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The Boulder County Commissioners held public meetings with the Office of Financial Management (OFM) staff from September to November (2020) to consider 2021 budget requests from county departments and offices. The public was invited to participate in the formation of the 2021 Boulder County Budget (read the public announcement for details).
The 2021 Budget was adopted on Dec. 8, 2020 (see public announcement)
(Adopted Dec. 8, 2020)
(Adopted Dec. 10, 2019)
Boulder County government assumes a variety of roles and carries out core responsibilities in order to help foster a vibrant, healthy, and active community.
Our annual budget process allows for the careful allocation of tax dollars to help with important county functions such as maintaining our well-traveled roads, conducting law and public safety services, providing housing counseling and nutrition assistance for our youngest and oldest residents, and working together to create visionary open space and land use policies.
The Treasurer’s Office collects taxes for all taxing districts in the county, including Boulder County government, school districts, cities, fire districts, water and sanitation districts, and other special districts, and distributes the monies to those districts.
Boulder County’s collection of property taxes represents roughly 26 percent of a property owner’s total average property tax bill. Other taxing entities that receive property tax revenues include (from 2019 data):
Boulder County’s Sales & Use taxes page.
Interested in learning more about Financial Reporting for Boulder County? Visit our Financial Reporting page.
