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EAST LIVERPOOL -- The proceeds from the city's recent online auction will be directed to street repairs, according to officials.
The Finance Committee recently met and tweaked their appropriations in anticipation of its upcoming council meeting.
City council will meet a day later than their usual meeting day, which falls on Labor Day.
According to chairman Fred Rayl, there was no increase in the appropriations in the general fund. Auditor Marilyn Bosco was just moving several line items that needed increases particularly in the area of non-union salaries and health insurance.
The $135,000 increase in appropriations related the incinerator fund, includes gasoline and oil costs as well as Environmental Protection Agency charges for Ohio Valley to haul city trash to a landfill.
Rayl expects those changes will carry the city for the remainder of the year in those codes.
The street fund saw an influx of $100,000 proceeds from the recent online auction, which will be directed to asphalt street improvements. The street maintenance and repairs also saw a $23,000 bump in their appropriations made possible by cuts to department employee wages.
Bosco had projected appropriations that the city would serve as a pass-through for the recently completed U.S. Route 11 slide project; however, the state paid the contractor directly, so $436,274.99 was not needed for that appropriated line item and removed.
A $66,000 Community Development Action Grant originally allotted for St. George Street improvements was taken care of by Columbiana County, so that pass-through was not needed and removed.
More than $15,580 was accepted for reimbursement to the city fire department for a mix of hazmat cleanup, education and new equipment.
The city also saw reduction in its expected expenditures for wharf litigation attorney fees, $50,000; planned work to the debt service fund, which was deferred until next year due to COVID and expected to cost $11,898.90;
An additional $4,824.88 was appropriated to wrap up additional personnel costs for the rest of the season.
Other funds seeing increased appropriations were $20,000 for the probation department, $10,000 for the police department
The police department also recently realloted $15,000 in reimbursed funds for bulletproof vests from a successful Ohio Attorney General's grant.
The committee also agreed Tuesday to forward legislation to council, paying Blue Line $2,376 for two months of video storage for city officers' body cameras for the June and July invoices, which previously had been paid out of the traffic camera moneys.
The city recently decided to purchase a server with C.A.R.E.S. Act money to store the video in-house with a significant savings.