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Budget amendments brings advice for legal review of all Hastings contracts

The Hastings City Council Monday approved a budget amendment reflecting the police departments spending $13,512,  Parks and Recreation receiving another $16,477, and an increase of $19,200 for additional accounting costs from Rehmann auditors and the Walker, Fluke and Sheldon firm.

 

Clerk/Treasurer Dan King explained the changes, which were challenged by Councilwoman Brenda McNabb-Stange.

A request from the cable access committee for funding to buy audio equipment for the council chambers ($7,510.88),  was approved by council despite strong objection by McNabb Stange that the agreement was “very, very, vague and poorly written…we need legal input before we enter into it…all agreements need to be looked into… so the city understands what we’re getting into,” she said.

 

The vote to approve the amendment without changes was seven to two, with McNabb-Stange and Councilwoman Therese Maupin Moore voting “no”. “Yeah,” Councilman Don Bowers voted, “but I do believe that she has a point, that we ought to take consideration before we do those things again…”

 

A video system controller and server for the committee room ($17,605.03)  was also approved. McNabb-Stange said her previous comments about legal advice on contracts also applied to the second purchase.

 

At the police department, the vendor of the new Report Management System could not deliver the system as quoted or provide necessary technical support, so a new vendor was selected that will provide timing of delivery, necessary technical support and enhance capabilities for the amount in the amendment.

 

The Parks and Recreation department increase will allow the Elks Lodge and the city to coordinate paving of its parking lot with the city’s blacktopping of Bob King Park’s share of the parking lot at the same time. The city owns two-thirds of the lot, the Elks the rest.

 

Doing both segments at once brings the city’s estimated cost of its blacktopping, budgeted for $20,000 in 2020-2021, to $16,446.87. The Elks will pay $8,248.12 for their portion of the lot and any extra work they request.

The council approved the joint blacktopping later in the meeting.

 

 

 

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