In an era of “big government spending” where annual national budgets run into the trillions and annual deficits into hundreds of billions, there was a most pleasing positive number that popped up when the county's annual report as of Dec. 31, 2006 was critiqued recently by its outside auditor - total bonded debt, $360,000.
With a currently estimated 32,000 citizens, that averages to only $11.25 per capita.
At its highest point during the past 10 years, dating back to when this county's population hadn't yet reached 30,000 in 1997, the bonded debt total of then $2.7 million came to just over $92 per county citizen.
