Fiscal court hears first reading of Ordinance 2025-07, a multi-line budget amendment including Aurora packaging plant funds

The Marshall County Fiscal Court on Sept. 15 heard the first reading of Ordinance 2025-07, a budget amendment that adjusts multiple revenue and expenditure lines for fiscal year 2025–26.

Unidentified Speaker 7 read the ordinance out loud, citing receipts and expenditures including state grants of $1,742,200, an Aurora packaging-plant line of $1,700,000, and several smaller adjustments. The ordinance text presented a total revenue change listed in the reading as $2,010,857.74 and later an expenditure total transcribed as $22,010,857.74 (the latter figure appears inconsistent with other lines in the reading and may reflect a transcription or formatting anomaly in the record).

Unidentified Speaker 6 asked for clarification about the jail-related lines and the source of carryover used to cover a projected $180,000 reduction in a contract-with-other-counties revenue line. The treasurer explained that two employees had been missed in the budget worksheet and that payroll/retirement lines required amendment because the court had already implemented the raises effective July 1.

The ordinance was presented as a first reading; Unidentified Speaker 7 indicated the amounts were for governmental purposes approved by the fiscal court at this meeting. The court did not take a final vote on the ordinance adoption during the session recorded.

Next steps identified by the court included follow-up review of the jail fund carryover and confirming the payroll-line corrections so that the ordinance can proceed toward a second reading and formal adoption if required.