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Van Buren County Court adopts $21.41 million appropriations package and sets 1.3883 tax levy
Summary
The Van Buren County Court voted unanimously to adopt appropriations across county and school funds totaling $21,409,620 and fixed the county tax levy at 1.3883 for the year beginning July 1, 2026. The court also approved a small charitable appropriations item and adjourned.
Van Buren County Court voted to adopt a resolution making appropriations for county and school funds totaling $21,409,620 and set the county tax levy at 1.3883 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.
Miss Dan read the appropriations resolution aloud, detailing fund line items, including the General Purpose School Fund at $10,152,700; Ambulance Service at $998,780; Solid Waste/Sanitation at $522,117; Debt Service at $382,768; Courthouse and Jail Maintenance at $46,951; Child Nutrition Fund at $842,000; with total appropriations for all funds read as $21,409,620. After Miss Dan moved the resolution and Michael Chandler seconded, the court conducted a roll-call vote in which the members present recorded affirmative votes.
The court then considered and adopted a resolution fixing the tax levy for Van Buren County for the year beginning July 1, 2026. Miss Dan read the levy as 1.3883; she moved the measure and Chandler seconded. The measure passed on a roll-call vote with members recorded as voting yes.
The court also read and approved a resolution making appropriations to nonprofit and charitable organizations; the transcript records the amount read as '$5' as presented in the meeting. That resolution was moved, seconded, and approved by roll call.
Roll call during the session included the following names as called: Michael Chandler; Jordan Delong; Tetha Denny; Terry Hickey; Terry Hodges; Destiny/Desi Maple; Kenny Smith; Tommy Frady; Michael Woodley; and Kale/Dale Crane. The motions to adopt the presented resolutions were moved by Miss Dan and seconded by Michael Chandler, and the votes recorded in the transcript were uniformly affirmative for the items presented. The meeting concluded after a motion to adjourn.
The court did not discuss amendments or substantive debate recorded in the transcript on the budget or levy figures during this session; the items were read, moved, and approved by roll-call votes. Where figures in the spoken record were unclear (for example, a line read as 'Local purpose tax, 1,000,008' and a charitable appropriation read as '$5'), the article reports the amounts as they were read in the transcript rather than inferring corrected figures.
