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Burke County previews budget amendments, appoints staff and automates surplus sales; board accepts DSS report
Summary
At a Dec. 1 pre-agenda meeting, Burke County staff previewed two budget amendments (including $136,000 for veteran and adoption-related services and transfers to replace county vehicles), a plan to post surplus property on GovDeals, and a resolution to add a medical director to the opioid project; the board accepted the DSS report 5-0 and examined county bonds.
Burke County commissioners on Monday reviewed multiple consent- and decision-agenda items, including budget amendments that would allocate state grant and special-adoption funds, transfer capital reserves to replace county vehicles, authorize automated surplus-property sales and add medical support to the county’s opioid project.
County manager Brian Manning described budget amendment number 6 as a $136,000 request to budget two funding sources: a $20,000 grant from the North Carolina Department of Military and Veteran Affairs to support local veteran services, and roughly $116,600 from state special-adoption funds to cover outside counsel, travel to a national adoption-legal conference, training supplies and…
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