Council adopts ordinance moving $2.04 million and approving additional appropriations

The Village of Saint Bernard on May 22 adopted Ordinance No. 15, 2025, authorizing the auditor to transfer $2,040,000 from the general fund and to appropriate a series of additional amounts for capital and operating needs.

Auditor Peggy Brickwig summarized the ordinance: $1,500,000 of the transfer will go into a master planned cash account and $540,000 into the capital improvement cash account. The ordinance also included multiple additional appropriations: $5,000 to the bureau of inspection to cover the state auditor review fee for new reports; $2,000 to equipment maintenance to cover unexpected small expenses; $525,442.34 for streets contract costs tied to the Greenlee Road project; $10,000 for traffic lights; $1,000,212.05 listed under streets and sewers master plan to cover Greenlee and Langley water work (with the auditor noting the village expects reimbursement from the water works and that $218,000 toward Langley had already been received); and $542,910 in capital improvements as a second payment on a new fire engine.

Councilman Schultmeyer moved to suspend further readings; the motion passed. Schultmeyer then moved to adopt the ordinance and Councilman Morton seconded; the roll call recorded seven ayes and no nays and the ordinance was adopted as read.

Auditor Brickwig emphasized some appropriations are cash-flow measures paying contractors now pending reimbursements from outside utilities; she described several items as not new long-term expenditures but as temporary appropriations to pay invoices and be reimbursed.