City Council - Regular Meeting

You guys may call meeting to order. Pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Mayor Larkkey, here. Council member White. Council member Thompson, here. Council member Davidson, here. Council member Pryan, here. Council member Lawson, here. Council member Richardson. Council member McCllum here. Council member Johnson here.

We have a quorum. D. Items for review and discussion. One, capital and operational budget workshop. All yours.

Good evening. So tonight we're going to go over the FY27 proposed operational and capital budget. This year we decided to put both of them together um so that we wouldn't have to have an extra meeting, but if we want to have another one anyway, we can do that. So that'll be up to you guys. So we're going to start with budget highlights um and then we're going to go into the major funds and do an overview with those with some notable changes. Uh we'll look at the year-over-year from 24 to 27. And then we're going to go into capital projects and purchases and we're going to shake it up a little bit this year and the department heads are actually going to present their capital to you this year. So, um I hope that goes well for them and for all of us. [laughter]

It it [clears throat] won't I already had someone tell me they had different voices for the different capital they had. So, we'll see how that goes. So, moving right along. Um some of the [laughter] [snorts] Yes, it was Scott.

Um, some of the budget highlights this year. Um, I have, uh, estimated a 3% growth in sales tax. Last year I had 5%. We're probably going to fall short of that by a few thousand dollars. So, I've been a little bit more conservative for FY27. Um, I've got a 2 and a half% COLA and a two and a half% merit step increase for all employees. We've also looked at uh some market um raises for some of our employees. Um I'll let Joe talk about that um here in a little bit when we get to general fund. Uh most of them are some uh general fund employees, but we do have some public works as well. Um the fire average increase for salaries is 6.24. If you guys remember a couple years ago, we put a new pay scale in place. So this is the final year for that. Um and all of those that fall under the CBA, the average uh increase is 6.24. Same for PD. Uh their average increase was 7.16 and this is the final year for that pay scale as well. Uh the benefit costs remain steady overall. We can thank our HR director Carla for that. Uh going after some work comp decreases. Uh we also had some decreases in some of our benefits and our health insurance basically stayed the same. Of course, loggers went up. It does almost every year. So that kind of offset the the huge decreases that we had, but overall they stayed pretty steady. Um I have been told to plan for a 5% estimated increase in uh water rates to us.

We have not Hold on. Hold on. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. A question of order here. I don't know if it's to you or both of you. Uh should how formal informal should we be with our questions because I have some questions on that first slide. Um, not sure if you want them now or you want them at the end. You can interrupt me however you want. Let's take it as it goes. Go back. Um, you said we were short on our estimate for 26. Yes. On the 3% sales tax growth. Nope. 5%. Or yeah, the 5%. And you said by a couple thousand. Can you can you put that into a percentage for is it like 4.78 [snorts] or you know what I mean? like how close are we to that 5% of

and that is only projected because we still have um January, February and March. So I project by I I take um April through December and then I take January and February, March from the year before and add that. So it's a projection we could actually meet it or maybe even exceed it. But I do like to be conservative with those revenues. So I did lower it to 3%. But as far as a percent that we might fall short, I I don't know. I don't have that answer for you. Okay. I could project it. Sure. And I understand we're at a we still have some time left in this in this budget. Um because we don't have the Christmas revenue yet.

Oh, okay. I was going to say, granted, it's the slow time of the year for sales generally, but the Christmas budget might change that. Correct. Okay. Yep. Thanks. Yep. I have I have a question if you don't mind, Casey. I I'm looking at the the U merit and you know raise step raises for everyone. Did do we and there there was some discussion last year that the some of the city employees got it at one time and others got it another time. Have we gotten on the same page that everyone gets what their raises at their merit date at their higher date I guess is the correct question.

Right. So, there is a difference between I and I can maybe I can let Kevin speak to this a little bit more. I think the only people that um are actually getting a merit on April 1st are some parks employees. That's the way they had done it in the past. Um is that a squeaky wheel? I mean, for and Kevin, this is I guess a question for you. Is that a squeaky wheel for your for you know, well, the parks got there. I mean, is that a squeaky wheel that that I know it was talked about last year and I just didn't know if if you guys went ahead and did it on the I don't I didn't know any of that. So,

right. Uh, so years back, I can't remember what year, they made a change to where everybody got the raise on April 1, both raises. And if we changed it now, they would go almost two, what is it, two years almost, some of them, depending on their anniversary date, without getting a raise if we didn't give it to them, uh, April 1. So going forward, all new employees will get it on their anniversary date. And I believe we have, I think, four that are new employees since then. Okay. I I just didn't know if that needed to be fine-tuned because I I would not like there to be friction about, you know, when people get their raises and not get their raises. And I just wondered if it had been fine-tuned. So

yeah, I think that what and essentially what Kevin is saying is that they've we're they're grandfathering in the folks that have been going by this every year and but not using it moving forward for any new employees. So eventually those will cycle out and everybody will be on the same All right. Thank you. Keep going. All righty.

Okay. Um, right now I have a 3% budgeting increase for the trash fund. We have not met with GFL. We don't know the actual increase. Um, if we do get a 3% increase or more, um, I would like for you guys to think about or maybe we can discuss. I do have that increase passing uh, we're passing that on to the citizen right now. Um, so this would be the best time to discuss that. Are we getting new hands with this said raise? Are we getting because okay that's not part of the what's being budgeted is 3% which is what we're anticipating based on CPI

for which is what the the contract is based on at this point. So any any upgrade in cans or changing in cans would have to be met with an associated separate increase. So I guess if the two questions I would have on that is one if we didn't pass it on to the customers who where would that come from the fund balance? So that general fund what fund balance are we talking about? Trash fund uh 661 solid waste. Is that even possible? there is a fund balance and when we get to that fund you'll see

um it I mean it's yes it's possible we could do that um okay it sounds like you would advise against it based on your response I um I think it just depends on how contract negotiations go if we and I don't know should I talk about contract negotiations I don't know if I mean with GFL with GFL fell.

Yeah. I mean, well, there's levers we can pull at some point. I mean, we have a contract, but it is finite. Um, I think that they would love for us to be a long-term customer. So, there they've been willing to negotiate in the past when we've done different things that are different, such as the the uh, you know, recycling. We added that and and they worked with us pretty well on that. Um, we can have I think that we should uh the best way to put it I guess is that we can anticipate what whatever we'd like to anticipate, but I think we've got a lot of leverage there because the worst case scenario, we could put it out to bid again. I don't think that that's something they want us to do. So, if we have a reasonable increase, then um then I think that they'd be okay with that. So then the the followup then would be can we put that into like the customer the 3% difference or are we talking like I'm I'm trying to wrap I'm trying to remember what that comes to in a number is that like a dollar

not even not even a full dollar. Okay. So might be like 60 cents. Okay. In the fund balance I want to address that just real quick. I know we're going to get there, but if we do have to continue to purchase our own cans, I mean, we will need that fund balance for that. Gotcha. So, so that's the adv that was why you were given the advise against kind of right look. Okay. Okay.

Because that could come down the pike. I don't know. Um, so I don't have this in writing yet, but um I was told that uh we could potentially plan on an 11% increase from Little Blue. Right now, I do not have increases. I'm not going to ask you for uh sewer or water rate increases even though we are taking these on our ourselves. Um, and this will be the fifth fiscal year that we have not increased water or sewer rates residents to residents. So, we will talk a little bit more. Yes. So, I was not ahead. No, no, no. Go ahead.

Um, when you said residents, it got my brain thinking. So, businesses, there was a couple years ago we did we did raise some rates for businesses. If you recall, it was either or 25. No, this year we're held steady um for the proposed budget at this point. And so you just what I'm hearing I first of all I just I want to applaud that that's a big news that's a big deal. That's a really good accomplishment for a number of reasons. Um but um 11% it's a lot. uh you feel confident we can absorb that safely

short term at some point it's the the expenses are going to catch up to what we've are taking in to the point where the fund balances will deplete enough we'll have to eventually if you know this is this this isn't infinite there is a finite number of years that we can absorb these increases in costs without passing along that to the customers but uh at the same time we were high we did a big raise you know I believe it was 5 years years ago or six years ago in rates under a different, you know, um, strategy. And so, uh, right now we're in decent shape and and we'll get when we get into that fund balance, we'll look at it and we'll we'll show you where we are.

Okay. I've got an estimated uh 10% increase in liability insurance. Uh, last year I did 15. I way over budgeted, which is okay. So, I'm lowering that to 10 this year. Um so we'll see where that comes in. Don't have those numbers yet, but that's my estimate. Um the overhead allocation is a 5% uh administration charge from water, sewer, and gulf. Um in 204, we left the admin the overhead the same. In 25, because we have not had that study yet, we went ahead and Joe and I had a conversation and we did bring it to council. we decided just to do a 5% increase until we had the overhead allocation study. So that's what we're doing year-over-year. Uh the loggers increase for general, which includes the elected officials, is 7, fire is one, and police is one. Any questions on any of that? Okay. So we'll get into general fund. So this year I kind of wanted to show you guys the percentage of the revenue that makes up general fund taxes are half of general fund. So that's going to be your city sales taxes. Um your your fire or the general the fire um all of the property taxes, all the delinquent property taxes. Um license [clears throat] and permits very tiny. Uh state and federal gr grants. I'm I'm glad that we don't uh rely very much on those because um who knows what the federal government's going to do from four years to four years. Uh charges for services 6.47. Um feeds includes our new rental inspections. Um the fines 1.44 interest another 1.12. Um our interest revenue has been really high over the last few

years. I've been um the rights are higher and I've been keeping a lower balance in our operating account so that we can have more money in the um the investments and it has definitely paid off for us. So when we get to those revenue accounts, I don't know if any of you noticed um the interest revenue was a budgeted a lot higher this year than it ever was in the past. I mean we're bringing in a lot more. So, um, I went ahead and budgeted for that this year. Uh, our interfund transfers are 34.25%. I do want to talk about that for just a second. So, of course, those interfund transfers are the administrative charge that we just talked about from water, sewer, and street. Um, two other big transfers are from capital improvement sales tax and public safety sales tax. Those two transfers actually make up about 60% of this total transfer. Um, and public safety sales tax was up by a million. that is uh because of the police roof. So, we're actually going into the cash balance there for public safety sales tax. And then capital improvement um I believe is 1.67 maybe this year and we'll get there and we'll see that um and that is to pay for the capital outlay in general fund for fire police and then um the other departments in general fund. So that is a breakdown of general fund revenue. Any questions there? um regarding the interest that was one of the questions I had.

