July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Council OK's additional funds (11/12/04)
Funds for the maintenance of county roads, equipment for emergency personnel and an addition to the county highway garage were approved Wednesday by the Jay County Council.
In what has become an annual routine, members of the council gave their approval to move $80,000 into the stone, gravel and aggregate line item in the county highway fund.
Ken Wellman, superintendent of the highway department, told council members that a total of $759,000 had been spent on maintenance and chip-and-seal programs so far this year, leaving less than $50,000 in the 2004 budget with two months remaining.
In order to properly prepare county roads for winter, Wellman said he needed the additional funds.
Members of the council also gave approval to moving more than $110,000 in grant money into two line items in a homeland security fund — including $60,474 for hazardous materials response equipment and $50,000 into an other operating expense line item.
The grants, which were federal grants passed through the State Emergency Management Agency, were awarded earlier this year.
Also Wednesday, council members Mark Barnett, Marilyn Coleman, Jack Houck, George Meehan and Todd Wickey approved using $19,721 from the county infrastructure fund to pay for construction of two additional bays for storage of dump trucks at the highway department.
Council members Andy Schemenaur and Gerald Kirby were not present at Wednesday’s meeting.
The money in the infrastructure fund is generated from a host fee paid by Jay County Landfill operator Waste Management of Indiana. That fee, paid quarterly, is 10 percent of gross gate revenues.
In the past year, the county has been paid more than $300,000.
Other additional appropriations OK’d by the council Wednesday included:
•$11,000 that was moved into a fund to allow bills to be paid in a Jay Superior Court-sponsored alcohol and drug counseling program that is paid for by fees imposed on offenders.
•$5,500 into backhoe parts and service from the backhoe and dozer replacement fund.
•$5,000 to pay charges from Sprint for the county’s 911 phone system. A billing error by the company in 2003 caused a monthly bill to be paid earlier this year, shorting funds in the 2004 budget.
•$500 into supplies for the jail janitor from the county general fund.[[In-content Ad]]
In what has become an annual routine, members of the council gave their approval to move $80,000 into the stone, gravel and aggregate line item in the county highway fund.
Ken Wellman, superintendent of the highway department, told council members that a total of $759,000 had been spent on maintenance and chip-and-seal programs so far this year, leaving less than $50,000 in the 2004 budget with two months remaining.
In order to properly prepare county roads for winter, Wellman said he needed the additional funds.
Members of the council also gave approval to moving more than $110,000 in grant money into two line items in a homeland security fund — including $60,474 for hazardous materials response equipment and $50,000 into an other operating expense line item.
The grants, which were federal grants passed through the State Emergency Management Agency, were awarded earlier this year.
Also Wednesday, council members Mark Barnett, Marilyn Coleman, Jack Houck, George Meehan and Todd Wickey approved using $19,721 from the county infrastructure fund to pay for construction of two additional bays for storage of dump trucks at the highway department.
Council members Andy Schemenaur and Gerald Kirby were not present at Wednesday’s meeting.
The money in the infrastructure fund is generated from a host fee paid by Jay County Landfill operator Waste Management of Indiana. That fee, paid quarterly, is 10 percent of gross gate revenues.
In the past year, the county has been paid more than $300,000.
Other additional appropriations OK’d by the council Wednesday included:
•$11,000 that was moved into a fund to allow bills to be paid in a Jay Superior Court-sponsored alcohol and drug counseling program that is paid for by fees imposed on offenders.
•$5,500 into backhoe parts and service from the backhoe and dozer replacement fund.
•$5,000 to pay charges from Sprint for the county’s 911 phone system. A billing error by the company in 2003 caused a monthly bill to be paid earlier this year, shorting funds in the 2004 budget.
•$500 into supplies for the jail janitor from the county general fund.[[In-content Ad]]
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