Elmore County most likely will have its fiscal year 2025 budget approved before the year starts Oct. 1.
For the last few months county employees have been working with department heads to pull together the necessary information for commissioners to make a decision about how money will be spent in the next fiscal year.
“The first draft of the budget is nearly finished,” Elmore County chief operations officer Richie Beyer told the commission at its Monday meeting.
All the document lacks is some information from the Alabama Department of Revenue for Elmore County Revenue Commissioner's Office. It is funding that should be plugged in already, but officials are awaiting confirmation.
The budget is far enough along to most likely allow a few weeks of review by the commission before a vote in August. While the approval is more than a month before the start of the fiscal year, the early budget approval allows county staff to more effectively close the books on 2024 and be ready for 2025.
At Monday’s meeting the commission also recognized recent Wetumpka High School graduate Julius Williams for being awarded the Class 6A Bryant-Jordan Student Achievement Award.
In other action the Elmore County Commission:
• Approved minutes of the June 10 meeting.
• Approved a memorandum of warrants in the amount of $9,194,327.16 for June 1 to 14.
• Set a notice of a public hearing for 5 p.m. July 22 for the proposed vacation of Brantley Road off of Rigsby Road and an unnamed road off of Brantley Road to an adjoining property owner.
• Approved dates for fiscal year 2025 Elmore County Commission meetings. Most are the second and fourth Mondays of the month at 5 p.m.
• Approved the fiscal year 2025 holiday schedule.
The next meeting of the Elmore County Commission is scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday, July 8.
