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Commissioners hold
public hearing for
budget amendments
by April S. Kelley
The Hot Springs County
Commissioners held a year-
end budget meeting on June
30, wherein they made amend-
ments to the 2015-2016 budget
because of over expenditures.
During a public hearing on
the budget amendments, Hot
Springs County Clerk Nina
Webber said the county had
three areas in the 2015-16 bud-
get where they had overspent
in the total amount of $48,348.
WebbersaidtheCommission-
ers budget overspent by $2,009,
the airport budget overspent
by $37,165 and the emergency
management budget was over-
spent by $9,174.
Commissioner Brad Basse
asked if the Commissioners
budget was overspent because
of travel expenses, for which
Webber confirmed.
With emergency manage-
ment, Webber explained that
the overspending resulted from
salary. She said half of the wag-
es are paid via a grant, but all
of it was taken out of the line
item and not the grant.
Basse said that the commis-
sioners had the grant as an ex-
penditure line item in the bud-
getbutdidnotutilizeit.Webber
confirmed that was correct.
“In the future, we need to
make sure that we use both of
those line items or put all of the
money into one line item,” Web-
ber said.
Vice-Chairman Tom Ryan
asked if the money to repair
the over expenditures would be
coming from the unused grant
fortheemergencymanagement
budget.
Webber explained that any
unspent money at the end of the
total budget would go towards
the deficits.
Webber said a lot of the over-
spending for the airport budget
was due to the FBO contract for
fuel, maintenance and airport
upkeep, as well as equipment.
Basse said this over expen-
diture was primarily due to the
fact that commissioners did the
budgetbeforetheyfinalizedhow
the contract and airport were
going to be operated.
Chairman John Lumley
asked for further comment on
the budget amendments. As
there were none, the public
hearing was closed.
Basse moved to amend the
2015-16 budget transferring
$2,009 from unencumbered
funds into the County Commis-
sioners budget, $37,165 from
unencumbered funds into the
airport budget and $9,174 from
unencumbered funds into the
emergency management bud-
get, which was approved by the
commissioners.
Commissionersalsoapproved
many line item transfers in the
total amount of $133,352.14.
The transfer of SLIB funds
to fairgrounds projects was also
discussed during the special
meeting.
Ryan made a motion to ap-
prove the updated application
for the fairground work to the
SLIB in the amount of $25,550,
whichwasapprovedbythecom-
missioners.
Community celebrates
photos by April S. Kelley
The Fourth of July and Centennial Celebration for the Swinging Bridge and Bison brought residents out to cele-
brate the holiday. The night began with the Centennial Celebration (bottom right and left), followed by the light-
ing of the bridge (middle) and ending with the fireworks display from T-Hill (top).
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