The City of Butler Parks, Recreation Grounds, and Facilities Authority is taking some extra time to make sure their finances are in order before approving their plan for 2020.
A proposed budget will appear on the authority’s February meeting agenda after being tabled when it failed to achieve enough votes to pass earlier this week.
According to Authority member and Treasurer Diane Downs, this happened as a result of small increase that needed to be made to projected revenue estimates to achieve a balanced budget. The previous estimate was determined to be overly conservative but still within a small margin of error as Downs explains.
“The overall budget was considered sound and it was such a small amount that it almost didn’t matter,” Downs said. “You reach a certain percentage on this, that in this type of business, we rely on weather, attendance, and other factors.”
“We’re going to have a small factor of error in any budget, but in this type of budget, even more so,” Downs said. “We went very conservative on the revenue, and very heavy on the expenses to overall be as conservative as we could be.”
The authority also heard from their auditor concerning a separate matter of how $30,000 the authority says they were owed in 2018 by the previous owners of the Butler BlueSox needs to be designated following the settlement agreed to by the Authority last year.
