BRIGHTON — The Adams County Commissioners on Wednesday adopted a $445.6 million budget from 2012, up 1 decrease from the year before.
The decrease is due to cutting back on operating expenses combined with the elimination of 42 full-time, vacant positions for the 2012 budget year.
The budget includes a net spend down of fund balance of nearly $8 million, which includes the general fund, social services fund, golf course fund, waste management fund and minor spend own in some of the county’s smaller fund, said officials.
“Adams County has the resources to sustain these planned expenditures,” said Chairman W.R. “Skip” Fischer. “We adopted a prudent budget in fiscally constrained times to make the best possible use of finite resources to serve our citizens.”
Even though there was a reduction of 42 positions, two new part-time positions were added for maintenance of the new Government Center to be paid for with the county’s sales tax.
The District Attorney’s office also added two new positions, and county administration is adding a deputy county administrator and a grant writer.
Two other positions were added to staff a soon-to-be created Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee to help reduce jail population and make the judicial process more efficient and less costly to taxpayers, officials said.
