{"id":22443,"date":"2024-12-13T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=22443"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:42:09","slug":"expenditure-overlooked-but-budget-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/expenditure-overlooked-but-budget-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"Expenditure overlooked, but budget covered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An overlooked ARPA expenditure caused Decatur City Council to due some financial juggling at its last meeting, but in the end no money was lost and all budgeted items were covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clerk-Treasurer Kevin Hackman told council at that meeting that he had overlooked an expenditure of ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds used to purchase dump truck equipment in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, basically, the city&#8217;s ARPA pot was a bit lighter than thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, $18,386 in funding for police pensions in 2025 was trimmed by the state Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF). In order to cover that, the city&#8217;s remaining ARPA funds will be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also decided that money from the city&#8217;s Rainy Day Fund will cover the cost of the dump truck equipment, as well as the repaving of the MERIT Center parking lot, a project not yet started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARPA funds were distributed by the federal government throughout the country in 2021 to aid relief efforts in the wake of the pandemic. Decatur received approximately $1.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All ARPA funds need to be allocated by the end of this year. Any of those monies not allocated by then will revert back to the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANOTHER YEAR: The board of works and safety has approved a one-year extension on the lease at the MERIT Center for Connor Brite&#8217;s Wildflowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization provides free instruction of musical instruments to young people who reside in Adams County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wildflowers pays $450 a month, $5,400 a year, for the use of its music room, where lessons are given and instruments are stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;ve been great tenants,\u201d City Attorney Anne Baker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com An overlooked ARPA expenditure caused Decatur City Council to due some financial juggling at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-22443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22444,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443\/revisions\/22444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}