Catawba County's Fiscal Year 2000-2001 budget is 414 pages long, as thick as large city phone books.
Every page is important, but the many spreadsheets and tables can be difficult to grasp.
Several years ago, the Catawba County Board of Commissioners realized a smaller, summary version of the budget might be appreciated by some citizens. A budget summary has been printed and made available to the public for the past two years. For 2000, the County's Budget staff re-designed the summary to create an attractive, single page brochure which folds out to reveal significant information about the overall budget. We did a little research and found a number of cities and counties have created summaries like this. I am very pleased and grateful that the Budget Staff, particularly Budget Specialist Katrina Mathews, agreed to re-design the booklet we've published in years past.