Madison County officials, department heads work to finalize budget

MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. — The next fiscal year’s budget for Madison County is one step closer to being completed.

Friday morning’s meeting concluded this week’s meetings between the Madison County Budget Committee and the County’s department heads.

Chairman of the Budget Committee, Carl Alexander, told us more about the budget and the next steps.

“This week we did our callbacks with the remaining departments that we still had some questions about theirs or some minor line changes,” Alexander said. “Today was just another one of those. It puts us at about the 95% mark right now of being completely through with the budget for this year.”

The budget committee, of course, is not the final decision maker when it comes to the budget. There is still another step that needs to be completed.

“Putting the budget package together and then getting it out to the county commissioners. They get 10 days to review it. Then we vote on this during our monthly meeting in June,” Alexander explained.

Alexander says the final deadline is 10 days before the third Monday in June. He says that they have been ahead of schedule and it is all thanks to a collaborative effort.

“We’ve got the department heads to thank for that,” Alexander said. “The department heads have been working with us trying to keep things low this time, because it is a little bit of a tighter year this year than we have had. They’ve been willing to make the cuts, not asking for things that they didn’t really need. It’s just a group effort. It really is.”

Alexander says the cooperation with the department heads makes the job for the budget committee much easier.

Currently, the June meeting is scheduled for June 16, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department.

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