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Budget tops county council agenda

Published Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:06 AM

By Dan Brown
Berkeley Independent

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Dennis Fish

As July draws to a close, Berkeley County Council has yet to finalize its 2010-2011 fiscal year budget.

The budget was to be the main topic discussed during council’s finance committee meeting, one of just two committee meetings on Monday night’s agenda.

Council is trying to find a way to fund next year’s budget without utilizing the majority of funds generated by the 29-percent local option sales tax.

While council agreed to earmark $500,000 of the sales tax money for the proposed Jedburg Road interchange project, the remainder, more than $2.5 million dollars, would go back to the taxpayers.

Councilman Dennis Fish had long been a critic of using the 29-percent LOST funds for capital improvement projects and volunteered to find an alternative means of funding the county’s planned capital improvement projects for the coming year.

A certified public accountant, Fish said following the July 12 meeting of county council that he was in the process of reviewing departmental budget figures to see from where he could pull money, and should have something to present to council in the weeks ahead.

“I just received some new figures and am in the process of reviewing them,” he said.

Other items on the finance committee agenda include a proposed resolution ordering a public hearing in regard to “the Tax Increment Financing Act” involving the proposed TIF district in the Jedburg Road area of Berkeley County.

Council’s public works and purchasing committee was to hear a presentation regarding an airport fixed base operator for aircraft maintenance service at Berkeley County Airport.

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