Council approves year-end budget transfers in brief holiday-week conference call

In a short special meeting held by conference call at 9:30 a.m., with Councilor Lefkovits absent, the Council approved a routine bills-and-warrants resolution and authorized roughly $65,500 in transfers between 2021 municipal budget appropriation accounts to cover year-end shortfalls. Funds were moved out of accounts including financial administration other expenses ($5,000), legal contractual services ($10,000), employee health insurance ($30,000), dispatch salary and wages ($10,000), and garbage and recycling other expenses ($10,500), and into accounts including recreation salary and wages ($15,000) and other expenses ($5,000), public safety and street/roads salary and wages ($10,000 each), buildings and grounds salary and wages ($10,000), municipal court salary and wages ($10,000), and smaller transfers to administration and the tax assessor's office. No members of the public commented, and the meeting adjourned after about 12 minutes with no other business conducted.