Budget committee votes to close solid‑waste enterprise fund and establish sanitation fund after landfill sale; multiple year‑end amendments also approved

The White County budget committee approved a set of accounting and budget amendments tied to the recent sale of the county landfill. Committee members voted to close the Solid Waste Disposal enterprise fund (fund 207) and to create a new Solid Waste Sanitation governmental fund (fund 116) to continue sanitation accounting under generally accepted accounting principles.

Finance Director Chad Markham told the committee the change is primarily an accounting conversion required by the landfill sale; the county will reverse previously adopted enterprise fund budgets and appropriate remaining items into the new sanitation fund where necessary. The committee approved a resolution to close the prior capital/project funds tied to completed highway bridge projects and to return those grant‑funded balances to the Highway fund.

The committee also approved multiple reallocations and year‑end budget amendments sent to full court or processed at committee level. Approved items included reallocations for computer purchases in finance and county trustee offices; county clerk data‑processing appropriations for restricted fees; courtroom security expenditures (funded by restricted court security receipts) for officer equipment and related items; EMS medical supplies; parks mowing; and central maintenance funds to cover higher costs through June. Committee members said unused appropriations will return to fund balance at year end.

Each measure passed by voice vote at committee and will move to full court where required for resolutions and county appropriations.