TORRINGTON – The Goshen County Board of Commissioners voted to amend its 2019-2020 annual operating budget on June 16 for a good reason – to add extra income.
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TORRINGTON – The Goshen County Board of Commissioners voted to amend its 2019-2020 annual operating budget on June 16 for a good reason – to add extra income.
The county voted unanimously to add $26,372 in extra income from unexpected grants and other means to the county coffers. The GCC, Treasurer, Goshen County Public Library and the Goshen County Fairgrounds all banked extra income that had to be added to the annual budget.
“It’s money in and money out,” Goshen County Clerk and budget officer Cindy Kenyon said.
“Basically, we’ve received some unexpected income, and some unexpected expenses.”
A portion of the income was due to unused vacation time by county employees, which Kenyon said departments add at the end of the year, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few employees have taken vacations.
“Each year, how much vacation and sick accrual each employee has per department, and that amount is accounted for in the final financial statements at the end of the year,” Kenyon said. “And this year we’ve had a few people that have been approved for vacation time and not been able to use it because during COVID, there’s no place to go.”