Franklin County surviving on shoe-string budget

http://www.bentoneveningnews.com/news/20170627/franklin-county-surviving-on-shoe-string-budget

BENTON, IL – (Rick Hayes- Benton News.  Please Click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

After providing $77,000 and $89,000 in reimbursement payments for detention and probation, respectively, the state of Illinois has reduced its backlog of payments to Franklin County to under $1 million.

Treasurer Keith Jones reported at a recent Franklin County Board meeting the total has been reduced to $976,000 after payments were made for November of last year. The state still owes $412,000 in reimbursement payments for detention and $563,000 for probation.

Jones said that if the county board had not issued a tax anticipation warrant of $700,000 recently, there would only be about $25,000 in the bank. He previously reported it takes about $100,000 every two weeks to make payroll.