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Finance Committee approves $476,000 transfer to law department for independent school deficit investigation
Summary
The committee recommended a transfer of $476,000 from several personnel lines to the law department to cover the final balance of an independent investigation into the school department deficit; councilors questioned the impact of taking $200,000 from the library budget.
The Brockton Finance Committee voted to recommend transferring $476,000 into the law department's purchase-of-service account to pay the final balance of an independent investigation related to the school department deficit.
City CFO Troy Clarkson told the committee the transfers come from unfilled personnel vacancies across departments. "For all of these transfers, counselor, these are based on vacancies that exist in the department, that have remained unfilled. And so it will not impact the operations of any of these departments for the remainder of the fiscal year," Clarkson said.
The transfer package included $476,000 moved to law purchase-of-service with offsets taken from library, auditor, board of health and mayoral personnel accounts. Several councilors expressed concern about taking $200,000 from the library budget late in the fiscal year. Councilor Castro said she would support the transfer but planned to speak with the library director about possible impacts.
City Solicitor Megan Bridges and CFO Clarkson attended; Bridges introduced the request as submitted by the mayor. After questions, a motion to recommend the transfer favorably to the full council passed.
The committee's approval sends the transfer to the full City Council for final action; members asked for confirmation that the paperwork explicitly states the funds satisfy FY2024 obligations paid from FY2025 appropriations and for assurance that the departments' operations would not be harmed by the vacancies cited.
