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Edgar County public health board raises fixed-asset approval threshold to $5,000
Summary
The county board accepted a recommendation from the public health department to raise the board-approval threshold for fixed-asset purchases from $3,500 to $5,000 to better reflect current prices.
The Edgar County Board accepted a recommendation from the public health department to require board approval for fixed-asset acquisitions above $5,000, raising the previous threshold of $3,500.
Health department staff said the change reflects rising costs and the number of repairs and purchases the department has had to make recently. The department's representative told the board that Kim (public health staff) found $3,500 to be too low a threshold for today's prices and that $5,000 is more appropriate.
Nut Graf: The procedural change moves the approval threshold upward so that only larger purchases require county board approval; it is an internal fiscal control adjustment recommended by the county health board and accepted by the county board.
The motion to approve the change carried on voice vote; no dollar amounts for specific purchases were discussed at the meeting.
Ending: The board approved the revised fixed-asset threshold; county staff will apply the new $5,000 threshold for future public health fixed-asset acquisitions.
