By DAVID CAMPHOUSE
At Monday’s city council meeting, Barry approved amending the year’s TIF fund budget.
The amendments were made necessary by a roofing project on the city’s library coming in significantly under budget.
“We budgeted $120,000, and we wound up doing it for a little less that $27,000,” City Administrator Jeff Hogge said. “We did the project a totally different way than we had planned.”
Also approved were roof repairs at a building owned by Derek Ross at 801 Main Street.
According to Hogge, the cost of the roof repairs are approximately $30,000.
The council went on to approve the city’s tax levy at five percent, up from 4.5 percent.
The city council approved renewing the community’s insurance policy. According to Hogge, the policy is an umbrella policy that covers all of the city’s properties, cyber-security, and workers’ comp.
Hogge indicated that the cost of the policy stayed very near last year’s cost.
“A couple items went up, and a couple went down,” Hogge said. “It stayed pretty close to the same. The plan is $41,437. Last year it was $41,089.”
Hogge said that the council also had a substantive discussion on details of the city’s planned interconnection between the city’s water system with the county’s rural water district.
“We had a good conversation about the interconnect project,” Hogge said. “We’ve done sort of a trial run on what the contract between us and the county will look like. We’re running it by our lawyer.”
