Butler County will take ownership of approximately an acre of land behind the Butler County Correctional Facility.

At its April meeting, the Butler County Commission voted to accept a donation of a plot of land from Boyd Foster, Linda Rainey, Joan Peavy and Jean Harron. The land backs up to the correctional facility and fronts Bell Street.

“The Boyd Foster family had no plans to do anything with the property, and wanted to donate it to the county,” County attorney Calvin Poole said. “The addition of the land will even out the county’s ownership back there.”

In other business:

υThe Commission voted to transfer $4,732.59 from fiduciary funds to the general fund.

“This is money that’s been in the account for more than 10 years that we haven’t used, and now we can transfer it to the general fund to be used for whatever we need to use it for,” Commission Chairman Jesse McWilliams said.

υThe Commission voted to transfer $20,442.43 from excess land sales to the general fund.

The Commission’s next regular meeting will be May 7 at 8:30 a.m. at the Butler County Courthouse Annex.