âIâm pretty reserved about this budget,â said Lehman, a Democrat who worked as a budget analyst for the state before winning election to county leadership. âIt is not surprising, given COVID-19, that the county was not able to put together a structurally balanced budget for 2021.â Structural balance in a budget is when ongoing expenditures â those occurring every year â are fully funded by revenue sources that occur every year, like taxes. Lehmanâs concern is that $665,000 in one-time revenue is being used to cover expenses and balance the budget in 2021. But he said he suspects that the budget will become structurally balanced as the year goes on because payroll expenses were budgeted at 100 percent of cost, which is typically costs less than the full amount due to turnover which leaves positions temporarily unfilled.