Updated 6/8/20

The County Commission’s  Budget  Committee  added  expenditures to the  proposed 2020-21 fiscal year  budget.
Before approving the budget, the committee praised efforts of Giles County officials cutting costs in a budget process full of uncertainty.
The  2020-21 budget requires, which is expected to  consider it at its June 25th meeting.
The budget committee approved all county department  budgets  as  proposed,  all  of  them  submitted  with  massive spending  cuts at the request of County  Executive  Melissa  Greene  and  Finance  Director Beth  Moore-Sumners.
To limit commissioners’ exposure during the heart  of  the pandemic quarantine efforts, Greene and  Moore-Sumners’ office developed a budget that reflected the  unknown effects of  COVID-19  shutdowns on the county’s  revenues for the  2020-21 fiscal year.
The committee praised the hard work of the county’s  department heads in cutting  needs from  their budgets with the idea that state emergency grant funds could  be used for  some of those needs and others may be added later in the year once better revenue estimates could  be projected.
The budget items approved included the Giles County School Systems, the Drug Fund, Debt Service, the County’s  Capital Projects and the Giles County Highway Department.