So the part of so part of my question I think you answered which is our budget slash the projected is a heck of a lot different. Um and but it looks kind of like we're splitting the difference as to a guess for next year. Is that is that because we're going to have we expect there to be less that we'll be putting into the investment piece interest or what? So the other big reason that we've been able to earn so much interest um I also took our bond funds and invested those.

So I'm uh if we the more money that we spend the less money that we have in the account to earn interest on. So um we have definitely spent um a good chunk of change on capital projects this year. So it is less than the amount in the uh investment fund and then for FY27 the plan is to spend even more. So the fund just won't be there to earn interest on.

Perfect. So you think this is probably a more accurate yes estimation for 27? Yes. Okay. Um, and then I think the other thing just on that if I if I remember correctly, trying to find my notes on this, but it looked like that difference was a pretty decent game changer on the revenue versus expenditures like there was that was like that kind of had a bit of a save there. Is that am I reading that right? You are. Yeah. Yep. So it might not be that way next year. Okay. So you could see those numbers change for sure

already broken I guess. Well [clears throat] oh I had another question on this. Okay. Um, relating to fines. So, looking at I know this isn't up there per se, but uh I wanted to ask a little bit about fines. Okay. So, when I look at 2026 projected versus budget, it looks like the fines are down quite a bit. Yep. I'm gonna assume that's somewhat of a good thing or f Let me ask what what encompasses fines. I guess that I need to understand that better. So, let me Do you have your uh Do you have your document in front of you?

I do. Okay. Let me get that up here real quick. I guess I'm trying to understand is that like a people are doing what we expect them to do so they're down which would I would argue is probably a good thing or is is is you know I'm just trying to understand that situation and am I if I'm reading too much into it then tell me.

Um no I mean I don't think you're reading too much into it. Um yeah, the the largest portion of that is the traffic fines and then there are like some other fees I guess in in that total there and if you've got your document pulled up um I mean it's it's very little it is probably a total of No, I understand like it's 1.44% of the total. I know it's not a big number, but I just that's something that people feel I assume I was assuming traffic was a big portion of it.

I'm glad. So I was correct in that assumption. And then so that's something that people feel when they enter our town, right? Um or or live here for that matter or whatever, right? Um so I guess you know uh Scott, not to put you on the spot, uh but I guess I'm putting putting you on the spot. Is this do we think this is just a like this isn't an enforcement change, right? This is just people are behaving better.

Yeah, I think uh probably last 10 years you've seen a reduction in traffic offenses across the board. Uh it's a reflection of um a community that we're actually, you know, doing community policing in. And so we don't have and state law prevents us from state setting quotas for telling our officers how many tickets they have to write. This is giving the officers more discretion to solve things in the field. So that's one of the reasons that traffic fines have gone down. That's it sounds like a positive to me. I just thought that's worth highlighting. So it is positive for the community for sure.

Yeah. Okay. Maybe not a positive on the budget, but that's the community is the point of the budget. So [laughter] maybe if they aren't getting fined, they'll spend more money and it'll come via sales tax revenue, you know. Okay. So

make a quick point on that. In FY, I believe it was 24. Our traffic fines um 474 and what are we at for 26 projected 335. So that's a that's a my that's a very big change in a couple years. Yeah. And I guess I was just trying to understand a little bit about that change because I saw it as a potential positive as you know the chief was saying. So it's our awesome new roads. They're not speeding right. And I'm wondering if with the World Cup coming maybe who knows that could go up. Don't wish for anything. No, we we for sure.

Yeah, we're not wishing for that but I hear what you mean. Now obviously we don't want to build our our revenues and our budget based on you know taking people to you know

it's clear we're not based on the percentage right uh less than one and a half% is clear we're not building on that but I I just again thought it was worth pointing out and talking about okay so now on to expenses. Um you guys have in the uh updated budget budget document I sent to you um a line item, but we're not going to go over line item here um per department and we're not going to go over year overyear here per department, but you do have it in your packets and obviously that'll be in the final budget document that goes out to the public. So I just wanted to highlight in general fund um the the total proposed for each department and then the percentage that that department is in the general fund. So, we'll just look at this um for a minute here. And uh you'll notice most of them are pretty low and not to call out fire and police but I am I mean they are the big they're over 60% of general fund. I mean that is and that's how it should be. So the total expense for general fund is 31509509. And I know that your document has rounded and I can't quite get it to stop rounding. So it shows in your document that I'm $4 in the hole. So I'll find $4.

This only shows a dollar. Oh, it does. Oh, well, I might have changed it. It did show $4 right before 31508. So, you already found $3. Okay, there you go. [laughter] Well, wait a minute. Yeah, 512. I think the revenue is 508 and the expense is 512. So, I'm short $4. Yeah, the expenditures are 512 and the revenue is 508. Yeah. So, it's it is rounded something. It's a rounding thing. Yeah. Any questions about the expenses? We need more houses.

That's not a question. Need more houses to for people to start living here and spending more money. Matt, right?

They're working on it. Yeah. Okay. So, notable changes in general fund. Um, just wanted to point out a few things. Um, again, the sales tax I've estimated 3% increase. Uh, property tax 2 and a.5%. It is not a reassessment year. So, anything that we have is going to be just um new construction. And I I do think that'll be pretty high, but I just wanted to stay pretty conservative in this estimate. um our property tax delinquent. You'll see in the budget that that has also gone up because I have been budgeting very low and it's just it comes in high every year. So I I budgeted what um the average of what's been coming in over the last three years. So uh that's why you see those line items have increased. Um the utility billing revenue um there is an increase in that transfer for the utility personnel. I did finally move all of the utility personnel over to the finance department budget instead of uh any of them sitting in water and wastewater. So that's why you see that increase. Uh public works billing revenue that's another transfer. So when you look at the engineering department and general fund, those that that entire budget gets split between street water and wastewater and then gets a transfer to general fund from those three funds. Any questions on that? No. Okay. Um let's see. We talked about the public safety. Uh it's up by a million and that is the roof um on the PD that we'll be doing in FY27. I'm not sure that it's

going to cost 1 million, but that's what I'm planning for. Um another change, all the broker fees that we pay for our health insurance, they were in legislative. I moved them to admin. Um you'll also see the uh expense allowance and training. If you guys notice, the expense allowance line items in all of the departments and funds went down significantly and the training budgets went up significantly. So, part of moving part of that and then also moving the broker fees out of legislative. I want the legislative department. I want you guys to have a true picture of what your expenses are. So, the broker fees aren't tied to legislative. They're actually tied to the employees. So, I moved them out of there. And let me finish training real quick. Um, also in the expense allowance, uh, we were putting pdeium, any kind of mileage, and I wanted a true depiction of training. So, anything any expense that had anything to do with training, I moved it all out of expense allowance and into training, which is why you see um, those line items completely different from the year before. Yes. Um, do I know this is a history question and we are potentially light on some history uh in terms of our administration, but uh do we know why they were ever in legislative to begin with?

Brokers. Broker fees. So, actually the broker fees are new. Um, Carla, correct me if I'm wrong, but was it last year or the year before that we took the broker fees out of the actual premium for health insurance? I don't recall. I think it was 25 two years ago.

Yeah. So, we put them in there. Just to be completely transparent, it was easy just to put them in there. Um, so you want to assign that fee per person, per department, per fund because general fund has so many people, it was just easier to put them in one department. So, I did it. I put them in legislative. And then because I want legislative to have a a really true picture of what you guys are spending, I took them out and put them in admin. What else is in admin? I know that might be a really broad who's in admin. Let me Yeah, sure.

So, personnel wise, it's Joe, um, our executive assistant, and, um, [clears throat] our custodian. Okay. It's still kind of one of those things that maybe doesn't even belong there, but I I can either put it there or I can split it between every single department.

Yeah, I like I said, I don't Well, I didn't say this. I was thinking this. I don't know if I have a better solution as I'm sitting here blabbing, so I should probably shut up. But um but okay, thank you for the explanation. [clears throat] Okay, HBO expenses. Um, this was another expense that was sitting in legislative. I moved it to HR. So, HR is now responsible for all of the um, HBO training that we're doing. So, you'll see a decrease in that line item line line item as well. And then an increase in the HR um contractual expense for inspections in the senior center. you guys approved an internet or an an enterprise car lease. So, you'll see uh those expenses go up, but it's actually a net because um the senior center was using oats for transportation. So, we will not pay that fee anymore. Instead, we will uh pay a lease fee for our vehicle to Enterprise. We have some new personnel in the budget um pending council approval of course a PD records clerk, a dispatcher um that'll bring our total to um 13 neighborhood improvement officer and then a facilities manager. So the total salary and benefits for those positions is 392525. Uh fire programming we saw a decrease and this rarely happens. When you see red up here, it's a good thing. Um, we are saving $15,000 uh for the year because we've got new ambulance billing software. You guys also approved that a couple meetings ago. Um, PD maintenance agreements um is up by 23,000. So, let me give you just a the notable changes. I decided I didn't want to put everything on here, just

highlights. um at least 10%, but I felt like at least $10,000 as well. So, I didn't want to put a 50% increase in here if it was only $500, if that makes sense.

