Cobb Staff Wants 290 More Employees, $93 Million Boost in 2026 Budget

Cobb Staff Wants 290 More Employees, $93 Million Boost in 2026 Budget

MARIETTA — Though the Cobb County Board of Commissioners won’t vote on a proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year for a few months, members got a preview of staff’s proposal to raise spending by more than $90 million.

Proposed Cobb FY 2026 budget would increase by nearly $100M

Cobb government finance officials on Tuesday presented an overview of the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget that would increase spending by nearly $100 million. During a Cobb Board of Commissioners work session, Chief Financial Officer William Volckmann said the formal budget budge tproposal would come to a little more than $1.35 billion, based on requests from department heads. That’s up $92.7 million from the adopted FY 2025 budget of $1.27 bil…