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Rules committee creates separate budget consent calendar with $250,000 cap
Summary
Committee forwarded a change to create a separate budget consent calendar for routine budget appropriations, decreases and grant applications that do not approve expenditures over $250,000; items must have unanimous budget‑committee recommendation to be included.
The Blount County Commission Rules Committee voted Feb. 25 to recommend creating a separate “budget consent calendar” for routine budget actions and grant applications, and to set rules aimed at ensuring committee review before items are bundled on consent.
Committee members said the proposed change to rule 8(b) would call routine administrative items the “general consent calendar” and create a separate budget consent calendar for budget…
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