Plans to balance next year’s county budget with ‘rainy day’ reserves and projections of multimillion-dollar deficits in the future cited as major concerns
During the board’s regular meeting on July 8, in Venice, Sarasota County Commissioner Tom Knight won full support from his colleagues to direct County Administrator Jonathan Lewis to talk with the county’s constitutional officers about the board’s desire to have them try to trim their budgets for the 2026 fiscal year.
Chair Joe Neunder volunteered to join Lewis for those discussions.
Additionally, at Knight’s request, the commissioners will hold another budget workshop on Aug. 19, following their return from their annual summer break. Knight indicated his hope that, by that time, the constitutional officers will have agreed to pare their budgets…