Monroe County Board of County Commissioners met Nov. 14.
Here are the minutes provided by the board:
The special meeting of the County Commissioners of Monroe County, Illinois was called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Chairman Dennis M. Knobloch, for the purpose of discussing the 2023 budget.
The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Chairman Dennis M. Knobloch, Commissioner George Green and Commissioner Vicki Koerber were present.
Others present included Deputy County Clerk Mia VanZandt, Sheila Wetzler, Scott Woodsmall with the Waterloo Republic-Times, Public Safety Director Kevin Scheibe, Treasurer Kevin Koenigstein and Deputy Treasurer Scott Marquardt.
The Board heard public comments from Pat Kelly who questioned why the County has a budget if two, three weeks from now, a department head can come up here, wanting to increase their budget. Chairman Knobloch's response was to state the only changes they have made to funding in the last year were due to ARPA funding, not a change to the budget.
County Treasurer Kevin Koenigstein and Deputy Treasurer Scott Marquardt came before the Board to review the final draft of the FY2023 budget. Kevin suggested having a special meeting around November 29, 2022 to go over truth and taxation hearing, approve some bills, things like that.
Kevin requested several minor changes to some of the revenue and expense accounts.
100-10-4110 - Increase to $400,000
100-10-4221 - Increase to $2,900,000
100-10-4120 - Increase to $1,200.000
100-10-4126- Increase to $1,700,000
100-10-4830- Increase to $200,000
100-10-4897- Increase to $70,000
100-10-4828- remove line item
100-11-7435- Increase to $50,000
100-12-6930- Increase to $750,000
100-12-7210- remove line item
100-12-7530- Decrease to $10,000
100-13-8370- Increase to $20,137
100-15-5110- Increase to $81,109
100-16-5110 - Increase to $81,109
100-30-7430-line item added - budget amount is the same, the monies were simply reallocated
100-37-6800 - Increase to $103,380
100-44-5110- Increase to $80,254
100-52-5420- Increase to $54,000
100-52-8210- Decrease to $40,000
100-64-5110- Increase to $188,754
100-64-5115- Increase to $265,000
100-67-5110- Increase to $151,000
100-67-5180 -- Increase to $95,000
100-67-5181 -- Increase to $94,000
100-67-5230 -- Increase to $249,681
100-67-5280 -- Increase to $1,354,888
100-67-5281 -- Increase to $499,412
100-67-5282 -- Increase to $514,982
100-67-5320 -- Increase to $44,086
200-20-4158- Increase to $124,000
840-84-4208 -- Increase to $300,000
840-84-42 -- Increase to $800,000
880-88-5250-- Increase to $505,525
880-88-5350 -- Increase to $125,250
880-88-5550 -- Increase to $401,580
880-88-5650 -- Increase to $38,064
880-88-8320 -- Increase to $234,000
Kevin Scheibe came before the Board to discuss a request for more funds to replace an emergency personnel radio, which stopped receiving transmissions over the weekend. Kevin contacted Paul Tipton when he realized there was an issue and, going to the radio room with him, he discovered there are four radios there that were put in 18 years ago. Motorola can replace the failed one for $4,511.00 (this is at a 47% discount), for the radio alone. The others are still working but we don't know for how long. This was not planned for - Kevin was not even aware it was part of his EMA responsibilities - so this is not in his budget. He would like to replace just this one at the moment and try to get a 47% discount from Motorola for the others. Commissioner Koerber made a motion to replace all the radios, contingent upon receiving the 47% discount from Motorola. Second by Commissioner Green. All voting Aye. None Nay. None Absent. Motion carried.
Kevin Koenigstein would like to pay off the nursing home bond, so we don't carry that debt anymore. The Board agreed and told him to go ahead and pay it off.
The Capital Improvements Fund is short about $30,000 right now. Kevin would like to pull money from the Contingency Fund to balance it out to zero.
Kevin says we have $5,000,048 in ARPA funds.
He also says he should have the budget ready for final approval at the first Board meeting of the new fiscal year, December 5, 2022.
There being no further business to come before the Board, a motion was made by Commissioner Koerber to adjourn. Second by Commissioner Green. All voting Aye. None Nay. None Absent. Motion carried.
Meeting adjourned at 10:26 a.m.
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