Dewey County budget for 2023 to be finalized at Sept. 6 meeting

If the preliminary 2023 budget for Dewey County stays as proposed by the auditor and county commissioners on August 11, it will total $3,990,679. Of that amount, $998,520 would come from federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. The 2022 budget adopted a year ago totaled $3,332,631. The largest department budgets for 2023 are $2,402,249 (including $495,499 from ARPA) fo...