How the County spending review has developed

This log records the development of the story. Earlier entries describe the status at that time; they do not mean the current live story is unpublished.

• September 26, 2026 — reader-flow revision: added topic-specific titles, introductions and transitions; made the next reading step prominent; retained the eight-section structure and source links. Applied to the published pages September 26, 2026. The Seven Rivers introduction adds the council association’s program description. Recent office-location leads are not presented as established County support.

• September 26, 2026: added readable source pages and a spreadsheet companion; replaced the two Seven Rivers PDF-page references with reading pages containing checked account transcriptions and upright source images. Original PDFs retained. No change to the underlying evidence findings.

• September 26, 2026: reviewed the supplied September 17 Priority Questions & Evidence Brief. Added account-specific questions to the spending page and strengthened DAAC funding-request and unspent-fund questions. Historical source-status and chronology wording in the brief were not carried forward as current findings.

• September 26, 2026: incorporated questions from the September 17 initial and revised hearing-comment drafts. A separately labeled final handout has not yet been identified. Updated obsolete allocation uncertainties against the received worksheets.

• September 26, 2026: emphasized residents’ questions about benefit, full cost, independent revenue and oversight; clarified the roughly nine-cents finding where used. Kept public-review gaps and reimbursement evidence visible. No new underlying evidence or misconduct finding.

• September 25, 2026, editorial revision: made the proposal the lead story, moved detailed Seven Rivers analysis into its own article, and reduced the notice issue to a civics companion. The published hearing date is settled; future meeting outcomes are not presumed.

• September 25, 2026, regional support: added Pierce and Charlton budget entries and Wayne's indexed proposal, with mixed-year, payment-verification and regional-coverage limits. Added a hearing question about Appling's payroll agreement and allocation of regional costs.

• September 25, 2026: separated the spending analysis into Story 1 of a three-story hearing series. Preserved the 8.18% calculation, qualified 9.06% finding, YTD comparisons and Seven Rivers reimbursement counterevidence. Earlier combined drafts remain preserved. No publication performed.