Rockford Sun

City of Rockford Finance & Personnel Committee met Feb. 6.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

I. CALL TO ORDER 

Attendee Name	Organization	Title	Status	Arrived
Kevin Frost	City of Rockford	Alderman	Absent
Franklin C. Beach	City of Rockford	Alderman	Present
Jonathan Logemann	City of Rockford	Alderman	Absent
Chad Tuneberg	City of Rockford	Alderman	Present
Aprel Prunty	City of Rockford	Alderman	Present

Other Attendees:

Mayor McNamara

Council members: T. Durkee, G. Torina, K. Hoffman, B. Rose, T. Quinonez, G. Meeks, M. Bonne, Staff: T. Cagnoni, K. Saunders, K. Franzen, Deputy Chief R. Reffett, Fire Chief M. Pankow, N. Meyer, S. Hunter, A. Parham, T. Hughes, C. Bailey

Interested Parties and Media

Invocation 

Pastor Violet Johnicker of Brooke Road United Methodist Church led the invocation.

Pledge of Allegiance 

Public Speakers 

1. Rev. Earl Dotson, Sr. recited scripture and shared his personal feelings regarding the disparity between the races.

2. Prophet Yusef recited scripture and spoke on the 12 acronyms of Black History.

3. John Tac Brantley recited scripture and thanked the churches and citizens for their donations that helped with his vehicle repairs.

II. RESOLUTIONS 

A. 2023-22-R - Approval of Acceptance of Project Safe Neighborhoods 2022 Grant from the US Department of Justice in the amount of $132,171.00. The grant does not require a cost match and the grant term is from 1/1/2023 through 12/31/2024. The purpose of the grant is to implement one or more effective strategies to prevent, respond to and reduce violent crime.

RESULT: APPROVED BY COMMITTEE [UNANIMOUS] Next: 2/6/2023 5:35  PM  MOVER: Aprel Prunty, Alderman SECONDER: Franklin C. Beach, Alderman AYES: Franklin C. Beach, Chad Tuneberg, Aprel Prunty ABSENT: Kevin Frost, Jonathan Logemann

III. COMMITTEE REPORTS 

A. 2023-19-CR - Approval to submit to the Office of Head Start for budget revisions to the Head Start/Early Head Start 2022-2023 budgets to purchase a playground expansion at the Early Head Start Parent and Child Education Center (previously approved by Council) and the purchase of 5 vehicles (1 for Head Start, 3 for Early Head Start, and 1 shared maintenance van). The budget revisions to purchase a playground expansion and the purchase of 5 vehicles are:

∙ Early Head Start 2022-2023 Budget: Reallocation $285,400 to Equipment from

o $125,000 from Personnel to Equipment to cover the playground;

o $85,000 from Fringe Benefits for the purchase of 3 vehicles

o $65,000 from Other for the purchase of 3 vehicles;

o $10,400 from Contractual for the shared cost of maintenance van

∙ Head Start 2022-2023 Budget: Reallocating $79,600 to Equipment from:

∙ $79,600 from Personnel to Equipment for the purchase of 1 vehicle and the shared cost of maintenance van.

Ald. Beach asked if the reallocation of funds would reduce staff. Director Parham explained that Head Start has been significantly understaffed. There have been so many open positions over the last grant year, we are reallocating grant funds.

RESULT: APPROVED BY COMMITTEE [UNANIMOUS] Next: 2/6/2023 5:35  PM  MOVER: Franklin C. Beach, Alderman SECONDER: Aprel Prunty, Alderman AYES: Franklin C. Beach, Chad Tuneberg, Aprel Prunty ABSENT: Kevin Frost, Jonathan Logemann

IV. ADJOURNMENT 

The meeting was closed at 5:53 PM

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