Garfield County adopts proposed 2022 budget

Garfield County has adopted its 2022 proposed budget, which features a balanced $94.6 million operating budget and $6.5 million in capital projects. The budget includes $7 million for discretionary grants. The county’s projected year-end fund balance is $81.9 million, a decrease from a projected $88.3 million at the end of 2021. The 2022 adopted proposed budget includes a balanced operating budget with revenues in excess of expenditures by $2.3 million and with a drawdown from capital and discretionary expenses of $8.7 million. “The estimated operating revenues exceed the proposed operating expenditures by $2.3 million,” said Lea Ann Zinnikas, interim Garfield