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Spencer County Fiscal Court adopts $13.6 million budget for 2022–23
Summary
The Spencer County Fiscal Court adopted Ordinance No. 6, the 2022–2023 budget, at its June 20 meeting, approving appropriations across general, road, jail and special funds; the court also authorized routine transfers and standing pre-approvals required by state law.
Spencer County Judge/Executive John Riley and the Fiscal Court formally adopted the county’s 2022–2023 annual budget (Ordinance No. 6) at the June 20 meeting, approving a $13,601,641.56 spending plan that covers general, road, jail, federal and special funds.
The ordinance passed on a second reading after a motion by Esq. Travis and a second by Esq. Beaverson, with court members present recorded as voting “aye.” The signed budget allocates about $10.35 million to the general fund, $2.63 million to the road fund, $434,400 to the jail fund, $100,000 in anticipated federal grants and $85,010 to a special fund for clerk recording preservation.
The court packet included detailed revenue and appropriation schedules showing major revenue lines such as property and occupational taxes, intergovernmental revenues and transfers. The budget documents note prior-year surpluses and anticipated intergovernmental receipts; the packet also carried a formal signature page establishing the court’s annual standing order to pre-approve recurring payroll and utilities payments under KRS 68.275(3).
County staff emphasized statutory timing: no county expenditures can legally be made after July 1 without an adopted budget. The State Local Finance Officer’s approval of the budget as to form is recorded in the packet; the ordinance directs publication of the budget summary in the Spencer Magnet within 30 days.
The budget adoption sets staff salary lines, fringe-benefit funding and capital project appropriations, and it also preserves a contingent appropriation line for unanticipated needs. The packet includes multiple attachments with department-by-department appropriations, as well as a separate special-fund appropriation for clerk document-preservation work.
The court moved and approved the budget by ordinance and directed the county clerk to publish the required summary and transmit the approved budget to the Department for Local Government, as required by state law. The court adjourned following routine approval of invoices, bills and transfers.
