NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County Administrator Randy Partington explained to Hutch Post Wednesday the purpose of the full day of presentations to the Board of County Commissioners.
"Today is a chance for some of the partner agencies or some of the bigger departments, departments that have changes in their budgets to present their case to the county commission," Partington said. "Explain what's in their budget and answer any questions the commissioners have on changes to the budget, or discuss, if cuts could be made, what would the impact be?"
One big area of the budget is long-term projects, also known as CIP.
"Capital Improvement Plan, or Capital Improvement Projects, different people call it different things," Partington said. "Those are items, usually over $20,000, have a life of over five years. The capital projects are building maintenance items, vehicles, large purchases that are not ongoing, bought every year."
The actual draft from Partington based on feedback from the meeting Wednesday may be about a month away.
"That will probably be toward the end of June, early July, based on the timeline the state gives us to notify the county clerk whether or not we're going to hold to revenue neutral, or we're going to exceed that," Partington said. "That work will take place, as soon as we're done with the meeting today, we'll start running numbers and then wait until the assessed valuation comes in, in early June."
According to the controlling statute, on or before July 20, the governing body shall notify the county clerk of its proposed intent to exceed the revenue neutral rate and provide the date, time and location of the public hearing and its proposed tax rate.
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