City Council - Regular Meeting

What are you waiting for?

It's 5 o'clock.

That's what I have.

This is the official hour. I call the meeting to order. Here.

Jose Jacob Neve. Jose. Easter. Reynos. Any decision?

We will not make acts tonight. It is our audience on the budget of 2027. That there be an act, that there are no citizens here.

¿Cómo se compara este presupuesto con el del año pasado? Y copias de 2026 y 2027 en una reunión anterior para que las revisaran antes. Van a cambiar muchas cosas para ser honestos.

Lo único que hicimos fue enmendarlo para corregir cualquier... deficiency. You know that we have already used for more gasoline or diesel fuel. Things like that are adjusted according to the balance of assignments of June 30 when we have to start making the budget. More or less the same. Este año destinamos más dinero a MBH y menos a General porque ya teníamos una cantidad significativa. En general... Perdón, MBH.

Tu pista es para vehículo motorizado.

Financia todo para las calles.

Esa es una pregunta que tenía que hacer.

Entonces...

For two minutes it went from 85 this year to 40 next year.

Why such a drastic cut? For two minutes we always used it for streets. And now we do MBH, restricted in... It is a new fund that they have created. It has to be used with community crosses. It has to be used for streets. Normally they are between 40 and 50 miles, but therefore that allows us to cut a line of games in two minutes, because we always have enough between that local road and the street.

I don't know if it was the game that they assigned us to do. Yes, they do.

We eliminate it in about two minutes.

Because it's another question. Because one thing we did this year was to allow the event to force people to use the sidewalks. Has it been taken into account in any place?

We have it in that. That would be just what I was going to do, simply put my big money and take it out of the improvement of the community and put it in the work of the sidewalks. not to do it as a budget game, because the budget we need, you know, is something that has to be told year after year. We don't know if we're going to have someone to request it or not. We don't know if we're going to find a contractor to do it or not. Therefore, it is a bit in the air. Well, we continue. Yes, we just said that it is in the air.

We have to draw a limit for the improvement of the business. For example, if 10 people want a wax and those 10 people request it and do it, then it will probably end in the year. What did I say?

Because, well, you know, it's going to be expensive and as I said, right now we don't have a contractor.

We have an interested person and we will pay 50%, but we will have to find someone who really does it and in case he has time to knock it all down.

And that is not usually a problem to overcome. We usually plan time for that. But his name lives on Orchard Avenue or Short Street.

It is the corner of Short and Orchard. They would probably be interested in doing it, but we have to accept offers to see where we can get more with our money.

Well, hopefully we'll have people who want to do it. And you know, between CCD, community improvement, economic development, CCI, there would be enough funds to finance, you know, 10, 12, 15 steelworks. Depending on the size of the business.

My other question was about the parks department. The temporary labor has decreased substantially since 2013. Up to two. With Randy becoming mayor next year, he will take care of the parks, right?

No.

So, at that moment, we probably need to hire two labor companies. It's possible that we don't even hire a consul.

No, we don't use temporary labor. We use common fund salaries. Yes.

And normally they don't even use them. So... Other budgets within that. When they already pay us with that, it's for cleaning. No, the water has been 20,000. But here it is marked as 10,000. So we decrease, we make a decrease, because it has been 20,000. But yes, it is correct.

Normally we use it as a mattress in the park for anything that happens at the end of the year when I do those online transfers. In the account. That's what it's for. There may be something in red inside that background. That's just telling you, Rhonda, that at the end of the year we can press the button that says, simply do all that. You know, that creates a small mattress in the water. But the pool consumes a lot of water. And I have that water billable. So I bill what the pool consumes. But that's just for a few months. Then we use it for other things, for the repairs of the equipment, the basket, sometimes things like that.

We feel a little cold. It's just a small mattress. We catch it all year. And you said that the hourly wage is $12,000.

Correct. We had $20,000 this year. Yes. So it was a substantial reduction.

And we really didn't need that, so... And many times, if someone like who appeared... Randy Keegan? If Keegan appeared, he was usually paid by the... If we use our own guys to... Yes.

That's what usually happens on the highway of the BB and the parks.

And the assistant of the conserje 6000 would pay approximately to the lady who cleans the bathrooms. The pool costs 34,000 and that is usually a bit high, so... Normally we have money there. And as Lynn said, we have the water. It's something that... We always have enough to change the money if we need it. An increase in money.

I think we'll probably have to buy a new one.

I was going to buy a new one this year, specifically a UTB-type vehicle. The Grove Implement Kubota.

Eso es lo que planeas comprar.

Tus cortacéspedes probablemente estén bien, ¿no, Randy? Sí, en su mayor parte. El más nuevo, el 2023, está en buenas condiciones. El 2017 estará fuera de servicio. Así que probablemente sería bueno cambiarlo y comprar uno nuevo.

