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Claiborne County Commission adopts $2019-20 budget, sets pay and capital allocations
Summary
The Claiborne County Commission approved the 2019-20 appropriations resolution July 15, adopting a $12,061,870 general fund budget, a $38.7 million school budget and other fund allocations; commissioners' per-meeting pay and wheel-tax allocations were confirmed.
The Claiborne County Commission voted unanimously July 15 to adopt its 2019-20 appropriations, approving line-item budgets that fund county government operations, schools, roads and debt service.
The commission approved Resolution 2019-051 by roll call (21-0). The adopted General Fund budget is $12,061,870, and the General Purpose School Fund budget is $38,734,843. Other adopted figures include the Highway/Public Works Fund at $3,225,801, General Debt Service at $3,623,549 and $829,300 for Highway capital projects.
The measure includes compensation rules for elected and volunteer bodies: commissioners will be paid $350 per meeting, committee members $175 per meeting and planning commission members $125 per meeting, provided a quorum is present and minutes are filed. The resolution also sets accounting and transfer rules, authorizes revenue anticipation notes (subject to Director of Local Finance approval) and directs how wheel-tax receipts will be allocated to debt and capital programs.
Five commissioners (Kim Large, Stacey Crawford, Nicholas Epperson, Shawn Peters and Steve Murphy) recorded a statement when voting in favor that they faced a conflict of interest but were voting their conscience; the roll call still recorded 21 votes in favor.
The resolution specifies that certain fee officials operating under TCA Section 8-22-104 are treated differently for fee commission purposes, and that budget amendments follow TCA Section 5-9-407 and, for large appropriations, approval from the Director of Local Finance per TCA Section 9-21-403.
The commission spread the resolution upon the minutes and made it effective July 1, 2019.
For reference, the adopted budgets include a mix of operating, capital and debt-service allocations and specify quarterly reporting or transfers where applicable. The commission accepted the appropriation resolution as the main funding blueprint for county operations in fiscal 2019-20.
