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Franklin County creates special revenue fund for criminal-justice sales tax; commissioners approve resolution
Summary
The Board of Franklin County Commissioners approved Resolution 2025-0108 to create Fund FEND 115, a special revenue fund to account for proceeds of a local criminal-justice sales tax and to clarify transfers to debt-service accounts for jail-related bonds and related expenses.
Franklin County commissioners on April 2 voted to create a new special revenue fund to hold proceeds from the local criminal-justice sales tax and to clarify how those receipts will be transferred for debt service and operations.
Tim Anderson, Franklin County finance staff, told the board the move is an internal “cleanup” to align the county’s accounting with generally accepted accounting principles. “We were collecting that in a debt service fund. ... the debt service fund should only be used for debt service,” Anderson said during the presentation.
Anderson said the county historically deposited the criminal-justice sales tax in a debt service fund then made transfers to pay operating costs and other local…
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