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Still working under the idea that the County Option Income Tax revenue coming for 2005 is uncertain, the Kosciusko County council continued budget hearings Tuesday.
The department budgets listed here include the totals as presented by the department heads. As the county council approved 2 percent raises for full-time employees, the totals listed here will change after the salaries are recalculated.
There will be no change in pay for part-time employees. Township employees' pay will increase to $80 per day and board members' pay will remain at $80 per meeting.
The wage committee Monday also recommended that all telephone expenditures be taken out of each department's budget and paid out of the county commissioners' budget. The budget figures here also represent the totals before those were eliminated.
The department budgets presented Tuesday included: county prosecutor, $276,214 projected; Title IV-D (child support enforcement), $291,799; VOCA, victim's assistance fund, $32,581; county recorder, $160,479; county service officer, $15,188; soil and water conservation, $105,594; Circuit and Superior Courts, $1,209,882; adult probation user fees fund, $130,001; juvenile probation user fees fund, $9,529; Superior Courts II and III, $383,533; drug and alcohol user fees fund, $33,606; county family and child's fund, $1,308,600; children's psychiatric residential treatment fund, $77,796; county assessor, $195,542; county assessor, $273,000; commercial and industry reassessment, $84,731; assessor education fund, $10,000; county auditor, $433,901; county commissioners, $6,064,193; county cumulative capital development fund, $675,000; county Economic Development Income Tax Fund, $2 million; cumulative jail, $150,000; and county council, $52,598.
The township trustees also presented their budgets Tuesday for approval, including: Clay Township, $20,943; Etna Township, $13,257; Franklin, $11,669; Harrison, $23,338; Jackson, $13,298; Jefferson, $13,742; Lake, $17,798; Monroe, $13,032; Prairie, $20,057; Scott, $12,541; Seward, $25,830; Van Buren, $22,960; Washington, $34,567; Plain, $104,307; Tippecanoe, $127,818; and the township assessors presenting budgets included Turkey Creek Township Assessor, $137,266, and Wayne Township Assessor, $150,334.
County councilmen are Harold Jones, Tom Anglin, John Kinsey, Larry Teghtmeyer, Charlene Knispel, Brad Tandy and Maurice Beer. They meet Thursday at 6 p.m. in the county courthouse for an executive session, followed by a budget hearing and regular meeting at 7 p.m.
