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If it had been the twenty-first century, Mary Melugin would have been bopping across the prairie with ear buds plugged into her head while lengthily texting or twittering more than the birds in the grove of trees she’d just passed. But it was only a few decades into the nineteenth century with little technology in everyday life.

New Plat Books Out By The End of the Month;
County Accounting Switches to Modified Accrual

By Mick Parsons For The Prairie Advocate News

MOUNT CARROLL – Present during the Finance Committee meeting to explain the color redistricting map, Jeremy Hughes from the Carroll County GIS Department also announced that new plat books would be available for sale, hopefully by the end of the month. The new books, unlike the previous editions, will be full color and much easier to read.

“It’s a useful tool,” Hughes said. There haven’t been updated plat books in Carroll County since 2006. The books will be for sale at the courthouse and other places around the county. The newly updated plat books will cost $25 each, which Hughes says only covers production costs.

Among the other business discussed by the Finance Committee after the Reapportionment Special Session, county treasurer Diane Powers told the committee she was ready to update the numbers in the county’s accounting that will change the county from working on a cash basis to a modified accrual. This change, which was recommended as part of this year’s audit, means that as part of it’s budgeting process the county will be able to take into account not only the cash on hand, but the money that’s expected to be on hand – rebates from the state and local tax payments are among the things that will be accounted for in a different way. While it will probably have no discernible impact on the way the county board develops it’s budget, it will make the auditing process an even smoother process than it already is.

Annette Rahn (D2) expressed some concerns about switching from a cash basis to the modified accrual, preferring to keep it the way it is. County Administrator Mike Doty pointed out, however, that in the end, the numbers all even out – it’s just a way for the county to budget that takes into account the money coming in as well as the money on hand.

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