Preview: Oak Ridge Town Council meeting, June 29

by CHRIS BURRITT

OAK RIDGE – Oak Ridge Town Council plans to consider amending the town’s budget for next fiscal year to apply an appropriation of $140,000 from Guilford County.

The county’s budget adopted by the Board of Commissioners June 15 allocated $70,000 for security cameras for town parking lots and another $70,000 for a Heritage Farm Park playground accessible to children with disabilities. (See related article on p. 3.)

Oak Ridge’s council adopted its budget for next fiscal year before the adoption of the county’s budget. As a result, the Town Council needs to amend its budget to apply the county funds.

Both the county and town budgets for the 2023-24 fiscal year go into effect this coming Saturday, July 1.

“While we are awaiting contract details from the county, there is some urgency in budgeting this funding so that it can be applied to the playground design, which is currently in process,” Town Manager Bill Bruce wrote in a June 23 memo to the council.

The additional $70,000 will increase the town’s spending on the