Finance committee approves multiple 2025 budget amendments, including tax-roll corrections and public-health grants

The Warren County Finance and Budget Committee voted to approve a bundle of 2025 budget transfers and related actions at its meeting Tuesday, including corrections to the tax roll and chargebacks to towns, adjustments tied to a national settlement with Juul, grant reimbursements for bulletproof vests, naloxone purchases for the county jail and the establishment of additional 2025 road projects.

The measures matter because they change revenue or expense recognition in the 2025 county budget and move existing reserves and grant receipts into operational accounts so departments can complete purchases or cover unexpected costs.

The committee approved corrections to property assessments and chargebacks to towns that the treasurer described as routine and recurring. “You see this every year,” the County Treasurer said, explaining that corrections fall into two categories: court-ordered assessment changes and clerical or state-owned land adjustments. The treasurer told the committee the corrections on the last page of the agenda totaled about…