City Council - Special Meeting

reconstruction. Um, uh, we took that out last year and since we got the drainage projects, uh, going on right now, uh, we just moved that for for next year because I think that roads for this year is what we need to to focus on. At least that's what I got from each of you in strategic planning. Um, we can add anything back, but just know with going with the no new revenue rate right now, we're going to be pulling out of 215,000 out of reserves. So, anything that we add on there is going to be on top of that. Uh we're trying to be as conservative as possible uh up here at city hall. So uh but we've got to do, you know, to me we we've got to make some big improvements due to that deferred maintenance on our roads. Um I just feel that in 400,000 guys is not going to cover it. I mean it's not it's going to be a drop in the bucket, but we just got to get, you know, we just got to help kind of push forward. We've got 92 miles of road to take care of in the city. And um uh you know it's just to me an area we need to really focus on uh for this next fiscal year.

Billy. Sir, what is the load? Is that an attachment? The loader? Yes, sir. No, sir. That's our Kawasaki Z5 loader. No, that's just a secondhand loader. Oh, okay. But it's a like a yard load. Yeah. Well, I think our load right now is like a payload. Yeah, it's a three three yard loader. Okay. And yeah, it's still it's still functional and it's doing a good job. It's old.

So, if we can hold out a year on it, I feel that we can do that next year. Um we can we can hold off for a year. Um it'd be great to have it. But was there anything guys in here that you guys think that we need that maybe I I cut too much or that you that I didn't cut enough? Um I felt that everything on here was uh was necessary that I left. Um not that we can't live without everything, but uh we took the lights out of umbrella. Yes. Yes. That was part of the park improvements. I think we consolidated it in one.

So, we can still do that, but it would come out of that 50,000. The good thing is on Thursday night, you guys are going to be presented with the U playground equipment upgrades uh for Joe Tempella Park. So, I think that that's going to be a huge win uh for for the city and u which will which will really help us. But we got to remember we've still got Barenture Park and then of course Rungi. I know that we're getting a million dollars for there, but that million's going to run pretty quick. Uh so anything we can do to uh weren't we like $66,000, all that park stuff, all that playground equipment that was still needed.

Um so we were it's like 40 45 and the parks board is covering that for the rest of the parks board budget this year. But I do want to state that with a caveat that we have applied through T-Mobile, Inos, and then Openland Credit Union uh for grants uh as well. So, we're hoping that we can kind of replenish some of those funds with that uh which would be fantastic. What's the balance in the general fund right now?

The balance of the general fund right now it's uh cash. One thing um and I don't know if it's while Rudy's looking that up. I don't know if we need to put it in the capital improvement or if it's something that we can um fix or that we can put in the regular budget. I know we don't have a lot of money, but bare minimum for our council chambers here. I would like to see us at least replace the flooring and repair some of the tiles. I mean, it's just it's almost getting to be a little embarrassing in here, you know. Well, I mean that's going to be, you know, at minimum 25,000. So, if y'all could put 25,000 towards that then that's with the bunch of

for the flooring and for replacing some of the ceiling tiles and and I would like to do something back here. Um, personally, and I'm sure y'all do as well. Um, I know that you know what the problem is with the maroon curtains. I mean, I don't just to have something I start itching. I think there's bugs in So, hey Rudy, would you mind putting in that in go back to capital and then if you could back under capital put 25,000 and let's just kind of see

um for capital for the city hall remodel. Um is 25 what is 25 going to do? Well, it will take care of everything.

