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Finance committee lists appropriations for transportation match, solid-waste contract and internal transfers
Summary
The finance committee reviewed several housekeeping appropriations and an interfund transfer including an $18,393.24 transportation local-match appropriation, a $340,000 increase to the sanitation fund to cover tipping fee increases in the Rumpke contract, a $15,588.63 interfund transfer to the internal medical fund and a then-and-now certificate
The Athens City Council finance and personnel committee on March 10 reviewed several appropriation and bookkeeping items the committee chair said are necessary to close prior-year obligations and cover contract cost increases.
Chair Jeff Reiser described the appropriation requests: $18,393.24 to the transportation assisted fund to cover a 2024 local-match bill that was not paid in 2024 and now needs to be paid; $340,000 to the sanitation fund to cover increased tipping fees tied to the city’s contract with Rumpke; and a $15,588.63 interfund transfer to correct a bookkeeping error into the internal-service medical fund. Reiser said the sanitation increase "is not coming from the general fund, it's coming from our trash fund, which is healthy." He also said a then-and-now certificate will be required to comply with auditing rules and that the council would need to suspend rules to process it in 30 days.
Committee members asked for additional information on the bookkeeping error and were told staff would provide details after the meeting. No formal vote was recorded in the committee session; items will return for formal council action and any suspension needed to meet auditing deadlines.
No members of the public spoke on these fiscal housekeeping items during committee.
