Trigg County officials still have a month, or so, before a ratified budget must be submitted to the state’s Department of Local Government for a final stamp of approval.
Magistrates, Judge-Executive Stan Humphries and County Treasurer Lucy Oliver Kyler, however, took in their first reading of what Fiscal Year 2024-25 might look like this past Monday.
As of now, Humphries said all appropriations amount to more than $14,045,000 — which is down more than 2.5% from the last year.
And there’s a chance, he added, that the Fiscal Year 2025-26 outlook is further trimmed.
Among some of the most important line items in this upcoming budget:
— More than $2.8 million for the road fund
— More than $690,000 in the jail fund
— More than $130,000 in the LGEA fund
— More than $155,000 in the ABC fund
— More than $1.2 million in the sheriff’s fund
— And more than $1.3 million allotted for government projects
At the micro level: $25,000 is being earmarked for the beginning of the military memorial project on U.S. 68/80 near Vinson Cemetery, $24,000 set aside for election officers, $32,000 noted for courthouse maintenance and groundskeeping, and $44,000 for an E-911 dispatching grant.
Humphries also noted that the long-awaited concession stand and bathroom improvements to the Trigg County Recreation Complex haven’t fallen to the wayside, and this project is expected to go out for bid this summer.
Furthermore, one of the sherriff’s part-time officers is pivoting to full-time duties, and Humphries said it was worth measuring the ABC funds are decreasing this year because there’s a decrease in alcohol licensing in Trigg County.
Humphries, as well as several magistrates, also issued that the citizens of Trigg County should expect no new, or raised, tax rates.
A second reading of the budget will come in June.
