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June 7, 2012

Councilman asks city for budget information

Garrison: Goal to align expenses and revenue

Arthur Foulkes The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Terre Haute City Councilman Neil Garrison is officially asking the Bennett administration for city budget information to ensure there is no need to borrow money again next year.

Garrison, D-5th, sent an official request Wednesday to Mayor Duke Bennett and Leslie Ellis, the city controller. It seeks specific information outlining how the city hopes to keep its budget in balance.

Garrison said the request is designed to help prevent the city from needing another short-term loan. In May, the Bennett administration requested, and the council approved, a “tax anticipation warrant” of $5.02 million to cover expenses while awaiting property tax revenue from the state.

“If the city doesn’t have a plan put together on how we’re going to align expenses with revenue, [I hope] that this would encourage that,” Garrison told the Tribune-Star on Wednesday. “It’s better to do that this summer than to scramble around in December and have to borrow more money.”

Garrison is also officially requesting a copy of a report by H.J. Umbaugh & Associates, an Indianapolis consulting firm, that spells out possible cost-cutting measures the city could take. The existence of the report was revealed to the council last month by a representative of Umbaugh & Associates, Garrison said.

Bennett, contacted Wednesday afternoon while out of town at a family funeral, said the requested information is being assembled.

“We’ve already been working on all that,” Bennett said. “They had requested that after we got the tax anticipation warrant. It’s just us putting some information together that we’ve already done but kind of packaging it for the council … We’re happy to oblige all of that information.”

The information should be provided to the City Council “in the next couple of weeks,” Bennett added.

In his request, Garrison asks that the information be provided to the council before its July “sunshine” meeting, approximately one month away.

Garrison stated in his email to Bennett and Ellis that his request is “not personal nor political.” He also stated that sharing the information with the council would not be a violation of “any open door laws mentioned [by city officials] at the last two council meetings, since we are legally permitted to accept information.”

The City Council meets for its June “sunshine” meeting today at 6 p.m. in City Hall.

Reporter Arthur Foulkes can be reached at (812) 231-4232 or arthur.foulkes@tribstar.com.

 

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