Commissioners hear budget proposals

Commissioners hear budget proposals
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Tuscarawas County Commissioners began moving forward with the 2019 budgets by hearing county departments/office budget presentations on Nov. 5.

                        

Tuscarawas County Commissioners began moving forward with the 2019 budgets by hearing county departments/office budget presentations on Nov. 5.

The commissioners and Jane Clay, executive assistant and park coordinator, heard budget proposals from Emergency Management Agency, Southern Court, Clerk of Courts, Common Pleas/Community Corrections, the engineer, public defender, Regional Planning and Municipal.

Budgets being presented the week of Nov. 12 included coroner, IT, prosecutor, water/sewer, soil and water, and Office of Community & Economic Development.

Later in November the commissioners will hear budget presentations from Child Support Enforcement Agency, Job and Family Services, and the sheriff.

While the commissioners are the county’s taxing, budgeting and purchasing authority, individual departments and the elected officials or department heads largely determine how their department budget will be spent.

Following all the presentations made from the different county departments/offices, the commissioners will meet for budget work sessions. During these sessions the commissioners will review the budgets and make decisions that are fiscally responsible to the county but also take different spending priorities and goals into account.

As mandated by Ohio Revised Code, counties must then pass either the final county budget or a temporary appropriation budgetary resolution by Jan. 1.

If temporary appropriations are used, the final budget must be passed no later than April 1. The 2018 County General Fund budget was approved by the commissioners on Jan. 24.

All budget presentations as well as the budget work sessions are done during regular sessions of the county commissioners’ board meetings, which are open to the public.

Information on the time of the sessions can be found on the county website using this direct link to the commissioners’ meeting agendas at www.co.tuscarawas.oh.us/Commissioners/Agenda.htm or by calling the office at 330-365-3240.


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