So, just uh the method behind my madness in this um PD clothing and safety equipment. Um we've got some new officers and uh we also need to replace the vests, which is why that is um a 20% increase. um comdev maintenance agreements the central square software uh it is up by uh 10,000 so they will be paying for their software this year general fund year-over-year um from 25 to 26 we actually have about a 6.5% increase in general fund which is really not that bad and um it's not that significant and it's actually due to salaries and benefits the 2 and a half cola the 2 and a half merit and then the capital purchases um and projects for FY27 is responsible for that uh increase um from 26 to 27 ending cash balance is 13592 um our ordinance actually says that we need to keep a 15% fund balance in general fund and they want us to look at our revenues But I wanted you guys to see the cash balance as it compares to revenue which is the first number 43% and then the cash balance as it compares to the expense which in this case is also 43% because we have a balanced general fund. Any questions there?

I do want to add for and I don't know if you have something you'd like to say about um or a question for from you council member. might you might go ahead and talk.

I just wanted to know I just wanted to give you guys some perspective. Um it's been talked about city managers association has a list serve. I don't know if you guys are aware of this. Uh we have questions of other cities in our state how they're doing how cities do things. [clears throat] Um questions go out there pretty periodically. Um just this week there's been a discussion about fund balances in the general fund um from other [snorts] cities. And so I've been kind of loosely tracking what other cities are doing as far as where they keep their fund balances. A lot of them have similar to us where they have something in their um either their charter or or legally they have to keep a certain fund balance at a certain level. Um but most of them do not go down to that level like you know ours says by you know we have to be have a 15% fund balance. Um but a lot of cities are are in the 25 to to 50% range for fund balance in the general fund and that's that's pretty standard to be anywhere in there. pretty consistently. Go ahead.

I glad to hear that number isn't absurd because it kind of seems absurd to me. I don't know if I'm the only one that thinks 43% seems high. Um because when I hear that, I guess like this is different than my than personal finance, right? Sure, personal finance, you would see that number and you go, "Wow, that person's a really good saver. Wow, that person is prepared if they were to unexpectedly lose a job or have some medical whatever, right?" Um, but in this situation, I see that and I almost think is there something else we can be doing to provide some kind of better service for the community, right?

Yeah. And and I think that's a fair question and a fair thought process 100%. Um, one thing I I just think that we should look at as a city is we a huge chunk of our revenue is dependent on sales tax, which is which can be fairly volatile. And so the more you can you rely on a volatile revenue source, the more you probably should raise that that fund balance, at least the consistent fund balance that you want to keep. So that way you can weather a storm a lot easier if the sales taxes go off a cliff, which can happen in a recession or um just as the economy es and flows. So um I don't think we're we're out of line. I mean, we have a healthy fund balance, but we also don't have an obscene fund balance because we're not, you know, we couldn't fund our our regular

fun general fund with it. Yeah. I mean, I think we'll find $4. I'm just saying. Well, we will, but I don't know that I could find $13.5 million real quick like. Yeah. Um

and also generally we our polic or the way you know we looked at it from a staff perspective and have been looking at it from a staff perspective is we try to keep our operating uh revenue and expenses even. Um so that way if we have a fund balance that grows that we utilize that for projects for specific purposes um whether it's a streets project or you know whatever that might be. So that's generally what we utilize that type of money for. So, as an example, so let's talk a hypothetical, well, not a hypothetical, an example on that. We just approved the AMI U water meters. Um, part of the reason I'm assuming we're able to do that is because of this. No,

not from general fund. We utilize capital improvement water and waste water fund balance essentially. Yes, that's what we utilize to pay for that. But I'm talking about philosophy here. Correct. 100%. Okay. The only other Well, anybody else I have

I would like to since we're in this in this part of the in the general fund portion of the budget, I would like to point out that um Casey had talked about uh the raises and the 2 and a half% step, the 2 and 12% COLA. Um and mentioned that we did have a little bit of money also added in there to do some market adjustments for certain positions. Um she mentioned public works. there's some frontline positions that we're looking at trying to ensure that we can um re retain and continue to recruit folks to to fill those roles. Um and then the other one that's a big one that's kind of a glaring need and we've talked about this over the last fiscal year was in our dispatch. And um our dispatch lately there it's it's fallen underneath every other dispatch uh in our county. And so at least in terms of the the base pay for you know a starting dispatcher and so we need to be competitive and we need to make sure that um we are I think I said this when we looked into the idea of consolidation. We you know they probably deserve more than what they've been getting. So we want to try to get that for them. Since we've made the decision to go to keep dispatch in house I think we need to make sure that we pay them adequately. And so we've added uh two extra steps in there for the dispatch folks um in the budget. So of course that's up for discussion. That's if you guys approve it. But that would get us a little bit more right sized in terms of our salary range for um and be competitive in in this area. Keep going.

Ready? Yep.

Okay, so we're going to move on to economic development. Um there's really no notable changes in economic development. They are uh pretty steady. Um the there's there's a revenue line item in there that has fallen a little bit. um the 3% tax that we have put on a substance uh is not bringing in the revenue that I think we had hoped. So, it is down. Um I did raise the hotel motel tax uh with the the cup coming to the Kin City area. We I know that Mike and Matt had done a little bit of research and um they're expecting um higher revenues coming out of the hotels. So, we were able to raise that revenue for this year. And they've got a $47,000 um positive for the 27 budget year. And again, no notable changes. Uh they have a 28% fund balance, but it's only $178,000. Um and economic development is actually uh doing quite well. They used to receive a um a transfer from general fund and this is the second year I believe in a row that they have not had to receive a transfer from general fund which is great for general fund. Um, so good job, Mike.

Leftover money. We need decorations at the polls for, you know, if you have all this money lying around. [clears throat] [laughter]

Come on, Brett. Use your microphone. Okay, so we're going to move on to street. Um revenue and street was uh budgeted at 5.6. Expenses are 9.5 um with a budget deficit of 3.9 million. Um that is because of the capital projects that we have planned in street and we will see that when we get to the end of uh our presentation tonight. So, some notable changes um in street fund. Uh there's an increase for beautifification projects around the city for $75,000. That percentage up there just seems so huge, but it was such a small amount, but it is 750%. Um asphalt and drainage work used to be a capital item. Greg and I talked about this. Um it is something that they do every year. So, we decided to move it to operational so that we could have uh a more steady operational budget and take that out of capital. Uh street lights, he's planning on additional street lights. Um which is why that was up 120,000. Um and then their public works billing. Again, you'll see this in street water and wastewater is up because that department in general fund their expenses are up. salary and benefits. So, street year-over-year um leaves a fund balance of 2.5. That's a significant decrease. Um again, the capital projects that we have planned for the budget year are taking that down, but still leaving us 45% if you're looking at it for the revenues and then 26% in expenses. Any questions on street fund? Okay, we'll move on. Do you have a question, Alex?

I have not necessarily about this particular, but I I have a general question about capital projects. Okay. Do those come out of where are we pulling? I know some of them come out of these funds, right? Yep, they do. Capital comes out of out of pretty much every fund that that has you know for instance general fund has the general fund departments and so capital will some of the capital expenses for those departments will come out of general fund and so like streets again streets fund you'll see water and wastewater will have capital coming out of their funds as well.

Are we going to go over just capital projects? We have at the very end of this, yeah, the last part of it, we've got a big um each department head will talk about their capital projects, especially the big ones. We'll get there.

Okay. Wastewater. Um so, street water and wastewater, we uh they have had huge fund balances in the past and that is because uh the projects that really needed to be done have not been done and we are actually going to do them. We are budgeting to do them and we're going to do them. Um [clears throat] Greg has told me we're going to do them. So I know that we're going to uh so the revenues and wastewater uh were budgeted at 10.2 and the expenses 16.6 with a budget deficit of 6.4. Again that is for the big capital projects that we are doing. And I do want to let you know that I know you got this document at the last minute tonight but it is going to change again. AMI you guys approved a budget amendment for FY26. Um so your cash balances when you see this final document uh I have not yet transferred the million from capital improvement to water. So you're not going to see those uh those fund balances depicted in the document that you have in front of you. So capital improvement will be a million less and water will be a million more. So I just wanted to point that out. Okay. Notable changes in wastewater uh sewer line maintenance. We're planning on some more repairs, so that's up by 50,000. Um, the USG meter maintenance. [clears throat] So, each uh account is going to have a charge on it per month, and we've split that charge uh between water and wastewater. Um, also the central square increase, so a total in wastewater fund of 148,000. Um, and we're not quite sure that that might be a little over budget because obviously we won't have all of the meters installed in FY27. um and they won't be all installed at once. So, it just depends on how quickly we get those in. Utility billing and public works billing. Again, you'll see those go up because we've uh moved all utility personnel to finance. And then, of course, um the engineering department

has had an increase in their department, which is why you see the increase in all three of these funds. Any questions about wastewater? Okay. their year-over-year is leaving them a $5.2 million fund balance. Um I believe in 26 it was maybe 112 million. Um so we are significantly spending that down. Um and so that'll leave us based on revenue uh 50% and expense at 31%. Any questions here? I do want to point out something. Um the operational revenue and operational expenses, your goal is zero balance budget. So wastewater is getting pretty close to not having that anymore. And that is because we have not passed our rate increase on to the citizens. And I believe I calculated um after operational expenses that would have left a wastewater fund with like $280,000 for capital. But we are spending a lot more than that in capital this year. We are eating into the fund balance. So once your operational revenues don't um take care of your operational expenses, you you can't continue to do that year after year. So these are things that we're really going to have to start talking about for FY28. So just putting that in your heads a year a year ahead. Solid waste, which is the trash fund. Um total revenues and expenses. Again, I'm planning on uh 3%. So I've uh put that in both the revenue and the expense.

