Gardner MA Finance Committee Once Again Recommends $60,000 Fund to Pay for Outside Grant Help
The Gardner Finance Committee met on March 1, 2023 in advance of the Monday, March 6, 2023 City Council meeting and considered a number of items. Complete 289 page Agenda and packet, CLICK HERE. Listen to the meeting on any device. Click Play.
On the agenda was a request for $33,139.00 so that a vehicle can be provided for the additional staff member at the Health Department.
Other Major items including a number of requests to rescind various loan orders to clean up the books.
The Mayor notified the Committee of the upcoming receipt of funds from City share of Opioid Lawsuit settlement from Allegran, CVS, Walgreens, Teva, and Walmart.
And once again, the Committee voted to recommend that $60,000 be appropriated from free cash to the Professional Services Account. This was previously taken up by the Finance Committee and referred back by the City Council for more information. Mayor Nicholson spoke and Trevor Beauregard spoke on the level of the workload in the Economic Development Department.