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Votes at a glance: Green Bay Finance Committee approves grants, contracts and equipment purchases; borrowing and CIP held for further review
Summary
The Green Bay Finance Committee unanimously approved several grant and contract items Nov. 4 — including a DOJ grant, a $42,000 equipment purchase, a three‑year waste‑oil contract and a five‑year audit contract — and held 2026 borrowing and the five‑year CIP for further departmental prioritization.
The Green Bay Finance Committee on Nov. 4 approved a series of routine funding and procurement items and deferred larger borrowing and the capital improvement plan for further review.
The committee unanimously approved acceptance of the 2026 State BECOP program grant from the Wisconsin Department of Justice for $161,912 with a required local match of $40,004.78. It also approved the purchase of a used tool cat (UW56 with bucket) from Bobcat Plus Inc. for $42,000 to be paid from capital reserve/fund balance; staff said the purchase was brought forward because the unit became needed ahead of the 2027 CIP replacement and the emergency need made paying cash preferable to additional bonding.
Other unanimous approvals included a three‑year packaged oil waste and recycling services contract with Halloran Oil with an expected spend of about $90,000 over the contract period and a five‑year finance audit services contract with CliftonLarsonAllen for the city at a total cost of $315,000; staff noted the audit procurement was a coordinated RFP with water utility and transit and that other entities will take their own approvals.
The committee approved the revised asset capitalization policy and then spent substantial time on the city’s 2026 levy‑supported borrowing request and the 2026–2030 capital improvement plan. Staff presented background charts showing historical borrowing levels, current debt capacity and a proposed annual levy‑supported borrowing level below the department’s internal target of about $17.3 million. Committee members and department staff discussed a long list of equipment needs — notably for Public Works and Parks — operational impacts from aging vehicles and possible funding sources, and the tradeoffs between borrowing and paying from annual budgets.
After extended discussion the committee voted to hold final action on the 2026 levy‑supported borrowing request and the 2026–2030 CIP and directed staff to provide prioritized lists of the next equipment priorities from major departments in the packet for the joint personnel/finance budget meeting on Nov. 13; that motion carried unanimously.
All recorded motions in this meeting passed or were continued as indicated below.
