Pinckneyville Adopts Surplus Budget
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The Pinckneyville City Council adopted the tentative budget for 2012-13 Monday evening and a budget hearing was set for 7:15 p.m. on Monday, April 23, immediate prior to the next regular meeting.
The tentative budget projects revenue of $2,086,400, coupled with cash on hand of $1 million for total funds available for use of $3,086,400 for the city's operating budget. Projected expenses are $2,735,115, leaving a surplus of $351,285.
The budget also projects surpluses in all of the city's special accounts for the coming year.
The fiscal year begins May 1 and ends April 30, 2013. Interested parties may give written or oral comments at the budget hearing on April 23.
Treasurer Rick Reese reported that the unrestricted funds for the city increased from $1.2 million to $1.4 million by the end of March.
In other business, the council:
placed on file for public inspection an amendment for an engineering services agreement with the Fulton Group LLC for planning and design work and an agreement for grant administration services with Benton and Associates, Inc. for a DCEO grant. DCEO supplied $100,000 and the city will pay $24,000 for design work to replace three pump stations near the fairgrounds with one station and to add a pump station at the old plant to transfer sewer to the new plant for treatment. Gary Fulton said that the next step will be to obtain EPA permits then apply for construction grants.
agreed to give the American Thresherman Association $4,000 in hotel/motel tax funds for advertising.
approved a request from the Perry County Humane Society to conduct a road block on Oct. 20 from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m. at the intersection on the square and at the four-way stop.