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County judge says internal transfers close 2025 budget without using carryover
Summary
The presiding official told the Tyler County Commissioners Court it covered 2025 overages through internal line-item transfers—avoiding use of carryover—citing higher ad valorem collections, payroll payouts after staff departures, and reallocation between the sheriff's office and jail.
The presiding official of the Tyler County Commissioners Court said the county closed fiscal 2025 by reallocating funds internally rather than tapping carryover reserves.
"So there's not going to be any carryover money," the presiding official said, describing a series of line-item transfers that he said used surpluses in some accounts to cover shortfalls in others.
The official told the court that ad valorem collections exceeded the budgeted estimate and that the commissioner's appropriations accounted for part of the surplus. He said salary overages occurred when employees left and the county had to pay vacation and comp-time payouts. To cover jail salary overruns, funds were shifted from the sheriff's department budget, which the speaker said had remaining salary funds available.
The official also outlined a $150,000 transfer to district clerk records management that was necessary after a revenue entry had been mistakenly recorded as an asset; the entry has been corrected and the transfer completed. He described the year-end activity as "line item transfers, year end closeout" intended to avoid pulling from carryover balances.
The court moved, seconded and approved the budget amendments and transfers by voice vote.
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