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Chair outlines budget amendment after licenses and cemetery costs exceed estimates
Summary
At the May public hearing, the Lindell council reviewed a 2024–2025 budget amendment addressing two overages: building licenses/permits (actual $4,051 vs. $1,000 budgeted) and parks/cemetery charges (actual $4,710 vs. $3,100). Council moved to approve the amendment; vote tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
The Lindell Town Council reviewed and moved to adopt an amendment to the 2024–2025 budget at a public hearing on May 7. Chair (speaker 3) told the council that two line items had exceeded their original allocations: licenses and permits, which had been budgeted at $1,000 but totaled $4,051, and charges and services for parks and cemetery work, which rose from a $3,100 allocation to $4,710.
"We had budgeted $1,000, and we were $4,051," the Chair said, adding that the licenses and permits increase represented roughly a 405% variance. The Chair explained the licenses/permits variance reflected stronger-than-expected building and business-licensing activity, while cemetery charges grew because the town had not previously charged for some open-and-close services and is now collecting those fees.
The amendment covers only the two over-budget lines the Chair identified; he said other departments remained within their appropriations. Committee member (speaker 2) moved to close the public hearing and later motions were made to approve the minutes and the financial reports before the council considered the budget amendment on the floor. Committee member (speaker 5) introduced a motion "to approve the amended budget" during the discussion.
The transcript documents the motions but does not record a roll-call or final vote tally for the amended budget in the available segments; where the transcript does not provide a result or tally, this article reports the absence rather than inferring the outcome. The council also discussed timing for capital-project prioritization and the need to include planned road projects in the 2025 capital requests so the town can allocate funds if bids are accepted.
Next steps: the council directed staff to include road and capital requests in next year’s budget proposal and to follow procedural posting and documentation requirements for any procurement tied to those projects.
