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Davenport City debates rolling over unspent fair-housing and general-fund salary dollars

Davenport City Council and Commission · November 5, 2025
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Director Lacey asked the city to roll over unspent FY25 funding tied to fair-housing administration and a small general-fund salary balance to FY26 to allow the civil rights office to address backlog created by hiring delays. Finance staff said $31,000 of HUD administrative salary funds had already been rolled over; council members expressed

Director Lacey and finance staff discussed a request to roll over unspent fair-housing and general-fund salary monies from FY25 into FY26 so the civil rights office can catch up on work delayed by hiring and other constraints.

Finance staff explained the city's general practice: salary savings are not usually rolled from one fiscal year to the next. The CFO (Vashia) said it has been the city's practice "not to roll over salary savings from 1 year to the next. We see that as 1 time money at that moment in time," while noting that unspent HUD/fair housing funding that has been received…

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