The Jackson County Board of Supervisors on Friday approved a fiscal year 2025 budget amendment for the county Secondary Roads department to cover reclaim rock, bridge-inspection fees and a potential early contractor invoice and to meet a Department of Transportation submission deadline before June 1.

At a special meeting called at 2 p.m. May 30, 2025, county executive assistant Jaden Shekel told the board the amendment would move funds from fiscal year 2026 carryover into FY25 so the county would not exceed its FY25 total budget and could submit the required paperwork to DOT prior to the June 1 cutoff. “This is just to send our fiscal year '25, budget final budget amendment to the DOT, as they needed prior to June 1,” Shekel said.

Shekel said the amendment adds roughly $178,000 and covers a significant amount of reclaim rock work done in the current calendar year, bridge-inspection fees from inspections performed in March, and a contingency for a Monmouth contractor payment in case the contractor requests payment before July 1. “We budgeted for the bridge inspections for fiscal year 26, but we're to get invoiced this this fiscal year. So it's just moving the dollar amounts around,” Shekel said. Shekel also noted the county cannot exceed its final total budget amount for the fiscal year: “we're not allowed to be over by 1¢.”

A motion to approve the secondary-roads portion of the FY25 budget amendment was made and the board voted by voice. County Chair Don Swinker announced the motion as being made by Mike Seckman; the board recorded aye votes and the motion carried. The county did not record an individual roll-call tally in the transcript; the outcome was approval.

The amendment is procedural: it reallocates budgeted dollars from FY26 carryover into the closing FY25 so invoices that arrive before July 1 can be paid without exceeding the FY25 total. Shekel told the board DOT would not accept the amendment after June 1, which was the reason for the special meeting.

Following the vote the board adjourned. The transcript does not record the amendment's formal submission to DOT, only that the board approved the amendment so it could be sent before the deadline.