More money on administrative salaries and engineering fees, less income from unloading goods and a level forecast on legal fees make up a $266,901 deficit in the Warren County Port Commission’s budget for 2011-12.

Revenues from amounts paid by the port’s contract operator at the Port of Vicksburg and various leases for hunting and hay making on land around Ceres Research and Industrial Interplex are estimated at $599,699 in the draft OK’d by the five-member commission. Expected expenses total $866,600, inclusive of higher state retirement contributions.

“We’re in pretty decent shape,” executive director Wayne Mansfield told the panel Monday, adding the budget is “an inexact science.”

Salaries for 2011-12 for the commission’s three-person office staff are pegged at $205,000, versus $195,000 this year. Base salary for the executive director is $75,000.

A final repair cost on the flood-damaged T-dock crane support platform or the metal building that houses the overhead crane is expected when the county sends totals to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The county is one of 13 Mississippi counties eligible for assistance to local governments for costs related to the Mississippi River’s historic rise in May. A $13,000 spending item appears for repairs to rail leading to the cargo loading area.

Final paperwork on another planned expense, a local match on an intermodal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to resurface and repair Industrial Drive, should be submitted to MDOT by Sept. 15, County Engineer John McKee said.