Date: Mon 26-Jun-1995

Publication: Bee

Author: KAAREN

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Council Oks

Year-End

Transfers

The Legislative Council Wednesday night approved more than $40,000 of year-end

transfers for 1994-95 including $2,400 to begin a drug and alcohol-testing

program for highway department employees.

First Selectman Bob Cascella said the federally mandated testing would be done

through a subsidiary of Danbury Hospital. It will be an annual, unannounced

test, he said.

The largest transfer, $10,000, was to the police overtime account but some of

this money may be reimbursed to the town from the State Department of

Transportation, according to Police Chief Michael DeJoseph.

A $2,067 transfer within the town clerk's account will be used to replace the

town's only blueprint machine, now 20 years old and broken. Since each

blueprint produced on the machine is sold for $5, Town Clerk Cindy Curtis said

the new machine will pay for itself in a very short time.

Council President Joseph Mahoney said he had been informed by the Board of

Education that it found $124,000 as promised to help pay for a shortfall in

the school district's self-insurance fund. Another $25,000 to $40,000 in

surplus also is expected in the school budget by the end of the fiscal year on

June 30 and this also will be used for the self-insurance fund rather than

revert to the town's general fund, Mr Mahoney reported.