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Board approves seven budget transfers and three legal settlements
Summary
At its April 8 meeting, the Board of SMA and Proportionment approved seven budget transfers covering water, recreation and audit accounts and authorized three legal settlements, including a $140,000 claim for Wayne Homes.
The Board of SMA and Proportionment on April 8, 2025, approved seven budget transfers and three legal settlements during a meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Suit Auditor Sanfo Klaas.
The board approved one 2024 transfer of $60,000 within the Water Department budget, moving funds from the purification supplies and materials account to a special items contracted services account to cover priority 2024 invoices. For the 2025 budget the board approved six transfers including: $5,000 within the Water Department shifting from sewer maintenance contracted services to a sewer maintenance vehicle expense line; $8,000 from the Water Department's administrative contracted services to its admin supplies and materials line; $250,000 from the Water Department's transmission-distribution contracted services line to another transmission-distribution line to cover anticipated purchases; two Recreation Department transfers ($1,000 from grama fees and services to admin miscellaneous for travel reimbursements; $10,000 from admin contracted services to admin office equipment for an office purchase); and a $2,500 transfer in the Office of Audit and Control from a chem health line to contracted protective expense to cover future costs.
The board then authorized three legal settlements. The recorded summaries were: $316 for Justin Lally related to an alleged illegal tow; $3,804.20 to Charter Spectrum for claimed damages to an undermount feeder line during lot-cleaning work performed by city departments; and $140,000 to Wayne Homes for claims described in the record as negligence, false arrest and malicious prosecution.
A motion to approve the published agenda and the listed items was moved and seconded; the board approved the agenda and the listed transfers and settlements by voice vote.
The meeting record does not include roll-call vote tallies for the individual transfers or settlements and does not identify a single mover and seconder for each listed transfer. The transfers and settlements are recorded in the meeting minutes as approved on April 8, 2025.
The budget transfers change line-item allocations but the minutes do not state any change to the board's total departmental budgets. The settlements resolve individual claims against the city as listed; the minutes do not state whether the settlements are covered by insurance or by specific reserve accounts.
