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Mason County Fiscal Court adopts FY2025–26 budget, approves vehicle purchases, emergency agreements and appointments
Summary
At its June 25 special meeting, the Mason County Fiscal Court adopted the $27.84 million FY2025–26 budget, approved purchase of two sheriff cruisers including K-9 outfitting, authorized a landfill truck lease and renewed an agreement with Buffalo Trace Search and Rescue; the court also approved interfund transfers and library board appointments.
Mason County Judge Executive Owen McNeal and the Fiscal Court on June 25 adopted the county’s FY2025–26 budget and approved a package of resolutions that included vehicle purchases for the sheriff’s office, an annual agreement with Buffalo Trace Search and Rescue, a lease for a landfill roll‑off truck and several appointments.
The court approved Ordinance 25‑02/2026 on second reading, setting the county’s budget at $27,835,880 after Department of Local Governments edits added a clerk storage‑fees fund ($72,025). The ordinance lists major fund appropriations including a $9,748,510 general fund, a $4,096,567 jail fund, a $2,444,988 road fund and an $8,384,000 landfill fund; the budget also includes $215,200 in opioid settlement funds.
“Every dollar that comes in is being stretched,” Judge Executive Owen McNeal said, praising county staff and…
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