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Mayor’s request to retroactively fund warming-center invoice withdrawn after county attorney cites SBOA rules
Summary
Mayor asked council to approve a $15,000 appropriation to cover a late-December warming-center invoice; the county attorney said SBOA guidance and council rules bar reviving a request already voted down within 12 months, and the mayor withdrew the motion to pursue other funding routes.
Mayor Brandon Sackman asked the Vigo County Council to approve an additional appropriation (about $15,000) to address an unencumbered invoice for warming-center services provided at the end of the calendar year.
Sackman said the city could not present a contract or invoice before year-end and therefore the funds were not encumbered; "Long story short... the invoice there was no invoice or contract," Sackman said as he described the difficulty of encumbering…
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