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Council removes finance report from consent agenda amid budget-transparency concerns
Summary
After public comment and Alderman Stacy's request, the council pulled the March finance department report (item 4a2) from the consent agenda for further review and approved the remaining consent items 7-1.
During public comment, Rhonda Scott urged the Freeport City Council to remove the March finance department report from the consent agenda and to allow more public scrutiny of the city’s spending and line items.
"The city revenue that the city spends on the general fund is only about 26,000,000," Rhonda Scott told the council, and she highlighted several line items she said merited questions: roughly $654,000 for the airport (described as the city’s fourth-largest general-fund expense), no standalone budget line for the Greater Freeport Partnership, and planned spending of $500,000 on EV chargers and $450,000 for a Safe Streets study. She also said GFP payments appeared to be funded from five TIF funds…
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