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Quorum Court sends several budget and grant items to full court; grants and insurance changes included
Summary
At the monthly meeting the court approved sending multiple routine ordinances and grants to the full quorum court with due‑pass recommendations, including public‑safety grant recognition, an employee insurance budget amendment, and circuit‑court automation funding.
Washington County Quorum Court justices agreed to place a group of routine ordinances and grant recognitions on the full quorum‑court agenda with "due pass" recommendations.
Items the court sent to full court include:
- An ordinance for the Department of Emergency Management recognizing and appropriating special‑event revenue to its budget (item forwarded with due pass).
- An ordinance recognizing a $75,000 public‑safety equipment grant for mobile vehicle recording units and appropriating those dollars to the Public Safety Equipment Grant Fund (item forwarded with due pass).
- An ordinance amending the employee insurance budget for 2024 to address an anticipated shortfall in the county’s employee health‑insurance fund; Comptroller Sherman explained the insurance fund’s structure and the request to move up to $1,000,000 from unappropriated insurance reserves into the budget to cover higher claims this year (item forwarded with due pass).
- An ordinance amending the circuit court automation budget for 2024 using court reserves (item forwarded with due pass).
The court placed items 8–12 on a consent slate for the full quorum‑court meeting. Several justices thanked county grant staff and department leadership for securing grants and managing budgets. There were no public objections recorded during the meeting’s public comment periods on these items.
Votes: Each item was moved with a motion and second and carried to the full quorum court with a due‑pass recommendation; recorded motions and seconds were made on the floor and no recorded public opposition occurred.
