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Council approves third‑quarter budget amendments, including short‑term funding for new deputy position and senior center lease buyout
Summary
The council approved third‑quarter county budget amendments that included funding to staff a deputy county executive for the remainder of 2025 and a $41,000 item related to a senior center vehicle lease buyout; staff described two late edits to the submitted package.
Cache County Council members approved third‑quarter budget amendments Thursday that included an amendment to fund a newly hired deputy county executive for the remainder of 2025 and a $41,000 allocation tied to a senior‑center vehicle lease buyout.
Auditor Matt Funk presented an updated amendment packet with two changes since the version distributed earlier: a request to fund the new deputy’s remainder-of‑2025 payroll costs (about $27,700 total from appropriated fund balance) and a $5,000 transfer to Cache Community Foundation as seed money for an America250 event. Funk said the $27,700 allocation included employee-benefit components such as FICA and URS. The auditor and council clarified that severance paid to the prior deputy made those funds unavailable to cover the new hire, so the council needed to pull appropriated fund balance for the short remainder of 2025.
Nut graf: The amendments reallocate appropriated fund balance to cover an interim personnel need and a vehicle/lease matter in the senior center. Council members discussed a previously budgeted vehicle item and whether it should be used to buy out the senior center lease; staff said the buyout for $41,000 is cheaper in present value than continuing lease payments and then purchasing later, and legal/contract constraints prevent terminating the lease.
Council members asked questions about the senior center truck (which has four years left on its lease), why the buyout is chosen now, and whether benefits were included for the new deputy; staff confirmed benefits and that the funds would come from appropriated fund balance. After public hearing, the council suspended rules and approved the third quarter amendments as presented.
Ending: Finance staff will finalize journal entries and update departmental budgets; follow-up will include reporting the assigned ordinance/resolution numbers and any required procurement or contract steps for the senior center vehicle buyout.
