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Select Board and Finance Committee approve $42,078 in end‑of‑year budget transfers
Summary
The board approved 11 end‑of‑year transfers totaling $42,078 to cover shortfalls across departments, including an unanticipated former CFO vacation payout and IT fiber repairs; the finance committee concurrently concurred with the transfers.
The Bellingham Select Board and Finance Committee approved 11 end‑of‑year transfers totaling $42,078 on July 6 to cover identified shortfalls across multiple departmental line items.
Interim CFO (presenting) said the package consisted of six small transfers under $1,000 and larger adjustments including a $7,493 shortfall in the finance department’s department head salary due to an unanticipated vacation payout for a former CFO; an $8,075 IT hardware/maintenance shortfall attributable to fiber repairs; a $4,707 Council on Aging heating shortfall; and a $12,500 gas and oil shortfall in highways. Staff explained the offsets used to cover each shortfall, for example using part‑time salary savings and other departmental lines where appropriate.
The chair called a motion to move the recommended transfers and the board approved them by voice, followed by a required roll‑call vote because one member (Jen) attended by Zoom. The Finance Committee then moved to concur with the select board’s approval of the $42,078 package; that concurrence was seconded and approved by roll call.
Ending: Transfers were approved and the finance committee meeting was adjourned; the board moved on to the planning board joint session.
