Recently, I was thumbing through the 2018-2019 Lenoir City budget. Ran across a curious new item in this budget that had never been in their budget before, Fleet Coordinator. I had no idea what this was. Checked with the mayor and he said he thought it was something with the police department but I should check with the finance department to be sure.

Turns out, the city is looking into starting their own impound yard on some of the old LCUB property down town and this would be the budget for that purpose. Also the person hired might also do some maintenance on city vehicles. Although , this new department was approved back in June, no one has yet been hired nor has the impound yard opened yet.

So, just like that, a new $55,000 department is added to the city budget.

And this is how how local governments budgets grow and grow and grow.