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LC Commissioners receive proposed budget
By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published June 9, 2009
Lamar County Auditor Kevin Parsons presented the 2009-2010 fiscal year budget calendar to the commissioners court Monday, calling for a preliminary budget to be completed by July 13.
Discussion on the tax rate will begin Aug. 10.
“If we take in $1 more in taxes, excluding that taken in on new property, that is considered a tax increase,” County Judge Chuck Superville said. “The commissioners court will be required to think about a possible tax increase even before the numbers are in and before any possible public hearings to discuss a possible tax increase.”
Superville said commissioners must decide on a possible tax increase even before the budget is complete.
Before it gets to tax discussions, county departments must request what they will need for the upcoming year.
Preliminary meetings with department heads will begin at the end of June, with budget workshops to begin in mid-July.
Under the budget calendar, the budget must be completed by Aug. 27.
In other action Monday, commissioners received mutual aid agreements with the cities of Blossom, Deport, Reno and Roxton for joint help in disaster situations.
The court also adopted County Road 12665, also known as Morgan Avenue in Chisum Acres, as a county maintained road.
Commissioners named board members to the Lamar County Historical Commission, including Suzy Harper, Carl Covert, Jeanette Bender, Patsy Davis, Marvin Gorley, Betsy Mills, Ruth Ann Stallings, Arvin Starrett, Becky Semple, Marva Joe, Lou Weems, Sue Clarkson, Chuck Superville, Dick Lovett, Lynn Deal, Skipper Steeley, Dr. Phillip Rutherford, James Cooper, Barbara Tyson, Wyatt Bouden, Thelma Dangerfield, Dr. William DeHayden and Ron Brothers.
The court also approved the members of the Paris-Lamar County Board of Health.
Those members include Dr. David Carpenter, Dr. Gordon Strom, Dr. Mary Gail Miesch, Dr. Robert Moseley, Dr. Caroline Wilson, Denise Williams, Larry Reaves and Ted Gibson.
Carpenter and Williams were named to one year terms, Strom and Fisher to two year terms and Miesch, Moseley and Reaves to three year terms.
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