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County manager reports smaller deficit then a larger contingency after insurance update in final budget hearing
Summary
County Manager Thomas Weaver told commissioners on May 6 the draft budget still showed a $21,830 deficit; at the May 27 final hearing he reported a revised insurance position leaving a roughly $59,000 contingency while staff works to finalize remaining numbers.
County Manager Thomas Weaver told the Commission at a May 6 public hearing that the administration had cut spending but still faced a shortfall of $21,830 as it worked toward a final FY2025–26 budget. "We have overall reduced the budget, to the part where we have a deficit of 21,830.00," Weaver said while distributing updated budget handouts and describing planned SPLOST-funded capital outlays.
At the board's final budget public hearing on May 27 Weaver said insurance developments changed the projection: "with the news of the insurance we are now at a 59,000.00 contingency," he told the commission, while noting that he expected further adjustments after the county receives full insurance figures. Commissioners asked staff to double-check public-safety line items after Coffey flagged apparent differences in that department's totals. Weaver said many departmental budgets either decreased or remained flat and that vehicle and special-project needs would largely be funded from SPLOST rather than operating funds.
The commission held public comment periods at both hearings; no members of the public spoke at either meeting. The board took no final adoption vote in the May 27 hearing text, leaving any formal adoption to the regular meeting where the agenda item would appear.
