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Montezuma council ratifies Resolution 741, enacts FY2024 budget amendments
Summary
The Montezuma City Council on April 8 ratified Resolution 741, adjusting multiple FY2024 line items across the general fund, ARPA, hotel/motel tax and TSPLOST accounts and ratified transfers. The action was adopted as part of the consent agenda and approved unanimously.
The Montezuma City Council on April 8, 2025 ratified Resolution 741 to amend fiscal-year 2024 budgets across several city funds.
Resolution 741, adopted and ratified by the council as part of the meeting’s consent agenda, documents changes to the General Fund — including reductions in the taxes line from $1,977,761 to $1,845,000 and increases in intergovernmental revenue from $71,000 to $214,815 — and lists adjustments to administration, police, streets, mosquito control, library, planning and transfers between funds. The resolution also allocates ARPA funds to general government and public works, adjusts hotel/motel tax receipts and contracts, and reallocates TSPLOST amounts from capital outlay into public works.
City Administrator/Clerk Jennifer McCarthy presented the consent agenda item listing the resolution and the related budget detail; the full resolution text was included in the meeting packet. Councilmember Daniel Porter moved to accept the consent agenda and Councilmember Charles Ivey seconded; the vote was unanimous in favor. Mayor Pro Tempore Cleveland Hobbs then adjourned the meeting.
Why it matters: the amendments reallocate revenue and spending authority for FY2024 across operating departments and special funds and precede the city’s upcoming audit report, which the resolution notes as the final budget amendment before that audit. The resolution record shows transfers between funds and ARPA allocations that will change departmental and fund-level spending authority.
What’s next: the resolution text states it was adopted March 21, 2025 and ratified April 8, 2025; the council did not take further public debate on the amendments at the meeting. Any implementation will proceed under the amended budget authority and as described in the resolution.
