Van Buren County court approves $636.37 appropriation to deputy prosecutor's office

The Quorum Court of Van Buren County on a recorded vote approved an appropriation ordinance to reimburse the deputy prosecutor’s office $636.37 from hot-check fee receipts.

The ordinance, introduced after the Pledge and roll call, was read into the record and proposed to amend the county’s operating budget to appropriate $424.00 into the deputy prosecutor’s office (1000-416-2024) for maintenance and service contracts and $212.37 into general supplies (1000-416-2001), a combined total of $636.37.

During discussion, Speaker 4 explained the overage resulted from the county inadvertently paying a bill and later being reimbursed by two hot-check-fee checks: “So this is coming from our hot check fee so that we're still within our budget for the year. We didn't ask for any more money from the county,” Speaker 4 said.

The court conducted a roll-call vote; members recorded ‘Yes’ votes from Holcomb, Nikki, Sarah, Phillips, John, Paige, Lemmings and Bass and the ordinance was adopted (the transcript shows an ordinance label near the vote). The motion was moved and seconded as recorded in the meeting minutes.

No amendments to the ordinance were recorded. The court then proceeded to the next agenda item.