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Oak Ridge council appoints ETJ representative, accepts finance report and delays agenda item
Summary
At its Oct. 3 meeting the Town of Oak Ridge Town Council approved two board appointments, accepted the monthly finance report and a budget amendment, and agreed to postpone discussion of one agenda item to Nov. 7.
The Town of Oak Ridge Town Council on Oct. 3 approved appointments to two advisory panels, accepted the finance officer’s monthly report and a budget amendment, and agreed to postpone one agenda item until the council’s Nov. 7 meeting.
Town Manager (name not specified) asked the council to approve Clay Flint as the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) representative to the planning and zoning board and Ty Lindsey as an alternate to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board; the council approved the appointments after a motion and second. The council also approved the minutes of its Sept. 5 regular meeting.
The finance officer (Bill) presented the monthly financial statement showing about $3,284,000 in assets, $70,000 in liabilities, and fund-balance commitments of roughly $1.3 million. The council moved to accept the finance officer’s report and separately approved a budget amendment to incorporate grant draws and project expenditures.
The finance presentation said the town received $441,000 from a grant described in the meeting as the Partish grant to fund Heritage Farm Park work and that the farmhouse community project has $496,033 in anticipated expenditures. The finance report said approximately $305,000 of that project funding would come from ARPA funds and that the town was about $12,000 over that ARPA allocation as of the meeting; the council approved a budget amendment to reconcile those amounts.
Early in the meeting a council member moved to approve the agenda with the removal of item 9; after discussion one item on the agenda was postponed to the Nov. 7 council meeting and the agenda was approved as amended.
All the routine motions reported in the meeting were made, seconded and approved by voice vote; the transcript records no roll-call tallies. Where the meeting record names a mover or seconder it is recorded in the minutes; the audio transcript does not provide a roll-call vote count for these motions.
The approvals restore a vacant ETJ seat and an alternate role on the parks board, and the budget amendment aims to align grant draws and prior-year expenditures with the town’s fiscal records. Council members said they welcomed the new volunteers and asked staff to continue reporting updates on the Heritage Farm Park work.
