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Staff Report by: <br />Brian Carlson <br />Budget and Finance Director <br />Topic: <br />Preliminary 2024 Budget Requests – <br />Summary Presentation and Discussion <br />Meeting <br />BOCC Regular Meeting <br />Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 <br /> <br />Summary: <br />• Finance Director will provide preliminary figures from compiled countywide budgets <br />• Materials are not completed as of meeting publication deadline; will be distributed at meeting <br />Background: <br />• Deadline is per RCW 36.40.060; “on or before the first Tuesday in September” <br />• This agenda item concludes the first step in the annual budget development; Departments and Offices <br />have compiled their budget expense requests and revenue estimates <br />• This begins the second step of detailed analysis and development of materials for BOCC consideration in <br />October and November, en route to final, formal adoption in December. <br />Analysis: <br />• Prelim figures are a starting point for Finance Director to begin Fund- and Department-level analysis <br />• Finance staff will begin to prepare materials and summary “dashboards” for October BOCC meetings <br />• Preparation will entail discussion with department heads to clarify resource requests and other <br />estimates, and wherever possible to tie requests to service-level objectives and programming <br />Conclusion / Next Steps: <br />• Finance Director will review prelim budgets and begin dialogue with Department Directors and Elected <br />Officials and their designees <br />• Director will provide update at next Finance Study Session, Thursday, September 21st <br />• BOCC budget meetings begin on October 2, and run through mid-November