July 25, 2022 |
The Carbon County Commissioners approved $33 million in spending in the budget passed Tuesday. The budget passed with no discussion among commissioners or comments from the public.
The $33 million in spending to run government operations are about $900,000 less than last year’s budget of $3.9 million.
With cash on hand now and revenues expected to total $26.6 million, the difference of $6.3 million between income and expenditures will be raised in property taxes.
County Clerk Gwynn Bartlett told commissioners that the assessed value was calculated to be $530 million, and the 12 mill levy applied to that number. The clerk summarized the budget.
Pictured above: The Board of Carbon County Commissioners at their new desk in their new room on the second floor of the Carbon Building. Photo by Cali O’Hare/Bigfoot 99.
The big ticket items include $6.8 million of county money to match state and federal. The spending covers a range of purchases from a drone in Encampment to road and airport improvements and the Mullen Fire mitigation efforts.
The budget for the sheriff’s department is $2.25 million. Operating the county jail is an additional $2 million line item in the budget, half of which is $1.1 million in payroll for jailors and $86,000 in overtime.
The county attorney’s office and the IT department are budgeted at more than $1 million each.
Road and bridge is listed with a $1.6 million budget.
Public health has $289,000 budget. Mental health has an $89,000 budget.
The admin department, which includes a range of payments from health insurance, FICA and Medicare for county employees to rental fees at the Jeffery Center and fairgrounds totals $5.3 million in expenses.
The County Fire Department is $525,000.
The expenses all add up to the $33 million budget that passed unanimously last week.
The budget is posted to the Carbon County website under the clerk’s office.
