The Michigan City Common Council Finance Committee on June 17 approved $52,968.96 in claims covering work by Schneider and Geometrics and Woodruff and Sons Inc., and reviewed city riverboat and rainy day fund balances.

The motion to approve the claims was made by Doctor Cora and seconded by Mister Beartree; the committee voted aye and the motion carried. The claims cited on the docket included $14,652.50 to Schneider and Geometrics and $38,316.46 to Woodruff and Sons Inc., for a total of $52,968.96.

The committee reviewed fund balances reported for fiscal year to date as of June 17, 2025: a riverboat fund ending balance of $2,420,141.02, a rainy day fund ending balance of $1,830,213.71, and a combined total of $4,250,354.73. The meeting record also noted a Boyd development fund balance and line items on the claims docket.

Mary Lynn Wall, the city controller, told the committee during the public comment period that "the monies that we're paying on these claims and for the annex 8, those are already encumbered funds. So those are not reducing that actual cash balance because we previously had encumbered, money in the rainy day fund, just to clarify." Her comment clarified that the approved payments had been reserved from the rainy day fund in earlier actions and therefore do not change the reported cash position.

Committee members opened the meeting for public comment; no additional speakers addressed the committee. The docket approval was the primary formal action taken; the committee adjourned shortly after the vote.

The agenda also noted that the full City Council would consider an ordinance on first reading the same evening proposing additional appropriations from the rainy day fund for emergency and nonemergency repairs to City Hall. The committee did not take a formal vote on that ordinance during this session.