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Burrillville council discloses $30,000 transfer from general fund for tariff litigation after executive session
Summary
Following an executive session on litigation, the council disclosed a vote to appropriate and transfer $30,000 from the unreserved general fund balance to the tariff litigation fund for additional litigation expenses; charter rules requiring six affirmative votes were noted.
After an executive session on litigation at its Nov. 18 meeting, the Burrillville Town Council disclosed one vote taken in executive session: to appropriate and transfer $30,000 from the town’s undesignated general fund balance to the tariff litigation fund to cover additional litigation expenses.
Speaker 7 (as recorded) explained that the town charter requires an affirmative vote of six council members to appropriate funds from the unassigned general fund; the council recorded that the appropriation met that requirement. The council then moved to seal the minutes of the executive session. A subsequent motion to disclose the vote and appropriate the funds was made and carried in open session.
No additional fiscal details or vendor/payment specifics were disclosed in open session. The council directed staff to record the action in the minutes and to proceed with the transfer to the litigation fund.
