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Finance committee backs $170,400 supplemental appropriation for Registry of Deeds, seeks language fixes
Summary
Barnstable County finance committee voted unanimously to recommend Ordinance 2025-14, a $170,400 supplemental appropriation for a Registry of Deeds basement renovation, while directing staff to tighten drafting so the Assembly retains appropriation authority.
Barnstable County’s Assembly of Delegates finance committee voted unanimously to recommend Ordinance 2025-14, a $170,400 supplemental appropriation to begin renovations to the Registry of Deeds basement, but instructed staff to revise the ordinance’s language to ensure the Assembly retains control over future appropriations.
The committee’s discussion centered on draft language in Section 3 that would allow funds to be taken from the “available general fund unreserved fund balance, or from such funding sources as may be designated by the Board of Regional Commissioners.”…
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