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Cheatham County adopts multiple budget amendments including equipment, grant reimbursements and school transfers
Summary
The commission approved a package of budget amendments Feb. 23 covering county departments, grant reimbursements for sheriff and SRO programs, transfers for school marquees, highway equipment purchased from sports‑gaming funds and surplus declarations for county equipment.
During its Feb. 23 meeting, the Cheatham County Legislative Body approved several budget amendments and transfers recommended by the Budget Committee affecting the County General Fund, Highway/Public Works, jail and school funds.
Key items recorded in the minutes include:
- A set of County General fund amendments for prisoner supplies, County Clerk equipment and travel, library operating funds, and transfers to cover overtime used during a recent ice storm; the items were approved by roll call 11‑0 (1 absent).
- Authorization to transfer $41,856.75 from the Sports Gaming Privilege Tax reserve into Highway Capital Outlay to purchase highway equipment; motion approved 11‑0 (1 absent).
- Transfers to the Jail Fund and associated capital project lines totaling $3,750,594 (covered in a separate action) and recorded as Resolution 9; that measure passed 9‑2 (one absent).
- School fund transfers that moved $275,000 from General Purpose School Fund into Education Capital Projects to purchase elementary school marquees, and a $12,500 allocation from the Tennessee Tutoring Grant to regular instruction wages; both approved 11‑0 (1 absent).
- Authorization to surplus County Clerk office equipment (computers, signature pads, card readers, printers/copier/scanner) for disposal or sale.
Several of the amendments cited grant reimbursements (Tennessee Corrections Institute training grant, School Resource Officer grants) or cited that FEMA reimbursement requests would be filed for ice‑storm overtime. The minutes record the funding sources where specified (grants, fund balance, reserves, and sports gaming tax) and list roll call votes for each resolution.
