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Budget and financial management

Annual budgets

The capital and operating budgets reflect the division of resources. This provides the foundation and services needed to carry out County responsibilities. These budgets are approved by the County Board and outlined in the budget documents.

2027 proposed budget

Budget hearing schedule

All budget hearings start at 12 p.m. CST. You may view the budget meetings at the time of the meeting on YouTube or Granicus.

Executive summaries for each line of business will be posted by the day of the budget hearing.

Thursday, October 1: Disparity Elimination

Wednesday, October 7: Public Works and Law, Safety, Justice

Thursday, October 8: County Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Office

Monday, October 19: Resident Servies and Operations

Wednesday, October 21: Capital budget and Fees

Monday, October 26: Human Services and Health

Monday, November 9: Administrator Amendments

Wednesday, November 18: Commissioner Amendments

To provide comment

Members of the public will be able to call in to record a comment that will be played for the board at the following budget hearing. The line will be open for four hours starting at the end of each budget hearing. Comments should be related to this specific budget hearing. If there is not enough time to play all comments, recordings will be sent to commissioners.

To record a comment for the meeting

  • Call 612-688-3545
  • Leave a voicemail message with your comments

For comments to be included, recorded messages will need to meet the following standards just as they would in person:

  • Participants will need state their first and last name for the record
  • Participants will need to adhere to the rules of decorum as outlined in our rules of public participation
  • Comments must be kept to a 2-minute limit. Comments that are made beyond the 2- minute limit will not be heard

To make a comment in person

In person comments can be made at the public budget meeting:

Tuesday, December 1 at 6 p.m.
Hennepin County Government Center, 24th Floor
300 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN

More information: Truth in taxation meetings

Budget process

February

Preparation of the annual budget begins with the distribution of the capital budget and the five-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) instructions to departments.

April

The Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) distributes the operating budget instructions. These instructions provide parameters and guidelines from county administration to departments in the preparation of their operating and capital budget submissions.

September

The county administrator presents the proposed budget to the county board. County board votes to approve a maximum levy.

November

Property owners will receive a notice showing the impact of the county’s maximum levies on their properties, as well as the impact of taxes proposed by other local units of government, such as cities and school districts.

December 

Proposed levies will be discussed at the Truth in Taxation public meeting on Tuesday, December 2.

The property tax levies that commissioners ultimately approve in December may be lower than the approved maximums but cannot exceed the maximum levies adopted at the September meeting.

Related pages

Contact

Office of Budget and Finance

M-F, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.