Lebanon County faces $5 million funding shortfall for one agency’s costs

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Lebanon County will need to fund nearly $5 million in increased costs for Children & Youth Services entering the 2026 fiscal year.

The county funded the agency at $2.86 million in 2025 and over $4.89 million is needed for 2026, an increase of 41 percent of the county’s share of the agency’s budget. The needed funding is through Juvenile Probation’s budget for services, placements and detention that are within the budget of CYS per state law.

This figure was announced at a county commissioner workshop on Wednesday, Sept. 17, and again at the Sept. 18 regularly scheduled meeting, which is when commissioners unanimously approved the agency’s fiscal year 2025-26 implementation budget, its fiscal yea