The county's adopted budget, its current-year appropriation, and its audited results — every figure labeled with its fiscal year and its status exactly as the county's own documents state it.
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From the Fiscal Year 2024–2025 Adopted Budget, adopted by the Board of Commissioners on June 18, 2024.
Total adopted budget, all funds
$367,751,637
FY2025 · AdoptedGeneral Fund budget
$100,644,268
FY2025 · AdoptedPopulation
167,472
Calendar year 2024From the demographic table of the FY2025 ACFR (Audited).
Source: Columbia County, Georgia — Budget Book 2025 (Fiscal Year 2024–2025 Adopted Budget, cover-labeled “Adopted Version”); population from the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025.
How the $367,751,637 FY2025 Adopted total divides across the county's fund types. The rows sum exactly to the adopted total.
Source: Columbia County, Georgia — Budget Book 2025 (Fiscal Year 2024–2025 Adopted Budget).
How the $100,644,268 FY2025 Adopted General Fund budget divides by function. The rows sum exactly to the General Fund total.
Source: Columbia County, Georgia — Budget Book 2025 (Fiscal Year 2024–2025 Adopted Budget).
The county's FY2026 and FY2027 budget books are published through ClearGov. The figures below come from the county's own year-to-date budget report, whose columns are labeled “ORIGINAL APPROP,” and are labeled here exactly that way: FY2026 Original Appropriation.
Total, all funds
$418,433,360
FY2026 · Original AppropriationGeneral Fund
$103,897,833
FY2026 · Original AppropriationSource: Columbia County BOC YTD Budget Report, March 2026 (columns labeled “ORIGINAL APPROP”). County budget books via the county budget page.
Audited figures from the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025.
General Fund fund balance
$68,264,079
FY2025 · AuditedOf which unassigned: $61,584,635 (FY2025, Audited).
Total governmental fund balances
$280,252,220
FY2025 · AuditedGovernmental activities long-term liabilities
$143,974,136
FY2025 · AuditedTotal liabilities, primary government
$307,474,207
FY2025 · AuditedSource: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025.
Audited fund balances at the close of FY2025. Two funds closed the year negative — they are shown in full, because without them the rows would not sum to the audited total of $280,252,220.
Source: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025.
The components of the $143,974,136 in governmental activities long-term liabilities reported in the FY2025 ACFR (Audited). The rows sum exactly to that total.
Source: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025.
Where the county's documents differ from each other — or from summaries circulating elsewhere — the difference is stated here rather than smoothed over.
The 2024 Hurricane Helene Fund ended FY2025 at −$67,230,216. Per the ACFR's MD&A, the drop in combined governmental fund balances reflects the timing of Helene expenditures versus federal, state, and insurance reimbursements.
The budget book's government-wide by-function chart sums to $366,645,737 — $1,105,900 short of the adopted total of $367,751,637 — because it omits the Other Financing Uses (transfers) row. This page uses the fund-type and General Fund presentations, which sum exactly.
The ACFR presents General Fund “total revenues” as $100,444,268, $200,000 less than the budget book's $100,644,268, because the ACFR reports the $200,000 transfer-in under Other Financing Sources rather than revenues; total outflows reconcile exactly.
A widely circulated secondary summary describes Columbia County's FY2026 all-funds budget as “roughly $104 million.” That figure is actually the FY2026 General Fund original appropriation ($103,897,833). The all-funds original appropriation is $418,433,360, per the county's own YTD budget report.
Sources: Columbia County, Georgia — Budget Book 2025; Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025; Columbia County BOC YTD Budget Report, March 2026.
Every figure on this page traces to one of these county documents.