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Ben Hill County commissioners approve census committee resolution, ratify USDA resolution and approve surplus; finance office reports budget on track
Summary
The board approved a 2020 Census Complete Count Committee resolution, ratified a USDA resolution, approved a surplus resolution and heard a finance report that expenditures were at 94 percent and accounting software will move to the cloud.
At the Sept. 10 meeting the Ben Hill County Commission approved three resolutions and received a finance update.
Commissioner John Mooney moved to approve the 2020 Census Complete Count Committee Resolution; Vice-Chair Hope Harmon seconded and the motion passed with Mooney, Harmon and Commissioner Daniel Cowan recorded as voting in favor. Vice-Chair Harmon then moved to ratify a USDA resolution; John Mooney seconded and the minutes record the motion passed with John Mooney, Hope Harmon, Commissioner Bennie Calloway and Daniel Cowan voting in favor. Later, Vice-Chair Harmon moved to approve a surplus resolution; John Mooney seconded and the motion passed with the minutes again recording John Mooney, Hope Harmon, Bennie Calloway and Daniel Cowan as voting in favor.
Chief Finance Officer Darlow Maxwell told commissioners journal entries have been received and posted to the balance sheet, 2020 budget packets have been distributed to constitutional officers and department heads, and the county's accounting software is planned to be moved from a server to a cloud-based system. County Manager Michael Dinnerman said he has been working with auditors to complete the audit, which he said looked favorable in preliminary numbers and noted county expenditures are at 94 percent, indicating the county stayed within budget for the period discussed.
The minutes contain an internal inconsistency: they list Commissioner Bennie Calloway as absent at the start of the meeting but later record him among those voting on two resolutions. The minutes do not reconcile that discrepancy.
