Beaufort County Commissioners will meet to finalize the 2015-16 county budget at their regular monthly meeting Monday night.

The recommended budget was pared down to $57.7 million in the last budget meeting on May 26. Previously, the budget totaled $60.5 million, a troubling number for several commissioners concerned that, if passed, funding all approved requests would require a dip of over $3 million into the general fund balance.

Monday’s meeting will also tackle a few new issues. Commissioner Hood Richardson has requested that the Board discuss the proposal of a bill that would allow recall elections of Beaufort County Commissioners, meaning a direct vote could remove an elected commissioner before the end of his or her term. Richardson has also put forward another item for decision — that the Board create an ethics policy for the Beaufort County Manager, a position currently held by interim Manager Ken Windley. Current Washington City Manager Brian Alligood will be taking over the position at the end of June.

Economic Development Director Martyn Johnson is slated to discuss wind turbine possibilities in Beaufort County and whether the private sector has any interest in wind farms.

The Town of Belhaven’s request for a loan of $643,000 to secure the former Pungo Hospital property is again on the agenda. At the Board’s meeting May — moved to the Washington High School Performing Arts Center to accommodate the large number of eastern Beaufort County residents there in support of the hospital and the loan — commissioners declined to bring the possibility of a loan to a vote. At the time, several commissioners stated it was the lack of information on paper and no guarantee of the loan’s repayment that stood in the way of their consideration to loan money to the town. Belhaven is attempting to take over the Pantego Creek LLC property by eminent domain — the first step in an effort to secure a USDA loan that would allow the hospital to be reopened under hospital management company Frontier Hospitals.

The meeting will be held at the County Administrative Offices, 121 W. Third St., Washington, at 5 p.m. Monday. The meeting is open to the public.