Beaufort County commissioners have postponed their monthly meeting to July 11, in response to the Fourth of July holiday.

Having passed the 2016-17 budget at the June meeting, county staff has spent the past few weeks wrapping up the last fiscal year, according to Beaufort County Manager Brian Alligood.

“It’s basically kind of cleanup stuff, (making sure) that all the numbers are in the right place, that we’re ready to close it out and turn it over to the auditors to do their work,” Alligood said.

Part of that is tallying up one-time expenditures approved by commissioners during the course of the year that were not included in the original 2015-16 budget. Examples of one-time expenditures in 2015-16: $293,000 for increased security at the Beaufort County Courthouse; $293,269 to establish Beaufort County EMS; acquisition of land at Wright’s Creek, near Belhaven, for a boat ramp/public access to the water ($200,000); purchase of the First Bank property on West Second Street in Washington to add to county holdings ($440,000); purchase of land adjacent to Beaufort County Community College ($150,000). In April, those expenditures totaled $1,488,274 above the 2015-16 budget of $57,703,622.

Another part of the process is making sure purchase orders and invoices are applied to the correct year.

“We make sure all those invoices that are from the 2015-16 year don’t get drug over,” Alligood said.

Auditors Carr, Riggs and Ingram will come back with an official report on Beaufort County’s expenditures in August, Alligood said.

The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners will meet July 11 at 5:30 p.m. in the County Administrative Office, 121 W. Third St., Washington. The meetings are open to the public.