Woods County moves to approve temporary appropriations covering county, school and town accounts

Woods County officials moved to approve temporary appropriations for fiscal 02/2526 after staff presented proposed starting figures for the county and several local entities.

A county staff member summarized the recommendation, saying the county would use 80% of last year’s amounts and asked for $8,076,859 to start the fiscal period. The staff member also reported an estimated EME of $1,516,770 for an unspecified program and walked through figures submitted by local school districts, towns and technical education providers.

The spreadsheet of figures presented to the board showed the following, as read into the record by county staff: the county requested $8,076,859 as a starting temporary appropriation; a school district submission listed $14,806,788 for its general fund, $3,875,741 for its building fund, $601,850 for child nutrition and $300,000 for a gift fund. Winokka’s submission was read as $11,953,509 for its general fund, $3,544,873 for its building fund and a bond fund amount of $34,644.73. Another municipality identified in the record as Freedom was read with general fund and other fund amounts (the transcript lists a general-fund number that appears garbled as “$1,000,201.651” and a separate figure “$201,655”); building fund $121,962 and child nutrition $33,963 were also read for that entity.

County staff said Northwest Tech initially submitted $11,100,000 for its general fund and $5,000,000 for its building fund, and later submitted revised figures described in the record as $14,000,000 for the general fund and a second figure transcribed as $505,500,000; the latter figure appears anomalous in the transcript and could not be verified from the meeting record.

A board member moved approval of the submitted temporary appropriations. The meeting record shows the motion was seconded and the chair asked, “All in favor?” and then said “Okay,” indicating the motion carried. The transcript does not include a roll-call or numerical vote tally.

Nut graf: Temporary appropriations are a routine step that lets local governments continue operations at a provisional spending level before a final budget is adopted; the figures read at the Woods County meeting set starting spending limits for the county and multiple local funds while the final budget process proceeds.

The board did not provide further budget detail or make funding-source allocations on the record during the discussion. Several figures in the read record were unclear or possibly mistranscribed; the transcript indicates those amounts as read rather than verified.

The meeting moved on after the vote with the chair asking whether there was any other new business.