More money moved from contingency
NORWICH – The Chenango County Finance Committee, meeting Thursday, made appropriations from contingency to offset current year deficits in some departments.
Staffing deficiencies and prisoners’ medical bills continued to plague the Chenango County Public Safety Factility this quarter. Sheriff Ernest Cutting requested $85,000 from county contingency to cover both.
The Sheriff said maintaining staffing levels at the Public Safety Facility jail and the “tremendous” medical problems inmates have have resulted in more overtime work for corrections officers. “Prescription costs and hospital stays are a nightmare,” he said.
The Sheriff previously transfered nearly $200,000 from the part-time line item in his budget to overtime.
The county’s portion of tobacco settlement funds, received annually as part of the federal government’s Tobacoo Settlement Act of 2000, were tapped to afford a new $132,000 server in the Information Technology department. Members of Finance were allerted to the pending expendure at budget time last year, and created a capital project account to pay for it over a two-year period. The previous mainframe was purchased six years ago.
Outstanding bills and assigned counsel in the Public Defender’s office required an appropriation of about $180,000.
The committee agreed to appropriate $43,000 in state funds to initiate a capital project account for planned upgrades at the Brisben Transfer Station, part of the Chenango County Waste Management Department. The improvements are projected to cost approximately $75,000.
The funding stream is normally appropriated for cell development at the Pharsalia Landfill. Finance Committee Chairman Lawrence Wilcox asked for assurances that the next cell, due to be built in 2016, would be fully funded if the Brisben project went forward. Treasurer William B. Evans reported the development fund totalled $1.4 million currently, about half of what will be needed to build another cell.
The committee took time to consider transferring about $300,000 in unexpected revenues remaining in the Chenango County Mental Hygiene Services Department to afford a new electronic documentation system for use by alcohol and drug services clinicians. But due to uncertainties about whether the division might be privatized in the near future, the expenditure was tabled.
Staffing deficiencies and prisoners’ medical bills continued to plague the Chenango County Public Safety Factility this quarter. Sheriff Ernest Cutting requested $85,000 from county contingency to cover both.
The Sheriff said maintaining staffing levels at the Public Safety Facility jail and the “tremendous” medical problems inmates have have resulted in more overtime work for corrections officers. “Prescription costs and hospital stays are a nightmare,” he said.
The Sheriff previously transfered nearly $200,000 from the part-time line item in his budget to overtime.
The county’s portion of tobacco settlement funds, received annually as part of the federal government’s Tobacoo Settlement Act of 2000, were tapped to afford a new $132,000 server in the Information Technology department. Members of Finance were allerted to the pending expendure at budget time last year, and created a capital project account to pay for it over a two-year period. The previous mainframe was purchased six years ago.
Outstanding bills and assigned counsel in the Public Defender’s office required an appropriation of about $180,000.
The committee agreed to appropriate $43,000 in state funds to initiate a capital project account for planned upgrades at the Brisben Transfer Station, part of the Chenango County Waste Management Department. The improvements are projected to cost approximately $75,000.
The funding stream is normally appropriated for cell development at the Pharsalia Landfill. Finance Committee Chairman Lawrence Wilcox asked for assurances that the next cell, due to be built in 2016, would be fully funded if the Brisben project went forward. Treasurer William B. Evans reported the development fund totalled $1.4 million currently, about half of what will be needed to build another cell.
The committee took time to consider transferring about $300,000 in unexpected revenues remaining in the Chenango County Mental Hygiene Services Department to afford a new electronic documentation system for use by alcohol and drug services clinicians. But due to uncertainties about whether the division might be privatized in the near future, the expenditure was tabled.
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