We've got a zero balance budget there, and there's no notable changes thus far. Uh year-over-year, we've got an ending cash balance of 633,000. And of course, your um fund balance percentage is the same because we've got a balanced budget there. Water revenue, another fund. We are doing a lot of projects, so we're eating into that fund balance, which is leaving us um a budget deficit of 5.1 with 8.7 in revenue and 13.8 in expenses. notable changes um line pump and meter maintenance. Because of all of the projects that we are doing this year, um we're going to see some of these operational uh line items decrease. Um it's not much right now, but we're hoping that um it will get even better as the projects go along. Um tower maintenance, we moved that from capital to operational. It's something that we need to do every year. So we've just started including it in the operational budget. Uh again the contractual you see that like you did in wastewater uh utility billing and public's work public works billing. Same thing there. And year-over-year our cash balance is now down to 5.5 which is still significant at 63% and 40% of expenses. Any questions with water? And now golf. Golf is very notable, but there are no notable changes. Um, unless Jay disagrees with me, but uh, we'll get to his capital later on. Uh, revenue 1.8, expenses 2.4. He has been doing so well. Um, his budgeted revenues, his actual revenues have exceeded his budgeted revenues since

I've been here. um which is why he was able to build up the cash balance that he has and do the great projects that he's um that he's done and is going to do in 27. But we do have a budget deficit of 577,000. So this does take his cash balance down to 257,000 um with a 14% and 10% fund balance with revenue and expense. Any questions? Okay. Debt service. Um our total revenues 5.8 and of course all of this comes from property taxes. This is our general obligation debt. Um expenses 6 million uh revenues over under 162,000. So our ending fund balance is 6.9. Um we do have to keep at least one year's worth of payments in this fund. Um we do have additional payments that are going to be coming down the pike in 28. Uh the retired debt for 27 is 3.5 million and then after that we will have 58 million um or actually before that it'll be 58 million at the beginning of 27 that we have in and this is just the geo um general obligation fund. We do have debt service and other funds as well. Any questions about the debt service fund? Okay. Park fund. They have a zero balance budget. I did not note any changes. Um their year-over-year uh their ending cash balance at 27 is um estimated to be 1.6 million. Um and because they have a zero balance budget, uh revenue and expense percentage is both 21%. Sales tax funds. I've grouped these together to try to minimize the slides that we have. So, I've got public safety

sales tax, capital improvement sales tax, and park sales tax. Um, the public safety sales tax transfers money to the general fund to pay for police and fire salaries. It used to also pay for capital. Um, there there aren't enough funds to pay for capital anymore, so we do use the capital improvement sales tax to pay for capital. Um but this year there is a budget deficit in public safety sales tax of a million and again that's to pay for the roof for the PD calf improvement sales tax. Um we do have some debt service in there and also 1.64 or 67 is going to general fund to pay for capital purchases in general fund which is mostly fire and police and the park sales tax. Uh we've got debt service in there and then there is a transfer that uh I make from park sales tax to the park fund uh to cover their operational expenses and um capital purchases. Any questions on the sales tax funds? And then this gives you a year-over-year uh public safety I've got estimated at the end of 27 2.3 capital improvement 4.2 and parks 1.8. [snorts] So we're going to move into our minor funds real quick. Um, these funds are tiny little funds that don't really do too much, but we do have to keep them separate. Um, the mayor's Christmas tree fund used to be a line item in general fund. So did drug seizure, DWI recovery, and special training. Um the state changed some rules with the court a few years ago and now we do have to separate

out the DWR recovery special training and drug seizure into their own funds because they can only be spent on specific items for police. So uh and then the mayor's Christmas tree. I'm not sure why that became its own fund, but it is. So I usually budget 15,000 every year. Um if we get the revenue in, then we can spend it. If we don't then we can't. But um [clears throat] if we get the revenue in from the air from the air. Yeah. Where's the revenue coming? Oh, donations. Donations. Okay. Donations.

So in terms of so so just on that thought process then. So we So the decorating the tree and those things that goes under economic development. Yes. As opposed to the mayor's Christmas tree. So really the mayor's Christmas tree fund is the charitable donations. It's not the hot dog. It's not the tree. I do believe some of the hot dog expenses come out funds come out of there. Oh, very minimal expenses that come out. And when I say minimal, I mean really low. Yeah. But Okay. [clears throat] Generally speaking, it's the donation, the big check that's given each year at the event.

The oversized check got cut. Yes. Okay. I know you want to present that next year, don't you? No, it says mayor. [clears throat]

So, yeah, in the drug seizure DWI recovery and special training fund, those balances were um they were building up. And in FY26, Scott and I talked about what we could potentially spend some of that on. And so we did spend some of those fund balances down. Um again, these are estimated revenues. Um and then I will [clears throat] also budget the expense, but we will not spend anything if we don't get the revenue in. And this comes from fines. So we're going to move on to our special incentive and fiduciary funds. These are our TIFFs, our CIDs, and our TDDs. The revenue and expense. Um we always have a zero balance budget here. We send out to the developers and um we are actually just the administrative arm of the CI and TDD. So capital projects funds um these are uh [snorts] capital projects, street capital projects and storm water projects. You'll see the big street projects that Greg is doing, the big storm water projects. This is where our $15 million bond money went to. Um, we are still kind of working through that uh to see exactly how much we have left to do for 26 and then what we need to roll over to 27. So, we're not quite done with that yet. But these are my estimated revenues and estimated expenses expenses for those project funds. Also, some of the revenue that will come in here. You'll see STP funds, um TDD funds, county funds, different grants will come in through here, and also your bond funding again will come in through here. Uh revenues, sometimes the city the city will use their own funds to fund these projects,

but a lot of times it's from different governmental entities. We we have in the past transferred um water impact fees, sewer impact fees, and street impact fees. As those funds build up, um, we'll get transferred to these to help do projects around the city. Five minute recess. Okay. [snorts] What time is it?

Yeah, I think you got a minute and a half. They're right in the hallway. Scott is Carla still out there. We'll cover for Scott. He doesn't want to do Scots. We'll take Oh, heck yeah. [laughter] We'll take care of that. Don't worry. Because remember I had to take from you for him.

I'm not trying to start anything. Did you skip a page?

That doesn't you put fire's capital in there. Depends on what year it is. One item for his capital is more than all this year. Well, it it is this year. Yes. [laughter]

We're back live. Okay, we will move on to general funds capital. Um, you skip a page. [clears throat] I did. Okay. Capital projects.

So, some of these I would say actually all of these are um were budgeted in FY26. We have not finished all of them. Um, so this is the estimated cost that I have for FY27. Again, Greg and I are going to get back together and um wrap this up by the time you guys approve the budget so we can have the most accurate numbers in there. Hey, I know what you're going to do. I already I'll talk to you about it afterwards. That's good. I know what you're going to ask. Yeah, he was late so I didn't get a chance to Okay, I do know what you're going to ask.

That's the total project 4.8. Sorry. Go ahead then. Yeah. Okay. So, um street and curve. Uhhuh. This is remainder. I thought we did. I guess I'm either forgetting something or not understanding something because I thought so the street and curb stuff that we did had to be done before we redid we repaved streets, right? Um we have we have some that we didn't get done. Well, we have 2.7 million left that was budgeted to do that. So, whatever it is that we're going to do with it

ah so we might have more opportunity is what that is. So [clears throat] basically what that money that we have is the bond fund that we uh sold the bonds out of. We had a list. We went through the list and did the list. We also used money from that to go to projects. And so there was money that went both to two different things. And so since we haven't finished the projects yet, we want to finish the projects which includes things that are up there. and if we need bond money to cover it to make those hole because we haven't we're in the process bidding North Cass right now and we have Larksburg under con under construction. There's also a piece of Mullen that's south of the roundabout to 187th Street we'd like to pave and so basically that money was held there to see how those projects got bid. Does is inflation going to go higher on us? Is it not? Then if there's money left over when that stuff is done, then we can go back and actually pave a little bit more.

Makes perfect sense. That's the That's the part I did not I was missing there. So we have opportunity potential potential. I was using this as a contingency. Yep. To see how those projects went because I want to make sure the projects went through. Okay. General fund.

Garbage can containment was actually budgeted in 26. We haven't gotten to that yet, so we'll be doing that in 27. Um, we've got a couple of HVAC units, city hall and annex. Um, the city hall does need work on the roof, and uh hopefully we'll get to that uh in FY27. Over at the annex, uh we've got some AV equipment left that Andrew wants to purchase for uh council chambers. We've got a door locking system which I'll let Mike tell you a little bit more about. Um HVAC roof repairs and we're actually looking at a new website as well. So Mike, I'll let you talk about the door locking system. So currently the front doors on the annex have to be manually locked and unlocked every morning. um also has some issues with the ADA door controls that are also in in some cases we have to manually override or or kind of patch together just kind of like some of the equipment here at the building. Um what this project would do would install an electronic kind of magnetic locking system. Um something that like what we have on the back doors here as well as the doors at city hall that you could use your ID to scan in to unlock the doors. But then we could also add them to a security system, add the doors themselves to a security system. So if there are meetings or things going on, we can have those added to a schedule and those doors would be able to automatically lock and unlock as it's needed.

Yeah, that sounds like something we should have had a long time ago. Um, but I can't help but just feel we're putting so many band-aids into these buildings. Say, are we lipsticking again on something like this? Sorry, I didn't mean to. This being a I mean, it's a security measure. Um, we do still have folks working here. I mean, may not be a 24-hour building, but we do have folks working here evenings, city council evening meetings, planning commission, things like that. And so, I think for something like this, it just kind of seem it's necessary. Um, and so that's why we wanted to include it in this budget.

I'm not arguing the point that we need them. I'm just arguing the amount of lipstick we're buying. Go ahead. I just have a question about the new website. Is this revamping the existing platform or moving away from the is it Granicus platform?

So yeah, currently it is it got bought up. So it's a Granicus platform. Um it's a little twofold. So the website itself is about since the refresh the last refresh is about 10 years old. Um so it is the platform itself is due for an upgrade. There are also new federal ADA requirements. Um this website is not in compliance with um and so we have until 2027 to be fully in compliance with that. And this would give us this next fiscal year to bring the website up to date, get a little bit of a refresh on it, but then also kind of come into line with those new requirements, those access requirements. Okay, thanks.

