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County meets payroll without fund transfer

For at least one month, Fayette County will be able to meet its payroll obligations without having to shift monies from one fund to another.

Fayette County Board Chairman Steve Knebel announced at last week’s meeting that the county would not need to transfer money from its capital improvement fund in June “because the state came through with some money.”

The county board approved $250,000 fund transfers in April and May so that the county could meet payroll. The transfers were needed because the county had not received its share of tax monies from the state since last August.

Those two transfers were made from the fund that was established after the county sold its coal rights for about $5.5 million in November 2007.

After the two interfund loans, the county now has $4,952,509 in its capital improvement fund, according to County Treasurer Rose Hoover.

Hoover said the county received reimbursement from the state on May 11 for its share of the salaries paid to the county’s state’s attorney, public defender, supervisor of assessments and chief probation officer.

Then late last week, she said, the county received a sales tax check for $49,373.66. That June check represents the state payment that was due to the county last September.

Also at last week’s county board meeting:

• The board approved the reappointments of Sandy Albright of rural St. Elmo, Pete LeDuc of rural Vandalia, Kris Luster of rural Ramsey and Sandy Stombaugh of Vandalia to the Fayette County Board of Health. They will serve three-year terms that end on July 1, 2013.

The board also approved the appointment of Darrell Schaal to the board of health for one year. Schaal is the county board’s representative on the board of health.

• The board approved the reappointments of commissioners Marion Bone and Lloyd Sugg to the Pond Lily Drainage District Board. Bone’s term runs through September 2012, and Sugg’s term through September 2013.

• The board approved the reappointment of Marsha K. Lilly-Wright and the appointment of Doug Knebel to the Fayette County Hospital District Board of Directors. Their terms run through June 30, 2013.

• The board approved the reappointment of David Wayne Petty to the Tri-County Fire Protection District Board of Trustees. His term runs through May 2013.

• The board approved the appropriation of $2,700 from the county bridge fund for the replacement of a culvert on County Road 1075 North in Kaskaskia Township.

• The board approved the appropriation of $3,000 from the county bridge fund for the replacement of a culvert on County Road 2350 East in Loudon Township.

• The board accepted the low bid of $76,988 from Depew and Owen Builders Inc. of Centralia for the upgrade of a rail crossing one mile south of St. Elmo in Avena Township.

• The board approved the lists of election judges for the general election in November, the consolidated election in April 2011 and the general primary election in March 2012.

• The board granted Hoover’s request to allow banks throughout the county to accept real estate and mineral tax payments. The banks include First National Bank in Vandalia, Ramsey and Patoka, National Bank in Vandalia, Fayette County Bank in St. Elmo, Midland States Bank in Vandalia and Farina, First National Bank of Brownstown and First State Bank of St. Peter.

• A group of county residents spoke with Knebel after the meeting about the Illinois Department of Transportation’s proposed corridors for the four-lane expansion of U.S. Route 51 through the Vandalia area.

 

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