Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Enterprise Funds topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
County staff proposes modest water and solid-waste fee increases and lists capital projects for reserve funding
Summary
In the budget workshop staff recommended a 3% water-rate increase and a $5 per-parcel solid-waste fee increase to cover operating costs; staff also outlined capital projects including emergency-services roof, courthouse elevator repair and renovations to a county building to house economic development.
County Manager Brian and finance staff reviewed enterprise funds and the capital-projects list during the Beaufort County budget workshop.
For the Water Fund, staff recommended a 3% rate increase to cover inflation and operating costs; the fund's recommended budget was presented as balanced with operating as the largest expense and a small reduction of one meter-technician full-time equivalent due to completed meter projects.
For Solid Waste, staff proposed a $5 per-parcel fee increase (a 2.7% rise) to keep the enterprise fund self-sustaining. The solid-waste budget includes operating expenses, debt service and small capital outlays; staff provided recent tonnage data for municipal solid waste, recycling and scrap tires.
On capital projects, staff proposed allocating $233,300 from the capital reserve to specific projects including an emergency services roof replacement (per a roofing schedule), interior renovations to the former county attorney/Francisco building to consolidate economic-development offices (about $25,000 shown for interior work), and a courthouse elevator repair (about $26,500). Staff also reported the workers' compensation internal-service fund has built to roughly $1.2 million and is intended to cover the higher deductible model the county adopted several years ago.
Commissioners asked staff to supply a capital fund-balance report for the water and solid-waste funds outside the meeting. No final budget votes were taken at the workshop.
