Madison County Commission passes 2024-25 FY budget

JACKSON, Tenn. — The Madison County Commission met Friday evening in a very short meeting to vote on next year’s budget.

“We all came together, worked together and there’s some things we want to continue to improve the process going into next year. I’ve told anybody that has any recommendations please come to the budget meetings and lets hear them, because we can always improve the process,” said Michael Taylor, chairman of the finance committee.

The Madison County Commission voted to approve their 2024-25 fiscal year budget.

Taylor shares what is included in this year’s budget.

“Most of the departments have an increase. We spent more in capital in this year than we ever have since I’ve been on the commission. I think we spent $5.7 million in capital for the county and $1.2 million in capital in the schools,” said Taylor.

It was agreed that there would be a 3% raise in every department.

“There were a couple of previously agreed to agreements from year’s past that we honor this year that way. I think they gave an actual dollar-an-hour to the fire department because of the 24 hour service that they do, but other than that everyone else was the same,” said Taylor.

Taylor adds that he is supportive of Jackson-Madison County Schools superintendent Dr. Marlon King’s use of their budget.

“They can use it for any type of capital expense. Any type of capital expense like roofs, school buses, anything they got to buy like that. Dr. King’s done a really great job managing his budget,” said Taylor.

He also shares that the budget is balanced with the potential of residual funds.

“We’ll probably end up having some extra funds at the end of the year like we usually do. Unless something out of the ordinary goes crazy we ought to be in good shape,” said Taylor.

Taylor shares that the commission’s approval of the budget met the needs of all departments.

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