A report at the March 17 Oakdale City Council meeting by City Manager Bryan Whitemyer regarding the city budget, showed the city with only a $72,000 variance of its final budget proposed from October of last year. The majority of the funds spent, $56,000, was for fire department overtime from mutual aid requests, mainly from the RIM fire of last summer. “All of those costs will be reimbursed by the state to offset those costs,” said Whitemyer about Office of Emergency Services compensation.