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County committees forward several appropriations, hold large police pension transfer
Summary
On March 10 St. Joseph County committee meetings advanced most budget items to the full council with favorable recommendations — including IT, employee stipends, health-insurance reserves, paving and court grants — while voting to hold a large police pension transfer pending the latest actuarial report.
St. Joseph County committee members on March 10 sent a package of transfers and appropriations to the full council with mostly favorable recommendations, but they paused a major proposed transfer to the county police pension fund to await updated actuarial numbers.
The budget-and-administration and other standing committees approved appropriations including an IT replenishment (Bill 16-26a, $222,378.33), an interfund transfer to the health insurance fund (16-26c), a one-time $1,000 employee stipend proposal (14-26), and smaller, grant-funded spending for probate and community-corrections programs. Engineering and transportation members also voted to send a $1.5 million paving appropriation (16-26f) to the full council.
“The money you guys had already given me, but it was late in the year last year, and I…didn't tie it up in a PO in time,” Paul…
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