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I’m Sharon Bock, your Clerk & Comptroller for Palm Beach County.
As your elected Chief Financial Officer and Fiscal Watchdog, my highest priority is protecting
your tax dollars.
In this economic environment those tax dollars must be stretched further than ever. So it’s
important for you to know, that I am diligent in my efforts to increase efficiency and reduce
costs within my own organization.
With your bottom line at the top of our minds, we have reduced our County funded budget by
34 percent, saving Palm Beach County taxpayers almost $6 million dollars over the past five
years.
We eliminated employee payouts for sick and vacation time, saving about $600,000 per year.
We have been able to keep health insurance premiums flat through a comprehensive wellness
program.
And we have used technology to increase efficiencies – adding more services to our website and
going paperless in several areas. Our use of technology is one of our biggest factors
in our ability to reduce costs.
The hard-working professionals in my office will remain committed to increasing your confidence
in local government by decreasing your costs. We want you to feel that when your tax dollars
are used to fund our office, you are getting the greatest value for that dollar.
For more information about Clerk and county finances, please visit the Public Funds section
of our website.
Thank you.