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Greene County council approves multiple budget transfers, appropriations and equipment spending
Summary
The council approved a $100,000 highway transfer, a $50,000 fuel reimbursement, multiple E-911 transfers to cover a shortfall, bridge inspection and sheriff appropriations, and authorized advertising for several transfers and purchases.
The Greene County council approved a series of routine budget transfers and appropriations across several departments.
Speaker 1 presented a $100,000 transfer within the Highway Department (from Cambridge to maintenance); the motion passed by voice vote. The council also approved a $50,000 fuel reimbursement allocation to Veterans, EMS and the health department and a $30,000 payment related to culvert work. A $26,000 bridge inspection reimbursement to NDOT was approved.
Officials described an unanticipated shortfall in the E-911 budget caused by a prior-year budgeting misestimate. County staff said they prepared transfers to move funds into equipment and telephone accounts for E-911; among the items approved were $16,738 moved from training to E-911 equipment and $9,800 from dispatcher funds to telephone 911. “We ran into a shortfall because the proper amount wasn't appropriate…we're short on since the transfer,” a staff representative said, explaining the transfers fix the 2024/2025 timing mismatch.
The sheriff's final appropriation was approved (amount spoken in the record is unclear). The council also agreed to advertise a transfer of $1,800 from the sale of a surplus vehicle into repair equipment, and approved a $6,000 appropriation request from the correctional facilities fund to replace a jail dryer. Several smaller transfers within the sheriff's budget were authorized to outfit newly hired deputies, including $9,500 moved to uniforms and body armor.
No items in this packet were tabled for later action apart from the separate salary ordinance the council deferred for correction.
