DeWitt County approves FY2025 budget adjustments, keeps levies unchanged

DeWitt County's board approved multiple adjustments to the fiscal-year 2025 budget on a unanimous roll-call vote and adopted the county's expenditures, revenues and levies with no changes to levy rates.

The board voted to approve budget line revisions after staff summarized unanticipated costs and corrections. Speaker 2 said Tony Harris has indicated a March retirement, requiring benefit payouts that were not included in the initial budget; Speaker 2 also cited payroll-schedule corrections and a set-aside for radios used by fire and EMS. Speaker 2 said the net addition to the overall budget was $110,458.

"That is, Tony Harris has ... stated he's going to retire," Speaker 2 said while explaining the unplanned benefit payouts. "So it's sometime in March, so we just went out that far." Speaker 2 also said the changes included transfers already approved for the circuit clerk and salary-schedule fixes for patrol line items.

After discussion the motion to approve the budget revisions passed on a roll-call vote. The board then considered a separate motion to adopt expenditures, revenues and levies for fiscal 2025. Speaker 2 told the board there were no changes after the earlier presentation and that the levies would remain the same; Speaker 1 said he believed the motion was made by "Missus Tilly and Mister Perez." The motion to adopt the expenditures, revenues and levies was approved by roll-call.

The board did not provide a detailed line-by-line breakdown during the meeting; supporting documents were discussed by finance staff and the finance committee, which the board said had previously reviewed the settlement-related items. No member recorded a dissenting vote during the public roll calls taken at the meeting.

The board adjourned after a short closing and recognition of an outgoing member.