City Council - workshop

In the proposed budget, everything is dealt with.

We take care of the cleaning. Includes... ...attributions for our individuals. You can say no.

We will talk again about the taxes on property during the seminar and on the balance sheet. It is one of the major sources of income in the General Fund together with the tax on goods. We also have a point at the order of the Council Day tonight that presents the proposals. As we see on the screen, this is our current income at 0.36642. And then we have three options presented on the basis of the certified tax records issued every 25 July and received by the tax office. So the variation rate is 0.37, I will not read all those numbers for you, you can read them. The rate of approval of the voters, the one we call VA, is that of the minimums. So these are the... We have collected a decade-old history of aliquots as requested and if you notice we are currently at 0.66 which if you observe the trends is in line with 2022-2023 and is also lower than the aliquot of the tax on the property of Mount Pleasant. So you can see that those aliquots have not changed much over the years statistically. And we have another slide in the presentation. So, well, another thing we talked about is what impact this has on the owner of the house. I consulted Shirley and obtained the value of the land. I think you looked at a similar comparison maybe a few years ago, or one or two years ago, and it was around 150. So it's a good sign that your value is increasing. Maybe it's not always what you want to hear about property taxes, but we always want our value of esteem to appreciate.

Our houses are usually one of our greatest assets and one of the few that are actually appreciated and not depreciated over the years.

So, if we look at the increase and the difference between the variable income and the approval income of voters, that 0.653683, the impact on that average family would be 85 dollars and 11 cents. And the gap between the De Minimis and the one at Nuove Entrate was very small. It has been increasing. Are there any other questions?

I would just like to make a comment. Actually, I asked for that ten-year vision of taxes on property I wanted to ask that it was included in our presentation that our rate

From 2018 to 2019 I ended up presenting because I talked, but I wanted to make sure you understood that we were at 36. See you later. For me, it didn't make sense for our tax liability to go down. I asked if we were left at 37. In 20-21. Thank you very much.

Passeremo alla presentazione della panoramica del bilancio.

We will answer the questions posted by the council, as you can see, the staff is here to provide. The topics of the presentation will include the balance sheets of the parties and we will also talk about the next parties. I said that it is not voted, but I would ask you if you see something in the balance that you want to change.

We are defining the balance this evening.

We can change some things.

So you will make a first and second proposal and then you will be able to make a balance modification. It is clear how to do it. It will be presented to you again, but if you want some modifications... Yes, this will not be the only workshop on the balance sheet, but the point is that it must not be a single person of the council.

It must be the entire council to speak in unison.

So, worth noting, we are increasing the entry fee, the discharge. The council adopted it, approved it during the last. There is a study on the fees.

UGEN completed one a few years ago before I arrived.

They are completing a modified tariff study.

It does not seem that we will change the residential plans, but it seems that we could modify them.

They should be here by the end of September. The staff recommends applying for a commission of 3% on the use of the credit card throughout the city. As soon as the city absorbs this expense... quasi un dipendente potrebbe essere un agente per pagare l'uso della carta di crema mi raccomandiamo che questo costo venga trasferito ai clienti ci stiamo allontanando dal programma di leasing enterprise il che ridurrà le spese

We are on the right track to completely abandon that program. This balance shows that we are transferring 500,000 dollars from the fund for public services to the general fund as a short-term strategy. I say short-term strategy, we can go from the utility fund to the general fund. We don't want to finance this every year, to then get used to it and steal it.

So this should be a very short-term strategy. One of the things the staff discussed is to transfer half a million this year.

Next year we will reduce the amount. And then the third year will be 125,000.

But we want to make sure we are able to pay our bills.

We want to guarantee the same level of service. This allows us to be self-sufficient, but we must be cautious because I cannot take money from the left pocket and put it in the...

So this would be a very short term plan. The preparation of the balance sheet in the statute, article 5, section 13, states that the balance sheet must contain a complete financial plan for the fiscal year and the total estimated expenses of the various funds must not exceed the total estimated resources of each fund. In other words, we cannot spend... The balance of the operating funds in this balance consists of 46 separate active funds, the vast majority of which are special purpose funds, which means that they are linked for the obligationary debt or other specific purposes. The main operations of the city work through four specific funds. We have the general fund, the public services fund, the airport fund, the road fund. The use of reserves to balance an operating fund must be done with great care and caution. We don't want it to happen again. In fact, we will have to arrive on the 20th of December.

