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Swain County reports $9.66 million in year-to-date revenues; health department receives $1,323 state grant
Summary
Tax collector and finance staff reported March revenues and expenditures. Commissioners accepted the financial report and approved a small Health Department budget revision (an additional $1,323 from the state to cover salary-related expenses).
At the April 15 meeting the county tax collector and finance staff reported March and year-to-date revenues and expenditures and commissioners accepted the reports.
The tax collector, identified in the record as Miss April, reported year-to-date ad valorem and fees of $8,484,721.61, year-to-date solid waste fee collections of $1,169,272.98, and total revenues year-to-date of $9,663,994.59. She said the percentage of budgeted taxes collected was 45.54 percent and that ad valorem and fees collected in March totaled $385,696.33; county vehicle tax collected for March was $59,246.71.
Lottie read the county financial report for March 2025. She said general fund revenues for the month were $1,486,600.71 with year-to-date general fund revenues of $16,850,011.09 (45.24 percent of budget). Expenditures for the month were $1,355,939.64 with total year-to-date general fund expenditures of $15,791,711.49, leaving a current year surplus on the general fund of $1,058,299.60. Lottie reported the solid waste fund had a year-to-date surplus of $343,915.71. She reported the social services fund showed a year-to-date deficit of $1,306,202.68 and the health department fund showed a year-to-date deficit of $521,603.68; staff explained some state reimbursements are a month behind and that some program costs are county dollars not fully reimbursed by the state.
Commissioners also approved Health Department budget revision number 6. Lottie said the Health Department received an additional $1,323 from the state for child-fatality-related work; the revision puts the funds into salary, FICA and retirement line items to cover time allocation for that program. Lottie and commissioners clarified the money does not represent an additional individual salary payment but is applied to salary expense lines based on staff time allocations and is used to pull reimbursement from the state.
Motions to accept the tax collector report, accept the financial report, and approve the health department budget revision were made and passed unanimously according to the transcript.
