Officials discuss contractor agreement, fund reallocation procedures and adjourn hearing

A committee member noted a contractor agreement for street work that expires in April and is set at $40,000, warning that paying the contract from utilities would leave little to hire a part-time street employee. The member said, "if we do renew that agreement and we see that we've only used a couple thousand out of that 12, we could do an ordinance" to move money and pay the contractor from another fund.

The Chair described the formal process for reallocating funds, saying an ordinance is required to move money from one fund to another and that within a fund the council can use line items to pay expenses. The discussion included concerns about radar maintenance budgeted at $0 and police fuel decreasing from $9,000 to $2,500. With no public commenters present, a motion to adjourn the public hearing was made, seconded and approved by vote.