Monroe County commission approves a slate of budget amendments and adopts revised open‑records policy

The Monroe County Board of Commissioners approved a series of budget amendments and adopted a revised county policy manual at its May 26 meeting.

The actions covered a range of departments and purposes, including sponsorship revenue and reserve transfers for the Monroe County Rodeo, grant reimbursements for ambulance heart monitors, medical examiner budget corrections, a health‑department state grant personnel move, emergency management donations, workers’ compensation premium adjustments for the commission, proceeds from surplus sales for the sheriff’s office, jail overtime corrections, and various other departmental budget corrections. The board also approved school budget amendments and a resolution to declare sheriff vehicles and military equipment surplus for sale on GovDeals.

The meeting record shows motions were made, seconded and approved by roll call on each item. Key amounts recorded in the agenda and read into the record included $40,800 for the health‑department grant position, $185,620 from surplus sales for the sheriff, $40,000 to correct jail overtime, and $80,568 to cover additional workers’ compensation premiums for the County Commission. Where the agenda copy is garbled or unclear the item text has been reported as transcribed by the clerk; the exact line‑item accounting is retained in county budget files.

The commission also approved Resolution 0526‑6M to incorporate an updated open‑records policy into the county policy manual effective May 26, 2026. According to the agenda, that policy was approved earlier by the Financial Management Committee on May 14, 2026 and is now part of the county’s official policy manual.

Votes at a glance • Resolution 0526‑04 (Finance Department): motion moved and seconded; roll call recorded; approved. • Resolution 0526‑6 (Other Facilities — rodeo sponsorship transfer): approved (amount transcribed in agenda record). • Resolution 0526‑6A (Ambulance — grant reimbursement for heart monitors): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6B (Medical Examiner — budget correction, $32,269): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6C (Health Department — state grant employee move, $40,800): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6D (Emergency Management — donations, $3,789.38 transcribed): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6E (County Commission — workers’ comp premium, $80,568): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6F (Sheriff — proceeds from surplus sales, $185,620): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6G (Sheriff — internal transfer for outsourcing, $16,561.57 transcribed): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6H (Sheriff — training and overtime grant reimbursements, $14,800): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6I (Jail — overtime correction, $40,000): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6J (Sheriff — vehicle damage reimbursement, $3,765.40 transcribed): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6AK (Solid Waste — trustees commission correction, $1,000): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6L (General fund trustees commission correction, $28,000): approved. • Resolution 0526‑6M (Policy manual — open records policy): approved; effective May 26, 2026. • Resolution (surplus sheriff vehicles/military equipment — GovDeals): approved. • Resolution seven (school budget amendments): approved.

The clerk took roll call on each motion; the spoken record shows members responding “hi” during roll call. The transcript does not list individual yes/no votes beyond the roll‑call confirmations read into the record, so this article reports the motions as approved as recorded by the clerk.

What happens next: The approved budget amendments will be reflected in the county’s fiscal year 2526 accounting records and the revised open‑records policy will be incorporated into the county policy manual; the clerk will transmit the highway‑designation resolution to the Tennessee Department of Transportation where applicable.