The Nicholson City Council is still trying to get its 2012 budget passed. Meeting Monday night, the council couldn’t muster the votes to approve the $462,894 spending plan.
The council held a public hearing at 9 a.m. on Monday and no one showed up to question the proposed budget, Mayor Ronnie Maxwell said.
Council member Bobby Crawford made a motion to approve the proposed budget, but the motion did not receive a second.
Council member Chuck Wheeler said, “Let’s wait 30 more days and let the newly-elected officials be in on it at next month’s work session.”
“We still have the responsibility for finishing this budget no matter who’s sitting up here next year,” Maxwell argued.
“I know, but we really don’t have to adopt it tonight, we can wait another month,” Wheeler countered.
Maxwell asked, “Why have another work session on it? You didn’t show up this morning?”
Wheeler replied, “Well, we couldn’t.”
Maxwell said, “You went right by us.”
Wheeler said, “I know, but there was a lot of people that couldn’t do it.”
“We will have to figure this out (work session) so that we can (advertise) it in the paper,” Maxwell said.
Wheeler said he thought the work session on the budget should be held at 6:30 p.m. “It can be on a Tuesday, it doesn’t have to be on Thursday,” he said.
Maxwell said he and the city clerk will look at the calendar to see about the advertising timeline and make an announcement about the work session to discuss the budget and the golf cart ordinance that is still in process.
