Budget Hangover Continues for Hyattsville Council

While many other local legislative bodies are in the midst of summer recesses, the Hyattsville City Council will be taking up one large unresolved budget issue: revisions to the city's retiree health insurance benefit program. 

The $14.4 million budget approved in late June, only days before the start of the fiscal year, was constructed around a proposed "placeholder" retiree health care plan which would save the city more than $500,000 if officially adopted within the next few weeks.

The plan isn't officially adopted, though, as city council members are keen to find out how it will affect the two retirees receiving disability benefits resulting from their work with the city. 

As it stands now, the city is still funding the program on a pay-go basis.

Also on the agenda:

• Acceptance of  two $1,000 grants, one from Target Corporation, and a second from the Community Foundation for the National Capitol Region, in support of this year's revised, relocated National Night Out Against Crime. 
• A five-year, $155,000 maintenance contract for the city police department's closed-circuit television and emergency call box systems. 
• A discussion of a proposed high-tech comprehensive parking management contract. 

Read the full agenda packet here.

The Hyattsville City Council meets at 8 p.m. in the Hyattsville Municipal Building at 4310 Gallatin Street.