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The Harrison Township Committee unanimously voted to adopt two resolutions during its Dec. 2 meeting that focused on canceling and transferring funds from the township budget to other areas.
The funds in one resolution, according to Township Administrator Dennis Chambers, are extra money from grants used for projects since finished that have not been reallocated.
“These are all, basically, past DOT (Department of Transportation) road projects, where the projects have been complete for some time now and all orders have been done,” he explained. “We may have, for example, gotten a $175,000 grant, but also the project payment came in at some number less than that. This is now what was left in the balance and that just gets canceled out.”
The leftover money will now go to the township’s grant capital improvement fund and officials will determine how to spend it. The total of five different grants comes to $73,601.11.
“If we were to utilize that money for any specific purpose,” said Chambers, “we would have to develop an ordinance. If not, we would have to reappropriate that grant money towards something.”
The other resolution discussed at the meeting focuses on more general budget funds that are being transferred to pay for utility work and tax collection.
“This, similarly, is the reallocation of money left in a line item,” Mayor Louis Manzo noted, “but this is from our general budget appropriation for the year. It identifies $2,300 left in what is called the administrative and executive line being transferred to a utilities and telephone line and our collection of taxes.”
The next committee meeting is scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m.
