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Staff explains $25,000 CoStar line was a data-entry error; council keeps $25,000 for economic development
Summary
A $25,000 CoStar line flagged by council was described by staff as a typo (true cost $5,000); staff requested retaining the $20,000 difference in the city manager's budget to fund additional economic-development ideas, and council agreed to leave the $25,000 line.
Council questioned a $25,000 budget line for CoStar, commercial real-estate software. City manager Kimberly Greer and staff acknowledged a data-entry error in the description: "it's only $5,000... it was a data entry error," staff told council, but asked the council to retain the $20,000 difference in the manager's budget to support new economic-development initiatives the director had proposed.
Council members accepted the explanation and agreed to keep the $25,000 line in the budget with the understanding the extra funds will not be used to buy additional CoStar seats but instead will be available for broader economic-development uses; staff said they would add a clarifying description to the budget line.