Um, Blue Springs, I actually happened to talk to them. They just went through this. So, first thing to note is if we had regarding the upgrades for the the federal requirements, um, they might be a good resource. Just throwing that out there. Um, but the other piece that they did that I would personally think I I can't I know I'm not alone on this, but anyways, I'll just I don't know how the rest of the council feels about this, but I just really would love to see a.gov domain name. Um, and if we can make that happen with this since we're revamping a website anyways, I would like to Andrew is saying yes.

Yeah. See, our I like that our ITA guy agrees with that because I was worried there might be some Well, hold on. Anyways, um I would really like to see that and I I gotta I mean domain names are relatively affordable. What I hear is the.govs are not only potentially more secure, but also just quite frankly it's going to be more professional looking for a government entity to be operating under that. So I just I guess I'd like to throw that out there. I'd like to see this that happen with that, you know, update.

Absolutely. the lipstick on the pig. I feel like if we were going to build a city hall in the next year, scrap all of it. But I don't know that that's going to happen. It would be great, but you mean in 2027 if we Well, if we build a city hall in 27, we could still just limp through with this. Correct. Okay. Maybe. Okay. Okay. Or the roof falls in and I don't know. I mean, the extra incentive in if falls in would be okay. Just just

community development. Uh UDC update. We do have $20,000 that we are rolling over to FY27. Um we've got some document scanning that Matt would like to do. And then we also have $50,000 in there for Beautify Belton and I know that that is something that city council has asked for. Um Matt spoke to me about it and that would be in the form of grants. We have no clue how we're going to put that together yet. Um what that looks like. Talking to the city attorney about applica. I we have no idea what that's going to look like yet. So it's in there. If it gets done, that's great. Um, but it is in there just in case. Yes, ma'am.

Would that include like the neighborhood dumpster times or is that coming out of community? That's a separate line item. Um, the beautify belt and those would be the grants that we talked about um back in August at a work session that would help specifically low potentially lowincome households on making improvements to their owner occupied homes. Um, we've been researching some different programs around the metro. Um, and we'll bring forward some different ideas at a future work session. Okay. Public works engineering. Sorry, I got to go back. Yep.

I I just want to make sure I understand the UDC update. Is that because we already paid for the contract or is this just can What's that? Is that additional or what? It's it's a rollover. So, the contract for $100,000, um, we anticipate we'll still have about 20,000 of that to spend after April one to finish the Okay. So, this isn't new. This is just a Gotcha. Okay. I have a I have a question. The I guess we're still calling it the PAL project for sidewalks. Where does that fall in to everything? It's in street. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Under the sidewalk maintenance line item, I believe. Okay. [clears throat]

public works or engineering department and general fund. I will let Greg talk about this real quick. You [clears throat] can tell she's really excited about all these items. Uh the first one, if you've ever been out of vehicle maintenance, you'll notice there's a one way to lift up vehicles is a drive-on ramp. You drive on it and it lifts the car up. It's uh reached its serviceable life, so it needs to be replaced. Um, we also have uh when you [clears throat] stand on the roof, there's two fibergl fiberglass windows that need to be replaced in the roof to uh before they collapse in. And then there's one uh pickup truck for uh one of our inspectors that is long past its useful life and needs to be replaced.

Emergency management I have actually sorry to go back real quick on that on the I noticed it identified so this is there I guess twofold question here is there a reason we're identifying the truck specifically historically when we've at least what I recall with fire and police it was hey we're just going to go find the best deal you know from whatever brand um and then two. Is is this something we would consider putting in our new lease thing or is that a are we still in the test water? Is that a bad idea?

So, if you're talking about why did I put an Ford F150, that's what the truck is today. And so, that's what we're replacing. Yeah. Um and so, uh as far as So, we would still go to wherever we get the the best deal that makes Okay. Yeah. So we'll that's why we have we are we are generally a Ford fleet generally because we get a better pricing from Ford. Um although some of our pickup trucks that are not snowplow trucks this would not be a snowplow truck. Um we have been buying GM products lately. For the record I'm not I'm just again best deal is all I is my point here. Yeah, we

uh we are fairly cheap people and so we generally always buy the lowest price. Frugal frugal.

We do the best we can with taxpayer dollars. Yeah. Any more questions? We'll move on to emergency management.

So this is the radio. Um, actually the siren radio system that we have down at the fire station, uh, we replaced the radio that was up at dispatch last back in June. Um, they are both well past their serviceable life. They are not covered. The one in dispatch now is covered under our maintenance agreement that we have with Blue Valley Public Safety. And so the one down at the fire station is due for that update so that it can also be covered under our maintenance agreement with Blue Valley.

We are now going to move on to fire.

All right, we've got several items again this year. We're always needy. Um the first one is an awning at our station one where the employees come in. and it's kind of open and gathers lots of [clears throat] things there. So, we want to put an awning over that entry door. Um, for vehicle uh rescue equipment, we um we carry currently what's called rescue 42 struts, and those are they're a strut that if a vehicle tips over, if it's unstable when we get there in a wreck, we shore those up. And so, this is updating what we have and adding uh adding some updated newer style equipment of that. What we've currently got has been in use, I think, for about 15 years. Uh likewise the rope rescue equipment. We're not a department that does large numbers of uh highly dangerous rope rescue like vertical. We don't do vertical. It's just not a thing that happens enough in Belton, but we we do have ropes that we use for uh for hauling systems like pulling people up steep hills. Um and so the current rope equipment we have is about 18 years old. So it's just replacing some of that. The training department um has a couple different items. The first one is a vertical ventilation prop. So, it's just going to be a basically it's going to look like a a shelter, but it's going to have spots in it that we can use ladders. They climb up it and they can practice and and train on ventilating roofs for when they're on fire, cutting holes in roofs. Um, we've been on a kind of a continuous um replacement system of our HVACs. the station over on Mullen Road is uh at 18 years old. And so we've been in a rotation so that we're not getting hit all at once with those. And so this is another one. I believe after this one, we have one more to complete that program. And hopefully what we're hoping that puts us on about a 2year cycle between all the two buildings about every two years to to replace our HVAC units in that approximate, you know, 16 to 18 year range.

Uh we've got some money in there for drone. Um, if some of you may know that when we started the drone program here, um, it was collective between police and fire, we've kind of made some changes. Fire really, uh, I think we use our drones much less and we use them in a different way, but the one we have now is starting to develop some issues. Um, and so we wanted to go ahead and work on replacing that. It's a little bit smaller uh, amount. What we are trying to find is a we've got a 50-50 grant that we think we have a good chance at um putting with that and and so um there's the forcible entry tool. That's another training prop. And so a picture there on the right hand well I don't yeah on your right hand side um the crews have one at one of the stations. It makes it easier sometimes to let them stay in their in their stations and not bring them out. So, it would provide another one for station one to practice forcible entry and how how they can get in through doors. Um, if anybody wants to lend us [clears throat] the use of their home, we can come and practice at your home as well if you'd like. Um, the Power Loader and the Power Pro ambulance C, that's tied to the the updated replacement uh of the ambulance. And so, we're also going to be asking for a remounted ambulance. We've been doing that about every about 18 months is what it takes to replace these. And so, um, those units are a little bit over 10 years old that they'll be replacing. And so, the loader itself is goes into the ambulance, um, in the power c. So, it's it's hydraulic. And so, the cot will lift itself in the patient with assistance from us. And then we push the cot right up to the loader in the ambulance which completely lifts the weight of the patient to put into the ambulance. Helps reduce stress on our backs and lower injury uh possibilities. Uh cubic vitality is a a new system that we're going to put in that's going to increase our communications abilities. Um it will basically uh turn our cell

phones into two-way radios. And so primarily we're looking at the administrative level for that. We think that's a possibility there that we can even have room that the PD can share uh that as well and have a have theirs on there. Um we asked for just a single snow plow. We uh we wanted to partner with PD. We had to make a few changes, but we struggle with getting our lots cleared. They have a pretty big parking lot and um you know ours are fairly big, too. um public works does a good job of trying to come through and get the primary openings where our trucks need to come out, but um takes quite a bit to push the rest of that snow. So, it's going to serve two two purposes. We'll uh clean PD and fire with it, but under conditions like uh heavy snows where we go out in the county, we have a lot of trouble getting around. will actually uh probably attach this to emergency management's vehicle and it would become a first response vehicle that goes out with ambulances when we're dealing with deep snows uh because there's a lot of areas that we can't actually even get through with our four-wheel drive ambulances sometimes slide got another one that's all PD took What's the technology that they want to buy for our chamber? [laughter]

Hopefully, it's

We've got a couple more staff vehicles in there. We've been slowly replacing those. Um, our current fleet is our 2015 models. Um, and so we plan on trying to make those match. To your point, Councilman Callum, we we do look for the best deals. And actually, I've been surprised at the kind of deals I can get when we do that. Once you kind of get into a GM product, uh, they give pretty healthy discounts for uh, loy for loyalty points. And so, we plan on them time to look about the same what we have. Um, ours are notably a little bit higher than public works, but much of that is because we also outfit them with emergency lights and sirens, uh, slide out units on the back and things to cover the beds because it carries our u our equipment.

Yeah. Well, heated seats, steering wheels, things like that. All leather.

