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Commissioner proposes reassigning animal shelter design funds to teacher supplement; debate surfaces over economic incentives and EDC funding
Summary
A county commissioner proposed using $2,000,000 in animal shelter design funds to restore vehicle and ambulance purchases and to finance a 1% teacher supplement; the meeting also revisited how incentive grants and EDC funding are held in fund balance and whether taxpayer dollars should fund nongovernmental entities.
Commissioner Wortman proposed during the June 4 budget workshop to reallocate $2,000,000 originally budgeted for engineering drawings for a new animal shelter to cover two ambulances, two sheriff's vehicles and a county-funded 1% teacher supplement, and to restore $225,000 to the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) budget.
"I wanna cut the $2,000,000 engineer drawings for the animal shelter because that's $2,000,000," the commissioner said, outlining a plan to redirect that amount to ambulances, sheriff vehicles and a teacher supplement. He said the reallocation…
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