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Whiteville staff present AFG grant for fire breathing apparatus and budget amendment for 5% local match
Summary
Staff presented acceptance language for a 2024 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to purchase breathing apparatus, noting a grant award of $147,440 and a required local match of $7,760. The budget amendment would create a special project fund and appropriate the match from fund balance.
City staff presented the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) award language and an associated budget amendment that would appropriate the required local match to a new special project fund.
A staff presenter said the AFG award totals $147,440 for breathing apparatus and that the city is responsible for a $7,760 local match (reported as 5% of the grant). "Budget amendment number 1 addresses the city's matching fund requirement for the grant," the presenter said. Staff explained that the amendment would establish an AFG special project fund, record the $147,440 grant proceeds, transfer $7,760 from the general fund fund balance, and record the capital outlay expenditure for the breathing apparatus.
Council discussion centered on budget implications and timing; staff described the transaction as a standard "pitch and catch" routine to establish the special project fund and appropriate the match. The transcript records the staff presentation and explanation of the amendment but does not show a recorded roll-call vote accepting the grant or adopting the amendment in the meeting record provided.
Because the transcript did not include a recorded vote outcome in the excerpt, this article reports the presentation content and the local-match amount as stated by staff rather than asserting a final council action.
