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Gary finance committee reviews 2025 general and special revenue budgets; ordinance presented, no vote
Summary
Council members heard presentations on CPO 2025-2001, which would amend City of Gary Ordinance No. 9749 to approve 2025 salaries and operating budgets across several departments. Department directors outlined carryovers, proposed hires and line-item shifts; no formal vote was recorded.
Councilwoman Linda Barnes Colwell presided over the Gary City finance committee meeting on Jan. 30, 2025, where officials presented CPO 2025-2001, an ordinance to amend City of Gary Ordinance No. 9749 and approve the city’s general and special revenue funds for calendar year 2025. Committee members heard department-by-department overviews but did not take a formal vote on the ordinance during the meeting.
The presentations matter because the ordinance would set salaries and operating appropriations that fund programs including civil-rights enforcement, public-health initiatives tied to opioid-settlement funds, information-technology contracts, and housing programs funded through HOME and ESG grants.
Hanifa Khalik, executive director of the Gary Human Relations Commission and vice president of the Indiana Consortium of State and Local Human Rights Agencies, reviewed four commission funds. She said a donation fund contains $838 in carryover from past anniversaries and that the commission has no immediate plans to spend that balance. Khalik reported salary…
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