Commission

Kerianne Ehrlich, supervisor of the Ellsworth County Health Department, voiced concerns about a possible spike in COVID-19 cases during Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners.

Hearing conducted on Lorraine budget

LORRAINE — The Aug. 11 meeting of the Lorraine City Council began with a public hearing on the 2021 budget. Council member Peter Solie asked for explanation of the changes to the water and sewer funds. City Clerk Michael Boyer said the city did not make any transfers out of the water fund into the debt service fund in 2019 or 2020, but there is enough revenue expected in the fund in 2021 to transfer to the debt service fund and pay the full water bond loan payments without raising water rates. There probably won’t be enough to do it again in 2022, so the city will have to evaluate rates charged to customers before that next budget is set, or else go back to collecting tax revenue to make the bond payments. The maintenance person’s salary was also reconfigured to take 50 percent from the water fund, 30 percent from the sewer fund, and 20 percent from the general fund. The sewer fund is more stable than the water fund and is generating enough revenue that we have been able to transfer money to the debt service fund to pay the full cost of the lift station loan payments each year.

Wilson Communications FUSC Notice

(First Published in the Ellsworth County Independent/
Reporter, September 24, 2020)

NOTICE TO ALL WILSON TELEPHONE
COMPANY CUSTOMERS