STURGIS, S.D. – The Sturgis City Council met in special session Monday morning to authorize the transfer of contingency appropriations to certain departments to close out the year.
The 2025 General Fund budget appropriated total expenditures of $10,081,644. As of December 26, 2025, actual expenditures totaled $9,128,282, resulting in an overall favorable variance of $953,262, or approximately 9.5% below appropriated levels. Of this amount, approximately 58% ($552,892) represents personnel-related savings, with the remaining 42% ($400,370) attributable to non-personnel expenditure savings.
Notwithstanding the overall favorable variance within the General Fund, the Police Department and the Community Center exceeded their respective department-level appropriations. While these excess expenditures are fully offset by savings in other General Fund departments, City of Sturgis Ordinance Title 7 requires compliance with department-level appropriation limits, regardless of fund-wide balances.
Because sufficient appropriations exist within the General Fund contingency and no increase to the total General Fund appropriation is required, the proposed action authorizes transfers from the General Fund contingency to the affected departments to reconcile expenditures to appropriated authority. This action serves as the appropriate corrective mechanism and does not constitute a supplemental appropriation, as total General Fund appropriations remain unchanged.
Resolution 2025-41 authorizes transfer of $95,000 of the unencumbered $95,139 in the Contingency
Fund to the following Departments accounts:
Receiving Fund Department / Account Title Amount
101-4211-4260 Police / Supplies & Materials $ 6,000
101-4211-4270 Police / Travel $ 1,000
101-4211-4280 Police / Utilities $ 6,500
101-4211-4290 Police / Other $ 46,500
$ 60,000
101-4511-4110 Community Center / Salaries $ 7,800
101-4511-4110 Community Center / Overtime $ 2,200
101-4511-4250 Community Center / Repair & Maintenance $ 4,000
101-4511-4280 Community Center / Utilities $ 20,500
$ 35,000
Total Transfer $ 95,000
