Yesterday, the Burleigh County Commission held its regular meeting and briefly discussed the concerns raised at the January 18th meeting.
In the video above, I’ve compile the discussions of the budget from August 15th, September 7th, 2022, and September 21st of 2022 as well as discussions at the January 18th and February 6th meetings as an attempt to piece together what was going on at the time.
At the August 15th meeting, there was a mention about the reserve fund, and citing of documents. I have requested those documents from the current chairperson Becky Matthews.
At the September 21st meeting there was a discussion of whether to hold off on adding $500,000 to the county’s savings account and pass that along as a 1-mill reduction in the county mill levy rate. The motion to do that was defeated, and in the discussion there seems to have been the presumption that the 2023 reserve fund would increase not decrease.
Burleigh County Auditor Leo Vetter did provide some documents that were…
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