The Finance Committee of the Centerville City Council conducted a remote meeting on October 21, 2025, starting at 6:04 p.m. to review and approve ten agenda items, including the approval of previous minutes, appropriations for city services and infrastructure, and contract extensions. The committee received unanimous support for all items after brief presentations from departmental directors, concluding with a single roll-call vote for recommendation of approval on all items.
All right, good evening, everyone. I'm Jake Wilson. He him pronounced Councilor Large and your Finance Committee Chair. It's 6 04 p.m. And I'd like to call it order the Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 meeting of the Finance Committee of the Centerville City Council. First, it's my pleasure to read you these words that let us do this here on Zoom. Pursuant to chapter two of the acts of 2025. This meeting of a city council committee will be conducted via remote participation. We will post an audio video recording and a comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the City of Somerville website and local cable access government channels. Clerk, could you please call the role to establish quorum? Yep, this is roll call. Counselor Mbaugh. President. Counselor Burnley. Counselor Klingon. Was that Councillor Burnley? That was Councilor Burnley. Counselor Scott. Chair Wilson. Present. All right, with that. We have four, so we do have quorum. All right. Uh thank you all for bearing with us. There's a lot going on tonight around the city. So we have colleagues uh participating from the streets tonight. So I'm here for that. Um, folks, we're gonna be taking up uh our 10 agenda 10 item agenda, easy for me to say in the order posted with one exception. We're gonna take item four after item two. So uh let's start with our minutes. ID number 25-1570, approval of the minutes of the finance committee meeting of October 7th, 2025. On the minutes, any discussion? Seeing none, the items laid on the table will recommend approval with a single vote at the end of tonight's meeting. It's gonna take us to our second agenda item, ID number 25-1543. The mayor requesting approval to appropriate 147,724 and seven cents from the COVID-19 stabilization fund for the 2026 warming center. I see we have uh director Karen Carroll from Health and Human Services with us. Um other folks are on camera. Were you are you speaking on this item as well, including our uh director of emergency management, uh Bill Fisher? And and uh HHS, uh, are you deputy director Phnot Malik? Uh through the chair finance finance manager, yeah. All right. Uh please tell us about this request. Happy to. I'll start through the chair. Thank you. Um we are here requesting, and my colleagues can chime in if there are questions. Um, we are requesting that funds be allocated for the 2026 warming center as is appropriated based on the following that the total cost of running the city's warming center is 571,773 and 68 cents, which is an increase from last year due to additional beds needed as well as increases in operational costs, including inflation, external contracting needs, and personnel. HHS plans to use 424,049 and 61 cents of state grant funds to cover the operational costs of the warming center for 14 weeks from January 4th to April 12th, 2026. HHS is requesting this council to approve the first five weeks, December 1, 2025 to January 4, 2026 of operational costs plus the cost of the external security firm hired by the city for a total amount of 147,72407. And the funds need to be allocated in October in order to meet a starting deadline of December 1st.