County Council holds budget hearing, looks to cut $962,000
MARSHALL COUNTY — “I take this as our most important job and we all know that we need to find about $962,000,” Council President Judy Stone said before starting the first reading of the 2020 Budget Hearings. She also stressed the fact that this was the first hearing for the 2020 Budget and therefore no cuts would be made at that time. There will be another 2020 Budget Hearing on Sept. 9, then the decision to adopt the budget will be held on Oct. 14.
With that said, here is the breakdown of the 2020 Budget with department and its requested budgets:
• Commissioners = $4,814,902
• Drainage Board = $8,450
• Rainy Day Fund = $300,000
• Cum Cap Development = $897,917
• County IVD = $4,900
• Buildings and Grounds, Building Maintenance = $596,961
• Highway (administration, Maintenance and Repair, General and Undistributed) = $4,573,230
• Cum Bridge = $1,193,497
• Local Road and Street = $650,000
• Sheriff, General Fund = $2,233,408
• Sheriff, Jail = $1,357,171
• LIT Special Purpose = $2,881,147
• Extradition/sheriff assistance = $37,000
• Misdemeanant-county Corrections = $91,000
• Sex/violent Offender = $12,000
• Statewide 911 = $701,313
• Central Dispatch = $184,061
• DARE = $25,000
• DEA Forfeiture = $35,000
• Lake Enforcement DNR Grant = $63,000
• Clerk = $451,060
• Voter Registration = $38,919
• Election Board = $87,860
• Records Perpetuation = $22,500
• Clerk IVD = $9,700
• Treasurer = $165,620
• Recorder = $115,316
• County Security ID = $8,000
• Surveyor = $178,080
• Coroner = $105,191
• LEPC = $23,000
• Assessor = $195,976
• Sales Disclosure-county Share = $6,650
• Reassessment = $420,889
• Prosecutor = $544,987
• Prosecutor, Pre-trial Diversion = $278,500
• Prosecutor, County IVD = $82,566
• Prosecutor, Community Corrections = $59,300
• Extension Office = $247,537
• Veterans Service Officer = $52,637
• Plan Commission = $132,876
• Board of Zoning Appeals = $5,150
• Building Inspector = $81,890
• IT, Information Systems = $158,833
• IT, CCD = $897,917
• Museum = $125,430
• Historical Society = $46,000
• Superior Court #1 = $344,997
• Superior Court #2 = $613,188.70
• Community Corrections = $370,429.73
• Community Corrections, Jail Treatment = $145,026
• Community Corrections, CCPI = $437,464.84
• Drug Free Community = $92,200
• Circuit Court = $302,712.45
• Probation = $615,723
• Adult Probation Administrative = $137,848
• Supplemental Adult Probation User Fees = $16,500
• Community Corrections, Probation = $130,042
• Weights and Measures = $22,296
• EMA = $68,380
• Soil and Water = $36,981
• Health Department = $554,252.80
• Local Health Maintenance = $33,139
• Local Health Department Trust Acct. = $25,093
• WIC, NSA = $209,405.39
• WIC, Peer Counselor = $219,594.39
• Auditor = $408,287
• Auditor, Plat Mapping = $43,300
• Auditors Ineligible Deduction = $14,000
• Auditors County Officials Training Fund = $10,000
• County Council = $75,595
After each of these funds had been reviewed, all questions asked, and all the department heads had their chance to explain their budgets, an estimated $700,000 was found that could be trimmed from the budget. Of course, nothing was approved to be cut, that will happen at the Sept. 9 budget hearing. For an in-depth look at some of these individual budgets during the hearing, watch out in future editions of The Pilot News.