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Alexandria resident presses Campbell County fiscal court on budget transparency and school transport
Summary
At the fiscal court meeting, resident Mike Mason questioned large budget line items — including a $7.55 million pass-through that never arrived — and raised concerns about road funding and perceived inefficiencies in school bus routing; county staff explained accounting distinctions and referred school questions to the Board of Education.
Mike Mason, an Alexandria resident, used the public-comment portion of the Campbell County fiscal court meeting to press officials for clearer explanations of several budget line items and for answers about school transportation patterns.
"I would like as an individual taxpayer in this county to know what is being spent for," Mason said after identifying himself and his address. He asked the court to explain a roads appropriation of $2,847,691 that in the online budget appeared to allocate less than 12% to materials and raised why large resurfacing work did not show up in the same materials line.
County staff replied that the budget…
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