Peanut County’s Finance Ways and Means Committee approved a series of fiscal and operational items during its meeting, including the required 2025 apportionment report, a multiyear allocation‑audit contract with MGT, and several budget adjustments and transfers to cover existing projects.

Why it matters: The items approved are routine county business that set tax apportionment figures required by state law, authorize ongoing vendor contracts, and reallocate funds to pay invoices and implement projects already in progress.

What the committee approved (selected items):

- Paying of bills: The committee approved payment of bills by roll call; motion carried (unanimous among present members).

- 2025 apportionment report: The committee approved the annual apportionment report required under the General Property Tax Act (section cited in the staff report) and authorized the chair and county clerk to sign related documents. Roll call recorded unanimous approval among those present.

- Treasurer’s report: The committee received and filed the treasurer’s report showing an unrestricted fund balance of $4,067,920.47 and an ending fund balance of $5,742,528.88; motion to receive and file carried unanimously.

- Road commission member wages: The board approved a memo setting road commission member wages for FY2026, with per‑diems and mileage retained; the board corrected an earlier line‑item error clarifying that $2,700 is an annual amount rather than monthly. Motion carried (roll call recorded all yes among members present).

- MGT allocation/audit contract: The committee approved a contract renewal with MGT for the county’s allocation audit. The contract includes modest increases over prior years (staff cited a $250 increase year‑to‑year and small additional increases thereafter); roll call recorded unanimous approval among commissioners present.

- Lawn sculpture (gift) on county lawn: The committee approved sending a proposed donated sculpture to the facilities committee for review and to return to the full board for final approval; commissioners emphasized they will not place anything on county grounds until facilities and the full board approve the final design. Motion carried by roll call.

- Credit‑card limit increases: The committee approved raising two county HPC Visa limits to $5,000 — one for the 9‑1‑1 director (average monthly use in 2024 was about $1,020, highest month just under $3,900) and one for the airport manager. Both motions carried on roll calls.

- Inmate garden grant and budget adjustment: The board accepted a $2,500 Community Foundation award toward an inmate education garden project and approved a budget adjustment to receive and expend the funds; motion carried.

- CAD integration payment from ambulance fund: The committee approved transferring $5,340 from the ambulance fund to the appropriate line to pay for computer‑aided dispatch (CAD) integration — the project kickoff had already been scheduled; roll call recorded unanimous approval among those present who voted.

- Emergency management vehicle repair funding: The committee approved a budget adjustment moving $910 into emergency management vehicle maintenance to cover 50% of previously approved repairs (the other half was covered by 9‑1‑1); motion passed by roll call.

- CNC Excavating invoice: The committee approved transferring funds to pay an outstanding invoice of $50,065 to CNC Excavating for parking lot work at the annex; roll call recorded unanimous approval among voting commissioners present.

- Corrective budget transfer for radios and related line items: The committee approved a motion to correct a prior action to include the word “transfer” so that the intended movement of funds into specific line items (including radios) could occur; roll call recorded unanimous approval among voting commissioners present.

- Move $10,000 into EM director budget for the remainder of the year: The committee approved moving $10,000 from two commissioner lines into the emergency management director budget for 2025 to cover immediate needs; motion carried on roll call.

- Parks ordinance: The committee approved the county parks ordinance pending scrivener’s corrections (typos and references where “commission property” should read “county property”); motion to receive and file the ordinance after corrections carried on voice vote.

Other procedural items included combining the airport committee work into the facilities committee going forward (no separate formal vote required) and scheduling a road commission appointee’s oath to be effective Jan. 1.

Votes at a glance: Each item above was recorded by roll call or voice vote; where roll calls were recorded in the meeting transcript, the motions carried. Several items were unanimous among commissioners present; a small number of items later in the agenda (not listed above) included individual no votes on a different matter (see separate article on emergency manager hiring). The meeting recessed into closed session later for other personnel matters.

The committee emphasized that donated or gifted items (for example the proposed sculpture) will not be installed until facilities and the full board review final designs and approve placement and plaques.