Finance Committee - 01/06/2021 Page 9
Director Kleiner
So CFO Griffin and | updated the Budget Committee a little over a week ago. So when this project and some
other projects were — we knew that these needed to be done in order to comply with CDC social distancing
protocols and we knew that the City was going to receive the GOFERR Grant from the State. A GOFERR
Grant Fund was set up within the City which these charges are being charged to. That’s why you see that
referenced in Ms. Parkinson’s Memo. As CFO Griffin explained to the Budget Committee, what we found was
that he was informed by the State that charges needed projects completed and those charges needed to be
submitted to the State in October. So in order to do that one of the eligible expenses was safety and First
Responder payroll. So that is what was submitted to the State which brings up money in our Budget for these
other charges which we are tracking to the GOFERR Fund. It’s a simple as that. We expected that we would
have this project done and that we would be able to submit the whole project completed to the State. That
didn’t happen but we had other eligible expenses that we were able to submit which brings up other money. It’s
as simple as that.
Alderwoman Lu
OK, thank you. Could | just follow up on that?
Mayor Donchess
| could supplement that a little bit. So you have probably seen that there are some transfers being proposed
from the Police Department. So what happened is we are using the GOFERR Funds for Police expenses and
then transferring money from the Police Department because now they have extra because of the use of the
GOFERR Funds back over to City Hall uses.
Alderwoman Lu
Yes | remember that happening at the Budget Committee. | just wanted to point out for the record that a lot of
the work, once we needed to do COVID work in the City Hall, we needed to, we were required to do ADA
complaint work as well. And while we can’t expect to be reimbursed for that through the GOFERR Fund, it is
just the price of doing business at this point. We had to conform with ADA, Americans with Disabilities. So,
OK, | just wanted to point that out for the record. Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Alright, anyone else have any questions or comments for Ms. Kleiner? Madam Clerk, could you please call the
roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 6
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
