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Simpsonville staff report shows major municipal complex spending; administrator applies for crosswalk grant
Summary
City staff reported fiscal-year-to-date revenues and expenses, ongoing FEMA reimbursements and a county C-Fund grant application for a pedestrian hybrid beacon and emergency signal near the municipal complex.
Simpsonville financial director Christine Farino told the council on March 25 that year-to-date general fund revenues through February totaled $17,000,000 (69% of budget) while year-to-date general fund expenses were $27,500,000 (112% of budget), noting that the expenses include about $11,300,000 toward the municipal complex.
Administrator Graceley said she has applied to the county transportation committee for a C-Fund grant to install a pedestrian hybrid beacon and an emergency vehicle signal at East Curtis Street by the municipal complex and the fire department apparatus bay, and that she and Fire Chief Nichols will present the request to the committee; she said the city “anticipate[s] that that will be funded, but we won’t know until late April.” If funded, she estimated the project could be complete in six to nine months.
Graceley said FEMA reimbursements are ongoing and that the city expects about $1.5 million in reimbursement for debris removal (Category A and Category B). She said additional FEMA categories — notably infrastructure repairs to culverts and other damaged sites (Category C) — remain under documentation and review.
On enterprise funds, Farino reported sewer fund revenues through February of $2,400,000 (109% of budget, including about $966,000 in a grant reimbursement) and Public Works Enterprise Fund revenues of $1,600,000 with expenses of $775,000. She also noted special revenue fund revenues of $4,000,000 (including a $1,000,000 grant toward the streetscape project) and related bond-funded streetscape and Swamp Rabbit Trail-extension expenses.
Councilors asked follow-up questions about project costs and contingency on the municipal complex and about whether Greenlink bus funding was included in the FY26 draft budget; Administrator Graceley said funds for the Greenlink 601 bus remain in the draft but that no intergovernmental agreement from Greenlink to the city has been finalized. Graceley also reminded council that two election-committee terms remain to be filled and that the FY26 budget draft is pending the city’s health-insurance-renewal figures.
Council members did not take formal action on these reports during the committee meeting.
