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Council amends budget to consolidate $750,000 for Audrain Hospital abatement, approves tax-credit pass-through and airport reimbursement
Summary
Council moved several budget items: it consolidated $750,000 into the current fiscal year for Audrain Hospital hazardous-material abatement, authorized pass-through tax-credit funds to Handyshop Inc. up to $1,000,000, and accepted a $47,700 reimbursement arrangement for airport runway repairs.
The Mexico City Council approved multiple budget amendments and ordnance readings that will align city appropriations with project timelines and enable pass-through transactions and reimbursements.
Council considered Bill 2025-85 to amend the fiscal-year budget so the $750,000 originally expected to be split across two years would be appropriated in full in the current year for sitewide asbestos and hazardous-material abatement at the Audrain Hospital property. "The delay in the bidding, and rebidding has now put it all in this year," the agency official said, explaining the amendment is intended to match the budget to the work already let.
The council also approved Bill 2025-86 to allow the city to act as a pass-through sponsor for tax-credit transactions from the Missouri Development Finance Board to Handyshop Inc. Staff said the city serves only as a sponsor and the funds pass through city accounts to the nonprofit; the ordinance authorizes up to $1,000,000 in transactions.
Separately, council approved Bill 2025-87, authorizing execution of amendment No. 4 for non-primary entitlement funding with MoDOT for runway lighting and pavement repairs at Mexico Memorial Airport. Staff said the city will receive $47,700 in reimbursement for work already completed and expects to return in spring for additional sealing work with remaining nonprimary entitlement funds.
Each of the budget items was moved, read by title for the required readings, and adopted by roll-call votes.
The amendments reallocate and authorize expenditures but do not create new city programs; staff will execute the necessary contract and documentation steps to implement the appropriations and pass-through arrangements.
