Breaking: County budget reviewed

Numbers and dollar signs were the focus of Jay County Council’s meeting Wednesday evening.
The council conducted a 2015 budget review, dipped into the county’s rainy day fund to cover Jay Emergency Medical Services expenses, appropriated infrastructure funds for municipality projects and approved a wage increase for the county’s employees.
Dissecting the proposed budget department by department, the council heard a recurring testament of fund requests being “basically the same as last year” but with a common thread of increased wages.
For full coverage of the meeting, read Thursday’s edition of The Commercial Review.