The Butte City Finance and Budget Committee approved an expenditure list totaling $592,440.12 at its June 18, 2025 meeting and reviewed a set of proposed budget transfers and revenue reports for city facilities.

Committee members approved the expenditure list by voice vote, 6-0. Commissioners present and recorded as voting in favor were Commissioner Shea, Commissioner O'Leary, Commissioner Walker, Commissioner Boyle, Commissioner O'Neil and Commissioner Thatcher.

Committee members asked about several line items before the vote. Staff said charges listed as “fitness instruction” are payments through the Board of Recreation to pay instructors who lead community exercise and educational classes under the parks department. Commissioner Walker questioned a smaller line listed under the health department described in the ledger as a “colonoscopy membership.” Walker said, "We don't give colonoscopies at the health department," and asked why the expenditure appeared under that department. A staff member read the fuller vendor name from the ledger as the "American Society of Colonoscopy Cervical Pathologies," and said that is how the vendor appears on the printout.

Committee members also discussed how the county pays for medical services at the detention center. Director Eric Hassler said medical providers "make every attempt to collect from a person's insurance before it comes to us for payment," and that the county pays costs only when inmates lack other coverage; the county does not receive reimbursement in those cases.

The committee reviewed several budget transfers presented by staff; the transcript lists the following items presented for transfer or reallocation (amounts and purposes as read into the record): $80 to the health department for employee meal reimbursement related to the Montana Primary Care Association; $300 to the health department for donuts and water for ASSIST (suicide prevention) training; $16,436 from central equipment to cover mechanic tool reimbursements per the mechanics union contract; $15,000 transferred from the water capital improvement fund to cover the remainder of a Water Environmental Technology invoice; $500 moved from travel to training for the Society of American Archivists virtual conference registration at the archives; $12,258 to cover purchase of performance-management software from Knowledge Capital Alliance for accreditation purposes at the health department; $1,000 to accommodate an insurance balance (department not specified on the printout); a listed $22,404 to cover the cost of purchasing performance-management software from Knowledge Capital Alliance at the health department; and $400 to address travel costs that exceeded the budget in the URA. Staff presented these items for review; the record does not show a separate roll-call vote on each transfer during the committee meeting.

Staff also presented May revenue reports for city facilities. Director Hassler told the committee Bridgewater had no activity in May because it was not open. Highland View Golf Course reporting was split across two point-of-sale systems; staff reported $11,654 in concession sales and $2,002.43 in golf-simulator rentals associated with the bar system. Civic Center concession sales for May were presented as $11,005.36, with receipts tied to several events the facility hosted that month. Commissioner O'Leary asked that the printed reports be emailed to the commissioners; staff agreed to provide them.

With no additional questions, a motion to adjourn carried by voice vote and the committee recessed.