How would you budget?

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Use this budget tool to show how you would prioritize revenue and services. If you have additional input, we’d love to hear from you:

To simplify things, let’s assume you had $1 million to spend on these five areas and each of them cost $400,000 to fully fund. You can’t fund all of them without new revenue, so how would you prioritize funding? Or would you choose to add new revenue?

2025-2026 Budget
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Public Safety

Ensuring public safety across the County, preventing crimes, enforcing laws, and making criminal justice improvements.

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Natural Disaster Preparedness

Protecting 2,640 square miles from wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters.

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Roads & Bridges

Repairing and improving aging bridges and roads residents use every day.

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Clean Water

Investing in long term contamination prevention to drinking water sources, such as the Big Thompson watershed serving the vast majority of County residents including Ft. Collins and Loveland.

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Services for Children & Families

Delivering services to children, families and older adults facing a health, housing, or financial crisis across rural, urban and suburban communities.

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Add New Revenue

Services cost money - would you prefer to seek new revenue through a sales or property tax to fund some of these services?

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