Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners

Budget Workshop

July 22, 2010 – 4:00 p.m.

 

Present:               Eugene Lamb, Chair , District 1

                                Doug Croley, Vice-Chair, District 2

                                Gene Morgan, District 3

                                District 4 seat is vacant due to resignation of former Commissioner Brenda Holt

                                Sherrie Taylor, District 5

                                Nicholas Thomas, Clerk

                                Deborah Minnis, County Attorney

                                Johnny Williams, County Administrator

 

   Call to Order

 

 

  Clerk Thomas – Audit Report – Auditors are done with report except for response letters.  They still  need a response letter from the Sheriff.   State agencies don’t consider it complete without those audit response letters.     Sheriff is waiting to hear from his counsel before he responds to the audit report. 

 

County Administrator Johnny Williams was instructed to contact the Sheriff’ s office as a courtesy to request his response letter.

 

  Question by Commissioner Croley regarding legal responsibility and sworn obligations as commissioners.  Revenues depend on compliance to audit requirements.   Attorney to research what steps BCC needs to do to protect the posture of the board. 

 

 

   Revenue Trends

 

  Fund Balance

 

   Building Inspection

 

Look at adding a permit clerk (must have certification)   

 

Code Enforcement

 

   Maintenance Department

Health Insurance – Has there been any effort to get CHP to be more competitive?   Not much competition out there.  There will be an 8% increase coming on future agenda effective October 1.  This budget accounts for only 4%.  There will need to be an adjustment. 

 

   Custodial Services

 

 

Grants Administrator  SHIP

 

Hospital

 

   Jail Maintenance

 

  County Administrator

 

County Attorney

 reduce to $200,000

 

County Audit

  

 

 

EMS

Come back with comparable figures with what other counties charge.  

 

 

   Extension Service  

 

 

Libraries

  

 

Look at adding an additional person to clean the bathrooms.   Bring back a proposal.

 

Children Services   -

 

  Are Friends of the Library active in the budget process for the need of the book material?  Everytime they meet, they discuss the need for more books.  

 

Follow up with the Friends and see if they can help address the book purchase issue.

 

  Put $10,000 in promotional  programming  

 

possibly    consider getting rid of  the 1991 van.

 

  Management Services

 

  Veterans Services

Look for $1500 for recognition of Veterans on Veterans’ Day –

 

Croley/Morgan Adjourn.  

 

4 – 0   Come back on 29th.  4:00 p.m.