Shhhh… Your commissioners don’t want you to hear this!

Over the past month, using public records, I have attempted to answer the question I asked our Board of County Commissioners at the June 18. 2026 meeting that has gone unanswered: We operated our county on between $3 and $4 million in property tax revenue from 2005 to 2021. Then in 2022, it went up to over $5 million, and by 2024 was over $8 million. Our budgets likewise went up, rising from just under $25 million in 2018 to over $48 million in 2025. I have since then found out according to our