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Finance committee recommends multiple grants, transfers and budget items to full City Council
Summary
At its Feb. 18 meeting the Brockton Finance Committee voted to recommend favorably a series of grant acceptances and fund transfers — including grants to the fire and police departments and transfers to the opioid settlement and Chapter 3.24 reserve funds — and approved several departmental supplemental transfers for insurance, postage and parks.
The Brockton Finance Committee on Feb. 18 recommended favorably a series of grants and budget transfers to the full City Council, including a $49,986 nonmatching public-safety grant for the Fire Department, a $775,475.14 youth-violence prevention grant to the Police Department, a $1,098,593 transfer of opioid-settlement proceeds back into the city’s opioid revolving fund, and an $8,106,226 transfer into the Chapter 3.24 supplemental reserve.
Committee members voted to move each item to the full City Council for final approval; committee minutes show motions were made and seconded and each matter was “recommended favorably.”
Among the other transfers approved to be forwarded to the council were $50,000 moved within the auditor’s budget from full-time salaries to postage, a composite transfer to cover increased property-insurance costs and court judgments (including…
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