The Finance Committee is meeting this week to do one thing above everything else: finalize three years of county budgets and send them to the full Board.
🔦 The 3 items worth your attention
The FY2027–2029 budget goes to the full Board this week, assuming the committee signs off. Three fiscal years of county spending, covering every department, forwarded in a single action. If you’ve had opinions about county services and haven’t said them yet, the window is almost closed. (Item 12-a)
That window does stay open a little longer, literally. The committee is also scheduling a formal public hearing on that same budget for September 17 at 6:00 p.m. Residents can show up and speak on the record before the full Board takes its final action. Put it in the calendar now. (Item 12-c)
Item 12-b bundles everything else into the final document before it leaves: resolutions that came in separately, HR-driven classification changes, any last Finance Committee tweaks. Three sections, one vote, all of it folded into the budget that goes upstairs. If something shifted between the draft and the final version, this is where it lands.
🏗️ Roads & property
Nothing in this agenda. No infrastructure, zoning, or property items on the docket this week.
💰 Where the money’s going
- State grant for the county’s constitutionally required public defender services, FY2027. No dollar figure in the packet, but loss of this funding would mean the county covers the gap on its own. (Item 8-a)
- Amendment #2 to the FY2026 Medicaid CHIP Lead Hazard Control grant from the state. Modifies an existing residential lead-abatement program. Amount not specified in the agenda. (Item 10-a)
📌 Also notable
- New position: Risk Management wants to add one full-time Environmental Health and Water Safety Administrator. Ongoing personnel costs, no figure in the packet yet. (Item 8-b)
- FY2026 Q3 financial forecast plus a proposed budget amendment lands the same night as the multi-year budget vote. The Q3 numbers show how actual revenues and spending are tracking, and any amendment shifts money between departments. (Item 8-c)
- FY2027 pay for non-union employees is on the table, setting compensation levels for staff not covered by a collective bargaining agreement. (Item 11-a)
- Employee reclassifications tied to the FY2027 budget recommendation, which can change pay grades and org structure. (Item 11-b)
- ARPA annual report gives the public a full accounting of how the county spent federal pandemic relief money through 2026. Informational only. (Item 7-b)
- Pontiac Redevelopment Project briefing from the county’s CFO. Fiscal implications for the county are possible depending on where the project stands. (Item 7-c)
- Highland Downtown TIF report for 2025, showing how tax increment revenues in Highland’s downtown district were captured and spent. Affects the tax base available to other local taxing bodies. (Item 7-d)
- CLEMIS grant exception memo, informing the committee of a procedural exception tied to a federal Byrne Discretionary grant application for the county’s law enforcement information system. (Item 7-a)
- Closed session on McFarland v. Oakland County, et al. Legal strategy only, no public details. (Item 13-a)
The Finance Committee meets September 2, 2026. Check the county’s website for the exact time, dial-in or in-person options, and public comment procedures. The Oakland Docket is an independent summary and is not affiliated with Oakland County government. Spot an error? Reply and we’ll correct it.
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