Some JoCo budgets OK’d
From our weekly issue dated May 06, 2009
Fiscal 2009-10 budgets for a few county agencies were approved by the Josephine County Budget Committee during its Tuesday, April 28 meeting at Anne G. Basker Auditorium in Grants Pass.
Clerk & Recorder Art Harvey told the committee that his office began re-organizing in July 2008. A cross-training program has been instituted, he said, which has enabled the department to leave one position unfilled. That will save it more than $80,000 throughout the next two years, Harvey reported.
There has been a recent uptick in activity at the clerk and recorder’s office, Harvey said. He added that recordings have increased due to several residents refinancing their mortgages and that home sales are up slightly.
Assessor Connie Roach said that her office receives approximately 33 percent of its funding from the state, and most of that comes from the County Assessment Function Funding Assistance (CAFFA) grant program.
Because there is a May 1 deadline to apply for the CAFFA grant, the budgets for the clerk, assessor and treasurer’s offices needed to be approved prior to that date. County Chief Financial Officer Rosemary DeLashmutt told Budget Committee members that the county commissioners had a resolution pending for their Wednesday, April 29 weekly business session to apply for the CAFFA grant.
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That grant is for more than $400,000, she said.
DeLashmutt recommended that the committee approve those departments’ budgets. Vice Chairman Dave Toler moved to approve the budgets, and Commissioner Sandi Cassanelli seconded. That motion passed 5-0, as Dwight Ellis was absent.
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