Boyle County Fiscal Court approves budget and cash transfers, including funding tied to two ambulances

The Boyle County Fiscal Court voted Nov. 10 to approve a series of budget and cash transfers and to pay the county’s weekly bills, moves officials said are intended to reorganize revenue lines and cover capital purchases. Treasurer/finance staff presented transfers moving occupational license revenue into a transfer line and outlined four cash transfers that included $100,000 from the general fund to the county jail and $400,000 from the general fund to EMS to cover ambulance purchases.

Miss Shannon, the finance presenter, told the court the county had transferred $754,636.26 from the occupational tax to the general fund and detailed a $10,113.81 transfer to the Boyle Jail savings account designated for local corrections assistance. She also explained that the $400,000 to EMS was timed to match ambulance deliveries arriving this week. “We’re gonna get a EMS from Penn Care… that’s gonna be paid on delivery,” she said during the bill presentation.

The court approved payment of bills that had been listed at $1,533,933.04 but, with late additions including two ambulances and a glass pulverizer, the grand total presented for approval rose to $2,070,520.44. The finance presenter identified a $42,623.50 charge for a glass pulverizer and a delivery-era payment of roughly $490,000 tied to two ambulances; the court voted to approve the packet.

Court members said the transfers were largely accounting moves — moving occupational license receipts into transfer lines at the request of DLG — and were accompanied by the motions and votes recorded on the agenda. The motions to approve prior minutes, budget transfers, cash transfers and bills all carried by voice vote.

What happens next: the county will process the transfers as cash movements rather than check-issuing line items, and the ambulances will be paid on delivery, according to finance staff. The court also scheduled a special called meeting for Dec. 22 limited to agenda items, which may affect the timing of future purchases and budget work.

Speakers quoted in this article are drawn from the meeting record and include Miss Shannon (finance presenter) and members of the Boyle County Fiscal Court who moved and seconded motions during the Nov. 10 meeting.