The Gary Common Council, at its Tuesday meeting, heard an ordinance that aims to approve the city’s salaries and operating budgets for employees in special revenues and grant funds.

The ordinance was on first reading and was moved to the council’s finance committee for further consideration. The finance committee’s next meeting is Wednesday evening, but the ordinance is not on the posted agenda.

The ordinance includes numbers for various Gary departments that were not included in the city’s recently passed 2026 budget. Those include the alcohol fund, the city court’s public defender fund and drug court funds.

According to the Indiana State Board of Accounts, special revenue funds are legally restricted to expenditures for specific purposes, which are most commonly a motor vehicle highwa

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