Well, it'll take care of at least the floors. Um, getting that done and then some of the ceiling tiles in here. Um, I mean, I would like it to be higher. I know that we're under budget constraints. I think one thing that um for the staff here, um, we don't have a an appropriate break room. I mean, y'all see our break room. We don't have an oven in there. I mean, I'd like to be able to have an oven for our staff to be able to do lunch here. Um, I mean, it's a, you know, it's a twoerson table, so it's only people can really take lunch at a time or they have to sit at their desk. Um, so I'm not asking to expand that room or anything, but maybe at minimum let us put in an oven there. Um, we can I think we can move some of the u u storage, I guess we can call it, around and maybe tear some of those cabinets out, but we can do that in house, you know, uh, and and be able to put that in. But that would be, I think, phenomenal for the staff uh, as well. Um because you know they're here from 7 to 6. So

especially in the holidays, you know, if you want to put something in there, heat it up. Exactly. Like when we do lunch up here. Sure. Well, you're trying to microwave the turkey don't work, does it? Um so uh uh for Thanksgiving or or whatever, but I mean, you know, we we use this space of course a lot of the times, but um just to be able to have that. Sorry. Anyways, we uh Dana wanted to know what our current balances in the general fund.

So 1.8 is expected by the end of this year uh under the current budget conditions. And as far as the number that I have listed under departments, these are all the expenses outside of payroll. So this is everything that is under their control. Uh this is out this is taking out grants. This is taking out um anything that uh you know they actually that they don't have any direct control over. So

and as you can see we've made a lot of significant cuts um to the budget. Just trying to be very conservative with with our with the monies we have available. So this shows the current payroll that we're looking at for next year. As you can see, we have eliminated the um cost of living increase and leaving the scale alone. Uh so some individuals uh will get a 3% but those that of course um are already maxed out won't won't get that 3%. Um and then that is the average of all the police department increases. Um they also don't get a cost of living increase, but the the average because they've uh eliminated the corporal position and they've moved the the patrol into that uh that spot and that was part of their CVA. um they're they're showing a much larger jump for this last year in the collective bargaining agreement which is why it looks like they have uh a much you know

so it depends on the position. You've got some people who are very tenured employees and higher positions that have that may get a 1% increase and then you've got other employees that are getting a 9% increase. It's just the average is the 6%. So, due to the collective bargaining agreement, they're at, you know, that 6.14. Um, if you remember, our staff last year got a five and a half percent total raise. They're very appreciative of that. And this year, we're going down to 3%, which is um essentially what Social Security did as well. We're bing off of that. What did you say some employees won't get because they're they're capped out on the step program? That's correct.

That's correct. So not every employee will receive that raise if they're at the end so that they're at the end of their pay scale. There is that. If we go back to department requests, um I've aligned this to a pivot table that's that's part of this dashboard and uh we can go directly uh Starting with admin and you'll all have access to this as well. Uh this shows the Oops, not now. This shows um all of the accounts laid out along the bottom here. What I've done is um I've allowed for a lot greater detail for the department heads to detail out each of the services in each of those um accounts. So we've got uh legal services here and broken out so it's not just clumped together into one line which was the case in the past years and then it's also projected out over uh future years regular annual increases or adjustments due to inflation. So, I put $5,000 for strategic planning um this year uh coming up. Um you know, we did it in house, but um one thing that we've just got a budget for is, you know, one for for the food and having a little bit more of a structured um process for next year. Um, I we definitely can't hire a consultant to come in and do it um at at $5,000, but I do think that it would provide us with a little bit more meat uh to the bones of of doing a strategic plan.

Question is that for the city itself? Yes, whole city. For the whole city. Whole city. Yes. Police department. Yep. Not for collective bargaining. That's a question. That is a that's a separate expense under under the under the It is under the city, but it's under I believe it is 517 is the account code for that. That's EDC's lawyer, too.

And the EDC has a separate attorney and that's under department 75 and that's going to be uh under their budget, but that's not listed here. Uh we're paying for the attorney in our interest. We're so

um it's okay. Um for the civil ser um I would not use the phrase that we do it for them to come against us. That I don't think that that's a um correct assessment. But I will say we're um we're about to go out for bid for um uh for civil a civil service attorney due to um not having contract currently with a civil service attorney. So um they there may be potentially a change there.

