La Porte — The La Porte Common Council voted Nov. 26 to approve a set of intra-budget transfers listed in Resolution R35-2025 and to adopt an additional appropriation from the Civic nonreverting fund totaling $100,000.

Councilman Galloway read the transfers aloud, which shifted small amounts between line items across departments and tax-increment-financing (TIF) accounts. Examples included moving $455 from communications transportation to printing/advertising, $12,000 from police salaries to repairs and maintenance, and larger professional services adjustments in TIF accounts totaling six-figure amounts. The council then voted to approve the resolution unanimously.

Council members asked for clarification about several line items during discussion. One speaker asked why legal services had increased; Council members noted rising unemployment-related costs were moving between accounts and described the transfers as year-end rebalancing. "We got a lot of legal services coming up here," one councilor said during debate.

Separately, Councilwoman Ficus introduced and the council approved an additional appropriation in the Civic nonreverting fund (Fund 5504) to cover $25,000 for salaries and $75,000 for event costs. The public hearing on that resolution had been published Nov. 15, 2025; no members of the public spoke during the hearing. The motion to approve the appropriation passed unanimously.

The actions will be recorded in the city's 2025 financial reports and applied to department budgets and TIF accounts as specified in the adopted documents. The council concluded the items as routine year-end adjustments and moved on to other agenda business.