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Gallatin County fiscal court approves routine payments and reads budget amendment on first reading
Summary
At a special October meeting, Gallatin County Fiscal Court approved several routine fiscal items — including monthly bills, interfund transfers and a public defender budget transfer — and held a first reading of Budget Amendment No. 3 (ordinance 101,524) that corrects an FAA duplicate payment and records a $500 Warsaw donation.
Gallatin County’s Fiscal Court voted on routine financial items and advanced a budget amendment on first reading at a special meeting in October 2024.
The court approved the county’s minutes and moved to pay its monthly bills after staff described a roughly $42,000 payment tied to clearing trees at the airport for AWOS (the all‑weather observation system). Officials said that payment is tied to federal/state requirements related to wildlife and natural‑resource plans and that grant reimbursement was expected.
The court also approved a fund cash statement, multiple interfund transfers for September (including transfers from the road fund to general and general to jail), and a budget transfer to cover shortfalls in the public defender line. Those motions were made, seconded and accepted by voice vote.
Floyd Benson presented Budget Amendment No. 3 (ordinance 101,524), which records a $500 donation from the city of Warsaw for the county’s spay‑neuter program and corrects a duplicate FAA payment that was credited to EMS. Benson said the amendment increases general and EMS funds to reflect excess revenues and reimbursements and that the ordinance would be read as a first reading. The court completed that first reading and approved it procedurally as required for an initial reading.
The court was told the Department for Rural and Municipal Aid will review several road requests and that final legislative decisions on those projects are expected when the legislature meets in the spring.
Next procedural steps: the ordinance recorded as a first reading will return in the county’s normal ordinance process for any further readings required before final adoption.
