Butler County finance director outlines transfers including $300,000 for IT network equipment

Lana Keels, Butler County finance director, presented a series of fund transfers and appropriations to the commissioners, including a $300,000 transfer from capital into software and hardware to cover network equipment purchased by the county IT department. Keels detailed smaller transfers as well: $7,000 moving within the juvenile court budget from attorney fees to other contract services, and Treasury operations shifting $1,900 into software/hardware and $680 into travel and training.

Keels also reported a non‑general‑fund transfer in Fund 700 (the care facility): $2,881 moved from refunds into telephone and communication. She noted there are purchase orders over $15,000 on the agenda and payment requests where purchases took place before a purchase order was issued. "This is for the network equipment purchased by IT," Keels said when describing the $300,000 transfer. The transfers were submitted to the commissioners for approval; the transcript records the presentation but does not record a roll‑call vote on the broader transfer list.