Budget committee approves trustees' cash balance, financial summaries and a package of budget amendments

The Trousdale County Budget and Finance Committee voted June 16 to approve the trustees’ cash balance and the financial summaries included in the June meeting packet, and to approve a group of routine and grant-related budget amendments.

The approvals included a motion to accept the trustees’ cash-balance report and financial summaries for the period in question; the motion carried unanimously by voice vote. Committee members then approved a package of budget amendments that reallocated small sums across departmental line items and accepted several grant awards reported in the packet.

Key figures discussed during the meeting: committee members noted general-fund revenues (excluding grant items) at about 99.4% of estimates for the 11th month and overall expenditures running lower than that revenue figure. The packet called out two large grants in fund 011 that materially affect percentages for that fund: the school award and a multimodal grant totaling roughly $2.7 million (described in the packet as nearly $2.6–$2.79 million across items). Committee members also discussed a $71 million pass-through item noted in the packet that the presenter clarified is CoreCivic money routed through the county and not county-controlled revenue.

The committee approved several smaller, line-item amendments by voice vote. Examples listed in the packet and discussed at the meeting included:

- A $9,854 cleanup reallocating communication equipment, health insurance and overtime lines across general fund departments; - An $11,800 Enbridge grant for the fire department (no specific departmental plan attached in the packet); - Several solid-waste convenience-center overtime reallocations totaling about $5,275; - Highway and public-works small-tool and plant-maintenance reallocations totaling $25,568; - A $2,000 debt-service principal payment adjustment tied to roof work (listed as JSMS roof principal payment); - School-fund cleanup items, including restricted-education and special-education on-behalf transfers of $2,877 and $10,375 respectively; and TEAS Act on-behalf payments listed at $17,000.

The presenter emphasized that some line items are "pass-through" and do not represent county control of funds: "That 71,000,000 is not Charles County's money ... It is CoreCivic dollars," the presenter said while clarifying the packet figures; meeting notes reflect that the presenter meant CoreCivic pass-throughs are not county revenue. (The committee and packet materials identify the jurisdiction as Trousdale County; the presenter spoke to pass-through items that appear in the posted financial spreadsheets.)

Next steps: the committee forwarded the trustees’ cash balance, the financial summaries and the approved budget amendments to the full Trousdale County Commission for inclusion in the FY26 budget process.

Ending: Committee members had no further amendments and adjourned to a short recess before the next agenda item.