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Finance committee presses controller for explanation of in-year budget amendments
Summary
At a Muncie City Council Finance Committee working session, members questioned the city controller about line-item amendments and added appropriations the committee said had not come before the council. The controller said some changes followed the amended salary ordinance and pledged to provide documentation.
MUNCIE, Ind. — Members of the Muncie City Council Finance Committee pressed the city controller during a working session for detailed explanations of budget amendments that appeared to add money to adopted line items without explicit council approval.
The committee raised several examples and asked the controller to show where the additional appropriations came from. “I will get the answer for you,” the controller told the committee when asked why funds had been amended into specific salary lines.
The exchange centered on how the controller’s office calculated pay increases and where supplemental money entered adopted line items. The controller said the office had used the amended salary ordinance as the basis for some increases and described multiple methods used to calculate totals, saying, “I did it several different ways.”…
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