Greenwood staff presented preliminary budget adjustments for the sanitation and waste-management funds and asked the board for preliminary approval to bridge timing until the Jan. 5 meeting for a final vote.

Staff reported the waste-management budget faced a projected increase of $523,001.55, driven primarily by an increase of about $320,000 in the Bestway contract and a new lease-purchase for a tub grinder of about $135,000. Offsetting savings in sanitation were tied to a bond roll-off from 2018 that reduced that fund’s payments by about $1.3 million, producing a net reduction of roughly $1.99 million in the sanitation fund compared with the prior year.

Because of the short timeframe before the new year, staff sought preliminary approval to use the proposed documents to carry operations through early January; the board granted that preliminary approval and will revisit final approvals at the Jan. 5 meeting.