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Finance committee approves travel, refund and forwards bills to full council
Summary
The committee approved multiple travel requests for city staff and officials, granted a small refund for a billing error, and received bills totaling about $7.74 million to forward to the full council for payment.
The Waterloo City Council Finance Committee on May 5 approved a slate of travel requests for city staff and officials, approved a refund for an incorrect garbage collection charge, and received bills to forward to the full council.
Travel approvals included multiple conference and training trips the committee authorized as not to exceed amounts: Detective Bryce Lippert and Officer Jared Jolly to a storm control tactics instructor course (amount not to exceed $2,198); Bree Boss for a lifeguard instructor course in Waverly, Iowa (amount not to exceed $300); Bill Beck, fire chief, to the National Security Seminar at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (amount not to exceed $613); Sheila Stefan, public works coordinator, to the Iowa Municipal Professionals Academy in Ames (amount not to exceed $720); several public works and utilities staff to the 2025 IAWEA annual conference in Ottumwa (not to exceed $2,969); staff to the Iowa NAHRO 2025 annual conference in West Des Moines (not to exceed $3,889.46); and Mayor Quentin Hart to a USA Select meeting in Washington, D.C. (not to exceed $4,000). The committee voted to approve the travel requests by voice vote.
The committee also approved a refund request for property at 422 Hope Ave. for $87.73 for garbage collection charges billed in error. Finally, the committee received and filed bills for April 28 totaling $2,575,240.83 and for May 5 totaling $5,165,492.61 and voted to forward those bills to the full council.
Why it matters: Travel approvals allow staff and officials to attend training and conferences that the city says support operations; forwarding the bills to full council is the committee’s procedural step toward payment. The refund corrects a small billing error for a resident.
All motions in this segment were recorded as moved, seconded and approved by voice vote; the transcript records “All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.” The transcript does not record roll‑call vote counts or the names of the motion makers in these items.