Mine does not have that. Mine does not have any. Uh, we also have a K Cabota in there. So, we currently have a Polaris Ranger. It's still usable. We plan on keeping that Ranger. We're going to have one at each station. and they'll have smaller plows on them which we hope will help us, especially at station two, clear the sidewalks. We're have quite expansive sidewalks around station two that we historically have not cleaned and it's been a request that we try to do that for liability reasons. It also doubles as a response vehicle. We build uh we build units to put in the back of them. We think we have enough in this that we'll actually purchase a commercial unit that um allows us to have areas that we can strap patients on spine boards and so we use them for events like large events up on Main Street. Uh, and we've also taken them when we have people way off road, we can take them out and haul a patient on that. Um, the ambulance remount, I already mentioned that we're going to be replacing unit that's currently a it's a 2019 model. We're still lagging way behind on the build times for these. And so when I say remount, what's going to happen is we take it back to the company that originally built it. They're going to remove the patient compartment from it. They completely go through it. They uh check all the electrical components. They change anything out that's broken. and they freshen up the paint on it and they set that box back onto a brand new chassis. And so right now, even if we order this, once this budget's approved, we're looking at a delivery date of about August of 2028. So they're still lagging way behind. And so we'd expect the current unit to be somewhere around 180,000 to 200,000 miles. And so um that would be the last with that we we have a total of five ambulances. That'd be the last one that's not remounted yet. And that kind of puts us on that track of depending on the mileage about a six to seven year service life of our ambulances before we rotate them out. And then uh our uh station um computers at the advice of it needed replaced this

year. So um all of our all of our units inside the stations will be replaced. Thank you, John. That's all you have? That is all I have. Can I have more? No. Scott, it is now Scott's turn. That's enough, isn't it? It is enough. That's I agree. Yes. So, this may have changed on the new one. Sorry, I haven't had a chance to compare the two yet, but um I saw a line item under fire. That was Lucas. Yes. So, what I gave you in December, is that what you're Yes. Yes. That was every requested item. This is now items. This item is not in there anymore. We we moved it to 28. Then I don't have a question

till 28. [snorts] Scott, you're up. All right.

Um, some of the items that I'm going to talk about mostly of uh most of them are replacement. We try to spread out the replacement of our items in instead of [snorts] hitting a budget with big ticket items and replacing a lot at once. And so, um, bear, please bear with me because I'm just coming back from eye surgery. And so, um, we were looking for a police drone. Um, we lost both of our drones this year. To replace the drone, we have to buy American because the federal government and state of Missouri is following suit that we have to buy a blue drone, one that's made in the United States. And so we are looking for a drone that's going to make us capable of doing infrared and some other things um that we've found operationally that we can't do without. U building maintenance for this building. It's a building originally built in 1988. Um [snorts] 2009 was the uh renovations and we're having lots of things go wrong with the building all the way this year we lost both of our water heaters. Each one of them was close to $20,000 each. Um and so [snorts] we have a line item for that. Uh we also have laptops in vehicles, patrol cars. Um we try to replace these on a regular basis. Like I said, instead of doing all of them at once and having them come up and providing um big ticket for that year, we try to replace a little bit every year.

And the roof. uh the roof. Um on January uh 27th, you're going to see our RFQ come before you for the acceptance of a consultant and an engineer. And then with that, we will have someone bid that roof, build the specs, and then we hope to have that come back where we have a price tag before we get into the April one budget. And so, uh, the roof, um, has never been repaired, um, or had a a maintenance, u plan other than patching what has gone wrong. Um, one of the other things is is this consultant is going to help us get to the point to where we get the replacement of the roof, try to make it through the rainy season, which is coming this spring. So, but you'll see uh the RFQ is the first part of that. You'll see that on January 27th as a resolution. um the station. Uh we have cameras um in secured areas um like the jail. Uh we also have recording where some of them actually record our interview rooms are recorded, the jail is recorded, video and audio. Um and then we have security areas where cameras are and we try to move around the building every year and replace those as we go. Uh we also have uh detectives where they need secured areas to secure evidence in the back of their vehicles and we try to do that. Um again we're trying to do four of them as we move around the building. The MVR system and the body warn camera system is one system. So what is recorded in the cars as far as the vehicles and also on the cameras that you see on our police officers, it's one system. It's all recorded and um held locally. This year we're we're going to be replacing

some of those um MVs, motor vehicle audio and recording equipment, but also body worn cameras. Um but we just replaced uh some body warn cameras so we don't have to make a big purchase. And so that's why this is a little bit lower. But we're doing a project because we're going to be forced in the coming years next year to go to a cloud system. And so we're trying to evaluate what we're going to do with this system next year. [snorts] Uh desktop and laptop computers again we try to replace them before they become problems for us because of um sieges requirements that the federal government has on us or the state. but also we tried to do it so it's not a big ticket item. Uh the dispatch consoles, we talked about this as far as u trying to figure out where we're going to take dispatch in the future. Uh two of our consoles are actually we loaned uh got them on loan from the Cass County Sheriff's Department when they went to new consoles. One of ours is is so bad the so bad that it has to has been repaired and rewired and it needs to be replaced. Uh these consoles we're suggesting replacing it u with four. We believe that we can get four stations in there. We've actually reached out to a manufacturer. They've actually give us some drawings um and they are on bid with most of the uh region as far as dispatch consults. This will allow our dispatch to eventually um house 16 uh dispatchers and if we grow it out that far in the future u but four consoles will give us um nice range for that facility. But

that will be the max of whatever we can hold in that facility is those with those dispatch consults. Hback. Sorry. Go ahead. Not to remind me. I guess I thought that the uh Mark I thought Mark helped pay for this type of thing or am I misunderstanding that?

Yeah, Mark uh will actually pay for the actual equipment for the PAP. So, they'll help with the actual um the telephone system, the device and the headsets for the dispatchers. Uh the furniture is what's covered by the uh agency. Okay. Thank you.

Uh we we did talk about HVAC. We do have one mini split that needs to be replaced. We have too many splits that serve our server room. Uh, one of those has not worked in over a year. We want to replace that and we want to make that a part of our roof project and um that will um serve that server room and then maybe in a couple years come back and fix the or get a replacement for the current one that's operating. It's like almost uh 8 years old and it's probably pasted its life, but we're really worried about it going down and then we don't have the second one to get up and running. Um in the left corner you have the desk system. Uh again, the police department has not replaced any of the furniture um in the building and most of it was when it was boughten, it was secondhand and it had been repossessed and so that equipment is starting to break and so we are going working our way around the building and replacing desks and cabinets and that type of thing. Uh police cars, um we try to replace police cars every year. Last year we did two. This year we're trying to get four. And that again is trying to stay ahead of maintenance problems. We pick the most highest mileage cars and try or ones that have maintenance records that are uh becoming problemsome and try to trade them out and move them on. Some of these vehicles that we get rid of actually go to other city departments because they don't have it u vehicles. But um we're looking for uh four and then we're continuing the replacement of our

pistols and we're going to red dots and we're getting uh weapons that um are newer that don't have as many rounds on them, don't produce any more maintenance problems. And so we're trying to replace this equipment again before they become more of an issue. [snorts] vehicles. Oh, you just said I'm so sorry. [laughter] Yeah. No [snorts] repeating. Repeat. I have a question for police.

Do you and I probably know this, but what is animal housing? Animal housing is our contract that we have with Wayside Waves. Um, and so that's a contract that we um are currently going out to to look at uh renewing with them. It's been a great partnership. Um, and they're um they've been really um a positive influence. They were not involved in the trap neutering release uh area. and they actually when we went to them and they found out that we were looking at partnering with a community group, they decided that they wanted to get into that business and we were the first ones in the metro area that they led into that program and so they've been fantastic for us

because we've never had a shelter. Is that correct? Yes. And um I don't believe that the city probably has an interest in doing that.

Yeah. I I I kind of thought that's what it was, but I just thought I'd ask. Thank you. Any more questions for PD? I'm gonna let Mike take Hotel Motel, but I am going to say something. Um, so I did not add this capital to his budget that you guys the do the the document that you have in there. It it's been in there, but for some reason it didn't end up in your document. So, um, [clears throat] his 35,000. So that'll take his um uh ending balance down to like 17,000 for the year. So and you'll see that change in the final budget document. Thank you. So the wayfinding monument signage, this is kind of moving us into the third phase as part of the overall beautifification plan. We'll have this week we were supposed to have had phase two installed. Um, but I believe Casey Customs got a little nervous about the weather and some of the cold and that the concrete and foundations weren't going to properly set and so they delayed that by probably they initially were going to delay it by a week, but I assume it's going to probably delayed a couple of weeks until at least warms up a little bit. Um phase three is going to focus mostly on as as if as if as if as if as if as if as if as if as if as if as if you recall as part of the beautifification plan we had identified a couple of the larger monument signs at some of the entryway points to the city as well as a couple of the locations in partnership with the arts committee um trying to identify locations for the larger signs. And so that's where that phase three will come in. Um and then the second item on there, the ETC citizen survey. This was initially proposed when I believe two fiscal or two budgets ago. Um but when we had it approved in the I believe it was the 25 budget or um but at that point we also had the comprehensive plan that was going to have a citizen survey parks master plan that was going to have a citizen survey as well as our safe

streets for all that had a citizen survey. We figured our citizens were pretty surveyed out um and so we delayed it by a year. So, this really is more of just a rollover into the next fiscal year for our customer service and our kind of our service citizen satisfaction overall survey.

I have a question about the monument side. Could could a could uh something that needs to be pointed direction to pay to have their whatever direction pointed to location added to these, you know. So, I'm I'm thinking I mean I'm talking about the train, but I mean if if we've got these waypointing signs on Main Street, could could the train be listed as an you know something to go see with you know the the fees being paid by them?

I think we've shied away from sponsorship type uh signage. Um but certainly we can always kind of have that discussion. Okay. I man that survey seems expensive. Am I it just to send out some paper? I don't know. I think you know a couple of things that it get brings us. One, it gets us sort of the the the validity of the survey itself. They also manage all of the online surveys as well as following up with residents. I mean, there's a lot that they do in the back end that we don't typically see. I mean, I know we we get the booklet, it shows the results and all the data. Um, on top of that, it also it gives us the ability to authentically say we're not involved in the collection of the data. This is a third party that is keeping that confidential so that our hope is folks truly are, you know, being honest in their responses to that survey.

And statistically valid is important. I'm not trying to I just I just I'm a little surprised by that price. That's all. I might note that the one benefit of using ETC one they're local two they're very well regarded as terms in terms of being kind of an industry standard um they and they provide benchmarking that because of that them being an industry standard they have this deep you know uh benchmarking system where that you we can we can compare to other cities in the area in terms of where we rate in some of our service delivery and at least the the citizen satisfaction of our service service delivery and then we can also you know compare regionally and nationally and and it's it's a really good benchmarking that we can utilize.

