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Volume 104 • Number 15 • Thursday, January 23, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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County OKs 2014 budget Sales tax revenue down
By TONY BROWN News editor
The Nodaway County Commission on Wednesday accepted its 2014 budget. In her annual summary to the three-member governing board, County Clerk Beth Walker unveiled a $7.5 million operating budget, which compares to $7.3 million in proposed spending during 2013. Walker said the increase is due to carry-over from last year as well as a 1 percent across-the-board pay increase for county employees. The county’s fiscal year runs from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. Though the complete
package totals $30 million, Walker noted that most of those funds pertain to special fee accounts or passthrough accounts that must be included in the budget under state law. Actual operational spending by the county is limited to a handful of funds that include General Revenue, $4 million; Road and Bridge, $2.5 million; Assessor, $384,000; 911 service, $157,000; and debt service and maintenance on the County Administration Center, $553,000. As it has for the past two years, the property tax levied to service the debt on the Administration Center de-
clined in 2014, falling from 14 cents to 13 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. General Fund revenues are used to cover operations of all other county departments, such as the collector’s, recorder’s and sheriff’s offices, and also include appropriations made in response to requests from outside entities, including charitable organizations and economic development agencies. Walker said revenue from the county’s one-cent sales tax, which accounts for approximately half of all General Fund expenditures, fell about $140,000 in 2013 afSee COUNTY, Page 6
Budget summary delivered
TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM
County Clerk Beth Walker delivers her 2014 budget summary Wednesday to the Nodaway County Commission. This year’s $7.5 million operating budget is up slightly from last year and includes a 1 percent pay increase for county employees.
Jim Fall
Ron Moss
Three seeking council seats By TONY BROWN News editor
PHOTOS BY KAITY HOLTMAN/DAILY FORUM
Chamber celebrates
The Greater Maryville Chamber of Commerce held its annual banquet Tuesday night at Northwest. Capping activities (top left) was passing of the gavel by Chamber President Audra Bradley to new President Sean Sheil. Honors included (top right) the Good Citizen Award, presented to the Rev. Scott Moon by Stephanie Patterson; (middle left) Distinguished Service Award, given to Lee Langerock by Dan Hageman; (middle right) the Chamber Business of the Year awarded to Chris Wiltfong, Hy-Vee by Bradley, and (lower left) the Community Service Award presented by Melanie Smith (left) to Brett Budd and Clara Swoboda, of the Northwest Student Dietetic Association.
Awards go to community’s best By JIM FALL
Executive editor
The Greater Maryville Chamber of Commerce honored its best and welcomed its newest during the organization’s 2014 Annual Banquet Tues-
day at the J.W. Jones Student Union on the Northwest Missouri State University campus. The 2014 Distinguished Service Award was presented to former Nodaway County Economic Development Director Lee Langerock, who
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recently resigned the NCED position to accept another economic development post in Independence. The Chamber’s Business of the Year award was presented to the Maryville Hy-Vee and the Community Service See CHAMBER, Page 6
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A couple of faces will change among local office holders following the general municipal election on Tuesday, April 8. But others will not. Whatever the vote’s outcome, two veterans will leave the Maryville City Council dais this spring, since former Mayor Ron Moss and current Mayor Jim Fall have both opted not to seek re-election. The seats now occupied by Moss and Fall are the only two open on the fivemember board. Remaining on the council will be current members Jeff Funston, Glenn Jonagan and Renee Riedel. At the close of the filing period on Tuesday, three candidates had declared their intention to seek a council seat: Rachel Martin, Tim Shipley and Adam Switzer. Both seats carry threeyear terms. Martin, 27, is a native of Villisca, Iowa who graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 2011. She is currently a personal banker at Bank Midwest and married to Maryville native Spencer Martin, who works
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as retail director of Campus Dining at Northwest Missouri State University. Shipley, 36, grew up in Maryville and graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 2002. He is employed as a project manager for Herzog Railroad Services in St. Joseph and married to Nancy Shipley, the local marketing director SSM Hospice & Home Care. The couple has one son, Renner, age 15 months. Switzer, 25, is an inside sales representative for Nucor-LMP who grew up in Independence and came to Maryville in 2006 to attend Northwest Missouri State, where he was a member of the baseball team. He is unmarried. R-II board to return While the composition of the council will change, the roll call for the Maryville R-II Board of Education will remain unchanged following the April vote. All three incumbents have announced they are standing for re-election to three-year terms, and none has opposition. Continuing with the board for a fourth term will be local businessman Roger See AREA, Page 6
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