Albany City approves 2025 budget transfers; records park grant and $1.5M water grant for lead-service work

Albany City’s Board of Estimates on June 6 approved a slate of 2025 budget transfers to reallocate existing funds for office equipment, training and maintenance, and recorded two grant appropriations including municipal park improvements and a portion of a lead replacement project.

The board approved transfers requested by the common council, the Department of Recreation, the Albany Police Department and multiple city departments to move funds between existing accounts for equipment, training and services. The transfers included $400 from supplies and materials to office equipment and $800 from contracted services to office equipment for the common council; $12,905 moved by the Recreation Department from several fees-and-services accounts into training and conferences to cover summer seasonal employee training and lifeguard certification; and smaller transfers for furniture and equipment in the police department and for central services and the city clerk to consolidate copy-machine services.

The Recreation Department also recorded an increase to its 2025 appropriations after the city received $46,265 from the county’s municipal…