Scott County Council approves roughly $159,782 in midyear budget transfers and appropriations

The Scott County Council voted on a series of midyear budget adjustments at its regular meeting on May 12, approving a total of roughly $159,782 in transfers and additional appropriations across multiple departments.

The council approved an additional $75,000 to replenish the highway maintenance line after earlier bridge-inspection and maintenance shifts, moving the money under Ordinance 2026-67. The measure passed without recorded dissent.

Council members also approved $19,000 in transfers into overtime for the Scott County Sheriff’s Department under Resolution 2026-11. The sheriff’s office explained the spike in overtime was tied to a December 21–January 3 pay period that included several holidays. The council moved the sheriff’s transfers after discussion about budgeting for holiday payroll impacts.

The transfer station received $15,580 from its own fund to cover a holding invoice from the firm recorded in the minutes as “Clark Deats” to maintain compliance with stormwater and landfill requirements; the council created a professional-services line and approved Ordinance 2026-66 to pay the invoice.

The county’s IT requests were approved in one motion: $6,000 for additional email/security software (the final year of a three‑year contract) and $2,000 to repair a county vehicle used to deploy equipment, for a total of $8,000 under Ordinance 2026-65. Council discussion noted the software is a July-to-July contract and that staff expect to solicit competitive bids after this last contract year.

Smaller transfers approved included a $402 appropriation for postage for the treasurer’s office (Ordinance 2026-64) and a $600 transfer from office supplies to professional services to cover Veterans Affairs cleaning services (Resolution 2026-10). The council also moved a $41,200 appropriation from the TIF district — $40,000 for community outreach and $1,200 to pay utilities for local EV chargers — pending staff review of the TIF district’s creation documents.

Several votes were recorded in the minutes by motion and second; where a mover or second was named in the public record, the minutes list them (examples in the council minutes include motions moved by Ritchie and Collins, and seconds by Collins, Miller and others). When the record identified a vote tally in the transcript it was recorded in the minutes; where the excerpt did not include a final numeric tally, the action is recorded as approved in the minutes without a separate count in the provided transcript.

The council also tabled a $1,085 drainage-board professional-services request (Ordinance 2026-69) until staff could confirm the invoice’s purpose and signatory. The meeting portion in the provided transcript ends as the board of commissioners’ $30,000 professional-services request is being introduced; no action on that item appears in the excerpt.

The council typically closed each item with an explicit motion, a second, and a voice vote recorded in the minutes.