Spencer County Fiscal Court adopts $26.9 million 2025-26 budget; standing orders and uniform policy also approved
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Summary
At a June 10 special meeting, the Spencer County Fiscal Court adopted Ordinance No. 24, a $26,919,967 budget for fiscal 2025-26, and approved standing orders to pre-authorize recurring payroll and utility payments and an employee uniform policy with a $750 annual allowance for covered departments.
Spencer County Judge Executive Scott Travis and the Fiscal Court adopted the county's 2025-2026 annual budget, Ordinance No. 24, at a special meeting on June 10, 2025, in the county's Fiscal Court meeting room. The ordinance sets total appropriations at $26,919,967 and becomes effective July 1, 2025, upon passage and publication.
The budget document submitted with the ordinance shows a General Fund total of $10,463,412; a Road Fund of $5,609,450; a Solid Waste (WRIS) Fund of $9,716,000; and smaller funds including the Jail Fund ($770,230), an Opioid Fund ($224,000), and an SB135 clerk fund ($126,000). Capital projects are budgeted at $2,076,000 in the General Fund, and several departmental line items and grant-funded revenues are spelled out in the detailed tables adopted with the ordinance.
The minutes attach a May 12, 2025 letter from Robert O. Brown, State Local Finance Officer, saying "no county expenditures can be legally made after July 1 until the budget is adopted" and reminding the court to file the adopted budget with the Department for Local Government. The court recorded the motion to adopt the 2nd reading and adoption of the ordinance as carried, with "all members of Court present voting 'aye'" and Esq. Stump listed as absent at the time of that vote; the minutes do not provide an exact yea/nay tally by number.
At the meeting the court also approved annual standing orders under KRS 68.275(3) authorizing pre-approved payment of payroll and utilities and, with written consent of the State Local Finance Officer, certain recurring contracts (the minutes list items such as a zoning attorney contract at $650 per month and an EMS physician fee of $1,400 per month). The standing-order motion was recorded as passed on the motion of Esq. Travis, seconded by Esq. Cotton.
Separately, the Fiscal Court approved a county employee uniform policy and a related uniform allowance policy effective July 1, 2025. On the motion of Esq. Eldridge, seconded by Esq. Cotton, the court ordered covered departments (Road, Parks, Recycle, Maintenance and Animal Control) be eligible for a $750-per-year uniform allowance; the county will cover embroidery costs and OSHA-regulated items except work boots, which are to be purchased using the allowance. The minutes specify administrative procedures for receipts and county-approved vendors.
What happens next: the signed budget document and ordinance must be returned to the Department for Local Government per instructions in the minutes and the State Local Finance Officer's letter. The minutes also note a separate procurement follow-up regarding the farmers market pavilion (the court directed follow-up with contractors and did not award the contract at this meeting).