I'm sure if the association wants to hire their own attorney with their own funds that's yeah they can do so if they choose to. So IT cloud and support services uh this of course is growing um every year as more and more it is needed in the cloud and u software and licensing since it's not a piece of software that you can buy and own anymore everything is an annual subscription and that's what this is covering everything from Microsoft Office to Civic Plus to ever bridge to the sonic firewall and uh any I any AI components which are pretty cheap these days and of course the um our cyber security duo.

What is Civic Plus? Civic Plus is our website. Oh, it's our website. Okay. And then 21 grand is our uh that's our rate. the whole city on Microsoft. Yes. And they and I'll say iPhone is very cheap. And they and they don't take anything but credit card which makes absolutely no sense. I know.

Google.

Pest control. Um that's what we're currently paying and it's about the average in going rate. So I round that to a th00and that's just um just for admin city hall. Uh the see medical occupational um services um any incidental accidents that require care. Um we haven't used it really in the past but I wanted to allocate at least some in there in case somebody hurts themselves. um meter code uh that is for our codification services uh 380 agreement for mobile farms I'm estimating about 50,000 as you recall this year it was 37 38,000 was what we paid them so I'm increasing that to about 50 for next year um nothing there this is general office supplies. This we reduced so for the whole year um it's 7,400. In the past it's gone up to as much as 13,000 for city hall but um as we look and analyze we haven't been using as much. Uh and if we make some remodeling um would probably use even less. You see all that paper short over there?

PD's budget. Hey, can I ask you a question on course? U Okay. 50 grand next year. What was the cap we pay them? Was it 800 850? 800. Okay. And this is on build out, right? Did we pay them just 50 when they build it out? It's a It is a percentage of the inventory of what what it's worth. The the assessed value every year percentage of that. So the more it builds out, the more it's going to be worth. That's correct. So we're not going to in two years when they're built out, we don't have to pay them the remaining. It just keeps on going until

it keeps going. Got until we hit that 800. Until we hit 800. And then, you know, even after it's built out, property appraisals are still going to be increasing. So, it's not like it'll ever flatline. Yeah. But it won't be when like he was getting out a lump sum due No. No. Yeah. It'll just be I was just wondering when they signed off and they're filled up and we open the rest.

We have to get a lot. So, um, we get about postage, um, t-shirts, uh, for uniform. Um, we need a new laptop. Um, the one that we have right now that the city manager has is, uh, is really slow and it's it's not too bad. We haven't really gotten any new equipment. Here's the 47. Yes. Y'all come listen to it.

So, we've been doing pretty good with keeping our equipment up running. So, so 600 for the uh yeah, gentrol supplies, things that don't that are not covered under our gentile agreement. Uh repairs. I put a couple hundred dollar in there for repairs for anything uh that we we equipment and furniture repairs, which if these days if something a piece of equipment does break, we're not going to spend money to repair it more than just replace it. But if it's something that that we can replace, that's what that's for or not replace. uh technology, hardware, um do subscriptions, memberships, all of these um associations, um Amazon, uh all of Galveston Daily News, all of these are the annual memberships or fees just to just for their services. um advertising

the the Galveston Daily News. That's just the like an annual subscription. Yes, that's the Galveston Daily News for the newspaper. Don't they drop off about 10 free copies every morning outside the front door? Yes. Um but I think you're they give us a complimentary membership as much money for public notices. Um, this is probably the first year, you're right, that that's happened where they're they're giving it to us free. So, so I guess we could just take one from the the shoot outside, but in the past it's always been about $330. So, we could definitely take that out.

No, we're almost there. Almost to a balanced budget. 249,000. probably going to be in the paper now. Yeah. Yeah.

So, advertising, public notices, um we do a lot of those insurance general liability. Uh we just got some numbers uh today and I'll be updating these numbers from TML for I broke it out between the liability, the property, vehicle uh and windstorm. So we have increases. Notably the vehicle is is going up 35%. Because uh Galveston County, which is the region where they're taking the um the survey from that they get the numbers for the modification, uh there've been a lot of claims and so they're using that against us. So this year we this is going to go up 35%. But others are going down. Um, so hopefully it balances out and that's what we need to find out. I don't know.

