FAYETTE – Residents voted to transfer $3,303 found in several accounts to the undesignated fund account Tuesday.
They also agreed to transfer $9,000 from a highway account to a general government account to help cover a shortfall in the town manager’s salary line.
Town officials didn’t realize they had some of the money in the accounts until an audit was completed, Selectmen’s Chairman Tom Mitchell said Friday.
Voters transferred to the undesignated fund account:
• $500 from a scholarship that no one applied for.
• $49 from a library account.
• $2,513 from a bicentennial account.
• $241 from a fund for historical reprints.
Townspeople also decided to set up a $22,203 maintenance account for the salt shed rather than transfer the money that remained in the salt shed building account to undesignated funds, Mitchell said.
Voters cut $10,000 from the town manager’s salary in June, Mitchell said, and the transfer of the $9,000 is to cover a projected overage in the salary line.
Former Town Manager Jim Collins resigned after last year’s town meeting. He was succeeded by Town Manager Mark Robinson
Collins of Jay was hired on April 11 as the town manager of Carmel.
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