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Council agrees to remove administrative fee and personnel allocation from port-of-entry fund
Summary
Councilors agreed to stop charging a 10% personnel allocation and a small administrative fee to the port-of-entry (border crossing) enterprise fund, leaving the fund intact for future project use; the removal was recorded with no objections.
Sunland Park councilors on July 28 agreed to remove both a 10% personnel cost allocation and a $1,007 administrative fee from the port-of-entry (POE) enterprise fund and to leave the account intact until the project advances.
City Manager explained that the 10% allocation had been applied under a previous manager as an accounting cost for three individuals involved in POE work and said he had directed finance to remove those allocations: “I did direct the finance director just to remove the 3 individuals… the mayor, myself, and the public works director from expensing 10% of salary to the POE,” he said. Councilor Kelsey Tulles and others argued the POE fund should not be tapped for internal charges and recommended holding the balance until a designated engineer defines the project. The mayor asked for objections to removing the charges; none were recorded and the council agreed to the change.
Finance reported a POE balance of roughly $3.048 million and showed projected activity only if the project proceeds. Councilors said the action will make it easier to track funds for future POE work.