County, the whole county with all the cities and all the members in TML within the county. So, and that's how they're that's how they're gauging it. Ger, no, the G the G County area. You can probably speak to that on insurance that Gston County is one of the highest for auto insurance. That's what I was told. Like if you were to move to like the north side of Houston and Montgomery County, the price goes significantly down because there's a lot of uninsured drivers uh in Galveston County unfortunately. April on the windstorm.

Yes, sir. I guess and on the fire policy too, though. But uh what are our deductibles for those uh windstorm? That's a good question. Um I've heard a single deductible or is it is it per occurrence or is it per building? It's per occurrence per um yeah it's per occurrence per building. So it's not like a storm you get one but each incident. So, if the storm damages a building, that's going to be u, you know, I think it's $1,000 for building and $2,500 for as a deductible for uh automobiles. If all we have is a $1,000 deductible for windstorm, then we might be able to increase that deductible and buy down some of our premium.

That's true. Usually, it's a 1% well 3%. Anyways, we can talk about that offline.

U that's it goes up, but I haven't seen any new rates. And I'll be getting together with Victor Insurance, who is the broker for our windstorm. They typically don't even they can't even make a guess until sometime in two months or three months before the end of the fiscal year for some reason. Other insuranceances can, but they can't, they said. So, but I keep hounding them anyway and I try to get more information out of them to to get a gauge on u what the uh the trend is. Um this is for election expenses. Natalie says that uh $50,000 is the going rate. Who am I to argue? Yeah.

And we'll contract with the county to do the election. That would be assuming there's a runoff. What if nobody runs? Then we get to pocket.

Um, so there's the copier that we have and we share that cost or 501 shares that cost with 503 which is the community services. Um, a vehicle rental, we don't have that. um background checks, drug screens for recruitment and onboarding. Um since HR is pretty much within admin, this covers the entire city. Um we don't have recruitment by department anymore, so it's all going to be here. So, it's a lot easier to manage. Employee events and appreciation. Um made some changes here. U that's still relatively low. Nothing there. And this is training and travel education 7500. Some of these are one time as you can see and then the rest are recurring. Travel and training.

This is for you guys for council. council for San Antonio this year. Yeah.

This is the lodging for the same, meals, and travel transportation. um if anyone's using the personal vehicles. If we take the city vehicle, obviously uh we don't charge um ourselves for anything but the gas. Again, you'll be able to see all of these sheets at home um just by clicking right here along these. Next, we'll go to civil service only because it's it's in sequence. I try to put a summary of all these tabs here so you can see what the total amount of expenses are in one place. Um, and I'll also try and reduce some of these lines for those departments that don't utilize all of them because it's not as necessary in most cases. So, um, this is 3,000 for legal services. That's what we've uh budgeted for them in the past. Uh average office supplies 300. That's what they put. Um print and organizational memberships, it's 400. Um Tiffany might be able to um shed some more light on that. Is she here? Newspaper publications notices 200 minimal. Um Recruitment on boarding. This is just for the um collective bargaining.

Let's see. Staff training annual uh for civil service and the same staff training lodging for the same professional services for the civil service and mileage. That's it. community services. We have we had I should say I work uh renewal which was like $7,800 but that's going away. Um it's being moved over to 502 for finance because it's part of uh this coming year. as part of the ERP solution that we bought that we purchased for accounting. So, um since it's in one unit, we're going to go ahead and absorb that expense. Now, um this is the EZRI, is that correct?

That's great. Or GIS. So, I know that we don't have the money to do it right now. Um most of the municipalities around us all have a a GIS uh system. And so something in the future that's something that we need to you know really look at. I know this year and you know probably next year it's not going to be um in the scope that we've got but um having that will be really helpful especially when we go when we do the zoning overhaul and I'll give you an example. The city of Texas city you can go through and type an address in and it'll hit exactly what zone it is. What's the allowable uses for that zone? Um it's it's pretty helpful. So, that's one thing that we can use GIS to do. Um, and so, but in the future, nothing right now. Um, we just don't have the the funds available at this time.

