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Marietta City Council concluded 2020’s work Wednesday with a special business meeting via teleconference, wrapping up final finance needs and ratifying the next three years of unionized fire protection for the city.
Ordinances 158 and 159 were introduced before a full legislative body, the first a financial exercise used to maintain compliance with state expectations to balance the books at the close of any given year and the second to ratify the next three years of a contract with the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Ordinance 158 backed out funds, called unappropration, to prevent being over appropriated for projects and expenditures that did not take place in 2020 which would flag an issue in annual auditing.