Small-town budgets in Clark County prove resilient
Revenue losses due to pandemic not as dire as projections suggested By Jack Heffernan, Columbian county government and small cities reporter
Published: January 24, 2021, 6:07am
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Smaller municipalities in Clark County, for the most part, have avoided the most dire predictions of revenue loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For 2021, councils adopted budgets that are both higher and lower than last year. But the changes were not dramatic.
The largest decrease came from Camas, which adopted the county’s second-largest budget at $98.6 million. The spending plan is $14.2 million less than last year, but it’s largely due to the completion of a $17 million purchase of land north of Lacamas Lake as part of the city’s Legacy Lands program.