And part of what we requested in the zoning overhaul was that the consultant did establish that entire zoning map and produce those documents for us. So, this would be strictly for maintenance on whatever is produced us at the end of the zoning overhaul.

As you can see, we did not put anything in 2027, but we did have it in the future. So you'll see that as a part of the projections. Um we have um small amount of AI but no I work uh services since those have been integrated again with Edmonds. Uh will then um will estimating about 204,000 which is still a lot less expensive than two full-time employees. Yeah. We couldn't even come close with a building inspector and a building official um at at the rate that we're getting little in for. So

how much of that though is offset by um permits and fees? So can can you clarify what you would um like how much is of that? Yeah, I mean we pass on the cost, don't we?

We do um when we have to send like for a commercial plan review and it goes to one of their commercial plan reviewers then that gets build back and so we collect that feedback um and we collect over for the inspection fees. So there is money that's coming back but straight out of that line item we're paying about 168,000 out the 204 is in case we have any type of emergency where we an additional inspector or have something come up where we have to have someone that is a higher billable hour than who we currently have on staff. But we do get most of that back throughout the year. It just distributes differently in the fund.

And the reason we're able to do that is because we have Belinda in house doing a lot of the plan review since being able to hire her back on. She's able to to really pick up on that and then like we could have the inspector um uh to function more and use the building official less because his hours are so much higher. Um so we try to use the building inspector and max his capacity out but of course the official has to be the one that signs off on everything but we try to use the inspector and then of course use our in internal staff to do as many pays as possible.

So I guess just from an accounting perspective Rudy are we Are we um figuring in the full cost of will Dan and then the full amount of um fees that are collected or are we cancelling them out? So that's because you know like you do on grant like on grants on before you've done like where you show we had a million dollars in grants then we had a million dollars in expenses and they canceled each other out. Is that what we're doing here? In this case, you would see a line item in the revenue uh side in the detail for like engineering fees. Okay?

Uh and you'll see the revenue that's coming in just for that. It's not going to wipe that out. I think last year maybe 30 to $40,000 worth of engineering fees that came through. Those get rebuild out. Uh and that's what we get some of that that back in on the revenue side. But everything else just goes towards our regular inspections. Right.

Right. And so either way it it does help to reduce the the cost but 100% of it I think this is community services is paying for itself um on the whole with its services and that's what we want. I guess if we can uh make sure that we're not you know adding to those expenses then that's that just goes anything extra goes back into the general fund that that makes sense. Nothing there, nothing there. Theirs is pretty lean office supplies. Theirs is nominal there. average is about $210 a month. Um we have a onetime fee here for postage and and you can explain that a little bit better.

That's going to go towards our zoning overhaul. Um, and that's also partially where some of the difference is coming from with that consulting services. Since Wild does not entirely utilize that 2004 that's in there, then whatever is not utilized from there will also go towards the zoning overhaul. But this that portion will go towards mailing. So, no printing or binding uh clothing uniform. We've got uh some uh shirts to update our look here at city hall for the public facing uh individuals and small tools and equipment. 500. Um I think scanner and some other office equipment minimal really. Um nothing there. Nothing there. We have do subscriptions and memberships. Um, I know she said she was reducing it by half, but I don't know what the detail is. Before we get too far down

on the uh postage, we are doing that this year. Are we doing that first? The first next October. Okay. The software program that you were talking about there that would help out on the GSI program, we're going to get that the first year. with the contractor that we use. Yes. That's built into the proposal. And that's built into your bid. Yes. And so what you're saying is 2028 is when we would need to get it so we can double check for maintenance. Yeah. With the with the software.

So we are starting this in October. That's what the mailing 10,000. Yes.

