City Council Transfers Funds for Fire Department Gear
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
The council approved transferring $82,600 from the fire territory health insurance fund to other capital outlays, and $157,400 from salaries and wages into other capital outlays.
The transfers will allow the department to purchase 50 airpaks.
The $239,740 purchase will save the city money in the long run, and by approving the purchase for this year, it will allow for cuts in the 2013 budget, said Mike Brubaker, Warsaw Fire Dept. chief.
The transfer also will allow the department to purchase 100 bottles to store the air for the paks. The airpaks and bottles will be purchased from T.J. Nowak Supply Co. Inc., Fort Wayne.
Brubaker said the airpaks need to be replaced by 2015.
The council also approved transferring $128,057.25 from the fire territory operating fund to the territory equipment replacement fund.
The Warsaw-Wayne Township levy amount for 2012 is $2,561.145.
The council also approved an ordinance for fund transfers from the mayor’s office.
The fund transfers are $500 from the communication and travel fund into the Public Employees Retirement fund, and $700 from the office equipment to the PERF fund.
A fund transfer of $30,700 from the police repair and maintenance fund into the police pension fund also was approved. The transfer is necessary because the due date for the fourth quarter PERF payment was changed from 2013 to 2012.
In other business, the city council approved on first reading a request from Warsaw Traffic Safety Commission to reduce the speed limit at Poppy Street by 10 miles.
The council at its Nov. 19 meeting will review the speed reduction request on second reading to receive community input, Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer said.
The speed limit was previously 30 miles per hour, and will be set at 20 miles per hour if approved on second reading.
At the beginning of the summer, the traffic commission received complaints of vehicles speeding up and down the street traveling to and from Pike Lake from Poppy Street resident Larry Castle, according to Kip Shuter, traffic commission administrator.
Shuter said Poppy Street is very narrow and the reduced speed is appropriate.
Shuter provided an update on the downtown parking study and said Tim Dombrosky, assistant city planner, is working on diagrams for on-street parking.
In other business, the council approved several possible reductions to the 2012 budget Monday night.
A total of $1,081,880 from the combined aviation, cemetery, parks and recreation, fire territory and general fund was cut, meaning those are funds that were appropriated for this year, but will not be spent.
The reductions include general fund, $547,880; aviation fund, $45,000; cemetery fund, $30,000; park and recreation, $48,000; and fire territory operating fund, $411,000.
Possible reductions to the mayor’s budget include $11,200 for health insurance; common council reductions total $115,500; clerk’s office reductions include $15,000.
Other reductions include human resources at $5,500; building and planning department, $18,000 reduction; police department reduction, $159,000; street department reduction, $223,680; aviation reduction, $45,000; Oakwood Cemetery reduction, $30,000; and fire territory operating fund budget, $411,000 in reductions.
The council also heard the new city hall will be moved into Nov. 29-30 with the first council meeting in December on Dec. 3 to be the first time the council meets at the new city hall, Thallemer said.
Jeff Grose, deer task force chairman, said there have been 53 deer taken during the city’s deer reduction effort that began Sept. 15 and ends at the end of January.[[In-content Ad]]
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The council approved transferring $82,600 from the fire territory health insurance fund to other capital outlays, and $157,400 from salaries and wages into other capital outlays.
The transfers will allow the department to purchase 50 airpaks.
The $239,740 purchase will save the city money in the long run, and by approving the purchase for this year, it will allow for cuts in the 2013 budget, said Mike Brubaker, Warsaw Fire Dept. chief.
The transfer also will allow the department to purchase 100 bottles to store the air for the paks. The airpaks and bottles will be purchased from T.J. Nowak Supply Co. Inc., Fort Wayne.
Brubaker said the airpaks need to be replaced by 2015.
The council also approved transferring $128,057.25 from the fire territory operating fund to the territory equipment replacement fund.
The Warsaw-Wayne Township levy amount for 2012 is $2,561.145.
The council also approved an ordinance for fund transfers from the mayor’s office.
The fund transfers are $500 from the communication and travel fund into the Public Employees Retirement fund, and $700 from the office equipment to the PERF fund.
A fund transfer of $30,700 from the police repair and maintenance fund into the police pension fund also was approved. The transfer is necessary because the due date for the fourth quarter PERF payment was changed from 2013 to 2012.
In other business, the city council approved on first reading a request from Warsaw Traffic Safety Commission to reduce the speed limit at Poppy Street by 10 miles.
The council at its Nov. 19 meeting will review the speed reduction request on second reading to receive community input, Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer said.
The speed limit was previously 30 miles per hour, and will be set at 20 miles per hour if approved on second reading.
At the beginning of the summer, the traffic commission received complaints of vehicles speeding up and down the street traveling to and from Pike Lake from Poppy Street resident Larry Castle, according to Kip Shuter, traffic commission administrator.
Shuter said Poppy Street is very narrow and the reduced speed is appropriate.
Shuter provided an update on the downtown parking study and said Tim Dombrosky, assistant city planner, is working on diagrams for on-street parking.
In other business, the council approved several possible reductions to the 2012 budget Monday night.
A total of $1,081,880 from the combined aviation, cemetery, parks and recreation, fire territory and general fund was cut, meaning those are funds that were appropriated for this year, but will not be spent.
The reductions include general fund, $547,880; aviation fund, $45,000; cemetery fund, $30,000; park and recreation, $48,000; and fire territory operating fund, $411,000.
Possible reductions to the mayor’s budget include $11,200 for health insurance; common council reductions total $115,500; clerk’s office reductions include $15,000.
Other reductions include human resources at $5,500; building and planning department, $18,000 reduction; police department reduction, $159,000; street department reduction, $223,680; aviation reduction, $45,000; Oakwood Cemetery reduction, $30,000; and fire territory operating fund budget, $411,000 in reductions.
The council also heard the new city hall will be moved into Nov. 29-30 with the first council meeting in December on Dec. 3 to be the first time the council meets at the new city hall, Thallemer said.
Jeff Grose, deer task force chairman, said there have been 53 deer taken during the city’s deer reduction effort that began Sept. 15 and ends at the end of January.[[In-content Ad]]
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