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Raeford council adopts ARP policies, approves park land purchase and budget amendments
Summary
The Raeford City Council on Feb. 6 unanimously adopted a package of ARP/CSLFRF compliance policies, approved purchase of roughly 3.34 acres for Robbin Heights Park, approved budget amendments and authorized contracts and surplus dispositions.
The Raeford City Council on Feb. 6, 2023 unanimously adopted a package of policies governing the city’s use of American Rescue Plan/Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds and approved multiple consent items, including a land purchase for Robbin Heights Park and budget amendments.
The council approved Resolutions 23-01 through 23-07, which establish the city’s ARP/CSLFRF record-retention policy, eligible project policy, allowable cost principles, nondiscrimination policy, conflict-of-interest policy, program-income policy and property-management policy. Those measures implement compliance steps required by the ARP final rule and federal grant guidance, the council record states.
As part of the consent agenda, council members approved acquiring approximately 3.34 additional acres of NA McNeill land to preserve amenities shown on the Robbin Heights Park conceptual drawings. The purchase price was recorded at $33,333 per acre; the city will provide a match to the RTF grant of approximately $111,330.22, depending on final surveyed acreage. The purchase was to be funded from contingency dollars.
Council also adopted Resolution 2023-08 declaring a 2014 Ford Taurus Interceptor surplus and authorizing its sale by electronic auction on GovDeals.com no earlier than Feb. 20, 2023, in accordance with North Carolina General Statute 160A-270(c). A longer list of manager-declared surplus items from July 1–Dec. 31, 2022 — including trade-ins, scrapped dumpsters and assorted equipment — was received and recorded.
The council approved Budget Amendment #6 and Special Revenue Project Amendment SR #28-1 to cover unexpected expenditures and a changed project scope. The record shows amendments across the general fund and water/sewer funds, and a transfer to the special revenue project of $110,000 from the general fund as noted in SR #28-1.
Members authorized a service contract with Tyler Technologies, Inc., for an upgrade to the city’s finance, utilities, human resources, payroll and public-works software; the City Manager was authorized to execute the agreement. The council also approved declaring 10 tasers from the police department surplus with plans to donate them to another police agency lacking funds; a resolution formalizing that donation was scheduled for the March 6 council meeting.
After an executive session conducted for attorney-client privilege, the council voted to authorize the City Manager to perform Phase 1 of an environmental site assessment for the More Cowbell property at an estimated cost of $3,500. The motion to authorize the survey was made by Councilwoman Mary Neil King and seconded by Councilman John Jordan and carried unanimously.
Procedural motions recorded in the minutes show the consent agenda was moved by Councilman Charles Allen and seconded by Councilman John Jordan and that most actions on the Feb. 6 agenda were carried by unanimous vote.
