Greene County commissioners on Thursday approved a set of routine fiscal actions: a $400,000 appropriation for motor vehicle license fees, a $1 million sanitary appropriation tied to a newly awarded Hilltop Road grant, and the board signed the annual environmental review certificate required to apply for fiscal year 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.

County staff said the $400,000 appropriation corrects an omission from the budget for motor vehicle license fee revenues that fund township and city projects. Staff described the amount as anticipated revenue and noted the county spent $389,000 from that line last year. Separately, the $1 million sanitary appropriation is related to a recently received grant for Hilltop Road and will require opening a purchase order.

The board also signed the environmental review certification the county must file annually to be eligible for CDBG allocation. County staff said the certification acknowledges that the county’s CDBG projects are exempt from additional environmental review for the purpose of the application.

Other routine items in the fiscal package included approval of vouchers that county staff described as progress payments on the Hilltop well field (well-field development and raw-water line), furniture for the jail administrative area, and a change order for a separate road project. The board approved travel and training items that county staff described as local and routine in nature.

Commissioners moved and seconded the appropriations and certification items in sequence; each motion carried on voice votes recorded as “Aye” from attending commissioners.