Scurry County records $2.05 million in payables, moves ARPA funds toward EMS building

Scurry County commissioners heard and approved a set of budget adjustments and accounts payable that included a substantial payment related to the county's EMS building.

Speaker 6 reported accounts payable of $2,052,007.66, including a $485,000 payment for the EMS building. The court also reviewed a budget amendment moving $500,000 in ARPA funds (fund 49) out of a TexasCLASS EMS account that had been earmarked for the building to continue payments on the project. Speaker 6 said officials anticipated there might be one more payment left on the building, roughly $799,000.

A series of routine line-item transfers were presented across departments: education and training allocations for county offices, sheriff's training, youth center program funds, and precinct capital-outlay transfers. Specific items read into the record included $250 for Connie Clark's education and training line, multiple small office-supply and training adjustments in the county attorney and tax office budgets, and precinct-specific transfers for parts, tires, and road-construction materials.

The court called for a vote on accounts payable after the line-item review. The transcript records the accounts-payable amount and subsequent assent from the court.

The ARPA transfer and the accounts-payable approval are procedural steps the court used to ensure continued payment on the EMS building and to reallocate departmental line items; no additional unambiguous appropriation of general-fund dollars for new programs was recorded in the meeting minutes provided.