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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up: March 2017 Budget
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Excerpt from the March edition of County Board Wrap-Up featuring Board Chair Jay Fisette's discussion of the FY2018 budget process.
A
B
You
know
this
is
one
of
the
big
things
you
do
every
year
we
deal
with
development
issues
and
projects,
and
we
deal
with
the
budget
on
an
annual
basis.
Local
governments
are
required
to
balance
the
budget,
unlike
the
federal
government,
and
this
is
a
very
intensive
couple
of
months
for
us,
the
manager
proposes
budget
in
February.
We
had
to
at
that
point
with
very
little
lead
time,
decide
what
to
advertise
as
the
maximum
real
estate
tax
rate.
We
could
consider,
and
we
took
his
recommendation
and
adopted
something
that
was
two
pennies
higher
than
now.
B
We
don't
know
what
will
adopt
in
the
end,
but
we've
been
going
through
very
intensive
budget
work
sessions
with
the
various
departments
we
had
our
public
budget
hearing
heard
from
the
community
last
week
on
the
expense
side,
mostly
people
asking
for
new
services,
or
do
you
know
/
to
the
protection
of
existing
services.
We
had
a
public
hearing
on
the
tax
rate.
B
A
B
B
Yeah,
it's
a
good
question.
I
mean
honestly
any
time,
you're
advertising
an
increase
in
the
rate.
You
know
you
don't
want
to
increase
the
tax
rate.
You
don't
want
to
increase
the
burden
unless
you
can
justify
to
yourself
that
you
looked
as
hard
as
you
can,
and
the
staff
and
the
department
that
looked
as
hard
as
they
can
at
finding
ways
to
reduce
unnecessary
costs
or
cover
deal
with
some
duplication
of
service
or
find
more
efficiencies.
I
mean
that's
part
of
our
job
and
we
work
hard
to
push.
B
So
does
the
citizen
fiscal
affairs
Advisory
Commission,
so
when
we
advertise
the
potential
and
that
potential
increase
was
specifically
for
two
things,
one
penny
the
manager
is
recommending
go
to
metro
because
we
have
a
significant
new
cost.
That
is
new
and
the
second
is
enrollment
in
the
schools.
We
have
a
significant
growth
of
you
know
close
to
a
thousand
kids
I
believe
this
year
is
projected
as
well.
So
with
that
we
we
decided
that
we
also
needed
to
ask
him
once
again
to
go.
B
Give
us
a
set
of
optional
cuts
that
we
would
look
at
very
hard
to
determine
if
there
was
something
that
we
could
do
without,
and
so
he
gave
us
close
to
really
72
of
maybes
11
million
dollars
in
optional
reductions.
He
is
not
recommending
this,
but
he
is
saying
in
response
to
us.
If
I
had
to
these
are
the
things
I
would
reduce,
and
now
it's
up
to
us
to
you
know
consider
whether
any
of
those
are
acceptable
cuts
not.
A
B
B
Well,
it's
a
complicated
issue,
but
the
bottom
line
is
some
people.
What
is
a
reserve?
It's
not
just
a
rainy
day
fund.
What
a
lot
of
people
call
reserves
are
really
earmarked
capital
funds.
You
know
we
have
a
commercial
real
estate,
Assessment
on
commercial
property
by
state
law.
It's
dedicated
to
transportation.
You
collect
that
as
it
grows
before
the
projects
are
paid,
for
it
might
growth.
You
know,
and
there
might
be
money
sitting
in
their
20
million
50
million
100
million
dollars
as
big
projects
are
planned
down
the
road.
B
You
can't
use
that
money
to
balance
this
budget,
it's
earmark
and
restricted
our
stormwater
fund,
our
affordable
housing
fund.
There
are
a
number
of
funds
that
are
segregated
now.
That
said,
there
are
also
funds
that
the
bond
rating
agencies
require
us
to
have.
Should
there
be
an
extraordinary
crisis
so
that
we
qualify
for
the
lowest
interest
rates
available
in
a
planet?
B
If
we
didn't
have
these
reserve
funds,
which
are
rarely
if
ever
touched-
and
you
hope
you
never
touch
them,
if
you
don't
have
them,
you
don't
get
the
interest
rates,
we
get
so
we're
having
a
work
session.
In
fact,
soon
to
better
understand
all
these
funds
and
to
see
if
there's
anywhere
we
can
squeeze
but
good
financial
management,
suggest
you
need
these
funds,
whether
for
your
bond
rating
weather
for
your
capital
projects
and
our
question
to
the
manager
will
be.
Is
there
any
flexibility
in
here?
A
B
Know
this
is
our
linton.
There
is
always
honestly
there's
always
we're
getting
emails.
Dozens
of
them
a
day
from
people
who
have
a
point
of
view
want
to
tell
us
either
about
a
concern
or
support
for
a
particular
project
that
may
be
in
that
managers
proposed
optional
cuts
or
the
additional
money
for
the
schools
or
for
Metro
they
like
it
or
they
don't
like
it,
and
we
we're
hearing
from
everyone
and
we
hear
through
email.
We
hear
through
conversations
we
have
meeting
set
up
with
larger
groups
of
people.