Okay. advertising and public notices. Uh they've got a lot. They've got the regular postings and then they've got the required um newspaper posting for the ordinances that they have. But I think that is the one time for next year for um the revamping. Let's see. Nothing there. Nothing there. Nothing there. Nothing there. Um, looks like we have a just a little bit in employee awards and recognition. 500, none in subdivision filing fees. Uh, 2,000 in certifications and training for the staff. U community services and lodging for the same. and meals for the same and then transportation. Uh they'll be using looks like the city vehicle.

What what is forgive me what is the association for y'all for um for community services or planning? What I can't remember what it's called for Texas that y'all have your conference? Uh the American Planning Association, but then we've also got the Texas Flood Plane Management Association. Correct. Thank you for that. Well, that gives us about nine minutes. I don't know if council has any input or any questions unless we're going to go to two hours. We have all the time in the world.

Oh, I was assuming an hour, but if you want to go longer, we already an hour. And guys, we can finish this, you know, going um through. I would like for us to finish the remainder of the nine minutes on capital today and that way we have capital done. I just want everybody on the same board with capital. I mean, y'all can see I mean, we've cut the budget significantly from last year. So, before we get too far into that, Yeah. And keep in mind, I graduate Tech City. Okay. Uh, I was told three months of operating expenses is roughly 2.3 million.

So, if you divide that out monthly, it's 770,000. Mhm. Five months is 3.85 and we've got 4.8. We've got another million above that in our general fund balance.

Is there a reason we can't pull half of that back out? Because every year we come in here and we talk about which can to kick down the road and I know I've heard Rusty talk about it. I've talked about it. That forces us to be reactive instead of proactive. And we have to get out of that. So, is there any detrimental effect to pulling 500,000 out of general fund and putting some stuff back in here so we can keep moving forward with the city? I see a lot of big numbers in 2028. Correct.

Well, I mean, this is the thing. We just pushed the can down the road, you know, for for years and it's where it's kind of maxed up. So, we just throw everything to the next year and so of course it's at that's why you see this big dip right here is due to that. But, um, Rudy, if you don't mind going back to the to the capital. Um, and to piggy back a little bit off of what Dana just asked to council, keep in mind that we have $500,000 in emergency natural disaster funds. That was our reimbursement from FEMA. So, in the case of a storm, we do have an extra $500,000 on top of what we have.

That's on top of what's in the general fund. So what he's saying what he's saying separate because it can only be used or council will have to authorize it. So what he's saying is that all this would basically go flatline and allows us to uh start it just moves all this money into the ' 06 fund and then as we need it we just pretty much right along this uh this this this gradient of three months of operating. Anything extra goes here. It's the same money. It's just not giving us access to it.

But even if you just called it five months of operating and we held it there, even though three is all we have to have, if you left it at five, there's still roughly a million dollars that could be utilized in the budget. I still maintain five months of operating expenses. And we can pull some of this stuff back in. Sure. And just And we can do that anytime. That's whenever we go negative, that's what we're doing. So if we go negative, if we go ahead and select everything in capital like here, we're pulling it out of the general fund. That's and so just because my mind was really simple. That's what that's what

why wouldn't we start putting things back in capital and pulling it out of the general fund until the general fund got to a fivemonth operating level and then we're all that's well three actually. I mean that's the we could go three. That's the number we've set. It's just that we wouldn't buffer. We've always talked about

every year, every year we try to have a a balanced budget and not pull from reserves. We can pull from reserves, move everything off uh and go negative until we get to like U Pro Mark said to the five or the three or the four months of operating and and then have it stay. Then we'll have a balanced budget going forward from there. but will have accomplished all of these capital projects in the interim. I think the important thing with that, if that's something that that we consider, which I'm not uh I'm not categorically opposed to, and I think it's the direction that you're want to go in, mayor prom, that that what we sub supplant with that money that we have in the general fund should be one-time expenses, not ongoing expenses like capital projects, but not supplanting like salaries with it because we can't continue to we can't pull a million dollars every year. Agreed. Agreed.

