This week, the Campbell County Fiscal Court conducted the first reading of its proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
About 17% of the operating budget remains for this fiscal year, said County Treasurer Laura Lewis during a presentation to the fiscal court on Wednesday.
There were a handful of key takeaways from Lewis’ presentation and existing information from the county:
- Collected county revenues consistently exceed expenditures, even when projections show expenditures exceeding revenues
- The county plans to seek the hire of two new animal control employees, plus two new road maintenance specialists
- There is about $40 million in potential bonding for projects still under consideration, a figure that’s included in the final expenditure total for the proposed budget but isn’t guaranteed to be spent
- Property and payroll taxes make up about 52% of the budget’s revenue
You can view a complete breakdown of projected and historical revenues and expenses from local and federal sources by reading the county’s budget book or consulting the county’s online budget portal, which are linked below.
The state must approve the proposed budget before the county can perform a second reading on it. As such, an exact date for a second reading is currently unknown, but the county must approve the budget by June 30. Budgets can be amended yearly by the fiscal court’s majority vote.