At its Sept. 12 meeting the Kosciusko County Council approved a set of smaller but consequential budget transfers, grant applications and appointments across county departments.

Key items the council approved included:

- An additional appropriation for a prosecutor victim‑assistance program grant: $18,014 (motion passed by voice vote after staff said the Victims of Crime Act award will fund the program across grant cycles). Brad, representing the prosecutor's office, asked for the appropriation to reconcile award timing.

- A postage fund additional appropriation following a machine refund: staff read an amount of $14,861; the motion recorded and approved in the meeting referenced $14,008.61. The transcript contains that discrepancy; the motion carried by voice vote. (The approved amount on the record is $14,008.61.)

- An appropriation‑adjustment to re-credit a line item after a duplicate invoice refund: $12,001.71 (approved by voice vote).

- Transfers to cover employee payouts and position funding: community corrections ($9,000) and court payout ($9,941.67); a drainage‑board transfer of $6,000 to retain a part‑time secretary through year‑end (moved and approved), and a county transfer of $4,600 related to county auditor/chief deputy payroll adjustments. All motions were approved by voice vote.

- EMA grant activity and a part‑time coordinator: the council approved the wage committee recommendation and funding to add a part‑time EMA coordinator at $27,000 (20 hours/week), and separately approved the EMA director's request to apply for two Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness grants totaling $15,950 and $17,500 for contractor-provided LEPC exercise and hazardous‑battery emergency response training. Those grant-application requests were approved by motion and voice vote.

- Technology and personnel budget-line edits read by a council member: several line-item adds/removals were read into the record (assistant systems admin removal, a new technology assistant, EMA part‑time coordinator added at $27,000, removing a part‑time work‑release food service line after adding a full‑time replacement). These changes were read as budget housekeeping and submitted for final inclusion in the October adoption.

- INDOT grant application approvals: county highway staff were authorized to apply for sign‑replacement and countywide striping HSIP grants; the striping request was described in the meeting as a $500,000 grant ask with a 90/10 match.

- Opioid settlement and grant fund corrections: council approved several budget reductions and matching additional appropriations to correct earlier placement of funds between the settlement and grant funds; motions carried by voice vote.

- Sheriff department insurance reimbursements: four appropriation adjustments were approved to move insurance payout checks into sheriff vehicle-repair/replacement accounts (four amounts approved on the record totaling several thousand dollars).

- Appointments: the council appointed Mike Lohr and Chris Polk to the KCCRVC board, and Cassandra Weaver to a four‑year term on the Napanee Public Library board; motions passed by voice vote.

Several motions were voice votes with no roll‑call tallies recorded in the transcript. Staff and council members frequently noted that amounts read into the record and amounts shown on the motion paperwork should be verified during final budget adoption on Oct. 10.