At a special meeting, the Bryan City Council unanimously approved Ordinance 71 20 25, a pre-annual appropriation and emergency declaration tied to the city's wastewater treatment plant project, and approved an $89 correction to a probation grant fund.

The ordinance was read aloud and explained by an on-record speaker, who said the wastewater project is multimillion-dollar and that loan proceeds will be drawn down as bills are paid, with most proceeds arriving in the next fiscal year. "It's nothing more than accounting, gymnastics to comply with ORC," the speaker said, describing the change as an administrative adjustment to match appropriations to expected receipts.

The speaker told the council the adjustment lowers this year's appropriation because the city will not receive the loan proceeds until 2026, and said staff will return in early January to re-appropriate the funds for the second half of the project. The transcript records the amount of anticipated loan proceeds as "roughly $6,000,000,000"; the speaker framed the project as a multimillion-dollar wastewater treatment plant and tied the timing to the loan drawdown schedule. (Transcript language may contain a numeric transcription anomaly; the meeting record does not further break down the figure.)

The ordinance package also included a separate budget correction: an $89 adjustment to a probation grant fund to close out that grant. The speaker said that correction is part of the ordinance before the council.

Following presentation, a council member moved to "suspense" (as stated in the record), and the council conducted a roll-call vote. According to the transcript, members named in the vote were Jim, John, Rick, Steve and Mary; each registered "yes" and the motion carried unanimously. A subsequent motion "to approve" the ordinance was moved, seconded and approved on a 5-0 roll call.

The council did not record any dissent on the record. The speaker indicated the re-appropriation of the remaining project funds will be considered as early as the first meeting in January, at which point the city will set the appropriation for the remainder of the project work.

The meeting concluded with brief remarks of goodwill for the new year and a welcome to Lincoln on his first meeting; a motion to adjourn was moved, seconded and approved.

Clarifying details: the transcript text contains the ordinance language as "providing pre annual appropriations for the city of Bridal for the fiscal year ending 12/31/2025"; the public body for this meeting is the Bryan City Council and the proper jurisdiction is Bryan. The record also references "ORC" (not expanded in the transcript) and records the loan-proceeds figure as stated above; those points are reflected here without alteration.