Thank you for adding that. I didn't realize I didn't think about the comparison regionally and nationally. That's a good point.

Sorry, we will move on to street wastewater and water. I will hand it over to Greg. [clears throat]

I'll try to go through. I know there's a lot of line items, so I'll try to move through quickly. Uh the first one is a traffic signal upgrade. Um every year we're going to try to work on one traffic signal, and that is to put um back lit street name signs because a lot of times at night when you come up to our traffic signals, your headlights cannot hit the reflective sign up above it. And so we're trying to add the back lit sign. We're all also going to add a pan, tilt, zoom, PTZ camera to every intersection so we can see around and see what's going on and not just have the cameras to just point at the cars. Um, and then the last one is trying to work with John to have as a firetruck approaches an intersection that it could turn green for them. And so we're going to be working with them to try to slowly get, you know, every year add more uh traffic signals where they can interrupt them and get through the signals faster. Uh the second one is flashers. Uh we've had a lot of requests for flashers over time and so uh this will put a line item in the budget so we can do some work to add flashers if we need to put any flashes for crosswalks or uh intersections, anything we need to do. Um, the next item is $2 million to do some work on Main Street to basically work from uh Loop Road uh Hershel uh to Chestnut, three blocks to do some reconstruction of that and redo this uh redo the sidewalks. Um the next one is a generator for building A. That's administrative building. One of the things uh Claire did a wonderful do job doing a tabletop exercise for us and then talked about what happens if you lose power and we had never lost power. Well about three months later in the next snowstorm we lost power in our lot for about a week and so we learned the necessity of having some way to be able to operate because our vehicle maintenance was down. We couldn't open the doors, get trucks in, lift them up,

do anything. So, uh, we have three generators in this budget to, uh, so we can operate public works. And the last one's a PA. Our PA, I believe, is from 1995. Uh, if you see it, it looks like an antique. And that's because it is. And so, we're looking to replace it. Uh, the next one is Marky Parkway. This is phase two going from Norcot to uh, Westover. Uh, there are two complete uh, properties we're going to have to purchase. And then there's a lot of strips in front of people that we're going to have to get easements or a little bit of rideway here and there to be able to build that segment. Uh and then the next year after that, we'll look at doing construction. Um the next [clears throat] one is a trailer, a trailer with ramps. That's not real exciting, but our trailers are getting old. Uh plows and spreads for engineering pickups. We bought a couple pickups about two or three years ago that are uh can be used for plowing. We didn't need them at that time, but now that we were adding, we added all those roads and traditions, Autumn Ridge, and we keep adding more residential streets, we're now going to outfit those trucks so they can plow snow. Uh, and the last one's a skid steer mounted snow box. And so, you probably see these a lot of commercial parking lots where they have the big long uh blade with the edges on it and they plow the lots for parking lots. We're going to get one to do work downtown so we can scoop the snow out and try to get it out of the parking spots downtown and be able to do our parking lots here. The annex and city hall parking lot with it.

Keep clinking. So that and on parkway that's just to that's to correct the wonky intersection. Correct. that goes from uh goes from North Scott to West over it and actually go a little bit but that'll straighten it'll straighten out that intersection. Yes. [snorts] Well, it have a curve in. Yes.

There she goes.

One more. Uh jetack truck. Uh we the jetack truck for a town of our size we probably should have between three or four of these. We have one one and a half. One barely works. And so this is going to add another jet back uh to us that allows us to both jet which is push water through things on our pipes and uh and it also allows us to do hydraulic excavations. Basically you're squirting water at the ground and it sucks the ground up so you're not digging in the ground. Uh, one of the big things for us is we get a lot of calls to do digging in and emergencies. Uh, you actually have to call one call. It takes them three to five days to come out and mark it. We don't have 3 to five days. So, it allows you to excavate the ground and not cut anybody's fiber or gas lines or anything like that. Uh, it's also going to be used as we have to go check everybody's service line. We're going to have to use it to make a hole in everybody's front yard to see the service line and validate that what it's not galvanized or lead. Uh there's a dump bed replacement that's just replacing a truck that has a dump bed on it. And then our concrete form truck that uh we have a chassis that we got from John.

Give me another one.

And I don't want that other one. Uh, I thought, man, I got a great deal that I got a free chassis to put my concrete form truck on, and that was not such a good deal. It uh [laughter] when he gets rid of something, it really should just be gone. So, I have to replace it. Um, this is a uh there's a list of uh different uh sewer repairs that we need. It says Hawthorne, Prairie, Alley Behind City Hall, Alley. Um there's several of these um locations where we have found using our camera truck that the lines are crushed uh for quite a ways. And so we're going to be replacing quite a bit of sewer line. Uh some are in people's front yards, some like Hawthorne's in their backyard. And so that's going to be a lot of exciting fun. Uh clarifier was in this year's budget. We have it ordered. It'll be just roll to next year. I program. We're going to continue trying to seal up the the city the best we can in our sewers. Uh camera truck. Uh this is a big investment for us. Our camera that we use uh virtually every day. You see it? It's a pickup truck that pulls a box trailer around town and we go and we camera all of our sewer lines with it. Uh it has gone way beyond its useful life. Uh and it's and so we're going to move to a new system that is going to be more of an a sprinter truck, you know, a sprinter van. And uh and and the beautiful thing about this is we're going to actually go and view the camera lines. And if it's a single point repair, it'll have a system kind of like a cardiologist uses on you where they go through there and they open up your vein and they put the stint into you. Uh we're going to be able to do the same thing with sewer lines where we can go to the place where it's broken, put in this uh like bag and air it up and it'll open the sewer line back up and put like a stint in it and then be able to uh have the sewer fixed right there in that

spot. So we don't have to dig the ground. So sometimes we're underneath people's uh driveways, we're underneath the street or different locations and instead of spending all that money to do that, it's cheaper, faster, easier to use this truck to do that. So, we'll be able to increase our level of service with it. And then, uh, we have we have lots of generators. Uh, you have to understand every place that we do work is we're open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We just can't announce that, hey, we're going to close a treatment plant this weekend. Please don't flush. [snorts] So, uh, so we can't do that. So, we have generators when the power goes out. Uh, and a lot of our generators are reached their maximum age. And so at lift stations and at the plant, we're starting to replace a lot of generators. Uh that's why you see generator generator generator B is our operations building. Um the we have a skid steer with a brush hog to be able to mow around the uh treatment plant. Uh that uh sewer equipment trailer is just another simple trailer we put equipment on that needs replaced. uh Cactus and that's another one of the sewer main repairs and Pacific's another one of the sewer main repairs. Olsson Acres is us connecting uh Olsson Acres, they're just right outside of town into our sewer system. That'll be uh we have a grant from DNR to repay us for that. uh the AMI system and then uh just a 6-in portable pump is a large pump to be able to pump things around in our treatment plant in case some something breaks down. It's an important feature of what we have out there

on on the repayment from for the Olsson acres deal. Uh is this might be I don't know how I don't know if this is a good question or not, but they how quickly do we get repaid for that? like we expect that to be as soon as we're done with the work that they're going to give us that check. So, it's just like every other repayment. We have to make the payments of the contractor and then we take the bills and we send them to DNR and they pay us back. So, it's how quickly they pay us as we go. But, it's kind of a pay as you go system. Oh, that makes Okay, that makes it a lot less of a hard hit. And

so, we had to like front all the money for all the engineering. So, we had to pay for all the engineering up front and then once that's all completed, we bid the project. Then we sign an agreement that includes all of the engineering, all the construction costs, all in one agreement. Okay. When's the when when does the AMI start? AMI programs underway right now. Uh, out of the 8,800 meters, they've already inspected 7,500 of them, and they're continuing that process.

And that 3 million is rolled over from 26 Uh water is more AMI North Scott pump station. We we have to overhaul. Uh that is where we get a majority of our water from Kansas City. Inside there are multiple pumps and uh we have to it needs a lot of work to overhaul it and get it up to where it needs to be. Uh needs the generator replaced to get it running good. Uh next one is a generator for building J. That is our vehicle maintenance. So when the power goes out, we can still fix our equipment. Uh we have a backhoe that we're going to replace and it's split between uh two different groups. Um but it's a backhoe replacement, a mini excavator uh which is you know the smaller ones with the smaller backho. And then um there's a truck that we have ordered but it's going to roll over from this year to next year. I do want to add I um when I uh talked about AMI earlier and the transfer that needs to go from capital improvement to water. So you're also going to see that expense go up to 5.2 because the total was eight. So you got three from wastewater, a million dollars transferred from capital improvement to water and then 5.25 out of water. So that will change when you guys uh get the updated budget document. And now it's

it's Jay's turn.

I know. Just just what everybody was looking forward to. So, uh I'll go quick. Obviously, um our our projects are pretty straightforward and simple. Um the robotic range ball picking machine. What that is is we spend anywhere from five to seven hours a day driving around in the picker cart picking up range balls for our driving range use. This would be a GPS programmable unit that is uh rechargeable. It runs on a 24-hour battery. Uh so it would just be out there all day doing it itself. So we can save the the labor dollars, spend them somewhere else. Especially for us being uh that we employ so many part-time people and part-time being $15 an hour now. So, you know, we would have somebody sitting out there at $15 an hour driving around all day every day pretty much. So, we're going to do that with this particular unit. Uh, typically it's got a 5-year life expectancy as far as the battery goes. The warranty is a 5year on this particular uh piece, and we did uh uh demo it earlier this year. So, that's where the picture was actually taken from. Um, I'm tired of driving my vehicle. We have a 1999 truck uh that we're going to be replacing. So, we're not sure which direction we're going to go yet. We're going to work with the folks over at vehicle maintenance to find out what the best solution is going to be for us and their recommendations. So, we don't have uh a particular uh idea whether it's going to be a SUV, a truck, or a van uh of some sort, but uh we obviously need a vehicle to uh do business on behalf of the course and the city. The big item there is a cart path replacement. Some of that money is rolled over uh from this particular budget. We had $200,000 set aside for uh cart path repairs. Uh in speaking with Joe regarding this, we

felt like uh you know, this is a multi-year type of replacement. Uh but we felt like, hey, let's let's roll this over. Let's bid this all as one uh resurfacing. So, what we're looking to do is do like a 2-in overlay over the entire uh cart path surface of the golf course. We have somewhere around 27,000 linear feet of cart path out there. So, we feel like we might be able to get uh more bang for our buck if we do the project all at once versus trying to separate it over uh three or four year process as funds become available. So, uh that's our estimate. We'll see how that goes. Um, the clubhouse turns 20 years old this year, so we need to do some painting. That's for uh some inside outside painting. The carpet is once again 20 years old, so that would be recarpeting uh the entire clubhouse. Um, that's our estimate on that. That's all I've got. Any questions?

