Wayne County, Georgia

Overview

The FY2025 budget report for Wayne County, Georgia, budgets estimated revenues of $31,206,299.00 against appropriations of $33,539,464.73. Appropriations exceed estimated revenues by $2,333,165.73 — that gap is simple arithmetic on the report's own two totals ($31,206,299.00 + $2,333,165.73 = $33,539,464.73), not a statement about fund balance, which this report does not state. The report's revenue side includes $2,177,171.00 of other financing sources from ARP (American Rescue Plan) funds, and its appropriation side includes ARP transfers out of exactly the same $2,177,171.00 (see Appropriations below).

Line items throughout the report name Jesup, Screven, and Odum — the county's cities — for example drug-court and jail-fund fines for Jesup/Screven, election reimbursements from Jesup, Odum, and Screven, and a Jesup fuel reimbursement. No population, staffing, millage, or service-level figures are given in this report, and none are shown here.

Source: Budget Report for Wayne County, GA, FY2025 budget report, printed 2026-04-21 — FY2025 budget report (PDF, UGA TED portal).

At a glance — FY2025 budget report as printed

Stat-grid figures are rounded to whole dollars for display; the exact document totals are $31,206,299.00 and $33,539,464.73, and the exact gap is $2,333,165.73.

Source: FY2025 budget report, totals on pp. 7 and 67 — FY2025 budget report (PDF).

General Fund revenues — $31,206,299.00

The three tables below are selected lines only, each summing exactly to its own subtotal. Together they cover $27,221,126 of the $31,206,299.00 total; the remaining $3,985,173 comes from the report's many other revenue lines (court fines and fees, licenses, grants, rents, recreation fees, and more) that are not individually listed here. Do not read any subtotal below as the whole of its category — only as the sum of the lines shown.

Property-tax lines — $16,296,716

Other taxes and fees — $4,743,400

Selected other large revenues — $6,181,010

Reconciliation: $16,296,716 + $4,743,400 + $6,181,010 = $27,221,126; $31,206,299 − $27,221,126 = $3,985,173 in other revenue lines not listed above. The report's own total is $31,206,299.00 (“TOTAL REVENUE” and “TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUES,” p. 7).

Source: FY2025 budget report, Estimated Revenues, pp. 1–7 — FY2025 budget report (PDF).

General Fund appropriations — $33,539,464.73

The report gives no department subtotals — only the single grand total (“TOTAL EXPENDITURE” / “TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS,” p. 67). Rather than estimate department totals from hundreds of individual lines, this page works two complete, checkable pieces in full and discloses the rest as un-summarized.

Department 1110, worked in full — $141,520.85

Every 100-1110 line in the report is shown here; lines with no amount printed are $0 for this sum.

ARP transfers out — $2,177,171.00

The appropriation side's ARP transfers (100-9000) sum to exactly the ARP other-financing revenue shown above — a clean internal check, not a coincidence to gloss over: the same dollars are budgeted in and then transferred out.

All other 100-9000 transfer lines (new jail, E-911 fund, CDBG, SPLOST II/III/IV, T-SPLOST, hotel/motel, revolving loan fund, DATE fund, bond sinking fund, ARP sheriff/jail/EMS/recreation) show no amount in the report as printed, so no total for them is stated here. The remaining appropriations — sheriff, jail, fire, EMS, roads, recreation, courts, elections, airport, and all other departments — are itemized line by line in the report but carry no department subtotals there, so no department figures for them are stated on this page. The one department-level figure that is complete and sum-checked is department 1110 above.

Source: FY2025 budget report, Appropriations, pp. 7–8 (dept. 1110) and pp. 66–67 (transfers and grand total) — FY2025 budget report (PDF).

Debt & capital

Not shown in this report, and not estimated here. The FY2025 budget report as printed contains no debt schedule, no outstanding-debt total, and no capital-asset total — only scattered principal/interest and capital lines (for example airport site improvements of $120,000 and an airport improvements grant line of $350,000) with no subtotals. This page therefore states no debt or capital-asset figure for Wayne County. A debt or capital figure would need a separate verified document, such as an audit or a debt schedule.

Source: FY2025 budget report, Appropriations throughout (no debt or capital-asset schedule present) — FY2025 budget report (PDF).

Sources & notes

• Only source used: “BUDGET REPORT FOR WAYNE COUNTY, GA,” FY2025 budget report, printed 2026-04-21, 67 pages, “ORIGINAL” column. Read the budget report (PDF, UGA TED portal). Fetched by text fetch (the TED back way); the verbatim double-slash URL worked on the first attempt.
• Labeling: this page calls the document the FY2025 budget report as printed — not an adopted budget — because the fetched text contains no adoption resolution or adoption language.
• Sum checks: property-tax lines $16,296,716; other taxes/fees $4,743,400; selected other revenues $6,181,010; those three subtotals reconcile to the $31,206,299.00 document total with $3,985,173 in unlisted lines; gap $31,206,299.00 + $2,333,165.73 = $33,539,464.73; department 1110 $141,520.85; ARP transfers out $2,177,171.00 = ARP revenue $2,177,171.00. Every total on this page equals the sum of its shown parts.
• What is missing: no department subtotals (except the worked 1110 example), no debt or capital totals, no fund-balance statement, no millage, population, or staffing figures — the report does not supply them, and none were invented. A newer or more complete verified document would be needed to add them.
• Scope: General Fund only. SPLOST, E-911, DATE, and other funds are named only as transfer destinations with no amounts in this report.
• County palette: no high- or medium-confidence Wayne County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Peach State Pulse dark-glass theme rather than a county color.
• Identity: Wayne County, Georgia, seat Jesup — not Wayne County, North Carolina.

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Major Employers

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• EAM Corporation — Manufacturing
  Source: Georgia Department of Labor
• Great Southern Wood Preserving — Manufacturing
  Source: Georgia Department of Labor
• Harborview Jesup, LLC — Healthcare
  Source: Georgia Department of Labor
• Rayonier Performance Fibers, LLC — Manufacturing
  Source: Georgia Department of Labor
• Walmart — Retail
  Source: Georgia Department of Labor

Colleges

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Public Schools

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Serving district(s): Wayne County · 8 public schools physically located in the county.

Weather — Jesup, Georgia

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