Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Finance And Budget topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Clerk-treasurer reports $241,928 in food-and-beverage receipts and new spending breakdown for 2024
Summary
The Town of Merrillville’s clerk-treasurer reported a food-and-beverage tax check of $241,928.05 and presented a new cash-outflow breakdown for 2024 showing $55,034,753.84 in expenditures and payroll totaling $8,850,790.84.
Clerk-Treasurer Mr. January reported to the Town of Merrillville council on Feb. 11 that the town received a food-and-beverage tax deposit of $241,928.05 and that he is preparing a new, regularly distributed report breaking out town cash outflows by expenditure category.
January said the new report will present spending by line item—payroll, supplies and others—in a columnar format intended to make town spending easier to understand. He said that for 2024 the town’s total cash outflow was $55,034,753.84; within that total, payroll was $8,850,790.84. He also said the $241,928.05 figure includes multiple months of payments and that December collections alone were $140,047.36, with the remainder representing back payments.
Council members asked clarifying questions about the period covered by the food-and-beverage payments; January confirmed December contributed $140,047.36 of the total and the rest were prior months’ payments that posted together.
January said he would make the new expenditure-breakdown report available to the council and the public so members and residents can better track where town money is spent.