There has been an upgrade to more with summer prospects.

The staff is very encouraged by this. Some important points contained in their letter that with the council. A considerable part of the public debt of the city is covered by the water fund. If the reserves deteriorated without a plan, they could undertake a negative rating action.

Obviously we don't want to move in that direction. The city constantly records positive operating results, favoring a material growth of reserves towards levels comparable to those of partners with higher ratings, they could consider.

Once again, this brings us closer to some of our goals of the strategic plan, financial resilience, governance structure, some of the things we discussed during the meeting.

They appreciate the fact that there is a certain stability in the city. There have been implemented policies regarding finances and supplies. In addition, this year we have implemented a hybrid. It has been something of a personal experience, but it has helped us to obtain the population of our rating.

So, the priorities of this budget for the fiscal year 2026-2027 are to implement market adjustments, the water management of the high-trend ice corridor, carried out with bonds and bonds that we already have, the rehabilitation project of the filtration of the water treatment plant in Trento with bonds and bonds that we already have, the Delwood Park project, always with bonds and bonds that we already have, the road renovation project that we already have, the bonds and bonds that we already have, Increase the part-time hours of the animal control detector by bringing it to a position And the last one is the purchase of the rms card for the... For the balance sheet, well, almost everyone will count the balance sheet The Senat Bill 2 was approved in 2019 and its first impact was seen in 2021.

Among other things, the major impact was to limit the growth of taxes on the property for maintenance and operations. But in essence, the summary is that if you stay too far back, you will never recover because you can only recover in time.

you are at the limit so it is highly recommended that the city pursues that roof of 3.5 percent every year when necessary to keep up with the increase in management costs and almost as an index of prices management costs continue to rise if we don't do anything it seems to me that a few years ago before I arrived our tariffs had not increased for several years and we did a study on water tariffs And since we hadn't increased for so long, we had two increases of 17% in a row. It must have been difficult for the cities. And it must have been difficult for the council to say that we would have done it. I think it is always preferable to make big jumps. The staff is absolutely not recommending the arbitrary increase of 3.5%. The mayor mentioned that the tax on sales will be further increased. If it were to increase and we realized that we do not need this 3.5%, that we do not depend so much on the tax on property, then we would do something different. As if it were not so, then, that I was going to the other side.

The city should use it to stay at the PASCO. This is not right, but Rebecca has already talked about it.

The current tax of the property tax is 0.306. The new tax, zero income, is 0.70. So I think this is the slide I was talking about.

This is the tax chronology of the city of Mount Pleasant since 2018. I have inserted some arrows.

Thank you very much. So the proposed rate for 2027 is an increase of 6 cents compared to 2026. An increase of 8 cents.

Then you put things in the right place.

So the goals of the strategic plan have been. Everything we have inserted into that strategic plan.

One of you will participate. Also the leaders.

Analyzing what we want Mount Pleasant to become and what we want to focus on.

So, starting with the information, I have collected everything, put it together, created a strategic plan, presenting it to you, to the Council. So, everything we do, everything the staff has done with this budget, we have tried to make it respond to one of these... ...includes also the proposal...

The objectives of the strategic plan are 4 out of 5 and I think it can be argued that even the fifth, i.e. financial resilience, could be achieved. Without this increase in liquidity, the operating budget of the city is in deficit, but infrastructure and management growth were the second objective of the strategic plan. ...economic vitality and quality of life. Tax evasion allows the adoption of a repayment plan so necessary for public safety, labor force and organizational excellence.

The same thing, but I would add, not only for public safety, but also for... ...for the increase in the proposed tax evasion. In my opinion, we reach here.

Look here and I'm sorry if you don't have it in front of you. We don't have a scheme on how to enlarge it, but this is the balance proposed with the tax of no new entry. You see the NR highlighted in yellow at the top. On the left side of the slide there is the re-epilogue of the forms. These are all our entries in arrival.

On the right side of the slide there are all the expenses that we have included in this balance.

As you can see, they are just over 16.7 million.

And the difference is huge.

