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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017
County BOC ends year in the black
Jackson County
ended 2016 in the black
according to the recently
released county audit.
The county’s general
fund netted $1.1 million
on the year, growing its
reserves to $7.4 million.
The general fund took
in $40.3 million in rev
enue in 2016, most of
which came from various
taxes.
The county spent a lit
tle over $40 million on
the year out of its general
fund.
As in the past, the
county’s largest expense
was for public safety at
$14.2 million, primarily
the sheriff’s office and
jail operations.
Debt service was the
county’s second larg
est expense at $8.6 mil
lion. followed by general
government operations
at $5.2 million. Judicial
expenses topped $3.6
million in 2016.
SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS
In the county’s spe
cial revenue funds, E911
took in $1.2 million, but
had expenses of $1.48
million. The county’s
ambulance service had
revenues of $1.6 million
and expenses of $3.97
million while parks and
recreation had income of
$480,000 and expenses of
$1.5 million. The county
senior center had income
of $264,800 and expenses
Planners
continued
from 1A
through Saturday.
•no more than 20 cars
may be on the lot at any
one time and may not be
there for more than 30
days.
•the company will sub
mit a plan for paving
parking for customers and
employees within 30 days
and that the work be done
within two years.
•a fence with a black
screen, or other blocking
material, be maintained on
the site.
Garrison and Alewine
came to Commerce after
a rezoning of the prop
erty was rejected by the
Jackson County Board of
Commissioners.
Garrison said the county
issued permits for all the
work done at the property.
Alewine said the oper
ation would not include
shredding unless the site
had a large amount at one
time. He said local resi
dents would be sought to
bring aluminum cans and
other metals for recycling
to the plant. The company
works with Southeast Toy
ota now.
Alewine and Garri
son said the view from
Highway 441 is restricted
because of a bank. Alew
ine also said no more than
four cars would be stored
on the lot at one time.
Commission member
Melinda Cochran suggest
ed the two parcels clos
est to 441 be designated
for commercial. Planning
administrator David Zell-
ner agreed that property
would be more valuable as
commercial.
In other business, the
commission unanimously
rejected a request from
Dennis Cote to rezone
property at 29 Cotton
Street to R-3 residential
from R-2 residential.
Chairman Joe Leffew
said it would be spot zon
ing. The area around it is
all zoned R-2.
of $542,000.
The county uses gener
al tax revenues to pay the
difference in all of those
special funds.
Another fund the coun
ty subsidizes is the cost
of solid waste disposal at
the county landfill. The
landfill had income of
$1.47 million but expens
es of $1.62 million.
FIRE DISTRICTS
The county’s fire dis
tricts collectively took in
$3.37 million last year,
mostly from property
taxes. The departments
had expenses of $2.8 mil
lion.
Together, the fire dis
tricts had reserves that
total over $2 million at
the end of 2016.
AUDIT FINDINGS
Auditors noted several
issues in various coun
ty departments with how
money was handled in
2016. Those were:
• EMS didn’t bill the
correct amounts to some
customers and it doesn’t
use phone calling by a
collection agency to col
lect outstanding debt.
• the clerk of court
had a number of out
standing old transactions
in its bank account that
auditors said should be
removed from its recon
ciliation process.
• the magistrate court
had a number of issues,
including the fact that all
of its transactions were
being done manually and
not by using software and
that there wasn’t enough
separation of duties. The
county responded by
saying the previous mag
istrate judge wouldn’t
allow the court to buy
accounting software, but
that software was now in
place.
• there was an issue in
accurate and timely rec
onciling of bank state
ments in the tax commis
sioner’s office.
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