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Town of Union board approves budget transfers, authorizes audit RFP and extends engineering contracts
Summary
The board approved a set of 2024 budget transfers across recreation and sewer accounts, authorized RFPs for professional auditing services (proposals due Oct. 18, award Nov. 6), approved a legal retainer for a single project, reimbursed a resident for a mailbox, and extended engineering agreements through Dec. 31, 2024.
At its Sept. 18 meeting the Town Board approved a package of administrative actions intended to close out 2023 work and prepare for the 2024 audit, as recorded in the clerk's minutes.
Budget transfers approved (as recorded): decrease 10-7145-4159 SF111 Recreation Supplies $150.00 with increase 10-7145-4459 LC Recreation Program Services $150.00; decrease 10-7145-4159 SF111 Recreation Supplies (Summer Fun) $126.70 with increase 10-7145-4159 BS Recreation Supplies Ballfield $126.70. Additional transfers reorganized special event and printing lines (examples recorded: transfers involving codes 10-7145-2200, 10-7145-4162 EE109, various special event supplies and printing lines) and a listed increase to Rec Program Services Umpires (10-7145-4459 U) of $2,185.00. In the enterprise funds the board moved $2,000 from 20-8120-4000 (Miscellaneous Bond) to 20-8120-4111 (Parts). The board also moved budget lines in sewer accounts including a decrease 20-8160-4513 Sewer Line Repair of $57,000 and increases to 20-8120-4430 Sewer Line Repairs $50,000 and 20-8120-4416 Uniforms $7,000.
The board authorized a resolution directing the town comptroller to make necessary 2023 budget modifications in preparation for the 2023 audit (conditioned on not transferring between appropriations, not using contingency funds, and not appropriating fund balances) and approved issuing an RFP for professional auditing services for fiscal years ending Dec. 31, 2024, 2025 and 2026 with proposals due Oct. 18, 2024 and award anticipated Nov. 6, 2024. The resolution was adopted unanimously.
Other administrative approvals recorded in the minutes include retaining Sarah Campbell (Hinman, Howard & Kattel, LLP) as land-use and litigation counsel for a single project at $325 per hour; reimbursing a resident $56.86 for a mailbox replacement; and extending three-year agreements with Delta Engineering, GHD Consulting Services, Griffiths Engineering and Clark Patterson Lee through Dec. 31, 2024 to allow ARPA projects to be encumbered by year-end. All items were carried or recorded as "Vote: All yes."
