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Finance Committee recommends multiple orders, donations, and contracts to full council
Summary
At its April 16 meeting the Gardner City Council Finance Committee voted to recommend several budget transfers, donations acceptances and the authorization to solicit a multi-year on-call engineering contract, and forwarded two audit communications to the full council for review.
The Gardner City Council Finance Committee on April 16 voted to recommend a set of orders, donations acceptances and contract authorizations to the full City Council and forwarded two audit communications for council review.
The committee approved recommending to the full council: (1) an order authorizing $282.36 in prior-year salary expenditure from the Solid Waste Enterprise account for a transfer-station monitor back pay; (2) an order transferring $10,000 from a Community Development salary line to professional services to cover a retired employee returning under contract to train a new administrative assistant (with an amendment requesting mayoral communication if costs exceed $5,000); (3) an order accepting donations for the city flower-pot sponsorship program; (4) an order accepting donations to the Gardner Animal Shelter; and (5) authorization to issue a request-for-proposals (RFP) for an on-call engineering services contract of up to five years. The committee also received and…
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