Door County Pulse

County Budget Departmental Summary

By Door County Pulse , Peninsula Pulse – November 13th, 2015

Administrator: 11.02 percent increase for a change in wages and professional memberships.

Airport and Parks: -2.82 percent, from reduction of capital expenditures.

Child Support: 9.75 percent, based on the increase in indirect costs for the department.

Clerk and Circuit Court: 1.91 percent.

Corporation Counsel: 2.30 percent, based on increase for contracted services for counseling.

County Board: 20.94 percent, based on adjusting per diems to projected actuals and including a new sound system for meetings in the Chambers Room.

County Clerk: 26.96 percent, based on 2016 elections.

County Treasurer: 4.24 percent, due mostly to an increase in the sale of tax deed property.

District Attorney: 5.81 percent, based on increased hours for the Administrative Assistant II from 24 to 32 hours.

Emergency Services/Ambulance: 2.78 percent.

Finance: -4.82 percent, based on transition in department staffing with lower initial starting salaries.

Highway: 0 percent.

Human Resources: -3.20 percent, based on adjustment to employee benefits.

Human Services: -8.74 percent. This department had changes due to the transition out of long-term care.

Information Systems: 12.12 percent. A large part of this increase is attributable to the maintenance contract for the Sheriff and EMS Departments’ public service radio system, which were transferred out of the Sheriff’s budget.

Library: -1.40 percent.

Maintenance: 1.92 percent, based on the loss of revenue from leasing the former highway shop.

Medical Examiner: 0.20 percent

Museum: -2.91 percent, based on moving the utilities expenses to the Maintenance Dept. budget.

Planning: -0.26 percent, reduction in employee benefit expenses.

Public Health: 1.49 percent.

Real Property Listing: 0.24 percent.

Register of Deeds: 14.01 percent, based on projected increased document recordings for revenue.

Sanitarian: -1.18 percent.

Senior Resource/ADRC: 8.65 percent, accounted for with a new Adult Protective Service position that was added in 2015. Office Assistant hours will be increased in 2016 from 16 to 20 hours.

Sheriff: 1.69 percent. The budget includes a new fulltime Tele-Communicator position in 2016. That position is partially offset with reductions in part-time and overtime hours.

Soil and Water Conservation: 2.16 percent.

UW-Extension: -1.37 percent.

Veterans’ Services: -1.30 percent.