Is is all of golf coming out of the golf [snorts] fund? So still. Okay, cool. Congratulations. And we're we're debt free, too. So we, you know, we're we're all debt free at the golf course. And so all that all of this uh comes out of our fund balance, which is just generated strictly from revenues of the golf course. That's awesome. I'm against the robot. That is a much smaller target to hit. [laughter] Yeah, I was I was going to make a comment. It doesn't look very armored. Have you ever hit target? It's It's totally protected. It might not last as long with people like Mr. Bryan. You've never seen me play golf. Then if he's aiming for it, I think it's okay. [laughter]

And we'll move on to Kevin with parks.

All right. So, first is the architectural fees for the development of the Dryden Nature Reserve phase one. Uh that will include uh trails uh hardcape uh vehicle hardscape, some of the botanical garden amenities, some nature play areas, uh and whatever else we can get in. Uh next is the fieldhouse feasibility study. Uh internally, one of our biggest needs is court space for our wreck programs. Uh we do utilize the schools at this point and we do have a good relationship with the school and we do thank them for all that they do for us. But in order to grow our wreck programs, this is something that we need to at least look at to see if it is feasible uh and what uh that looks like, what we can afford. Uh I think there is some avenues for renting out um indoor space to make revenues to help subsidize that but the feasibility study will kind of help us figure out you know what what direction we can go. Uh Dryen land survey that's just a survey for the uh phase one improvements. Uh it is quite steep on the survey because they do have to do a lot of uh through the wood surveying and you know different terrain. So it does up the price a little bit. And then geotech survey that'll just be the core drilling to you know see how much rock is there. Uh skid steer. Our current skid steer is wore out. Um I think it's about 15 years old. So we do need to upgrade to a new skid steer. a bigger skid steer that will allow us to run some of the bigger

uh and hydraulic equipment. A 144 inch mower. Um this is something we do have a batwing mower that we utilize with the tractor. Uh and it is that mower has passed its useful life. Uh so we kind of wanted to free up that tractor and just get another mower. And we mow. I mean, we have 300 acres of parks, so we're mowing Monday through Friday. And that's if it doesn't rain. So, the guys are constantly mowing. And I think this will will help cut down on our mow times considerably on the big open areas. Uh, drinking fountain. Uh, drinking fountains are expensive nowadays. Uh, it'll have a bottle filler, uh, doggy bowl, everything that you could ask for. uh crack fill and seal coat. Uh Memorial Park, it's getting pretty bad at Memorial Park. Um and we want to try to avoid any any further decay of that asphalt surface. Pickle ball lights. Pretty self-explanatory. People want pickle ball lights to play pickle ball at night. Asphalt repairs. Uh this is just kind of getting ready for, you know, some of our bigger repairs we're going to have to do at at Wallace Park in the big this is more like base repairs and some of them uh more dilapidated areas. And then we have some I think West Belton uh at Country View. There is a big area that needs to be replaced out there. Uh shade structure. This shade structure will be at the water park. Uh our the main intent of it was for summer camp because we do rent out the cabana, the big shade structure and they were they kind of needed a place to be out out of the sun. So then we realized that it would also be a revenue because summer camp's not there on the weekends. So every weekend we can

rent out so we'll have two cabanas to rent out

and then waterpark benches. That's just the benches underneath the new shelter. U marquee playground. I I don't know if it's necessarily a playground, but it's a play area. I don't know if you've been out there and seen the mosquito [clears throat] pit outside the concession stand. It was like a rain garden, but now it's more of a mosquito pit. So, we we are going to put some synthetic turf with some baseball themed equipment for the kids to play on so they can quit throwing our rocks around and and beating the trees up. It's pretty much all they do now. Uh new fitness equipment. Every year we we are leasing. We used to lease our fitness equipment. So now we're looking at just purchasing instead of leasing and we do that in stages. Um the next equipment that is up is $150,000 worth of equipment. Uh fitness level flooring. Our floor upstairs is just past its useful life. There's a lot of weight being moved around up there. So we're going to add a new floor. It's a It's a waterproof floor. Kind of a tile carpet tile looking floor. And then air duct cleaning. Uh we just need to clean the inside of our air ducts out the high blue. [snorts] Sorry, just on that last page there. Um just a couple of questions regarding you can you talk through um the thought process be be behind purchasing equipment as opposed to leasing and and advantages disadvantages there.

Well I think just leasing is it the thought process is if we have the money why not go ahead and purchase it instead of paying interest on the lease. So that is our main thought process on that. there's no there's no value in um like warranties or anything like that because we still have to fix the the equipment stuff like that. So So the leases don't include maintenance, they don't include it's just there's a warranty. I mean there's a manufacturer warranty, but

you get that if you buy it either way. Okay. Um, and then regarding flooring, well, uh, that fitness center or just in general at High Blue, there's been a lot of flooring, uh, that you guys been working on lately and I'm imagine part of that's just the nature of the age of the building. Um, is this is this kind of the last bit of it or is there something more to expect in the future? No, we are in the future. We're looking at uh covering the tile, I don't know, in the in the wet corridor along the pool. Uh it's just it doesn't look good. So, we want to cover that up with some sort of epoxy flooring that's not slick. Okay. So, yeah, we're just kind of just doing it in stages. No, it makes perfect sense.

It's so hard to shut down certain areas for for so long, so we just want to do it in stages. Yeah. I just know that we've seen a lot of flooring lately, so just want to ask about that. There'll be there'll be more next year.

Got it. And one of the big ones is the wreck pool unit. It is, I believe, 16 years old. Uh pool units, I mean the corrosive environment, I mean it's got chlorine pumping through it all day, every day. It runs 24/7. Never shuts off. Uh this is something that we have to replace. We've in the last month I think we've been shut down five days and and we need that unit to operate to be open. So as soon as we can probably operate for about an hour after it shuts down and quits working and then after that the air quality gets too bad to operate. Pool boiler. It's one of the uh original pool boilers. Uh so it is time to replace that one. the recreck pool duct sock, which is something we're going to try to do at the same time as the RTU unit on the roof. Uh it's just it's got holes wore in it. The nozzles, it has nozzles in it that are spaced certain sizes, you know, to to move the the air at certain speeds through parts of the room. Those some of those, you know, they pop out every time it kicks back on. So, we got to go around and pick those up. The lifeguards actually made necklaces out of them. Uh, and then indirect pool lighting. Uh, we are having issues with the the up lighting inside the pool. So, those fixtures need to be updated and replaced.

Thank you, Kevin. I have one question for Kevin, and this just is a hard time. I didn't see the Nautilus tower in there anywhere, so just just curious. It's only $5 million.

Yeah, I know. So, that concludes the FY27 proposed operational and capital budget. Um, I did see some things that I do need to change. Um, just a couple of things. So, I will uh call those out when I uh send you guys an updated proposed budget. And please, if you have any um any questions, reach out to me or Joe. Um, if you have concerns, if you saw capital purchases on there that you don't think we need to be purchasing, projects you don't think we need to be doing, please let Joe know as soon as possible. Um, so that we can have those discussions and get this document updated as soon as possible. Go ahead. There was one thing that I don't believe I saw up there, but I know I saw on the list here. Um, the SS4A project that was that we were obviously that was presented to us. Um, I saw a line item for that. I don't remember which whose budget that was in. Sorry. But, um, it what I guess I kind of thought we were done at that point or No, there's something more coming.

We're done. We're done. Okay. Okay. So, so if you saw it, that's probably something I need to take off. Okay.

Okay. And then, um, I have some I I'll just say overall, I really thought this was a way better, um, presentation instead of the line item. Don't get me wrong, the line items are nice because you go through the line items, but this was a much this was just much easier to read. It was much better to go through. And um I thought this was a much better list than we've seen previously. I really liked the fun graphs that show you different things and um gives you some better it breaks it up for your eyes at least.

Um I might have a few questions regarding just some of that. Like I I don't know. I'd like to see maybe a couple more graphs in certain spots, that kind of thing. So I can email we I just hopefully that's something that we're open to. Um because I thought I I just overall I thought this was way easier to go through. Yeah. I I mean the software will let us graph pretty much anything. So let me know what you would like to see and I'll see if I can get it done. Okay. I'll I'll put together a little email. Okay. Any more questions? Anybody else?

It's not a question. Just a comment following up with what uh Council McCullum said. I like the color that you use because it makes it a lot easier to figure out what's going on and I like that you put the percentage of what the revenue and expense is to the total package. So, I really like that and um just keep doing it. It helps me a lot. Thank you. Anybody else? Anything else?

No, not at this time. All right. Uh item E. I'd enter motion I would entertain a motion to enter an executive session to discuss matters pertaining to legal actions according Missouri state statute 610.021.1 pertain to lease and purchase sale of real estate according to Missouri state statute 610.021.2 pertaining to negotiated contracts according Missouri state statute 610.021.12 and the record be closed in the meeting adjourned from there. Present. Second. We have a motion in a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Mayor Larkkey, yes. Council member Thompson, yes. Davidson, yes. Brian, hi. Lawson, hi. McCllum, hi. Johnson,

I motion passes and we are going to stay in here tonight. So,