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Madison County council approves transfers, grants and salary ordinances
Summary
Councilors approved multiple routine transfers and grant appropriations — including equipment for elections, prosecutor and sheriff funding adjustments, a highway pipe appropriation and several salary ordinances — during a meeting that also included public comment and a parks-board appointment delay.
The Madison County Council voted on a bundle of administrative items, transfers and grants during its meeting, moving through election-worker pay, prosecutor and sheriff transfers, a highway appropriation and several salary-ordinance votes.
County Clerk Linda Smith asked the council to set hourly rates and per-diem amounts for election workers: $15 per hour for absentee-processing and travel-board workers, and per-diem levels of $1.25 and $1.75 per day for certain early-voting teams and inspectors. The council approved those rates and a $1,063.77 intra-department transfer to purchase cradle-point router hardware to support e-poll books.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor Andrew Hanna asked for a transfer to pay the final weeks of a temporary deputy prosecutor and to fund a certified legal intern working on a capital case; the council approved the transfer. Hanna also secured appropriation of $59,505 from the Edward Byrne JAG grant for the Cellebrite cell-extraction license and $3,400 for related hardware.
Sheriff John Bean reported a $10,158 reimbursement from the marshal service and the council reappropriated those funds to the sheriff's overtime line after members discussed the accounting precedent for reimbursements. The prosecutor also brought a reimbursement reappropriation for training scholarships; that item passed as well.
Highway Superintendent Scott Harless requested $125,000 to do pipe work for his department after funds were not allocated in an engineering split; the council approved the appropriation. A public commenter urged improved inventory controls for materials such as pipe.
Councilors passed several salary ordinances and fund adjustments in roll-call votes during the meeting. The meeting closed after public comment and a short budget-discussion deferral to a future Reedy Group briefing.
