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Flagler County clerk presents needs-based budget, cites Munis rollout, records digitization and investment income
Summary
Clerk and comptroller Tom Bexley asked the BOCC to fund a needs-based Clerk of Court budget that includes five additional FTEs, technology and disaster-recovery investments and highlighted the office'managed investments that produced multi-million-dollar annual returns.
Tom Bexley, Flagler County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, presented a needs-based budget request to the Board of County Commissioners on June 9 that asks for staff additions, technology support for the recently implemented Munis financial system and additional funding for disaster recovery and long-term records management.
Bexley framed the request as "minimum necessary" to run the clerk and comptroller functions: countywide accounting, custody of county funds, records, court clerking functions and the transparency tools used by county staff and the public. He said the office currently employs 62 people countywide, 37 of whom are non'court staff covered by the county budget review.
Why this matters: the clerk and comptroller is the county'wide custodian of funds, the auditor for county financial…
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