Albany City auditors present 2024 and 2025 transfer requests totaling roughly $1.5 million

Deputy Chief Senior Auditor Sharla Glass told the Albany City Board of Estimated Enforcement Planning on March 4, 2025, that staff presented six budget transfer requests covering the 2024 and 2025 budgets, including roughly $1.48 million in water‑department reallocations and two other requests totaling about $277,000.

The requests, presented during a brief meeting, were described as measures to cover final invoices and to shift funds into equipment and maintenance accounts. Ms. Glass said the first 2024 request was for $177,000 to move from the special items contingency account into the special items judgment and claims account to cover final invoices. A second 2024 request from Animal Services moved $100,000 from a contracted snow account into the department’s maintenance of street other equipment account to cover invoices.

Ms. Glass also presented a water‑department transfer she described as $1,488,000 for 2024 year‑end adjustments. She read a set of line items that, when tallied, sum to $1,480,000; items listed include $761,000 from a transportation and distribution salary account, $705,000 from a water board administration salary account, $96,000 from a pumping station salary account, $175,000 from a source of power supply salary account, $125,000 from a purification account, $143,000 from a deprecate (depreciation) facilities account, and $103,000 from the purification chemicals account. Target accounts read into the record included transmission/distribution and contracted services accounts and a Beaver Creek facility contracted services account. The transcript records Ms. Glass reading both $1,488,000 and a set of line items totaling $1,480,000; the discrepancy was not resolved on the record.

For the 2025 budget, Ms. Glass described three transfer requests. She said one 2025 water‑department request was for $61,000 to shift funds from a transmission and distribution contracting services account into equipment and miscellaneous transmission and distribution accounts. A second 2025 water request she characterized as $140,000 coming from two accounts into three accounts to cover equipment purchases and fleet maintenance needs. The transcript also records an additional city clerk request described in the audio as "2 50 dollars"; the amount and accounts for that request were not clear in the transcript and are noted here as not specified.

The transcript does not record a formal motion or roll‑call vote approving these transfer requests. The recorded formal action in the budget board portion of the meeting was a motion to adjourn made by Joel Satson, seconded by Joe Sutch, followed by a voice "aye." No motion to approve the specific transfers is documented in the provided transcript.

Staff and the board did not elaborate further on implementation steps or effective dates for any of the transfers during the recorded remarks. The meeting then was handed over to the Board of Contract and Supply for bid openings and awards.