Sé que el departamento de calle, el departamento eléctrico, sus cortacéspedes están bien.

I don't know if... And that one is fine.

The older one down there is fine.

But you know, it has a few hours. If it's a 2017, it would be a 5.

It probably works better than the 2023. In fact...

If you use both...

It does... What number?

What is the Lot category? Public safety... What is it?

Public security, local club, taxes. You just get, you know, amounts of money here and there that go to the county.

Now, that's going to be one of them. Salaries, construction, cars and other things. What I mean is that I suppose I'm trying to understand in my head what it's going to do.

You can use it for anything. within public security.

Public security.

Like firefighters or police.

Those are the things that would be modified in the 2020 budget.

To buy that.

I saw a considerable increase for other capital disbursements and I suppose that is what we are talking about with some of the trucks and things like that. I think they would only pay. Yes, yes.

In fact, we voted for the rescue truck. You know, the FIDEI chief commissioner, Travis Stewart, he is giving 100,000 and we give 208,000. Will that pay the truck? So we can pay those 200,000 and then find 8,000 and something like that. We voted on that in the last meeting. And I think right now the fund balance is $314. So there is still a lot of money. If the police need it, something that the police always need. Or if the firefighters need something else. So it has always been for the police or the firefighters.

Personal cost, probably because we did the pensions without funds. I think it is a good anticipation of what will probably happen with our insurance bills next year. I see it quite well, quite well thought out. I just had those questions that I raised and that I could not ... explain myself.

So you can always ...

It's quite ... simple.

In general, it's more or less the same. I don't think anyone has ever presented themselves ...

Well, the LGF told us when we met with them, more or less what can and cannot be done. You know, it will not be financed completely if you say that. So you know, you have to end up cutting it all off.

So they are very good. Finance.

Yes, but they are, yes, they work together with the treasurers.

Yes, I'm sorry.

Hay una hoja larga que te darán si vas, si terminan las elecciones y vas a la nueva capacitación, te darán una hoja de cada DLGF, cada LOID, todas esas cosas. Quiero decir, incluso a mí, después de todo este tiempo, me lanzan algo nuevo todo el tiempo. Cuando salí con esa restricción de UDH, pensé, ¿qué es la restricción de UDH? Ya sabes, pero también que tienes que dividirlo al 50%, pero tienes que gastarlo solo en las calles que estás reparando.

So you get this global sum of money that must be eliminated. I mean, it transfers from one year to another, but you know, trying to keep up with the downfall of the street, you have to use it.

Now the low level is a local tax option that will be applied as a tax on local income.

And that is what we will have to deal with the county as we move forward to to finance public security and economic development and different things in which they are going to cut taxes on property. And in which they are going to get so much money in the future. Therefore, that will not come into force until 2029 and.

Everything is subject to changes anyway.

You can change everything at any time. And the. They postponed it until the fiscal year 2028, right? Then it changed. So, all that is going to affect that budget.

Like when we prepare for the 2018-2019 budget. 2019 is coming. Because they know that AIM has been following them.

Lojo, Looms. Well, for us it is not so important, but you know, Lafayette and Crawfordsville, Vincennes. In Attica, I don't know how they told me that they thought they were going to lose like 1.2 million. So we hired Baker Tillich to help us with the recount. Jason Sixler is the person from Baker Tilly who helps the county with this.

I saw some very good projections and I was surprised because our population of Attica is not so different. But that fund is from Harrison Steel? That. Okay, they have more trade, they have trade, industry that we don't have.

I mean, what they said they were going to do, we don't have our budget.

We don't usually raise that much money.

So I don't think it's going to affect us so much. We don't have a lot of taxes on personal business property. And that's what's going to affect us mainly.

But the fact is, how is it that if they got a much higher average salary,

to generate much more money than we got. I don't know. According to what I understand, it will be up to the county to divide all taxes on income in the county.

Each city has the option to add the tax on income.

If not for cities of our size, that has to be done at the county level. So the county level would decide it.

No creo que nadie, ni siquiera Atica, no están tan grandes. Atica tampoco están grandes. Entonces el condado lo decide por todos. ¿Eso solo afecta a los municipios o también afecta a las escuelas? Afecta a las escuelas. ¿En la misma ley o es algo separado?

Estamos tratando con los condados. No lo sé. No sé cómo es la escuela.

Éramos los únicos allí. Petersburg, Atica. No, los únicos en este país.

But there were people of AIM who were always interested in this county.

There was nothing more to talk about than schools. Yes, that's all AIM does.

But I just want to say that I understand that this change is also affecting schools. Oh yes, it is. It will affect schools in their ability to make money.

But we will find out over time. ¿Tenía algo más? ¿Algo? En este caso no hay nadie.

Thank you.