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Finance committee approves two fund transfers, debates shifting money toward sidewalks, parks and contingency
Summary
The Annapolis Finance Committee approved two favorable recommendations moving stormwater and contract dollars and spent much of the meeting debating central services staffing, parks maintenance, sidewalks and whether to convert vacancy savings into contingency or tax relief.
The Annapolis Finance Committee on May 5 approved two fund-transfer items and spent the rest of its meeting debating how to reframe the city budget to emphasize visible services such as sidewalks and parks.
The committee gave a favorable recommendation to FT1126, which staff said moves the stormwater obligation for the Cedar Park Sidewalk project into the city's MS4 stormwater account so required water-quality treatment can occur elsewhere in the same sub-watershed after on-site treatment proved impractical. "There was a stormwater management requirement for that project...it wasn't practical to install the stormwater on-site," said Director Vogel, who explained site constraints and the plan to treat the same volume elsewhere in the watershed.
Members also approved FT1226, a finance-department budget revision that reallocates money from non-allocated debt service and vacancy savings into contractual services to maintain ongoing consulting agreements. Finance staff said the change covers existing consulting needs while the department "scrubs" schedules and verifies debt-service assumptions.
The larger portion of the hearing was a wide-ranging budget discussion…
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