget is a primary job of those elected to serve us. This was a red ink “credit card” splurge, NOT A BALANCED BUDGET.
And the “Reserves” came from bloated gov’t coffers, that are the result of decades of over-taxing citizens.
It’s got to stop!
Lower taxes Force gov’t to live within it’s means!
Lower taxes are always better.
Ray Olson
July 23, 2024 at 6:37 pm
Oh, like the $11 trillion hole that Trump blew in the economy (over a 10 year period- far and away the record for any president) and all the middle class got to show for it was a doubling of the number of billionaires – wait that didn’t help the middle class. Perhaps, you might want to do something that no Republican has done since Eisenhower, read an economics text that wasn’t written by Laffer.
Dennis Fox
July 24, 2024 at 3:17 pm
If we allow our local gov’t to follow Keynesian ill-logic, we’ll end up crashing into a giant economic hole in the ground….just like our fed-gov.
Trump cut marginal tax rates and the gov’t got an Increase in total tax revenues into the fedgov. Just like Kennedy, Reagan and Bush. Lowering tax rates allows people to keep more of their own money, which they then spend and it Always grows they economy. Economic historical facts and success, are hard to argue with.
Lower taxes benefit tax-payers AND the gov’t, thru a growing economy.
Dennis Fox
July 25, 2024 at 2:50 pm
Some good economic books: Adam Smith, “Wealth of Nations”, Anything by: Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Bastiat. Even the “get out of debt guy” Dave Ramsey, has the right idea. Debt is dangerous and dumb.
Governments have an obligation to be fiscally responsible with OUR Money!
Enjoy.
Dennis Fox
August 3, 2024 at 5:39 pm
Planning to spend way more than you take in, is flat-out irresponsible. And four-out-of-five commissioners are to blame for this travesty.
The “Failed Four” should be removed for malfeasance and gross dereliction of duty.
Of course with the Ringer quitting, it’s now down to just three and with Chris’s trial for DUI and hit and run, coming up, we may only need to get rid of two failed commissioners.
And we can always vote Mr. Wrong out of office on the 20th, too.
That would leave only one, lone, failed commissioner to oust!
Guess we are making pretty good progress in redressing our grievances.