Category: Budget
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HRFC Committee Chair Robinson Discusses Failure to Consider HHS Budget Amendment Proposal
HRFC Committee Chair Robinson states that the HRFC committee considered the HHS resolution and raises the issue of CIP rollover policy as a justification to not support the proposed $1,500,000 reduction in the proposed 2024 tax increase. In my opinion, the CIP rollover policy is vague and ambiguous, leading to valid questions regarding whether or…
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Policy Review: CIP Rollover Policy
Conclusion: It is probably an appropriate time for the County Board to review and update the CIP rollover policy, but – in my opinion – there is little in previous or recent CIP rollover practice or policy to preclude the use of current sales tax revenue or unrestricted Social Improvement Fund Balance from being used…
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Supervisor Baker’s Amendment to Reduce Proposed Tax Increase by $1,500,000, updated with Staff suggested revisions
Thank you to Finance Director Palmer for proof reading my original draft and providing very helpful grammatical and technical corrections. 11/7/23 One additional revision from Finance Director Palmer. One word changed in the 2nd to last sentence (in the Fiscal Impact Statement). 11/6/23
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Supervisor Baker’s Amendment to Fully Fund the Library and Save Marathon County Taxpayers $165,000.
As I publicly stated at the October 5th, 2023 EEED committee meeting prior to all of the recent press and comments on social media regarding the Library, it has been my intention to provide a Budget Amendment Resolution that increases the 2024 MCPL tax levy relative to the 2023 MCPL tax levy. My proposed amendment…
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Library Budget and Tax Levy Review: Marathon County Public Library
This Budget and Library Tax Levy Review is based on publicly available data as well as individual communications with Marathon County staff. Links are provided for the individual communications. The analysis contained in this post contains estimates and data interpretations that are accurate to the best of my abilities. If any Marathon County staff, Marathon…
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Supervisor Baker’s Amendment to Reduce Proposed Tax Increase by $1,500,000.
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Supervisor Baker’s Debt Repayment and Debt Levy Policy Proposal
One of the objections to my plan to reduce the proposed 2024 tax levy increase by $1,500,000 has been the assertion that we need to consider an overall long term debt repayment and debt levy policy before we approve any reduction in the debt levy. Of course, one of the reasons for raising this issue…
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SIF Fund Balance – Projection, Misinformation, and Obfuscation
Projection, Misinformation, and Obfuscation My proposals regarding the large recent increase that I discovered in the County’s SIF fund balance have been focused on reducing the Social Service Department’s 2024 budgeted revenues and property tax levy to bring them in balance with historical Social Service Department expenditures. As explained in presentations at both HHS and…
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Supervisor Baker Plans to Propose 2 Amendments to the 2024 Budget
I am planning to propose 2 budget amendments to the 2024 Marathon County Budget to reduce the proposed tax increase by $1,665,000 with no expected impact on services provided or budgeted expenditures. These 2 amendments would cut the 2024 total levy increase from an approximate 5.7% increase to an approximate 2.7% increase. The proposed amendments…
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HRFC committee refuses to consider HHS resolution to reduce proposed tax increase
The HRFC (Human Resources Finance and Property) Committee refused to consider the HHS resolution to cut the proposed property tax increase by $1,500,000. The resolution was passed unanimously by the HHS committee and was sent to HRFC using the new budget process developed by the HRFC committee and approved by the full Board. The HRFC…