(VIDEO) SCPR SERIES ON 2014 STARK CO. BUDGET - VOLUME NO. 6

VIDEO

STARK CO. BUDGET DIRECTOR

CHRIS NICHOLS

SEGMENT 6

CAPITAL BUDGET
"NEW" DEPT 43
DEPT 35
NEW FOR 2014
COMING IN 2015
FINAL 2014 BUDGET PLAN PROCESS

As "a public service" the SCPR brings to everyday Stark Countians a multi-part series (eight blogs in all) on the "proposed" (see disclaimer in graphic above) 2014 Stark County budget.

Today, The Report presents Volume  of Stark County Commissioners' Budget Director Chris Nichols' 2014 Stark County "proposed" budget.

Readers of this blog to get a full appreciation of Nichols' presentation should make sure that they have read prior blogs in order as listed below:

1. Volume 1
2. Volume 2 
3. Volume 3 
4. Volume 4
5. Volume 5

In Volume 1, Commissioner Thomas Bernabei appears in the video and outlines the four (4) guidelines that he and fellow commissioners Janet Creighton and Richard Regula laid out to Nichols in formulating the 2014 budget, to wit:

1. The county must live within its means,
2. New revenue for the year must support the operation budget of the county through 2019,
3. Carry-over funds cannot be used to fund the day-to-day operations of government,
4. He must build a 2014 budget that forms a viable base on which budgets through 2019 can be realistically projected as being "sustainable budgets"

In today's presentation, Budget Director Nichols finalizes this nearly 45 minute presentation (overall; this video being about 7 minutes) talking about:

• capital items in the 2014 budget,
• the fact these items beginning in 2014 in the budget being placed in a new Department 43,
• Department 35 budget items,
• a summation of "new" items in 2014, and 
• what is coming as being "new" in 2015