So, it's got to be these onetime capital projects for me. I was at five. Russyy's saying four. I'm okay with that, too. Every year, anything above four months is eligible for the budget, right? Yeah. Whatever that number may be. Yeah. Because I think this year we're planning on being 100,000 in the black, right? Even with the decrease that we had in sales tax, we're still coming in 100,000 above. Is that right, Rudy? I do not know quite honestly. I haven't looked at that far, but right now we we look like we're going to be about 100,000. But so it doesn't sound like anybody's opposed to looking at that option.

Just bear in mind that uh So what' you do, Rudy? How do we get to the 660? He put all the capital projects in. He checked everything. select everything back that we that we had discussed last time, right? Yeah. So that's what that is. That's why this is now down still everything's still the same. The expenses going in the future are still going to be the same. But uh it because it's just one time purchases, not reoccurring. That's when we change the projections is when we start changing recurring. Yeah. Right. Well, some of the stuff's going to come back out anyway. Like you said, the blocks were already getting

correct. So that would come out. That would be so it's going to be something we go through, you know, whittle whittle a little bit. Some of this stuff is not going to be some of this. Well, let's look at the capital improvement. Let's look at the capital improvement. Let's I think Seth really wants us to figure that out. So

yeah, I want to see what what you guys are wanting to um add back in there. Um, you know, I went through and and and cut what I thought was absolutely necessary, but you know, you guys have different opinions than than I do, for sure. But I just want to get that guidance from you guys. I know we just put the 25,000 back in uh for the city hall remodel. Um, if you guys would like to see more, 25,000 doesn't get you very far. Um, unfortunately, in today's time, have you priced the remodel city

uh for a com for the complete remodel? uh getting estimates and things. No. Um I mean I'm just doing based on knowledge that um when I redid uh the county facility in Georgia.

So if you recall too with the EDC those office spaces that was 40,000 and we talked about cutting this in half. Remember making making a conference room council chambers or somewhere around here. We talked about the courthouse too.

Yeah, it is an option as well. I'd like to see we're going to move a lot of material, you know. I I'd like to see that load even if we have to That way, that way Billy could have something at a stopping or something like that and you're not having to use your excavator or use, you know, you've got one at the yard that you keep there. Maybe you keep the old one there and then the stronger one you take where you know you're going to need it the most.

Correct. I just one of the things cut just trying to get Just put it back in. Will you put the loader back in? I said that's the only get the streets back. Did you get a side mower this year? No.

No, they're both getting aged. One's a 2010 model, one model. That can't be this year. They're getting a lot of hours on it. How about storm sewers? Storm sever is culverts, right? We didn't have no money this year for that and that's it's been a tough year when you redig a ditch and a lot of times you have to replace the cover that broke and it tore up. So, what do you think?

We usually keep around 25 to 30 in there. Culberts are by the foot. They're they're not very cheap. Can we put 40,000 in there? Now, that's uh this is above and beyond the maintenance that's already in the budget of 35,000. This is this is the actual capital and we we pushed that off because of the the drainage projects that the EDC's so he's already got his budget. You already have 35,000. We already have $30,000 in that budget, Mr. Rusty, which will cover. Okay. Okay.

We don't plan on doing any type of job next year in the 28 budget drainage job. outside outside of scope outside of scope. No, this is 30,000 will I have two different I have two different ones there. One's for coal patch for rotate coal patch and patching holes and things like that and the other storm sewer which that helps me do that's your maintenance for the year that helps me do extra projects. Okay.

I just don't want to be I don't want to be hurt on anything. Mhm. Any any um any covert uh sorry any projects that exceed the u uh the capital threshold as a project. Not a covert here, a covert there, but as a project itself. Um that would have to go into the capital, but that's not that's not what he's talking about with this 35,000 that he has. Will you scroll back up? Sure. To the top. I don't see anything.

The only thing I would uh and I know there's a lot of people talking. I know we put a lot of money in parks already and I $30,000 but I I hear a lot about parks lights. I think lights is a big deal. Folks get there in the in the winter time they get there in the morning to walk and it's dark. In the summertime they're there people out.

