Supervisors hold budget amendment hearing

At their Monday morning meeting, the Wright County Board of Supervisors held a budget amendment hearing. Auditor Betty Ellis noted some changes were due to increased expenses for COVID related activities like more ballot mailing and extra hours for law enforcement. There were also changes due to different financing sources be used, such as the USDA grant not being received for the Agri-Business park. Ellis said that resulted in reduced payments of other loans. There were also reduced expenditures. Revenue was amended by $2,563,959. The board adopted the amendments.