29-04-2025
Local option sales tax collections $172K above projections
Cumberland County Finance Director Jennifer Turner reported the county's emergency medical service department collected $544,461 this month, which is $169,461 above monthly projections and a year-to-date total of $3,361,298 so far during April's Cumberland County Commission meeting.
Although that's $13,698 below budgeted projections, Turner said she is confident in the way the numbers EMS Director Chris Miller shared and how collections were now trending that EMS should make budget projections for the fiscal year. In order to meet the fiscal year 2024-25 annual budget projection of $4.5 million, monthly collections need to average $375,000.
She reported local option sales tax tax collections for this fiscal year are at $1,155,681 which is $54,055 below projections. Year to date, collections are $11,149,909, which is $172,676 above budget projections for the fiscal year.
Turner said property tax collections were 96.79 percent this year compared to 99.29 percent last year.
Hotel/motel tax collections are at $786,465 for the fiscal year, which is 62.85 percent of the annual projection of $1,251,275.
With six months of revenue paid from the state, prisoner boarding collections are $323,039 out of a $386,952 annual budget projection for fiscal year 2024-25.
The county commission approved the following budget amendments during its April monthly meeting:
• $3,000, for the sheriff's office for law enforcement training programs.
• $16,300 for the county clerk's office for technology upgrades.
• $24,800 for the ambulance service for EMS training supplements.
• $68,000 for the county fire department to accept a grant for thermal imagers and a washer and dryer.
• $12,057 for the general purpose school fund for equipment funding and line item cleanup.
• $13,000 for the central cafeteria fund for a line item amendment for state retirement funds.
• $42,147.75 for the general purpose school fund for contracted services.
• $48,800 for a revision in the Innovative Schools Model grant for the general purpose school fund.
• $51,741.06 for the central cafeteria fund to record Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement fund bonus payments.
• $57,212.87 for the general purpose school fund to pay employee bonuses out of outcome monies.
• $$394,800 for the general purpose school fund for the purchase of 1,200 student Chromebooks.
• $598,183.30 for the general purpose school fund to move funds to pay employee bonus out of outcome monies.
All of the amendments were approved unanimously.
John Patterson, 9th District commissioner, did not attend the meeting.
