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Council deadlocks 3–3 on using 2025 operating funds to buy a multi‑department brush chipper

Finance and Personnel (F and P) committee
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Summary

A proposed resolution to use 2025 street-department operating funds to buy a brush chipper for multi-department use failed on a 3–3 vote after debate over carryover, equipment sharing with Parks and whether utilities should own the asset.

The Finance and Personnel committee voted down a resolution that would have used street-department operating funds in 2025 to purchase a large piece of capital equipment intended for multi-department use.

The item, introduced at the special session as resolution 20‑5‑1158, was described by staff as time-sensitive because unspent operating money would lapse at year-end: "If we don't spend it this year, it's gone," an unidentified department head told the committee. Staff said the mayor's proposed $100,000 reduction to the refuse and…

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