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Supervisors approve multiple interfund transfers; table courthouse and pilot fund moves
Summary
The board approved a series of interfund transfers and appropriation resolutions for fiscal year 2025–26, totaling millions across several funds, and tabled two transfers involving courthouse maintenance and the pilot fund pending further research.
The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors approved multiple interfund operating transfers, appropriation resolutions and funding allocations for fiscal year 2025–26 and took action to table two proposed transfers for further research.
Board administration director Ryan Erickson presented a slate of transfers that the board approved in separate motions. Approved transfers recorded in the meeting include: a transfer of $6,462,354 from General Supplemental to General Basic to fund payroll‑related appropriations; $187,859 from Rural Basic Services to the County Library fund; $1,800,000 from Rural Basic Services to the Secondary Roads fund to move township‑levied taxes to secondary roads; $76,500 from Rural Supplemental to Rural Basic for payroll matching; $786,850 from the Tax Increment Financing fund to the Debt Service fund to pay principal and interest; $132,600 to reimburse the Brown's Lake project from conservation/general basic funds; and multiple $300,000 transfers from gaming revenue, local option sales tax and Secondary Road funds into the Debt Service fund for tax‑reduction and debt service purposes.
Erickson also presented two proposed transfers — $200,000 from the Courthouse Maintenance fund to General Supplemental and $29,915 from the Pilot fund to General Supplemental — that supervisors asked to research further. A motion to table those two items passed 5-0. Separately, a motion to table moving $12,107.58 from a Courthouse Foundation fund was also approved pending staff research about whether the foundation had been dissolved and whether the tax ID remained active.
The board discussed a related administrative item: moving unspent fiscal 2024 building services funds ($61,156.81) to the Courthouse Maintenance fund. Staff clarified that the amount had been included in reserve balances considered during budget hearings and one supervisor rescinded a motion after staff advised the funds could remain in general basic reserves. Several motions approving specific transfers passed by recorded voice vote of 5-0.
