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Commission approves series of budget adjustments, school grants, airport reimbursement and sheriff equipment funding
Summary
The commission approved multiple fiscal resolutions, including TNECD broadband funding ($2,445.32), school grant budgets (including a $30,704.28 Special Ed Preschool grant), a $5,250 reimbursable airport maintenance appropriation, a $13,311.40 custodian funding line, and $15,925 for sheriff protective vests.
Benton County commissioners approved a package of budget adjustments and appropriations at the Sept. 15 meeting covering broadband, school grants, airport maintenance, personnel and law enforcement equipment.
Mayor Mark Ward sponsored Resolution No. 20250915-01 to budget $2,445.32 received from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development for a Broadband Ready Community Project; Commissioner Melton moved and Commissioner Holland seconded and the roll‑call vote passed 17 Aye, 0 No, 1 Absent. Director of Schools Mark Florence presented several school budget items: Resolution 20250915-08 adjusted accounting for an Innovative Schools Grant; Resolution 20250915-09 budgeted $2,549 from the JAGTN grant; Resolution 20250915-10 moved $3,505 within the schools budget; and Resolution 20250915-11 budgeted $30,704.28 for the Special Ed Preschool Grant. Each school resolution was moved, seconded, and approved by roll‑call votes recorded in the minutes.
The commission also approved Resolution 20250915-12, a $5,250 appropriation to cover costs for a 95% reimbursable supplemental airport maintenance grant so invoices may be paid and submitted for reimbursement. Mayor Ward sponsored Resolution 20250915-13 to appropriate $13,311.40 to fund a part‑time custodian position in county buildings; the motion passed by roll call. Notably, Resolution 20250915-07 (a proposed $0.20 per‑ton host fee on out‑of‑county landfill trash to fund a Solid Waste Director) was read into the record but was pulled from consideration and did not receive a vote.
Late in the meeting the commission voted to suspend the rules and consider Resolution 20250915-14, a $15,925 appropriation to pay for protective vests for the Sheriff’s Department after deliveries fell into the new fiscal year; the motion passed by roll call. The meeting record shows motions, seconds and roll‑call tallies for these items; implementation timelines and detailed cost breakdowns were not included in the minutes.
