Board of Directors - Regular Meeting

Absolutely. If we will humble ourselves. Dear Lord, we come to you recognizing you as the giver of all wisdom. And in your word, it teaches us to ask for wisdom and you shall give it to us. So we ask you to give wisdom to everyone on the city board and everyone who works on behalf of the citizens of Little Rock. so we can do the work that you call for us to do. It's in Jesus' name that I pray. Amen.

Willie, thank you. I'm going to have to study this a lot more now. We've got a lot of information out here. But you think we are in sound footing in replacing everything we need to do at $15 million a year?

Going back to, I don't know which slide, for fiscal year 2027 was one of the peaks, and the waste and police you said were additions to it. That's the reason they're going to be so high.

Okay. So when we start the budget process, do we have to plan on an extra $6 million, or has the money already been put away?

But if we bought the vehicles, we'd have to find $6 million in our budget.

And then the police cars you talked about, Before, where are they right now? Before. The extra police cars that we were going to purchase or lease earlier?

And when are they going to be on the street?

Willie, thanks. I know we've had some discussions about this offline. So I think the big question in everyone's minds, because this all rolled back to our single-use police fleet, back to last year's budgeting in November and December, what's the date that we get to single-use fleet in police departments?

So next year we should achieve signal use okay, and I think the dissonance with a lot of us is that when we had conversations and That we thought we had more and more vehicles coming in and coming in faster And I think that's the frustration on the PD's depart parks With the Reagan file guys I'm talking to, I think we all thought when the mayor committed we'd have the funds that we'd be much further along this year than going into next year. And I appreciate that. How long has this been ready to present to us? Because I thought we were supposed to get it earlier in the year.

about the single use vehicles. The idea behind that is once we go single use, that extends the life and lowers the cost. Is that a fair summation or am I misremembering?

Okay, thank you for that. And I think I have two more questions. You just raised one. So is there, I know you're talking about hybrid, and I know the city has a I don't know how many, but a handful of electric vehicles. Is that part of the calculation when we think about this?

We have not got off of that. And the police is part of that. But that's not included in here. So theoretically, and I'm thinking very big picture, if we added more electric vehicles, some of these numbers may be lower in the future. Yes, very generally speaking.

And my last question, the calculations, I guess these are based on today's prices, right? So in theory, when we buy something in 2030, it could cost more than what we expect it to cost today.

And I said that was my last question, but true lawyer fashion, I have one more last question. If I understand Director Comperis' question correctly and your answer, we're going to need more money than we've been spending to have the appropriate amount of fleet that we need going forward. Oh, yes, sir. Oh, absolutely.

I understand. Thank you, Director Hinton. Looks like you did a lot of work to get to this point to present to us today. So I appreciate your work and the presentation. That's all I have, Mayor.

Thanks, Willie. You mentioned leasing. Could you go into detail about that? What kind of a savings factor? What's? Tell me about what type of things we'll be leasing.

So basically, so we don't have to come up with all the money.

Director Contreras? One more question, and this will be one you may have to go back and research. The increase from 26 to 27 is basically police vehicles and waste, right?

As you look at your numbers, the reason these have gone up is waste and police, right? The numbers? Okay. So when we get to the point where we can't deliver on picking up garbage, then we go back and do what we need to do, and we get more vehicles so we can get the garbage picked up and that sort of thing. If you look at the other departments that you've analyzed for us, how many are just getting by but really need more to do their task? And you singled out parks before.

I'm constantly complaining to the chief in Leland that these people call me and tell me they can't play the golf course because we can't cut it and we don't have any equipment to cut it. So how many departments do we really have that we're shorting them the vehicles or the equipment to adequately do their job to the level that we want to have done for the citizens of our city. And that's something I'd go back and look. I know we're short, but go back and just send me a thing saying, X department, if I had a money tree growing outside that I could get on Broadway. how much more would they need

But that's really, as I look at this, we're the squeaky wheel board. We need some police cars, so we get police cars, and we should. We need, you know, ways we can do it. But where else do we need to look for maybe another squeaky wheel that we need to fix? Okay?

So, well, I just want to point this out to everybody. This is a lot of information. So if I flip back to the number, next slide, the annual spend by fund. So the real number for us is really the general fund spend. Because waste, street, fleet, and vehicle storage are all enterprise funds, correct? They generate their own revenues to buy their own equipment through trash rates, state turn back funds on fuel, correct? So really that's our concentration as a board going into budgeting time. I can tell you from a board member, and you and I have had this conversation, One of the things, it's grea

Thank you, Director Hinn. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion. We had a zoning vote on August 2nd meeting the applicant. was not present, and I move to expunge our vote and set a new hearing on that item for September 15th, and I'll rely on Tom to get us the exact numbers and figures for the item.

We're going to get some motions to... M1, M2, M3 to the consent agenda, and M4 to the group guidance.