Dunkirk Fiscal Affairs Officer Ellen Luczkowiak has shifted some line items around in order to properly account for each department’s spending and expenditures for the 2024 budget.

“We’re not using any more money … we’re just making everybody viable where we can,” she said.

Luczkowiak said each department head should check Wdowiasz’s proposal because in some cases, money that wasn’t used this fiscal year got shifted into other line items.

Monday’s Finance Committee meeting acted as a prelude to the Common Council’s budget talks, which start today. The only councilors to attend Monday’s meeting were Nancy Nichols and James Stoyle. The duo said they didn’t know where Nick Weiser, the committee chair, was, so Stoyle started and chaired the meeting without him.

Luczkowiak said she had nothing new to report specifically on the city’s state-financed Fiscal Recovery Act. That will come in two weeks at the next Finance Committee meeting, when Luczkowiak discusses a Comptroller’s Office-mandated quarterly report that she is currently working on.

Nichols asked two notable questions Monday: First, she sought a list of everything the city used its American Rescue Plan Act funding on. Luczkowiak said she would get that by December, as the city is required to have such a list by then.

Nichols also wondered if everyone paid on their leases at the Boardwalk. Treasurer Mark Woods said he is working with City Attorney Elliot Raimondo to make sure everything is up to date.