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Budget committee advances monthly appropriations; DSS request adjusted and recommended
Summary
The budget committee recommended approval of monthly appropriations for the county and schools and reported a Department of Social Services appropriation request; the committee recommended final DSS approval pending a follow-up budget meeting.
The budget committee reported to the full board that it recommended monthly appropriations rather than annualized 1/12 splits for certain accounts to better match monthly needs.
S9 told the board that the Department of Social Services submitted a monthly appropriations request initially stated in the transcript as $667,738; the committee later reported the DSS request was adjusted (the transcript records the revised figure in a garbled numeric form). The committee moved and seconded a recommendation that county and school monthly appropriations proceed and that the DSS appropriation be approved pending an additional budget committee meeting scheduled for later in the day.
The committee also reported a proposed new budget item of approximately $660,000 that included one-time expenses and that the county's portion was roughly $80,000. Board members asked questions about monitoring and avoiding repeated midyear appropriation changes; staff said monthly appropriations will improve tracking and allow more targeted spending decisions.
The committee's recommendations were presented to the board and accepted as committee recommendations during the meeting; the board moved forward in line with those recommendations.
