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Webster County engineer outlines nearly $21 million secondary roads budget, highlights carryover, projects and pay-scale concerns
Summary
Jamie Joel, Webster County county engineer, presented a secondary roads budget with a $11.2 million carryover (including a $2.2 million Highway 20 restriction), outlined major federally reimbursed projects and equipment purchases, and asked the board to consider reinstating an office pay scale after staff raises lagged peers.
Jamie Joel, county engineer for the Webster County secondary roads department, told the meeting the department’s FY25 carryover balance was $11,200,000 and that $2,200,000 of that amount “is in a set aside fund when Highway 20 (Old Highway 20) was transferred to the county.”
Joel said the interest on the $2.2 million is credited to the secondary roads department while interest on the remaining $9,000,000 goes to the general fund; he estimated the department receives “about a $100,000 in interest” annually. He said the carryover is used to cash-flow large projects and to provide reserves for unpredictable costs such as fuel and winter storms.
The proposed expenditures Joel presented are “just under $21,000,000,” most of which he said are funded by non–property-tax sources. He told the board property taxes account for roughly 20% of the department’s revenue and that projected revenue is up $3,250,000 for the coming year. Joel said the…
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