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Council committee reviews budget reallocation to cover a 27th payroll and neighborhood services funding
Summary
Council’s budget committee reviewed Resolution 84 (2025), a multi-part budget reallocation to confirm a prior $2 million Neighborhood Services allotment, address the accounting effects of prior-year encumbrances, and add cushion for medical claims and personnel costs tied to an extra (27th) payroll; committee voted to move the resolution to the full legislative agenda.
The budget and finance committee took up Resolution 84 (2025), a proposed seventh 2025 budget reallocation that staff said would confirm a previously approved $2 million allotment to the Neighborhood Services Fund and adjust general-fund personnel lines to accommodate a rare 27th payroll in 2025.
Bridal McCutchen, Bureau of Financial Management, explained the review: because of pay-date timing the city expects an extra payroll in the current budget year and staff identified departments with surplus budget to be shifted to units that need increases (treasurer, parks & recreation, police personnel lines). McCutchen presented line-by-line adjustments and explained that prior-year encumbrances for legal services were prepared in error in the system and required a manual clean-up; staff said the law bureau’s revised budget should reflect roughly $279,000 in the revised column to align with amounts spent and committed.
Council members pressed for details on the $600,000 lost-time figure in the police budget; staff said that represents an ongoing workers’ compensation settlement and that stop-loss insurance is expected to reimburse a material portion once the threshold is reached. McCutchen also described the medical claims forecast and the rationale for increasing the medical appropriation as a cushion: staff said monthly claim activity averages about $1,200,000 and that the proposed shift would reduce the risk of running short before year-end.
After questions, Vice President Green asked that Resolution 84 be added to the next legislative agenda for a formal vote. The committee did not take a final legislative vote at the work session; the item will be considered by full council.
