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Coffee City Council approves October financials and October 14 meeting minutes
Summary
Council voted Nov. 12 to approve the city’s October 2024 financials and the Oct. 14, 2024 meeting minutes; mayor said a $300,000 negative entry reflected excess highway fines paid from the municipal court account, not the general fund.
At the Nov. 12 special meeting the City Council approved the October 2024 city financials and the Oct. 14, 2024 meeting minutes after a motion by Alderman Ruthie Seward and a second from Alderman Kevin Haughey; the motion "carried," though the transcript does not record a roll‑call tally.
Mayor Jeff Blackstone told the council the large negative "$300,000.00 under the fines" on the financials was for excess highway fines that were recently paid after receipt of final paperwork from the comptroller's office, and he emphasized the payment "was paid out of the municipal court account and not the city's general fund." Mary McDonald supplied balance sheets for restricted accounts to show the municipal court account as the source.
