The Bethlehem City Council Finance Committee met on March 17, 2026, to review six agenda items: five ordinances for proposed budget adjustments and one resolution for a budget transfer. All items were recommended for approval to the full council.
Right. All right. We are recording everyone, just so you know. All right, I'll go call the meeting to order. We'll get started. I will call the meeting to order of the Bethlehem City Council Finance Committee. My name is Michael Cologne. I chair the finance committee. Our other committee members are Justin Eamon and Councilwoman Hillary Quietek. Mr. Miller, please call the roll. Mr. Cologne. Here. Mr. Raymond. Here. And Ms. Quietek. Present. There are no other council members present at the moment. Tonight we have six agenda items for the meeting. There are five are ordinances involving proposed budget adjustments. One is a resolution involving a proposed budget transfer within the fire department to cover temporary help. We're gonna have public comment at the top of the meeting. I don't believe there's anyone here for public comment. Public comment is over. Moving on to agenda item number one. The first agenda item is to review a proposed adjustment to the sewer capital fund 2025 year end reconciliation. I'll turn to the administration. Thank you, Chairman Cologne. There are six memos as you mentioned tonight, six requests and evenly split three from water sewer resources. Probably present all three of those and then take questions or kind of tied together. Then we'll turn to the items four, five, and six. All have to do with the fire department, and Chief Griffin is here to explain them and then answer any questions you may have with regard to agenda items four, five, and six. So I'll turn to Mr. Boscola from administration. Thank you. Welcome, Mr. Boscolo. All right, thank you. Uh so the first one on the agenda is the sewer capital fund. And like Mr. Evans uh mentioned, these were all of them really uh involve effectively adjusting all the fund balances to uh a reset at January one. When we put the budget together in the fall, we use October 1st as our kind of like bogey. That's our set point when we put the budget together, and then at this time we go back and reset everything to true it up to January one. So the first line item, the cash balance in the sewer capital fund, that change from 6.5 million and change to 6.8 million reflects the change in the cash balance from October one when it was 6.5 million, January 1 is 6.8 million. So that change of 291,000 reflects that change in the in the fund balance. And then to balance make the budget balance, you do an equal change on the expenditure side. So we have a net positive change in revenue.