Macoupin County Board Finance Committee met June 21.
Here are the minutes provided by the committee:
I. CALL TO ORDER
PRESENT: Payne, Adden, Dragovich, Heuer, Kiel, Stayton, Duncan, Lewis, Boehler, McGartland, Garrison, Clough
ABSENT: Armour
II. BUDGET HEARING PRESENTATIONS
1. Dan Snodgrass - Health Insurance Renewal Discussion
Dan Snodgrass discussed the health insurance renewal coming up. Based on the claims paid out vs the premiums paid, it looked like there was potential for the increase this year to be lower than expected. He also walked the committee
through the history of the premium payments since 2015.
2. Anne Clough - Public Defender
Clough discussed her budget request. For her general fund budget request, she was asking for $62,311 more than the previous year, about a 20% increase.
There was $13,541 for backpay for the Assistant Public Defender to receive the same raise the First Assistant State's Attorney received in April. There was the raise for the Assistant Public Defender to that amount. There were so adjustments for items like office supplies and telephone. She also had increases for computer tech support and maintenance agreements.
3. Susan Lewis - Emergency Management
Lewis discussed the Emergency Management budget which is a flat request. The only change is a $28 change from office supplies to put into Association Dues since the state dues increased.
4. Julie Boehler - Animal Control
Boehler discussed her budget request for the Animal Control department.
Overall, the Animal Control Fund would be increasing $13,482 or about 5.8%. Salaries for both full time and part time and increases for vehicle expenses were the significant line item increases. Boehler also said that there would need to be a significant transfer from the General Fund to Animal Control Fund in order to make ends meet. She didn't like asking for additional money but it was needed to keep things going forward. She walked through some future steps she was taking to hopefully bring in more revenue.
5. Jordan Garrison - State's Attorney
Garrison discussed his budget request which was a flat amount for the year. He reminded the Board that he had dissolved some positions in his office to increase the first Assistant State's Attorney the raise he received earlier this year. He also walked through the differences between the budget for his office vs other counties.
6. Pete Duncan - County Clerk
Duncan discussed his budget request for the upcoming year. His two special funds, Recorder Microfilm and Vital Record Automation, were flat. In the General Fund, the real estate stamp line item was zeroed out. The Voting Center budget would be established at $12,000 which would hopefully be offset by the rent from the Regional Office of Education. The Copy Room Budget was increased by $776, or 4.26%. For the County Clerk budget, there was an increase of $13,152.79 or 3.64% which was the already approved salary increases and an increase in the payroll processing line item. The previous calendar year was the first full year they had used the processing company. They had estimated the time spent on it for budget purposes but it had turned out the county was requiring more time than expected, mainly due to offices and departments not properly getting information turned in timely. For the Election budget, he reminded the committee per the grant received by the office, the budget could not be lowered. He had asked for an increase to cover the costs of upgrading the voter registration software. This could be covered by the grant, but he wanted that to be a full Board decision, not just him.
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