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Evansville council adopts amended year-end appropriations ordinance
Summary
The Common Council voted 9-0 Dec. 9 to adopt an amended ordinance reallocating and adding appropriations across city funds, including health-insurance and casino-related items; city finance staff said the health fund stood about $1.7 million in the black as of the prior Friday.
The Evansville Common Council on Dec. 9 approved an amended ordinance (F-2024-19) authorizing transfers, additional appropriations and re-appropriations across multiple city funds as part of year-end budget adjustments.
Councilor Brinkmeyer moved to adopt the ordinance as amended, with Councilor Mosby seconding. The floor was opened for questions and the council questioned the city controller about several line items, including whether items listed as "repairs and maintenance" were full replacements and how the city planned to balance the employee health-insurance fund.
The city controller explained that some entries (including replacement of time clocks in the casino fund) were intended as full replacements rather than repairs. On the health-insurance fund, the controller said the city was "in the black" and reported, "As of Friday, we were at 1.7 in the black," describing roughly $1.7 million of positive balance as of the prior Friday. He said the administration is shifting costs so departments with higher usage, notably fire and police because of retiree participation, bear more of those costs.
Council members asked whether unspent casino-related revenues would be available to cover obligations in the coming year; the controller said a promised casino payment of $1,200,000 is expected this year, with additional scheduled payments of $900,000 next year and $600,000 the following year, and that those sums had not yet been appropriated.
After discussion the council approved the amended ordinance by roll call vote. The clerk recorded nine ayes, zero nays.
The ordinance updates year-end allocations and is part of the council’s routine fiscal housekeeping; the controller said the changes are intended to align appropriations with actual departmental costs and vacancy-driven fund balances heading into 2025.
