Marietta City Council creates infrastructure fund, approves Hillcrest repair

MARIETTA — City Council unanimously approved a new infrastructure fund and a $65,861 landslip repair project Thursday evening after a Finance and Taxation Committee meeting focused on spending priorities and budget transfers. The Capital Infrastructure Projects Fund will hold money exceeding reserve limits established under the city’s budget stabilization policy. Council adopted the resolution creating the fund after suspending its second and third readings. During the preceding Finance meeting, committee Chairman Jon Grimm said he was narrowing the resolution’s language before introduction to reflect the uses discussed in committee. The fund will cover bridges, roads, sidewalks, sewer systems, water systems and stormwater systems. Grimm removed provisions covering real property, permanent municipal buildings, heavy equipment, fire trucks, rescue squads and police cruisers. “It was written for everything we could use it for, but we’re narrowing it down to the things we want to use,” he