LAWRENCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING – January 4 ...

EQUALIZATION: Moved-Seconded (Flanagan-Ewing) To make the following adjustments toEqualization Budget: Salary from $318,102 to $320,618; OASI from $24,002 to $24,203;Retirement from $18,888 to $19,039. Motion Carried.EXTENSION: Moved-Seconded (Ewing-Sleep) To make the following adjustments to theExtension budget from $34,433 to $35,189 to cover the adjusted numbers from Butte County.Motion Carried.ADOPTION OF 2011 BUDGET RESOLUTION #2011-23: Moved-Seconded (Weisenberg-Flanagan) to adopt the 2012 Annual Budget and approve the following Resolution #2011-23.Motion Carried. RESOLUTION #11-23: ADOPTION OF ANNUAL BUDGET FORLAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA - WHEREAS, (7-21-5 thru 13), SDCL providesthat the Board of County Commissioners shall each year prepare a Provisional Budget of allcontemplated expenditures and revenues of the County and all its institutions and agencies for suchfiscal year and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did prepare a Provisional Budgetand cause same to be published by law, and WHEREAS, due and legal notice has been given to themeeting of the Board of County Commissioners for the consideration of such Provisional Budgetand all changes, elimination's and additions have been made thereto. NOW THEREFORE BE ITRESOLVED, That such provisional budget as amended and all its purposes, schedules,appropriations, amounts, estimates and all matters therein set forth, SHALL BE APPROVED ANDADOPTED AS THE ANNUAL BUDGET OF THE APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURESFOR LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA and all its institutions and agencies for calendaryear beginning January 1, 2012 and ending December 31, 2012 and the same is hereby approvedand adopted by the Board of County commissioners of Lawrence County, South Dakota, this 6 THday of September, 2011 The annual budget so adopted is available for public inspection duringnormal business hours at the office of the County Auditor Lawrence County, South Dakota. Theaccompanying taxes are levied by Lawrence County for the payable year January 1, 2012 throughDecember 31, 2012.FUND TAX LEVY IN DOLLARS $'s/thousand (levy)GENERAL 8,080,727 4.063SNOW REMOVAL 200,000 .101HIGHWAY & BRIDGE 200,000 .101COURTHOUSE & JAIL 100,000 .050FIRE PROTECTION 72,652 .071TOTALS 8,653,379 4.386DATED at Deadwood, South Dakota, this 6 TH day of September 2011. LAWRENCE COUNTYCOMMISSIONERS: Daryl Johnson, Chairman, Robert Ewing, Terry Weisenberg, BrandonFlanagan, and Richard Sleep. ATTEST: Connie Atkinson, Auditor.EXTENSION OFFICE LEASE: Moved-Seconded (Flanagan-Johnson) to approve and authorizethe Chairman to sign and send a letter to Milen Salzieder terminating the lease of High PlainsCondominiums #4 (Extension Office) on October 31, 2011. Motion Carried.MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE RESPONSE PROJECT: Dennis Jaeger, Deputy Forest Supervisorwas present for a briefing on the Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project. The project areaencompasses approximately 325,000 acres on National Forest System lands but would not be ready