A new week has brought on a new project. First, I would like to make a quick comment based on one of my post's last week. Liz Archuleta has left Arizona and has begun interviewing in different states using the packet of information that I put together last week for her. I wish her the best and I will keep everyone posted on how the election turns out for the position of NACo 2nd Vice President. On another note, a new week in the office has brought on a new project that will be done over the course of the next couple weeks as more information is presented to the department and myself.
Basically, I am putting a folder together that contains all the budgets for all 15 counties. We are in that stage where most counties are beginning to put their tentative budgets together, therefore, I am trying to get all the tentative budgets together and briefly scan over them to make sure everything makes sense. As time goes on, each county will begin to send over their adopted budgets for the new fiscal year.
We have meetings coming up in Navajo County, where we will sit in and listed to several different counties discuss their budget and need for more funding. As we all know, the financial situation differs tremendously from county to county. There will be attorneys, a few members from the house and senate, the policy analyst from CSA, and a few others sitting in on the meetings. I will briefly discuss what happens in these meetings at another time, once they occur.
Compiling a folder of the budgets for 15 different counties sounds like a tremendous amount of work. I imagine all of the budgets are public record, but where would you even go to get them? Also, what kind of things do you have to do in order to compile all of that information. Best of luck to you with this task and your internship.
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