City Council - Regular Meeting

Your microphones are back on. All right, thank you. We are back. It is 6.51 p.m. on September 14th. We are back into open session following our closed session. So with that, then, Nick, we'll move to business item 13 to consider actions on the contract between the city of Mayer and the local 49ers union.

Thank you, Mayor. After coming out of closed session to consider proposals from the union, we do have agreement on that. I'll go over some of the highlights. In the highlights of the contract, adjusted some language, deleted some out. We did make adjustments to the wages and salaries for 27, 3% market with 3% annual. And then in 28 to 3% annual adjustment PTO, we adjusted some there and made some improvements and then a little bit of an adjustment to health insurance offerings on there as well. That is the bulk of the changes to the contract.

Thank you. So with that, I will look for a motion to approve the contract between the city mayor and the local 49ers Union motion. Second, we have a motion second. Any further discussion? And again, as we talked about again, thank you, Nick, for all your work and Chad for getting this agreement. The 49ers were certainly a great group to work with. They were very reasonable and very cooperative, so we do appreciate their flexibility and their time also. So with that, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, same sign. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you very much. And then you'll pass this on to the union. Yep. Oh, and one other thing. This does backdate back, obviously, to when the contract ended. So it'll go back to August 1st.

Okay.

With that, we'll move to council reports. Council member health, anything to report on? We just discussed it all.

You don't want to talk about it again?

Council member Cauch.

I have nothing.

Council member Jackson.

Tomorrow, we have park board meeting. Park board tomorrow. Delayed due to illness.

And council member McNeely.

Nope.

And I do not believe I've had a meeting since our last one either. Other than our personnel. Other than our personnel, yeah. Wow. We will have a public works meeting this week to talk a little bit more on some of the proposed trail to Casey's and some lighting and some of that stuff. Excellent. But I'll update on the next meeting. So with that, I'll look for a motion to adjourn.

Motion.

We have a motion to second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, sign. We are adjourned. With that, we will jump right into the work session or the workshop and discuss more of the 2027 budget update.

Thank you, Mayor. Very brief update on this. Things are coming along swimmingly. Changes to the budget, just highlighting a handful we've got here. Looking down at refunds and reimbursements, we've adjusted that up now that we have insurance amounts for the fire department, family reimbursement. Now that we have that, we can adjust that for what we'll get back from the PSOP program. So went ahead and did that. And on the expense side of things, now that we have contracts settled, I've adjusted all of those, wages, salaries, everything like that, now that we know that that's going to be. And now we have a good idea of what the health insurance is going to do. I've adjusted those figures as well. And again, down in miscellaneous, as we updated the revenues for the income we get from the state reimbursement program, adjusting that on the expense side for the added we have on that front. Again, more wages and health insurance adjustments on streets, parks, and all of that. So those were the major changes. So right now where we're sitting at going into the next city council meeting, we won't have a budget workshop next go around because we're setting the preliminary levy. So we'll take a break from that while we're currently looking at $13,286 revenues over expenditures. And that is keeping our property tax for the general fund levy flat from 26 to 27. So how that then, I'll go through the rest here. For water fund, no changes on revenue. When we get to the expense side, Mike, you had asked, did wages salaries adjusted that? Mike, you had asked me to take a look at where we did that adjustment on the state end of things for that payment, found that and adjusted that appropriately because we already had it adjusted up here under the state connection fee. So that has been adjusted per direction. So we're looking at water fund right now, $88,668 revenue over expenditure. But again, we haven't set utility rates for the coming year. Still contemplating that. Under sewer, no changes under revenues. And under expenses, again, general changes to health insurance, wages, salaries, now that that's settled. And storm sewer, no change because we don't have any of that in there. Now that we're taking a look when we walk into the next meeting, which will be the last meeting in September, we have to set our preliminary levy. Taking a look at the preliminary levy resolution, what I will propose is that we go ahead and keep the levy flat once again. So that'll be one second year in a row that we're going to keep the levy flat here for 2027. So the total levy will then be $1,319,879. As we can see here, that'll mimic, because in 25, we hit that. So this is the first year of keeping it flat, second year of keeping it flat. But with that, there is a little bit of an adjustment we need to make. There's approximately seven, well, there is $7,317 of adjustment to keep the levy flat. As a reminder, In September, when we set it, the levy can be lowered, but it can't be raised. So my recommendation for now, we can finalize it in December, would be put that $7,317 into parks. I recommend parks because when we look at the Discovery Park trail reconstruction, it's gonna need a little bit more than the 100 grand that we're currently allotting for it. So parking it here for the, no pun intended, for the time being. would be a good choice for it. And then in December, if we want to move that to a different fund or adjust it some way, we certainly can. So with that, this is the draft version of our resolution we'll be looking at adopting at the next meeting. General fund here adjusted to say the same as it was last year. CIPs are all what you saw in the previous spreadsheet with the adjustment here to parks. And then debt service as reflected. And there you can see the grand total matches the levy that was set in the last two years. And with that, the public hearing for truth and taxation would fall on December 14th, our first meeting of December. Then we don't have the second meeting in December as usual. So that is the budget update I have. Any questions, comments, observations on any of that? So it'll be nice that we're looking at at least a 0% levy increase for two years in a row.

Yeah, it looks good. And again, thank you for all your time and efforts on this and keeping us, walking us through it at each meeting. I appreciate it.

That's what I've got. Once we set in September, starting in October, then we'll be hitting the utility funds a little bit more. We're going to go back into utility rate structure discussions and land on that as we slide into the end of the year.

So if anything pops up before our next meeting when we need to approve this, make sure to reach out to Nick and talk through it and get what we need so we're ready to go to approve the preliminary. Thank you. Thanks, Nick. We will adjourn workshop.

Wonderful.