County Budget

Sherburne County welcomes input from residents. Please direct any comments or suggestions on the County Budget Process to Dan Weber, Assistant County Administrator.

Sherburne County is committed to transparency in its budgeting and spending processes. We are providing an interactive tool that allows the public to review County financial data in various graphic formats. Users can search, sort and download the data.

We intend to provide new data each year, giving the public a multi-year snapshot of revenue and expenditure trends.

See that data at the Sherburne County OpenGov website.

2021 Budget

On December 15, 2020, the County Board approved a certified 2021 budget of $103,067,288 that includes a levy of $52,347,126. This represents a 3.4% increase from the 2020 levy. The County Board again set the Regional Rail levy at $0 primarily due to the 2018 adoption of the Local Options Sales Tax.

The 2021 budget allows Sherburne County to continue to focus on our countywide strategic priorities:

  • Promoting Healthy, Safe and Livable Communities
  • Encouraging Economic Vitality
  • Enhance & Expand Partnerships While Creating an Informed Public
  • Continue to be Fiscally Prudent Stewards of the Public Trust
  • Foster Organizational Excellence

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View the most recent budget as well as previous years' documents.

Process Timeline

  • April
    Preliminary Budget Discussion with the Board and Departments receive budget packets
  • June
    Departments plan and prepare their budget proposals and make budget requests
  • July
    Budget proposals due to County Administration
  • August
    County Board workshops to review preliminary departmental budgets including technology and staffing requests with department heads
  • September
    Board of Commissioners review Administration recommendation and adopts preliminary budget
  • October through December
    Receive input and feedback from the public on budget proposal
  • December
    Hold the Truth-in-Taxation public hearing to discuss the budget and pass the final budget and levy for adoption

Process Timeline (JPG)

County budget process timeline that goes through monthly steps