The Branch County Commissioner raised almost everyone’s pay on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in passing a record-high 2026 general fund budget.

With no reliance on fund balance savings, the $19,211,730 general fund budget is balanced, up from the current budget of $17,567,066.

First-year County Administrator Frank Walsh said, "There's a surplus of about $350,000" of revenues over appropriations.

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