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General Fund department appropriation

FY2026

Adopted

$2,392,302

FY2026, p.57

How has it changed?

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Earlier yearLater year

The spending or funding plan approved by County Council for each fiscal year.

FY2025 adopted budget

$2,149,574

FY2024–25 budget book, p.57

FY2026 adopted budget

$2,392,302

FY2026 budget book, p.57

The FY2026 adopted amount was higher by $242,728.

+11.3%

A step change with no stated reason This line was appropriated $552,701 in FY2019 and $959,331 in FY2020, and continued upward afterwards. No other General Fund line falls to match it, so this is not money moved from another department. This site transcribes the county's appropriation tables and not its narrative sections, so a reason may be stated somewhere we have not extracted. The amounts are confirmed against the printed page; the reason is not.

Annual figures: FY2022–FY2026

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FY2024: Departments were regrouped again in FY2024. The county reorganised its operating categories a second time in FY2024, largely reversing the FY2013 change. Public Works, absent since FY2013, reappears and takes back four departments from Community Development and Planning, whose total falls from $24,797,319 to $5,496,367 without any department being cut. Three of the four were also renamed as they moved. Figures either side of FY2024 describe different groupings of work and should not be read as one continuous trend.

Annual figures and sources in this chart

Annual adopted dollars figures from FY2022 through FY2026
Year	Amount	Source
FY2022	$1,422,597	FY2022-23, p.59
FY2023	$1,422,597	FY2022-23, p.59
FY2024	$1,986,744	FY2024-25, p.57
FY2025	$2,149,574	FY2024-25, p.57
FY2026	$2,392,302	FY2026, p.57

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Covered

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History

Every year this line appears, with the document each figure was read from. Years with nothing published say so; they are never turned into zero. A numeric zero is shown as $0. When the county printed a dash, † marks the site’s arithmetic-zero representation.

FY2026
Adopted$2,392,302
FY2026, p.57
FY2025
Adopted$2,149,574
FY2024-25, p.57
FY2024
Adopted$1,986,744
FY2024-25, p.57
Departments were regrouped again in FY2024 The county reorganised its operating categories a second time in FY2024, largely reversing the FY2013 change. Public Works, absent since FY2013, reappears and takes back four departments from Community Development and Planning, whose total falls from $24,797,319 to $5,496,367 without any department being cut. Three of the four were also renamed as they moved. Figures either side of FY2024 describe different groupings of work and should not be read as one continuous trend. Why this is recorded
FY2023
Adopted$1,422,597
FY2022-23, p.59
FY2022
Adopted$1,422,597
FY2022-23, p.59
FY2021
Adopted$1,239,331
FY2020-21, p.61
FY2020
Adopted$959,331¹
FY2020-21, p.61
Several departments were renamed in FY2020 The FY2020-21 budget book relabelled a number of lines without changing what they cover. The operating-transfers category became Other Financing Uses and its members were renamed with it; County Administrator became Council Administrator; Geographic Information System gained an S. Planning and Code Compliance was split into Planning and Code Enforcement, whose two FY2020 totals add to $4,907,755 — our sum, not a figure the county printed — against the published $4,690,825 for the single FY2019 line. Where this site can show which later line continues an earlier one, the entity page links the two. Why this is recorded
FY2019
Adopted$552,701
FY2018-19, p.59
FY2018
Adopted$581,636
FY2018-19, p.59
FY2017
Adopted$732,825
FY2016-17, p.59
FY2016
Adopted$747,825
FY2016-17, p.59
FY2015
Adopted$613,825
FY2014-15, p.59
FY2014
Adopted$613,825
FY2014-15, p.59
FY2013
Adopted$513,922
FY2012-13, p.55
Departments were reorganised Around 2013 the county reorganised its departments. Human resources and public works stop appearing under those names, and emergency medical services and community development and planning appear. Figures either side of this point describe different groupings of work and should not be read as one continuous trend. Why this is recorded
FY2012
Adopted$513,922
FY2012-13, p.55
FY2011
Adopted$433,922
FY2010-11, p.63
FY2010
Adopted$433,922
FY2010-11, p.63

Public Defender: every published year, its status, amount and source
Year	Status	Amount	Source
FY2026	Adopted	$2,392,302	FY2026, p.57
FY2025	Adopted	$2,149,574	FY2024-25, p.57
FY2024	Adopted	$1,986,744	FY2024-25, p.57
Departments were regrouped again in FY2024 The county reorganised its operating categories a second time in FY2024, largely reversing the FY2013 change. Public Works, absent since FY2013, reappears and takes back four departments from Community Development and Planning, whose total falls from $24,797,319 to $5,496,367 without any department being cut. Three of the four were also renamed as they moved. Figures either side of FY2024 describe different groupings of work and should not be read as one continuous trend. Why this is recorded
FY2023	Adopted	$1,422,597	FY2022-23, p.59
FY2022	Adopted	$1,422,597	FY2022-23, p.59
FY2021	Adopted	$1,239,331	FY2020-21, p.61
FY2020	Adopted	$959,331¹	FY2020-21, p.61
Several departments were renamed in FY2020 The FY2020-21 budget book relabelled a number of lines without changing what they cover. The operating-transfers category became Other Financing Uses and its members were renamed with it; County Administrator became Council Administrator; Geographic Information System gained an S. Planning and Code Compliance was split into Planning and Code Enforcement, whose two FY2020 totals add to $4,907,755 — our sum, not a figure the county printed — against the published $4,690,825 for the single FY2019 line. Where this site can show which later line continues an earlier one, the entity page links the two. Why this is recorded
FY2019	Adopted	$552,701	FY2018-19, p.59
FY2018	Adopted	$581,636	FY2018-19, p.59
FY2017	Adopted	$732,825	FY2016-17, p.59
FY2016	Adopted	$747,825	FY2016-17, p.59
FY2015	Adopted	$613,825	FY2014-15, p.59
FY2014	Adopted	$613,825	FY2014-15, p.59
FY2013	Adopted	$513,922	FY2012-13, p.55
Departments were reorganised Around 2013 the county reorganised its departments. Human resources and public works stop appearing under those names, and emergency medical services and community development and planning appear. Figures either side of this point describe different groupings of work and should not be read as one continuous trend. Why this is recorded
FY2012	Adopted	$513,922	FY2012-13, p.55
FY2011	Adopted	$433,922	FY2010-11, p.63
FY2010	Adopted	$433,922	FY2010-11, p.63

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Notes on these figures

1A step change with no stated reason. This line was appropriated $552,701 in FY2019 and $959,331 in FY2020, and continued upward afterwards. No other General Fund line falls to match it, so this is not money moved from another department. This site transcribes the county's appropriation tables and not its narrative sections, so a reason may be stated somewhere we have not extracted. The amounts are confirmed against the printed page; the reason is not.