Macon County Commissioners Budget Kickoff Meeting February 4, 2021

The Macon County Board of Education will be starting the annual budget process for the county today at noon. A copy of the public agenda is included in the interest of promoting transparency of the local government and local media outlets.

The video will be streamed live online via the video player that has been embedded below.

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Full Video

(segments from the meeting will be posted later in their own articles)




ROLL CALL
(a record of the presence of elected critters not serving on this board and media outlets at the meeting)

Macon County Sheriff Robert Holland

Macon Media (Bobby)
The Franklin Press (Jake)
Macon County News and Shopping Guide/Highlands Paper/The Southern Scoop (Brittney)

PUBLIC AGENDA

Location: Commissioners Boardroom
Date: February 4, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm.

I. Call To Order

II. COVID-19 Mitigation Effort update

a) County Manager Derek Roland, Macon County Public Health Director Kathy McGaha, Emergency Management Director Warren Cabe, Sheriff Robert Holland.

III. Broadband Expansion in Macon County

a) Economic Development Director Tommy Jenkins, will provide an update on the following on-going broadband expansion projects in Macon County.
i) South Macon
ii) West Macon
iii) Nantahala Community

IV. Financial Review

a) Mid Year Financial Review- Lori Carpenter, Finance Director
b) FY21’Budget Revisions and FY 22’ Budget Outlook – Derek Roland, County Manager

V. FY 22’ Operating Budget

a) Macon County Schools FY 21’ Budget update and preliminary budget outlook for FY 22’ – Chris Baldwin, Superintendent, Macon County Schools
b) FY 22’ goals and expectations- Macon County Board of Commissioners
c) Distribution of FY 22’ proposed budget calendar- Derek Roland, County Manager

VI. Other Business as Necessary

VII. Adjourn

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Published at 10:46am on Thursday, February 4, 2021 Edited at 2:07am on February 5, 2021, to add the full Youtube version of the video.