Keeping tab: Commissioners get six-month report

Whitman County Administrative Director Gary Petrovich presented a six-month budget report Monday to county commissioners, noting an overall positive assessment with an area of concern over the pace of grant money coming in from state agencies.

Total expenditures from January to June were $7,705,000 with total revenues at $7,868,000 for a net of $162,790.

“Which is an increase in our cash position,” said Petrovich.

Property tax is now 61 percent collected for the year. Sales tax collected is $1.5 million, or 48 percent. Petrovich pointed out that more will come in the second half of the year.

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