Walker County staff presents preliminary FY2025 audit, proposes budget amendment; commissioners press on road-funding timing

A staff member told Walker County commissioners and citizens that preliminary fiscal year 2025 audit numbers show total general-fund revenue of $36,800,000 and expenditures of $35,300,000, producing a net loss of about $688,000, while the county’s fund balance remained above $24,000,000 and cash in the bank exceeded $18,000,000 as of Sept. 30, 2025.

The staff member said year-to-date revenue of another fund was $14,060,000 (about 37% of expectation) against expenditures of $8,700,000 (about 23.5% of expectation) and reviewed several enterprise and grant-related funds. “So we’re doing pretty good on budget,” the staff member said.

Staff discussed receipts and spending for the road-sales-tax program cited in the presentation (transcribed in places as “T Sploss/T Splast/T Splash”), reporting collections to date of roughly…