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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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To: Department Heads and Elected Officials
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Re: 2022 Budget Call and Preparation Review Areas
This year's deadline for budget submissions is Friday, October 22, 2021 and the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC)
would like to direct your attention at this time to the process and requirements for the 2022 budget call. Over the next few
days, Accounting will e-mail this year's 2022 budget spreadsheets to all Department Heads and Elected Officials. This
year's materials will again be combined in a single Excel workbook for the 2022 budget as follows:
Tab 1 — Expenditures Tab 2 - Revenue
Tab 3 — Salaries Tab 4 - Benefits
Tab 5 — Additional Expense/Capital Outlay Budget Request
Upon completion of their respective budgets, each office/department is to e-mail the final Excel document to Madeline
Prentice(miPrentice &grantcount)wa.qov) and Katie Smith (krsmith(@-grantcountywa.aov) in Accounting.
The BOCC's guidelines for your office/department budget are as follows:
• Salary (step increases and a small COLA are included) as per the salary worksheet. Please review for accuracy and if
changes are needed, please add the change/correction in the comment section and we will take care of it once the
budget is returned. Any change to the COLA will be made during the budget meetings;
• Benefits as calculated per the worksheet;
• All other budget items should remain at or below the 2021 adopted budget. If your office/department received one or
more new, long-term grants during 2021 that were not included in the 2021 budget, please increase your budget to
include the grant amounts to be received in 2022. Capital expense items should only be requested to the extent that
they are absolutely essential to the continuation of County business;
• Do not budget, plan for, or request any new positions not fully funded by a grant
Budgets must be received by Friday, October 22, 2021.
Please e-mail your budget submittals to Madeline Prentice and Katie Smith and ask for a
confirmation of receipt of your materials.
County offices and departments have once again done an excellent job of keeping expenses as low as possible this past
year. We thank you for those efforts and look forward to working with you on the 2022 budget. With the exception of the
increases in salary (including step and COLA increases) and benefits as calculated per the worksheets, we are asking all
departments to submit budgets at last year's level of adoption (flat budget).
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the BOCC's stated guidelines for your 2022 budget preparation,
please contact Madeline Prentice at ext. 2735 or Katie Smith at ext. 2740.