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Broken Bow council reallocates sales-tax funds to fund floodplain mitigation scoping study
Summary
The City Council unanimously approved reallocating sales-tax infrastructure funds from a planned splash pad to a floodplain mitigation scoping project (Resolution 2026-04); JEO is expected to begin work in two to four weeks, with the study lasting about seven to eight months.
Broken Bow’s City Council voted unanimously Feb. 24 to reallocate money within the sales tax infrastructure fund from the planned splash pad project to a floodplain mitigation scoping study, aiming to clarify flood risks and guide future grant applications.
Moved by Councilmember Joe Wamsley and seconded by Councilmember Travis Kleeb, the Council adopted Resolution 2026-04. Mayor Rod Sonnichsen thanked the citizen flood advisory committee for its input and said professional engineering firm JEO had recommended the reallocation. City Administrator David Schmidt told the Council the resolution “does not change the budget and only changes what the City is spending money on” and was being presented for public transparency.
Stuart Fox, speaking on behalf of the advisory committee during the public-comment period, thanked the Council for the action and for taking a serious approach to potential floodplain impacts. The transcript records no dollar amount attached to the transferred funds.
Mayor Sonnichsen said JEO tentatively plans to begin work in two to four weeks and that the scoping study is expected to run about seven to eight months. Councilmember Russ Smith said contacts made at the Nebraska League of Municipalities conference helped advance the mitigation effort, and Councilmember Joe Wamsley noted that potential grant opportunities discussed at the conference will depend on the study’s findings.
Next procedural steps are the scoping work by JEO and subsequent findings that the Council may use to pursue grants or other mitigation measures. The Council adjourned at 6:11 p.m.