The older you get, the more you tend to shrink. However, it is about 180 million. So this is not a deficit balance. You will remember that I said before that without the fee... Keep in mind that this includes the transfer of half a million dollars from the utility fund. If we didn't do it, we would be less. So we take the same numbers. We raise the yellow box at the top, the rate of approval of the voters. VA again on the left side. Excuse me, do you have the entries we expected in this balance proposal? On the right side you find... So, again, 500,000 dollars, half a million dollars transferred from the utility fund to the general fund.

If we had to remove those 500,000, we would be at 340,000.

This is the balance sheet, the strategic plan. The five main objectives.

The first must be financial resilience, given where we come from, the shadow from which we are trying to move away. Resilience is extremely important.

Infrastructures and managed growth have been emphasized during that period of strategic planning. Economic vitality and quality.

Work force and organizational excellence. And the last, but certainly not least, is governance. So, the proposed changes for fiscal year 2027 are to adopt a new plan of degrees and levels for firemen and fire department.

The strategic planning objective is the workforce and excellence. The second is to adopt a new plan of action. The third is to transform the animal control position from part-time to full-time. The fourth is to modify the percentage of dependent contribution of the worker for the health care of the family in Cali. The objectives here were financial resilience, the organizational excellence of the labor force, and to use the budget and funds available for current agreements for market adaptation. Number six, bring the compensation of directors to the level of the cities of confrontation within the scope of the strategic planning objective. We have already talked a little about zero-based budget.

This year, the personnel used a hybrid approach to zero-based to create the budget.

What does it mean?

Instead of starting from the historical impacts for every voice, what to say, last year we asked for 50,000 and it worked, let's give 50,000 to this one too. Instead, every voice does it. Well, now it will be 10,000. I need 2,000. Well, now it will be 12,000. But don't throw in the other 5,000. to be justified and justifiable.

Now, voices like carburetor.

Chemical products for the treatment of water have been based a lot on historical numbers, on projections. Given the variable cost, the impossibility...

The boss can't tell us how much carburetor he needs.

He can't tell us how many times his men and his squad... Norice can't tell us.

But they are hypothesized. There are some voices for which you can't leave. You have to look in a transparent way to face the problem. We have seen some things.

There was money stored that was not justified. In the States.

Elsewhere. L'obiettivo primario del budget è rispettare la politica finanziaria e fornire i servizi attesi dai cittadini di Mount Pleasant.

E' per questo che siamo qui ogni giorno. Il personale comunale ha fatto un ottimo lavoro nell'essere frugale, coerente e coscienzioso con i soldi dei contribuenti.

Abbiamo esaminato l'intero budget, direi, almeno 5 o 6 volte come gruppo e non cercavamo 10.000 euro.

We were looking for 500,000 euros.

Because everything is summed up. The staff believes that the voices of the budget proposed for the 26-27 reflect accurately the real costs.

There is a reason if we use the term real. Let's see here.

The budget proposed for 2026-2027 is designed to provide the largest number of operating services to the citizens of Mount Pleasant, carefully monitoring the impact on tax revenue, on real estate and on others.

Projects in capital account.

Delwood Park update project financed with the current obligation. The objective of the strategic plan. Economic vitality with emphasis on quality. The objective of the strategic plan. Infrastructure and growth.

Rehabilitation project of the filtration of the water treatment plant I30 financed with the current obligation.

The objective of the strategic plan. Infrastructure and growth managed. The rehabilitation project of the Lake Tankers League could have to wait... ...could have to wait two or three years.

We are receiving a grant that could allow us to do it next year. And this could... ...could not eliminate... ...the cost in capital account.

includes the continuous technological update $ 20,000 these for the $ 10,000 come from the general fund of the utility funds the fire engines need $ 8,200 for the HVAC system at the central station $ 18,000 Gis software this will become over time a recurring rate But GIS is a geographic information system.

It is a tool that our staff can use in the form of external data to allow the development of different areas of the city. Where the water line is located, the river network. Three things to help the development.

Dispatch shared with the police for a system of relationship management. Automated by computer, it would cost 176,000 dollars. It is the same system used by the sheriff.

It would be possible to work together to create that center of dispatch.

It could save money for both parties, it will certainly save time and most likely save human lives by providing a better service to the citizens of the city. ...biblioteca ulteriori 18.500 dollari per l'impianto H... ...30.000 dollari...