Jackson Budget Committee discusses tax revenue in recent meeting

JACKSON, Tenn. — The City of Jackson’s budget committee held a meeting Tuesday morning to discuss a few topics.

The meeting began as it normally does with the city recorder, Nathan Reed, giving a current revenue update. This update provided information regarding how the city is on better track than they were this time last year. Councilman and chairman of the committee, Dr. Frank McMeen, gave us some numbers.

“I think we are 4% over our budget and maybe $900,000 of that goes to what we were expecting. So that’s a great thing for our city. We expect that to continue,” said Dr. McMeen.

Dr. McMeen was referring to the city being over 4% higher on tax revenue averages and having collected over $900,000 in revenue than last year. They also talked about just under $40,000 of an opioid remediation grant from the state that will go towards the police department.

“They submitted a budget. We’re going to cut that budget down a little bit, or they will. I think it’s $39,000 that they are going to be putting back into the community to help fight opioids in our community, which is a devastating thing,” said Dr. McMeen.

This state money was given to Madison County, then different organizations applied for a portion of the total money. They also got an update on purchasing cards that will potentially be given to different departments.

“It makes it easier for someone to go and make a purchase. Instead of having to get a PO and then get something done to where the company accepts the PO and they pay later. Then the vendor gets the money sooner,” said Dr. McMeen.

This will begin with a demo program before it is used by all departments. There was also an update on the bonds. Currently, the city is meeting with the bond council to get everything cleared up to move forward.

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