County Board Deliberates on 2025 Budget

… also tops on agenda for Commissioners are 30-Mile Resort Update, Plans and Financing for County Operations Building

With an eye toward the mandatory completion of next year’s budget next month, Hinsdale Commissioners continued their at-times intense 2025 budget discussion with Budget Workshop No. 6 which was held as part of the county board’s workshop agenda last Wednesday, November 6.
Finance Officer Lynn McNitt advised Commissioners Borchers, Levine, and Hurd that approximately $1.3-million will be required from reserves in order to balance next year’s budget, the county’s general fund balance projected to drop from $4.7-million at the start of the year to $3.2-million by year’s end 2025.
Commissioners and staff briefly touched on a variety of other topics during their morning workshop, starting off on a congratulatory note in light of the prior day’s election results returning Commissioners Hurd and Levine to office for another four years, and then moving on to more weighty topics including update on convoluted funding from a wide variety of funding sources for the planned-for Emergency Operations/ Administration Building, a status report on the county’s 30-Mile Resort on the upper Rio Grande, and — from County Administrator Sandy Hines — plans to engrave the names of four deceased Hinsdale County Veterans on the granite memorial in Veterans Park.
Also finalized is Commissioner Borchers, together with Road & Bridge Supervisor Don Menzies, County Administrator Sandy Hines and Finance Officer Lynn McNitt, attending the annual meeting of Colorado Counties, Inc., in Westminster, Colorado, over three days in early December.