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Boise City Council approves nine interim budget changes including Fry Street open-space purchase and airport art
Summary
The Boise City Council approved nine interim budget reallocations and appropriations on a motion to adopt staff recommendations, including a $550,000 Open Space and Clean Water Levy purchase on Fry Street, two airport public-art installations, and staffing and capital adjustments across multiple departments.
Boise City Council voted to approve nine interim budget changes proposed by city staff, covering one-time reallocations, a short-term staff position, facility security and art projects, and an open-space acquisition on the West Bench.
Finance presenter Alicia McAndrews told the council the package included two percent-for-art expenditures from the airport fund — $300,000 for a mural on the east façade of the consolidated rental-car facility and $61,000 for a wall installation near Gate 16 — and a $52,500 one-time reallocation from the general fund strategic plan contingency to increase the council's maintenance and operations professional services account ($50,000) and to add $2,500 to sponsor the Andrus Center’s Young Women and Leadership Conference.
Other items approved included a two-year, term-limited digital communications coordinator in the Office of Community…
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