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City finance staff outlines three minor edits to financial policy
Summary
City finance staff briefed the council on three red‑line changes to the financial policy: renaming deputy clerk to deputy treasurer, setting the water fund reserve to 25% (three months of expenditures) as well as updating cemetery endowment fund language and the dollar balance to reflect current figures.
City finance staff presented a brief annual review of the financial‑policy document and described three proposed edits that staff said are largely technical.
The first change is a title update on page 4, renaming the deputy clerk position to deputy treasurer. The second revises the water fund reserve to 25% of expenditures (equivalent to three months of operating costs); staff said the change is possible now because near‑term well projects are nearly complete. The third change updates the cemetery endowment language and the stated dollar amount to match the fund balance and to reflect a practice of directing plot‑sale proceeds into the cemetery endowment.
Staff emphasized these are red‑line clarifications rather than new policy directions and said they will return the updated document to the council at a future meeting (staff suggested the May meeting or the next available meeting slot). Council members asked clarifying questions about how cemetery sales had historically been split (staff said proceeds used to be split between the general fund and the cemetery endowment but that the original resolution documenting the split could not be found in the city records).
