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Board approves $1.2 million GO note and fiscal‑year 2025 budget amendment after brief public hearing
Summary
Woodbury County approved a $1.2 million taxable general obligation capital loan note, accepted multiple departmental budget transfers (including sheriff transfers), and adopted budget amendment No. 1 for fiscal year 2025 after a public hearing with no public comment.
The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors on May 20 approved a resolution authorizing the issuance of $1,200,000 in taxable general obligation capital loan notes and adopted amendment No. 1 to the county’s fiscal‑year 2025 budget after a public hearing that drew no public comment.
Treasurer Tina Bertrand said the loan resolution is a procedural step in the county’s FY2025 capital improvement program and enables signing of loan documents related to the borrowing. “This very long, lengthy, agenda item narrative, is basically this is just another step into the, the FY'25 CIP loan,” Bertrand said.
The board opened a public hearing on the budget amendment and, seeing no speakers, closed the hearing. Budget finance director Ryan Erickson summarized multiple changes covered by the amendment and separate transfers: “The net impact to the budget overall is 0,” Erickson said about the sheriff’s requested transfers, noting they are internal reallocations to cover overages in some line items.
Erickson outlined department‑level changes included in the amendment: an increase in liquor‑license revenue for the auditor/recorder office and an almost $50,000 decrease in recorder revenues tied to fewer recorded documents and real‑estate transfers; flood‑repair costs for conservation; added utility and funeral assistance under general services; an additional $20,000 for ambulance assistance credited to emergency services; a roughly $110,000 increase in medical‑examiner activity over budget; and higher attorney fee expenses. He also said revenue to the sheriff’s office declined because the county was unable to house federal inmates due to a delay in jail construction.
On capital projects, the board previously approved a $1.2 million CIP borrowing. Erickson said the amendment reflects expected timing differences and shows a net decrease of more than $3 million in the budget, primarily from a $1.5 million reduction in anticipated federal funds and use of roughly $1 million of prior‑year CIP cash reserves for projects previously borrowed for but not yet expended.
The board unanimously approved the loan‑issuance resolution, the internal sheriff budget transfers, and the fiscal‑year 2025 budget amendment number 1, each by recorded voice vote of 4‑0 (Supervisor Nelson was absent).
