Middletown board approves senior funding amendments, staff pay changes, water study and multiple budget transfers

The Middletown governing board, with the full board present, approved a series of budget transfers, grant acceptances, personnel classification changes and utility-billing adjustments during a meeting that covered senior services, public works and water funding.

Board members approved an amendment and final authorization related to additional funding for the Mulberry House Senior Center and agreed to keep a contracted instructor as a city employee with expanded paid setup and breakdown time. The board also approved internal transfers in the public works budget to cover recent vehicle purchases, accepted a grant for senior-center bathroom renovations and security cameras, authorized transfers to address final year-end overdrafts, voted to begin a feasibility study of an alternate water source, and decided multiple water-and-sewer billing adjustments.

The senior-services item included a request from Mulberry House for amendment number 7 to accept additional funding reported in the transcript as $25,003,635 from the Orange County Office for the Aging and to accept associated required documents and insurance certificates. The board approved a motion to authorize the mayor to sign the documents. The agenda also asked the board to authorize the treasurer to place part of the funds into the government-aid line rather than an…