On split votes among seven councilmen present, budgets for the city of Trenton and TMU received approval, then vetoed by the mayor then veto override attempts fell one vote short of having enough to pass. Voting was done last night on proposed city ordinances for the fiscal year beginning May 1. Each of the votes was […]
With the beginning of the next fiscal year May 1, the city of Trenton has scheduled a budget meeting for next Tuesday night, April 18. The 6:30 evening meeting involves members of the finance committee, however, it’s possible other council members may attend to hear and/or participate in the discussion. The meeting will be open […]
Budgets, presented in the form of ordinances, are to be presented tonight at a public meeting of the Trenton City Council at a 7 o’clock meeting at the Trenton City Hall. The TMU budget includes anticipated revenues with the recently-approved increases in water and electric rates at Trenton. Utilities Director Ron Urton Junior puts the compares […]
Proposed fiscal year budgets for the city of Trenton and the municipal utilities are on the agenda for the next meeting of the Trenton City Council. The budgets, presented in the form of ordinances, will be presented to the council after several meetings involving the finance and utility committees. The ordinances include setting employee and officer […]
The Spickard City Council heard a presentation and discussed insurance coverage for 2017 at its meeting Monday evening. Council member Maggie George moved to hold off on insuring two vehicles with the possibility of selling them at a later date. Member Betty Lee moved to find out the cost to get the backhoe to work. […]
After a series of meetings, the finance committee to the Trenton City Council has completed work on the next fiscal year budgets for both the city of Trenton and for the municipal utility. Finance committee members Wednesday evening voted to recommend approval of the budgets during the next meeting of the Trenton City Council Monday, March […]
The Princeton R-5 Board of Education approved a quote for high school roof repairs at a work session Tuesday evening. The project will cost $12,250 and be completed later this month or April and the roof work will complete the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning updates and roof repairs approved by voters last April. Superintendent […]
The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees will have to make changes to the college’s budget due to Governor Eric Greitens’s state budget cut of $11.9 million for Missouri community colleges. President Doctor Lenny Klaver told the board at its meeting yesterday evening the budget cut will amount to about $212,000 in withholdings for […]
The new budget projects expenses to exceed revenue by $290,000. But in watching spending during the year, and hoping for increased revenue, like with county sales tax funds, Commissioners hope the budget will again balance by the end of the calendar year. Just like last year when a $71,000 net was noted after the year began with […]
The Gallatin Board of Aldermen this week continued work on the city budget for next year. The electric department budget is to include the purchase of a new bucket truck with grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is to be included. The board discussed increasing the electric service charge from the current $10 […]
When Governor Nixon this week put restrictions on 115 point five million dollars in new or increased state spending, the withholding affects two major lake projects within the Green Hills Region. According to the Governor’s office, one million, 700 thousand dollars has been withheld for the Sullivan County Lake project north of Milan; and two million dollars […]
The Laredo R-7 Board of Education has amended the current budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and adopted a new budget for the year beginning July 1. Information provided by the Laredo school shows amendments were approved to the 2015-16 budget leaving a tentative fund balance estimated at around $695,000 dollars. The […]
North Central Missouri College Trustees last evening adopted a deficit spending budget for the coming fiscal year while hearing college administrators promote efforts to increase student enrollment and retention. Chief Financial Operations Director Tyson Otto said he’d prefer to present a balanced budget. But he feels the deficit can be absorbed due to what he called good reserves. The […]
The Pleasant View R-6 Board of Education has approved a budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, in which anticipated spending is estimated to surpass revenue by nearly 38-hundred dollars. Anticipated spending was budgeted at about one million four hundred sixty-two thousand dollars. The budget for the current fiscal year ending this Thursday […]
The Newtown-Harris Board of Education has approved a budget for next fiscal year in which revenues are anticipated to exceed spending by nearly 22-thousand dollars. Spending is estimated at about $1,535,000.00. Income is anticipated to surpass expenditures for the current fiscal year ending this June 30th by nearly 22 thousand dollars. Newtown-Harris has a reserve […]
The North Mercer Board of Education has adopted a budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1st in which expenditures are anticipated to exceed revenue by nearly 69-thousand dollars. Spending is estimated at nearly two point six million dollars. The amended the current budget to show an 82-thousand dollar deficit for the fiscal year ending […]
A deficit budget has been presented to the Trenton R-9 Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1st. The school district has a significant amount of reserve funds but the amount as of the June 30th end of the fiscal year won’t be known until later. Information was presented last evening by R-9 Superintendent […]
Here are some specific steps that all graduating seniors should take. Actually, this is good advice for everyone, no matter when or if you’ve graduated from college. Become financially literate Unfortunately, financial literacy in the United States is not widespread. Most high school students fail a personal finance exam (less than 50% of questions answered […]
The Laredo Board of Aldermen has approved an agreement for McClure Engineering to provide services for waste water system improvements. According to City Clerk Ashley Boren, the cost has not been finalized. The engineering firm (McClure) will make recommendations on what should be done. The city will be seeking grant money through the United States […]
Monday, March 7th is the date for both a public hearing and a budget workshop by the City of Chillicothe. The hearing involves consideration of the distribution of capital improvement sales tax funds. New items for consideration include an access road off U.S. Highway 65 for the Chillicothe R-2 School campus, structural repairs to a […]
