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Budget Department
Renfeng Ma, Director

Sedgwick County 2004 Recommended Budget

On July 16, 2003 the County Manager presented his recommended budget to the Board of County Commissioners. The Manager's recommended budget for 2004 fiscal year is $315 million. Composing the budget is a yearlong process that converts strategic plans and community needs into a one-year spending plan. The recommended budget allocates a variety of public resources to the essential services that assist citizens-in-need, deliver cultural and recreational opportunities, develop and maintain transportation infrastructures, and make our community safe. For the 2004 budget this is accomplished during a period when economic growth is projected to be slow and financial support for programs implemented through collaborations with the State will decline. In 2003 the County has already been through two rounds of cost reduction/revenue enhancement exercises that have reduced approximately $11 million from the 2003 budget. The 2004 recommended budget also contains an additional reduction of approximately $9.9 million below the 2003 budget level. With these financial considerations, the 2004 budget continues to maintain the current mill levy rate of 28.6 mills.

  • To view the 2004 Recommended Budget click here.
  • To view an overview fact sheet of the Recommended Budget click here. Adobe Acrobat Reader Required Adobe Acrobat Reader Required.
  • To comment on the Recommended Budget through our online public hearing click here.

2003 Adopted Budget

The Budget Department is responsible for allocating 
resources for basic and essential services while maintaining 
long-term financial health for Sedgwick County.

Your Guide to the Budget

Sedgwick County's budget document is the major policy tool for our County government.  In the 2003 Adopted Budget, you will find several items of interest:

The Manager's Message:  The County Manager is the chief administrator of Sedgwick County.  His recommended budget is presented to the Board of County Commissioners (our elected policy makers) with a letter addressing the new and different things the County will be doing in the future, as well as how we will be serving the citizens of Sedgwick County today.

The Reader's Guide:  Designed to make the budget document easy to understand, the Reader's Guide explains the budget sections, followed by a series of questions and answers which provide additional explanatory information.

The Financial Plan:  As part of our role in "maintaining the long-term financial health for Sedgwick County," the Budget Department annually updates a five-year forecast of revenues and expenditures which helps ensure that spending in the current budget year will not jeopardize our ability to provide services in the future.

Individual Division Sections:  Budgetary information for each of the eight functional divisions of Sedgwick County's government, plus a grouping of "General Government" functions, is listed in a separate section of each document.  This information includes an organizational chart, strategic plans, objectives and performance measures, expenditures, staffing and relevant revenue and expenditure information.

Capital Improvement Plan (CIP):  The CIP represents the County's plan to improve and maintain facilities, roads, bridges and intersections over the next five years.

Appendices:  These provide information in more detail than the Reader's Guide.  They include a glossary of commonly used financial terms; descriptions of the County's revenue codes; descriptions of the kinds of expenditures recorded in each of the line items which make up the category totals found in departmental budgets; combined listings of all County revenues and spending; and a combined listing of the County's General Fund.