During its Sept. 30 meeting the Monroe County Council approved a set of technical budget amendments and housekeeping items intended to reconcile account-line consolidations, correct salary entries and align capital projects with the county's 2025 general-obligation bond.
Key items approved on roll-call votes or unanimous consent included:
- Correction to commissioner salary lines: council approved increases to three commissioners' budgeted salary lines and the related FICA and PERF lines to reflect the 2026 salary grid. Vote recorded unanimous.
- Consolidation and cleanup of maintenance/repair and service lines across Treasurer, Sheriff and Prosecutor funds: council zeroed outdated account lines and re-created consolidated lines for fleet/service maintenance and equipment repair; staff described these as routine housekeeping moves to match prior precedent. Votes were recorded unanimous on the consolidated motions.
- Movement of selected capital project lines into the 2025 general-obligation bond: council approved moving identified capital items from department budgets into the bond package (e.g., certain clerk, parks and jail capital lines and aviation and reassessment items). The motion passed 6–1 on one item where an individual councilor voted no. Staff said the bond package will come back for a separate discussion and final approval.
- Overtime and training/travel lines: following a prior overtime resolution the council zeroed specific overtime account lines and asked staff to create $1 placeholders for some small departments; the council later directed a 5 percent reduction in training and travel lines across selected levy funds.
Why it matters: these technical votes clean up account-line duplicates, align budgets with the county's borrowing plan and take small-dollar steps the council said will support the broader effort to close the county deficit. Staff emphasized these changes are largely administrative, but that collectively they move the county's deficit target.
Formal outcomes: most housekeeping items passed by unanimous roll call votes; the capital-line consolidation motion that moved several department capital items into the GO bond passed 6–1.