The Columbus City Council voted Tuesday night to approve just over $2.4 million in additional appropriations to this year’s budget. Jamie Brinegar, the city’s director of finance, explained that these requests were expected when the city put its budget together late last year.
The Department of Local Government Finance initially mandated a $3.6 million property tax credit amount for the city. City officials believed then that the final number would be closer to two-million dollars. Tuesday night’s action returned $1.6 million to the budget that was removed under the DLGF’s earlier estimates.
As for what the additional appropriation will be spent on.
The city council’s vote to approve the additional appropriation was unanimous.