It’s that time of year, the election season is in full swing and local governments and agencies are deep in preparing budgets for the upcoming year.
This week, I’ve written about revenue forecasts for Kitsap County and the city of Port Orchard. On Monday, we’ll publish a story about South Kitsap Fire & Rescue’s budget and an upcoming vote of its firefighters’ union.
Below, I’ll share links to documents I collected from public officials in the course of my research, with the following disclaimer: these are (with the exception of Port Orchard’s annexation revenue worksheet) preliminary budgets subject to change. We’ll continue to report on these and other local jurisdictions as the budget process unfolds.
Let me know what jumps out at you. I can’t promise we’ll address every observation or concern. But as I always say, many heads are better than one. … Enjoy!
Kitsap County:
2012 Preliminary Budget
2011 Third Quarter Revenues
City of Port Orchard
Annexation revenue worksheet
2012 Preliminary Budget
2012 Budget Worksheet
South Kitsap Fire & Rescue
2011 Citizens budget committee report
2012 Property Tax Revenues
2012 Levy resolution
2012 Budget worksheet
Note that the Kitsap County preliminary budget document lists submissions by department, not recommendations/directives from the commissioners, which have since been issued. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused.
Chris Henry, reporter