By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County Administrator Randy Partington told the Board of County Commissioners that they've handled their dollars well this year so far.
"Right now, we are in good shape," Partington said. "The 2022 requests, we have a lot of increases, so, when that comes to you guys in a couple of months, that may be a different story."
The county has not had a revenue problem this year like they thought they might have due to the pandemic.
"Property tax has stayed neutral," Partington said. "Our sales tax actually went up. We had better sales tax collections than we had in previous years. We were estimating as much as a million dollars total loss somewhere. The cash balance in 2020 was helped by budget cuts, increased sales tax collections and then CARES Act money."
A lot of the COVID related expenses for the county were reimbursed from the federal level which helped with that ending balance.