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Council approves budget amendment and sets deadline for agenda submissions
Summary
The City of Bandera council unanimously approved a fiscal-year budget amendment that moves certain salary expenses into a transfer to the Christmas fund and adopted an ordinance establishing a deadline to submit agenda items 12 days before meetings (debate centered on whether 12 days was too tight).
The City of Bandera City Council unanimously approved two ordinances after discussion: a budget amendment to reclassify certain payroll expenses and a change to the municipal code establishing a deadline for submitting agenda items ahead of council meetings.
Allison Heights, a city staff member who presented the budget item, told the council she had consulted the city auditor and a federal service contact about the entries and said the proposed handling was appropriate. She said the amendments decrease expenses in salary, Social Security and Medicare tax lines and create a new "transfer out" line to move those expenses into the city's Christmas fund. "I'm going to create a new line item, which is gonna be a transfer…
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