Ben Hill County adopts three budget amendment resolutions; CFO says general fund unchanged

The Ben Hill County Commissioners on March 7 adopted three budget amendment resolutions—2022-08, 2022-09 and 2022-10—after the county’s Chief Financial Officer summarized the changes. "The total General Fund expenditures were neither increased nor decreased as a result of these Budget Amendments," CFO Darlow Maxwell told the board and cited the legal requirement for balanced budgets in OCGA section 36-81-3(b).

Maxwell said the amendments represented a final departmental-level review covering the General Fund, E911, Jail Fund, Special Investigation and Drug Fund. The minutes state that these amendments were departmental reallocations and did not change the overall General Fund total.

Each resolution was moved and seconded and passed unanimously: Vice-Chair Hope Harmon moved to adopt the resolutions, with Commissioners Daniel Cowan, John Mooney, Bennie Calloway and Chairman Steve Taylor voting in favor. The minutes record no amendments to those resolutions during the meeting and no recorded dissenting remarks.

Because the minutes show the action as adoption of the named resolutions, the record contains no further detail about line-item amounts or department-level adjustments beyond the summary provided by the CFO.