Last night’s meeting of the Cross County Quorum Court concluded almost as soon as it began.
Cross County Judge Lynn Blake said that won’t be the case next month as justices consider cleanup ordinances for the 2023 budget.
“Next month is when we do the closeout because all of the bills have come in for 2023 and we’ve paid them. Hopefully, no more is coming in that was bought in 2023,” he said. “Mary Beth (County Clerk Mary Beth Sanders) hopefully next month she and Peg (County Treasurer Peg Hess) will close out the year for 2023 and we’ll do all those cleanup ordinances.
“We know there is going to be some cleanup ordinances involved because of the tornado,” Blake added. “What we had to pay out, although we got reimbursed, it doesn’t go back in that same line item. It goes into unappropriated. We will have to do some line cleanups as we go next month.”
With no new business on last night’s agenda, the only item of discussion was the monthly committee reports. Justice Glenda Vance said the personnel meeting had met to consider a proposal from Cross County Sheriff David West. Vance said the committee had advanced that proposal to the full quorum court, but an ordinance was not yet ready for review. She said patching being done on County Road 744 is looking good.
Judge Blake added several repairs to county buildings have also been completed following the tornado.
“The library got hit on our insurance policy, and the historical building, the museum. We finished up that week before last… We had some trim, gutters, stuff like that,” he said. “We closed that out with the insurance company. By the time we turned the bill in, within four days, we had a check back from the insurance company.
“We repaired the roof on the annex building, the old health department, the old sheriff’s department that had roof damage to it,” Blake added. “We got it closed up and fixed.”
