By David Litin
The Monroe Times
MONROE - The Green County Board approved moving some funds around after several county departments requested additional funding or reported money left over from the 2014 fiscal calendar.
On Tuesday, the county board approved three resolutions that included giving additional funding, carrying over additional funds to the 2015 fiscal year and allowing departments to turn in additional funding. All three resolutions passed unanimously.
Julie Sachs, Green County's finance director, said some departments within the county did not get reimbursed from the state by the Feb. 28 deadline.
She said the state has delayed its reimbursement in areas such as land conservation and health, both of which requested additional funding to offset the state's delay.
The state "may be short-staffed or waiting for other counties to report to them before they can reimburse anyone," Sachs said.
Perhaps the most notable request was for Land Conservation funds for an additional $134,556. Sachs said that department is working on projects such as improving access to land records online.
She said other notable funding requests were an additional $40,200 for the health department, $42,000 for health insurance, and more than $17,000 for accounting.
For now, the funding has come from the county's undesignated general fund.
While some departments await for reimbursed funding, other departments are carrying over funds from 2014 to 2015's budget.
The Land Records Moderization budget line carried over an additional $62,920 to 2015 for special projects such as the recent web portal enhancements.
Sherri Hawkins, Green County treasurer, said the Land Records modernization project just underwent a "major enhancement" to the web portal.
The enhancement was not the only major project. The Land Conservation is also working on putting property records on a map, she said.
This will be helpful for those on the Land Information Council as well as the public, Hawkins said.
"If we're going to spend these kinds of dollars," she said, "we're going to make it available to the public."
The Monroe Times
MONROE - The Green County Board approved moving some funds around after several county departments requested additional funding or reported money left over from the 2014 fiscal calendar.
On Tuesday, the county board approved three resolutions that included giving additional funding, carrying over additional funds to the 2015 fiscal year and allowing departments to turn in additional funding. All three resolutions passed unanimously.
Julie Sachs, Green County's finance director, said some departments within the county did not get reimbursed from the state by the Feb. 28 deadline.
She said the state has delayed its reimbursement in areas such as land conservation and health, both of which requested additional funding to offset the state's delay.
The state "may be short-staffed or waiting for other counties to report to them before they can reimburse anyone," Sachs said.
Perhaps the most notable request was for Land Conservation funds for an additional $134,556. Sachs said that department is working on projects such as improving access to land records online.
She said other notable funding requests were an additional $40,200 for the health department, $42,000 for health insurance, and more than $17,000 for accounting.
For now, the funding has come from the county's undesignated general fund.
While some departments await for reimbursed funding, other departments are carrying over funds from 2014 to 2015's budget.
The Land Records Moderization budget line carried over an additional $62,920 to 2015 for special projects such as the recent web portal enhancements.
Sherri Hawkins, Green County treasurer, said the Land Records modernization project just underwent a "major enhancement" to the web portal.
The enhancement was not the only major project. The Land Conservation is also working on putting property records on a map, she said.
This will be helpful for those on the Land Information Council as well as the public, Hawkins said.
"If we're going to spend these kinds of dollars," she said, "we're going to make it available to the public."