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Coffee County departments present 2027 budget requests; libraries, health and buildings seek targeted increases
Summary
Department directors told the county Budget & Finance group they need more funds for part-time library wages and IT, solid-waste vehicle maintenance and crushed stone for convenience centers, health-department utilities and a state-funded physician, and building roof work; no votes were taken.
At a Coffee County Budget & Finance meeting, department directors presented 2027 budget proposals that emphasized personnel costs, rising technology prices and facility maintenance needs.
Courtney, representing the Coffee County Library in Tullahoma, asked the county to approve a 5% salary increase for full-time staff while raising part-time pay to $15 an hour. Courtney said the library is seeing a sharp rise in printing demand since an OfficeMax closure and asked for funding for a second Canon printer and contract; she also budgeted about $2,000 for annual carpet cleaning and said materials spending would move closer to the level-4 guideline (from just under 12% this year toward about 13%). "We are hoping to get an additional printer since there's so much traffic to the 1 printer that we have," Courtney said, and she described a tech-grant need for an off-site server of roughly $1,900 per library.
Melissa, who presented the…
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