County “Scenario 2” flat-funds FY26 social services at ~$2.5M

Teton County’s FY26 “Scenario 2” human-services allocation spreadsheet lays out what “flat funding” looks like: keep the same set of 2026-funded entities (no new awardees) and distribute roughly $2.506 million across them. The table also shows where the money is pointed: about 50% to Priority 1 services (behavioral health, childcare, abuse/violence, crisis services/neglect), ~38% to Priority 2 (food security, physical health support, education/training), and smaller shares to Priority 3 and other/discretionary buckets. See the county’s breakdown in the Teton County Scenario 2 FY 2026 Allocation.

From a business-operations standpoint, the flat-funding approach matters less as a “feel-good” number and more as a stability play for the service providers that keep the local workforce showing up: childcare slots (Children’s Learning Center listed at $290,030), crisis/behavioral health capacity (Mental Health & Recovery Services at $620,000; Youth & Family Services at $632,115), and basic needs support (One22 at $216,960; Hole Food Rescue at $25,000). When those systems wobble, restaurants and retailers feel it immediately in absenteeism, schedule gaps, and turnover.

One small but telling line item: the grand total is shown as $2,506,165, a $6,500 difference tied to Civil Air Patrol receiving $6,500 in FY26 but not applying for FY27. That’s the kind of “budget dust” that can either get quietly reallocated or become the start of a bigger discussion about what counts as core services versus nice-to-have add-ons—especially when the county is choosing “no new awardees” under a flat scenario.