Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the County Budget topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Delaware County Excise Board approves Feb. minutes, multiple appropriations and transfers
Summary
At its March 11, 2026 meeting in Jay, the Delaware County Excise Board approved the Feb. 11 minutes, adopted a set of appropriation requests that list totals including $291,517.06 for highway accounts and a combined appropriations total of $571,047.92, and approved several fund transfers including a $100,000 error-correction transfer and a $300,000 health-department reallocation.
The Delaware County Excise Board met in regular session on March 11, 2026, at 8:39 a.m. in Jay and approved the minutes of its Feb. 11 meeting before taking up a series of appropriation requests and transfers.
The board voted to approve the "308 Monthly Estimate of Needs and Request for Appropriations," which included detailed highway and other line items. The highway section listed personal-service and maintenance lines — including Highway Personal-Svc D1 $58,000.00, D2 $70,000.00 and D3 $60,000.00 — and recorded a highway total of $291,517.06. The same agenda item also recorded Highway PACT lines (D1 $28,262.68; D2 $28,262.68; D3 $28,262.69) with a PACT total of $84,788.05. The board approved those items with a motion by Vice-Chairman Steve Odle and a second from Chairman Doug Smith; the minutes state "All voted aye. Motion carried."
The estimate of needs also itemized appropriations for municipal fire departments and related accounts for towns including Bernice, Butler, Colcord, Cleora, Cowskin, Eucha, Flint Ridge, Grove, Hickory Grove, Jay, Kansas, Kenwood, Leach, Lakemont Shores, Monkey Island, Oaks, Tiff City, TiaJuana, West Siloam Springs and Zena. Those fire-department-related lines were recorded with a total of $184,277.52 and were approved as part of the same motion.
Other miscellaneous and special fund lines recorded on the estimate included use-tax receipts (listed as $227,660.13), CBRI allocations totaling $25,704.98, opioid-abatement settlement entries totaling $36,591.34, ARPA federal-funding interest $543.23, a sale-of-county-equipment line of $100,000.00, and several special-fund lines (solid waste, DCEDA sales tax, roads/bridges, sheriff sales tax). The minutes show a combined total of $571,047.92 for the set of appropriations listed under Agenda #2; the board approved the package on the same voice vote.
On other business, the board approved Agenda #3: a transfer of $100,000 from account 1102-6-4200-4130 (Highway Lease/Purchase D2) into account 1313-6-8042-2005 (highway Sales Tax D2), described in the minutes as an "Error Correction." The board also approved Agenda #4, which included a transfer of $300,000 from the Health Department Capital Outlay account (1216-3-5000-4110) to Health Department Personal Service (1216-3-5000-1110), and a $55,000 transfer from the General Government Contingency Fund (0001-1-2000-2999) distributed as $30,000 to Emergency Management, $15,000 to Human Resources and $10,000 to the Retirement Fund. Each of those motions was recorded as moved by Steve Odle and seconded by Doug Smith, with the minutes stating "All voted aye. Motion carried."
The minutes note no members of the public were present for Agenda #5. The meeting adjourned at 8:45 a.m. after a motion by Steve Odle, seconded by Doug Smith; the minutes record unanimous approval to adjourn.
The meeting record lists Doug Smith as Chairman and Steve Odle as Vice-Chairman; Michaele Baker is recorded as the County Clerk's First Deputy and Barbara Barnes is recorded as absent. The agenda posting time is recorded as March 9, 2026, at 7:51 a.m. on the courthouse east lawn kiosk. The board did not record any dissenting votes or amendments in the minutes.
