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Albany City board approves multiple budget transfers to cover 2024 invoices
Summary
At a Jan. 24 meeting, the Albany City board approved a series of 2024 and 2025 budget transfer requests, shifting funds among unemployment, water, and general services accounts to cover invoices and correct miscoding of purchase orders.
Albany City’s Board of Estimate and Contract & Supply approved several budget transfer requests at its Jan. 24, 2025 meeting to cover outstanding 2024 invoices and to reallocate funds for early 2025 needs.
Chief City Auditor Dorsey Piers read the requests during the meeting. The board approved a motion to adopt the transfers; the motion was moved by City Treasurer George Johnson and seconded by Council President Alex. The chair called for the vote and the motion carried.
The requests approved included: a $43,000 transfer from contracted services/special outputs to state unemployment insurance/undistributed employee benefits to cover unemployment insurance payments; a Water Department request described in the transcript as a $307,000 transfer from contracted services/sewer maintenance into multiple sewer and Beaver Creek facility accounts (see clarifying details); a $40,000 move within the public works fleet maintenance accounts to cover motor vehicle expenses; and several Department of General Services (DGS) transfers to cover 2024 invoices and to create flexibility for 2025 coding issues.
Piers said some 2025 transfers are intended to avoid returning voucher packets because purchase orders had been linked to incorrect general ledger accounts. The DGS requests included a $1,000 reallocation from miscellaneous/general services administration to training and conferences; a $5,000 move from supplies and materials/public works parks maintenance to contracted services/park maintenance; and transfers of $60,000 and $40,000 among supplies and materials and contracted services to central maintenance accounts to prevent payment delays.
Why it matters: the transfers resolve year‑end and early fiscal‑year mismatches that, according to staff, were causing payment-processing delays. Several items were described as intended to prevent the need to reject vouchers tied to the wrong GL accounts.
Clarifying details noted during the meeting: the Water Department request was introduced as $307,000 but the line-item amounts read aloud ($150,000; $50,000; $100,000; $35,000) sum differently and the transcript also references a total of $370,000 for that request. The board record should be consulted for the adopted, reconciled amounts.
The board did not record roll-call tallies for individual members in the transcript excerpt; the motion to adopt the transfers was announced as carried after the mover and seconder spoke.
