Buffalo County approves $2,500 in contingency transfers, schedules supplemental budget hearing

Buffalo County commissioners approved three contingency transfers totaling $2,500 during a regular meeting, moving $500 into a general contingency account and $1,000 each into the county's state's attorney and E911 accounts.

Speaker 4 introduced the request, saying, "I'm just asking for 2,500," and asked whether the transfers should be moved separately. Speaker 2 advised separate motions. Speaker 1 then moved to "put $500 into the account 11 1. Contingency," Speaker 2 seconded, and the board approved the motion by voice vote. Two subsequent separate motions to transfer $1,000 to the state's attorney account and $1,000 to the E911 account were also moved and approved by voice. The transcript does not contain a roll-call tally or named vote counts.

Speaker 4 also described a supplemental budget line described in the record as "Rafe" or "rave" (transcript spelling inconsistent) with internal reference number 295311425 and asked that the county publish notice for a public hearing. The record contains conflicting meeting dates for that hearing (several speakers referred alternately to the "20th," the "26th" and variants). Speaker 4 said the hearing notice must be published twice and indicated the hearing would be held at 1:00 p.m. before resuming the meeting.

The motions in the record were presented and seconded on the meeting floor and carried by voice vote; the minutes as transcribed do not show individual vote tallies. The board also briefly discussed going into executive session on personnel and whether a person "in jail" could be discussed publicly; no executive-session actions were recorded in the transcript.

Next steps: staff was directed to publish the supplemental-budget hearing notice for the 'RAVE/Rafe' budget line and to appear again at the next scheduled meeting for that hearing.