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Essex supervisors agree to give schools' finance request attention, trim county budget and ask staff for follow-ups
Summary
At a budget work session, the Essex County Board of Supervisors agreed by consensus to give the county administrator authority to work on the schools' request to resume finance duties, accepted staff's trimmed operating projection, approved a set of outside-agency allocations and directed staff to develop a fleet-management policy and outside-agency application process.
The Essex County Board of Supervisors met in a budget work session and cleared a series of fiscal and procedural items, including direction to the county administrator to engage with the school division's request to resume its own budget and finance responsibilities. The board moved the work-session item by consensus after members said the school board had requested the transition and after several supervisors commended county centralized services for managing the functions in the interim.
County staff presented updated revenue and expense projections that staff said balanced the operating budget without a tax increase. Anita (county staff) told the board the packet shows estimated revenues of about $57.61 million and operating expenses of about $57.26 million, leaving roughly $355,742 available for outside agencies and capital projects before touching reserves. Staff outlined options for additional capital funding including using debt service…
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