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1 | Page Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners 2019 Preliminary Budget – Staff Report Public Hearing Date: December 3rd, 2018 Action Requested: To hold a public hearing to set the property tax levies, adopt the 2019 County Budget and to certify the tax levy. Background: On June 19, 2018, the Board of County Commissioners adopted resolution 2018-096 setting the dates for the 2019 Budget hearings. As per RCW 36.40.071 the county chooses the alternate date for the budget hearing to be the first Monday in December and may continue the hearing from day to day until concluded but not to exceed a total of five days. Because the County General fund is submitted to the Board at the department level and other funds budgets are submitted balanced. The Board of County Commissioners meets with the General Fund departments and reviews their budget requests. After the initial General Fund preliminary budget was compiled it was $3,397,598 out of balance General Fund 2019 Preliminary Budget Revenues $37,890,269 Expenditures 41,587,867 Total out of balance (preliminary) 3,697,598 The Board met with all departments to discuss budget totals on both the revenue and expenditure side of the budget. During these meetings the Departments informed the Board of their budget adjustments, resulting in reductions and increases. After all the adjustments have been made, the total General Fund budget is $40,068,102. Taxes: The General Fund budget includes a tax levy of 1% increase in the amount of $88,702.49. The County Road budget includes a tax levy increase of 1% plus banked capacity for a total of 21% in the amount of $919,423.72. The Flood Control budget includes a tax levy increase of $1% plus banked capacity for a total of 12% in the amount of $54,214.17. The General fund us utilizing a levy shift from County Road in the amount of $890,097 and the Diversion of County Road taxes for traffic safety and enforcement in the amount of $220,000.