The Cannon County Rescue Squad presented their small budget to the Cannon County Budget Committee Thursday night . The rescue squad has been budgeted $3,085.00 the past fiscal year. They are requesting an increase to $10,585.00 for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. The $7,000 increase request is to help pay off the note of one of the recent rescue squad trucks. The committee asked if the Rescue Squad would make a presentation to the full commission during their next meeting. Cannon County Solid Waste Budget was reviewed. The Estimated Revenues for next fiscal year is $497,436.00, estimated expenditures is $509,596.00. There are no significant increases in expenditures expected in the new year.
The Parks and Fair Boards Budget requested a 5 percent increase in the salary of the supervisor and assistants. This amount brought their budget request to $51,436.00.
The Election Commission Budget was dropped off after their meeting was finished. The total requested amount for the 2012-2013 fiscal year was $165,379.00 of which it was reported that $19,530.00 will come back to the County as the State will reimburse for election expenses.
The Committee will now look into taking the second step of making the decisions on what requests to honor and which ones to cut as their next meeting will be June 26th.