And I'm going to tell y'all when we put that new equipment out there, it's going to be dizzy. And so we put in, like I told y'all with those grants, we've actually went a little above and beyond with the grants that we put in to see if we can get more equipment in. So if we can get more money from NEOS or Openland or T-Mobile to to to do more at the park as well like talk about shade talk about shade structures to do park benches out there to make it, you know, a a destination. Absolutely. So it's going to have a lot of a lot of use into it,

you know. And Rebecca was talking about uh doing vendor fairs like that for the parks department and you can do it in the evening and have it night time especially during then the o the only other thing um that I think might be worth our time is um if you can kind of see what it would cost to um do the the work in the kitchen in the break room. I know you talked about maybe moving that wall of your office in and expanding the I'd like to do that to expand the break room. The break room.

We'll we'll see. I don't know what, you know, um with the pricing on that that'll raise it exponentially, but at least we can with the space that we have now. I feel that we can internally as staff tear some of the the cabinetry out and to be able to place like an oven in that location and then maybe reroute kind of how the table's done in there uh to make it have more use than it currently has right now. But we'll definitely look at I'll have a I'll have a hard number estimate. So when you guys are looking at this at home, just remember the department requests take you directly here. The dashboard takes you back to this screen. The capital is the new button. It takes you right to the the capital screen. Um the

What's our overall budget? Y'all want to put the 30 back in the lights? I think you did. Or no, you did. What's the 50 for for general park improvements? I mean, you know, for for Behinger for one, if we're going to make that a trail, whatever, you know, for the trail for if we're going to do anything out there, where is your where's your mulch that's in the parks? I mean, is this is that that's not all park improvements? That's in the park budget, right? Go ahead. These would be capital improvements.

Make sure you keep up. So, the fund balance um this shows approximately where the fund balance is for the year and it's now it's 315,000 negative um for next year. We put in 5% increase uh because that's probably what we're going to end up here this year and going forward. Uh just to be really conservative, I want to go ahead and make sure that um we have 5% scheduled for next year. Uh to that since we don't want to show 5% as we have in the past for the entire duration of the projections, we've added uh different percentages for each year going forward. Um and so we can play with this as well. And I think guys, we're going to have a good tip next year. I know that, you know, our our sales tax numbers have dwindled some, but we are going to have Center Point coming on live in October. And, you know, with them having 100 employees coming in and buying things here, you know, buying lunch, filling up their trucks, and not only them, but from the contractors that come in with that project. Um, we're hoping that that will drive some of our sales tax numbers up as well, having that workforce uh here in town. And with the uh preliminary values that came in, you can select um any of these rates here. These are the ones that right now

Rudy, can you put it to our current rate just to see what that would look like so they can see the difference? Our current rate is F and So if we kept the current rate, it would be 177,000. That would come out of reserve. Um and then what was it? 315 if we adopt the no revenue rate again this year and that's 177 with everything back in capital with what you just had now you're correct well we were at 600 and something a minute ago if you had all of all of the projects you ought to add all of the capital back

oh okay 250,000 for the city hall and all that So, uh, just to let you know where everything is, so in case you want to play around with it at at home, it's all available to you. I'll make sure, as in the past, I'll uh send you all your own copy. So, don't feel like uh if you touch it, you'll break it. If you break it, that's fine. We have plenty of copies. Is there anything else I can help you discover in

dashboard? So again on the 28th we'll have our next meeting at six o'clock again000 and then we can go more in depth through each of the departmental budgets and then of course we'll go back to capital at that time as well you can go through the departments yourself um those are open and if you have any questions you can bring them up at that time It gives you a lot more time on your own.

I hope this has been helpful. Uh there's something you guys need, you always come by and talk to me. I know some members come to me and they give me some ideas, you know. Uh nothing on the wrong of uh wanting a jet, but you know, what if we did this project and not that project? And I I give them um we work through it on the on the budget side, but you know what I mean? If you guys want to stop by, my office is always open. I'll be gone from Guys, thank y'all for coming in. We really appreciate it. And thank you for the direction.