Finance Panel Rejects Waggoner’s $22,000 Two Days After Another Committee Approved It

Montgomery County Board Finance & Budget Committee Meeting | July 9, 2026

Article Summary: The Montgomery County Board Finance & Budget Committee on Thursday, July 9, 2026, rejected a $22,000 voucher to the Village of Waggoner for oiling and chipping the Green Diamond Trail — the same payment the Development & Personnel Committee had voted to recommend three days earlier — saying it would prefer to pay the contractor directly. The committee recommended eleven other Fund 375 vouchers, the largest of them $173,712.

Fund 375 Voucher Key Points:

• The committee rejected a $22,000 voucher to the Village of Waggoner, voicing a preference to pay the contractor directly.
• On July 6, the Development & Personnel Committee voted unanimously to recommend amending the county’s agreement with Waggoner to pay the village $22,000 from Fund 375 this month.
• The committee recommended eleven vouchers, including $173,712 to Truck Centers Inc. — a payment that appears in no item of any July committee minutes.
• A second motion recommended $16,838 for the Historic Courthouse boiler in excess of grant funding and $11,955 to replace the Animal Control incinerator.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY — On Monday, one Montgomery County committee voted unanimously to pay the Village of Waggoner $22,000 up front, because a village of a few hundred people should not have to front the money and wait to be repaid.

On Thursday, a different committee said no.

The Finance & Budget Committee on Thursday, July 9, 2026, reviewed the Fund 375 vouchers presented for approval and rejected the $22,000 voucher to the Village of Waggoner for oiling and chipping the Green Diamond Trail, voicing a preference to pay the contractor directly, according to the minutes.

The minutes record no further discussion, no motion on the rejection, and no indication that the committee knew what the Development & Personnel Committee had done on July 6 — when, on a motion by Jeremy Jones seconded by Russ Beason, that committee voted with all in favor to amend the county’s February 2025 intergovernmental agreement with Waggoner to pay the village $22,000 from Fund 375 this month. That vote came after the committee discussed the village’s difficulty in paying for the oil and chip in advance.

Neither committee’s action binds anyone. Both are recommendations to the full County Board, which meets July 14 and will receive them both.

The Eleven That Went Through

On a motion by Daniels seconded by Whitworth, the committee voted with all in favor to recommend payment of the remaining Fund 375 vouchers: Hillsboro Electric, $2,189.50; Ace Hardware, $224.49; Weiss Construction, $5,550; Kirby Painting, $1,250; Uline, $8,504.06 and $3,019.72; Advance Security Resources, $200; RL Construction, $19,500; Nail Land Surveying, $3,000; Cullison & Vandever, $100; and Truck Centers Inc., $173,712.

The last of those is more than four-fifths of everything else on the list combined, and it is the only item on it that appears nowhere else in the county’s July record. No committee discussed a purchase from Truck Centers. No minutes name the company. No motion describes what it sold the county. The county’s own voucher list places it under Roads & Bridges — a committee that met the day before and did not mention it.

Several of the smaller vouchers do have histories. RL Construction’s $19,500 is the ramp and porch at 127 N. Main that the Buildings & Grounds Committee recommended awarding on Tuesday. Nail Land Surveying’s $3,000 follows that firm’s survey of the Green Diamond Bike Trail right of way in Waggoner, reviewed by Development & Personnel on Monday.

Cullison & Vandever, Weiss Construction and Advance Security Resources appear in the county’s record for the first time. The minutes say nothing about what any of them did.

A Second Motion

On a motion by Whitworth seconded by Young, the committee voted with all in favor to recommend Fund 375 expenditures of $16,838 for the Historic Courthouse boiler in excess of grant funding, and $11,955 to replace the Animal Control incinerator.

Both figures were recommended in principle by the Buildings & Grounds Committee two days earlier — the boiler as a $94,888 sole bid from Henson Robinson Company with $78,050 to be reimbursed by the DCEO Energy Transition Grant, and the incinerator as $11,205 plus $750 installation. Thursday is the first time the county has stated either net figure itself.

The committee also voted to pay the bills, on a motion by Young seconded by Whitworth, and adjourned at 10:38 a.m.