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Council hears briefings on accounting, police and court code updates and a Microsoft 365 contract
Summary
Comptroller Rick Montgomery presented an amendment to align Huntington's capital asset policy with GASB Statement No. 104; Assistant City Attorney Erica Hernandez explained code updates on unclaimed stolen property and municipal court fees; the purchasing director presented a proposed Microsoft 365 licensing contract (low bid from SHI) to be paid from the technology department budget. No final votes are recorded in the work session transcript.
At the Feb. 23 Huntington City Council work session, several administrative code updates and a proposed technology contract were presented.
Rick Montgomery, the city's comptroller, outlined Ordinance 2026-01, which would amend Article 106 of the codified ordinances to align the city's capital asset policy with Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 104 (GASB 104). Montgomery said GASB guidance requires discrete presentation of certain right-to-use assets in the city's capital asset disclosure notes; the ordinance seeks council approval to update local policy to match the new accounting standard.
Assistant City Attorney Erica Hernandez presented two code corrections: Ordinance 2026-03 would rewrite Huntington's handling of unclaimed stolen property so that it conforms to recent state code changes, and Ordinance 2026-04 would restore omitted municipal court cost references after a prior code overhaul (noting $65 for charges other than overtime parking and $8 for overtime parking).
The purchasing director presented Resolution 2026-R-05 to authorize a contract for Microsoft 365 licenses (including Outlook email licenses). The presenter said the low bid was from SHI of Somerset, New Jersey, for $52,707,163.20 and that the purchase would be paid from the technology department's contractor services budget line. The presenter invited questions; the transcript records no council vote or final action on the resolution during the work session.
Provenance: Capital asset discussion SEG 159–179; unclaimed property and municipal court corrections SEG 182–210; Microsoft 365 contract SEG 676–694.
