September 27, 2016 at 5:21 p.m.
Dunkirk passes budget after cuts
Dunkirk City Council
Dunkirk passes budget after cuts
DUNKIRK — The 2017 budget passed on its first reading.
Dunkirk City Council approved the budget Monday just in time for today’s deadline for submission, but not without some last minute changes.
Also, council decided to move forward with installing street lights at Quincy Place and scheduled a crime awareness event for October.
Clerk-treasurer Tina Elliott told council its proposed 2017 budget exceeded the projected general fund revenue of $1,253,854 by more than $100,000. Council agreed to remove some items that were added to the budget at an August meeting.
At that time, council had approved adding $90,000 to $95,000 to the 2017 budget for salaries and insurance for two police officers. It also decided to reestablish a line item for payment of volunteer firefighters that had been deleted in 2012 in the amount of $23,757.
Council on Monday decided to remove the funding for one of the additional police officers as well as the line item for volunteer firefighters and instead pay them from the local option income tax fund.
“There’s tradeoffs. It’s all a balancing act,” Mayor Gene Ritter said of the budget.
Resident Al Curts presented a petition to Ritter, signed by all residents at Quincy Place addition, requesting that street lights be added to the area.
Council members Jesse Bivens, Bryan Jessup, Tom Johnson and Jack Robbins, absent Lisa Street, agreed to move forward by having American Electric Power and Robbins, who oversees the street department, develop a diagram where lights should be placed.
Ritter also announced that Dunkirk Police Department will have a crime awareness event from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 8 at Webster Depot Park.
Ritter said the event stemmed from the Neighborhood Watch Program and there will be free food, entertainment, emergency vehicles and crime prevention tips.
Dunkirk City Council approved the budget Monday just in time for today’s deadline for submission, but not without some last minute changes.
Also, council decided to move forward with installing street lights at Quincy Place and scheduled a crime awareness event for October.
Clerk-treasurer Tina Elliott told council its proposed 2017 budget exceeded the projected general fund revenue of $1,253,854 by more than $100,000. Council agreed to remove some items that were added to the budget at an August meeting.
At that time, council had approved adding $90,000 to $95,000 to the 2017 budget for salaries and insurance for two police officers. It also decided to reestablish a line item for payment of volunteer firefighters that had been deleted in 2012 in the amount of $23,757.
Council on Monday decided to remove the funding for one of the additional police officers as well as the line item for volunteer firefighters and instead pay them from the local option income tax fund.
“There’s tradeoffs. It’s all a balancing act,” Mayor Gene Ritter said of the budget.
Resident Al Curts presented a petition to Ritter, signed by all residents at Quincy Place addition, requesting that street lights be added to the area.
Council members Jesse Bivens, Bryan Jessup, Tom Johnson and Jack Robbins, absent Lisa Street, agreed to move forward by having American Electric Power and Robbins, who oversees the street department, develop a diagram where lights should be placed.
Ritter also announced that Dunkirk Police Department will have a crime awareness event from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 8 at Webster Depot Park.
Ritter said the event stemmed from the Neighborhood Watch Program and there will be free food, entertainment, emergency vehicles and crime prevention tips.
“Trying to get the community involved. Trying to get kids involved,” Ritter said.
In other business, council:
•Heard from Bivens that sewer work at Layne addition should be finished by Friday.
•Approved having street department employees pick bagged leaves up in November instead of contracting the work to an outside company.
•Heard fire hydrants will be flushed from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 11 to 14.
•Learned from Johnson that the Dunkirk Park Board meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday has been canceled.
In other business, council:
•Heard from Bivens that sewer work at Layne addition should be finished by Friday.
•Approved having street department employees pick bagged leaves up in November instead of contracting the work to an outside company.
•Heard fire hydrants will be flushed from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 11 to 14.
•Learned from Johnson that the Dunkirk Park Board meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday has been canceled.
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