The Dunkirk Common Council has set a special Sunday session to consider resolutions that Mayor Kate Wdowiasz says are essential to city access of finances from the state’s Fiscal Recovery Act.

One of the resolutions is to appoint Fiscal Affairs Officer Ellen Luczkowiak as a new Chief Fiscal Officer. The resolution mentions the city has been authorized deficit financing under the Fiscal Recovery Act, but such financing must be completed by Dec. 31.

“In order to comply with the act and address the city’s deficit, the city finds that it is in the best interest of the city to appoint the fiscal affairs officer as the chief fiscal officer of the city,” the resolution states.

It’s also mentioned that city voters abolished the elected treasurer position in November. Luczkowiak, as Chief Fiscal Officer, will handle the treasurer’s duties until a new one is appointed.

The second resolution formally authorizes, from the city’s end, up to a maximum of $17 million in the deficit financing authorized by the Fiscal Recovery Act. The money would come from issuing bonds.

That rather lengthy resolution has one particularly notable clause: “An annual appropriation will be made in each year sufficient to pay the principal of an interest on such bonds or notes becoming due and payable in such year. Unless paid from other sources or charges, there will annually be levied on all the taxable real property of the City, a tax sufficient to pay the principal of an interest on such bonds or notes as the same become due and payable.”

Wdowiasz’s administration attempted to plop the duo of resolutions onto the agenda of the Common Council at the end of Tuesday’s meeting. Although Wdowiasz emphasized the time-sensitive nature of the resolutions, council members were unhappy about getting them with little to no time to study.

Council opted to table the resolutions Tuesday and consider them at noon Sunday in its regular meeting spot at the Dunkirk city courtroom.