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Resident presses DeKalb City Council for greater water-fund transparency, questions surveillance spending
Summary
At a Nov. 24 public hearing on the proposed FY2026 budget, resident Miss Fazikas asked the council for detailed explanations of water-fund transfers to the general fund, questioned an added IT position, and urged caution on replacing license-plate readers with Flock cameras and other surveillance purchases.
Miss Fazikas, a DeKalb resident who spoke during the public hearing on the proposed FY2026 budget, read an extended list of questions and asked the council to make the city’s water-fund subsidies and related staffing allocations more transparent.
Fazikas said she had ‘‘almost literally 20 questions’’ for the council and pressed staff to explain why the budget adds an IT employee for 2026 and whether any existing IT staff are assigned primarily to police operations. She also asked how many city employees will be paid in whole or in part from the waterfront (water operations fund) in 2026 and why certain water-utility functions receive support from the general fund.
City manager (Nicholas) responded during the budget presentation that transfers from the water fund have long…
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