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Council approves $125,457 for neighborhood drainage, leaves $100,000 in contingency
Summary
At a Tuscaloosa City Council meeting, members approved reallocating part of the General Fund Reserve for Future Improvement Fund contingency: $125,457 will go to neighborhood drainage, proposed projects totaling about $387,500 were approved, and $100,000 will remain in contingency pending the mayor's April 22 surplus proposal.
At a meeting of the Tuscaloosa City Council, members approved reallocating part of the general fund reserve for future improvements, directing $125,457 to neighborhood drainage and leaving $100,000 in contingency.
Finance staff member Carla Standridge told the council the reserve-for-improvement contingency balance was $612,957. "We have a contingency balance within the RFFI of $612,957," Standridge said, and she presented a list of council-proposed projects that together would total about $387,500. That combination, she said, would have fully allocated the contingency if the full neighborhood…
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