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Welfare Budget
With few questions, the supervisors unanimously approved a resolution prepared by Cox that addresses problems with the 1981-82 welfare budget.
The supervisors approved a total welfare budget of $204,527 for the current fiscal year but the state cut funds from auxiliary grants to the aged and disabled and from foster care to reduce the total to $201,710.
However, the budget approved by the state included money for administration of fuel assistance, a program cut by the supervisors. In addition, when the supervisors lopped off fuel assistance administration funds from the local welfare department’s proposed budget, they inadvertently cut a portion of the eligibility worker's salary as well.
The resolution submitted by Cox on Monday restored money for the eligibility worker's salary and carried over state cuts to auxiliary grants and foster care to the local welfare budget. His adjustments reduce welfare expenditures by $7,567 and revenues by $7,992.
Former welfare director Elizabeth Buntin and acting director Nancy Reeve both pointed out that the programs affected by the budget cuts—auxiliary grants to the aged and disabled and foster care—are mandated programs. If eligible individuals apply for the programs after funds are exhausted, the welfare department will have to come back to the state and to the county for additional money, they noted.
In another budget related item, clerk Diane Bruce reported that the supervisors gave themselves a raise a year or so ago, upping their annual salary $100 over the $400 allowed per member by the state.
The General Assembly now has changed the law to allow localities to decide what to pay members of boards of supervisors but action to set salaries must be taken by July 1 before a pew board is installed in January, she noted.
A motion to pay Latham as chairman passed unanimously. .} Commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner agreed to look into the question of what must be done to authorize continuance of the supervisors’ current level of compensation.
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