City Council - Special Meeting

But I assume some of those items are included in this.

I wonder if one consideration might be to tie it to our revenues as a percentage of saying, you know, eventually we will have a bigger tax base than what we have today.

So leave us with 527.033. Are there any positions up there that you guys

I was going to say, what role does this person play in IT? I mean, is it just support?

We also wanna make sure that we don't, assume the March date and then fall into a deficit if we end up hiring somebody before March. Now, the possibility exists. We won't. But I would really not like to revisit this at the end of the year with the deficit because we didn't properly plan.

For you right now. You got to wait until March.

And all these salaries based on the market? Yes. We're not bringing them at a deficit?

Well, just to again to clarify this, these figures covered those 13. Yes, positions.

OK, so from what I understand, going back, if my memory serves me, the vast majority of our employees are still below in that one bottom one fourth.

Somewhere I heard 70% of our employees were still in the bottom one quarter of their pay scale.

And this won't do anything for us when we're talking about compression and stuff like that, right?

And you have a whole quarter to figure it out. That's the key.

Okay We're we're might Refresh my memory. What are those 36 folks? How do they compare to the other the bulk of the employees that are still below the market baseline? I mean we said they're in a critical position, right and

Well, I do too, but I'm trying to figure out how to distinguish between what I feel like I want to cover all employees, but I'm trying to figure out how would we determine these 36 votes. What criteria did we use?

If you look at those positions that we're talking about, newly funded positions, those that are mandated And we're going to require a tax increase because we don't do anything without a tax increase other than a zero balance budget.

I do not. No, good, I'm not. I do not, I'm not, nope. I'm verbalizing. Okay.

One of the things I think we need to consider too is that when we talk about the impact on the average assessed value of a home in Elgin is about $290,000. That's not market value, that's the assessed value. The total impact on that person would be $203 a year, about $17 a month. I'm not saying that's good because there's nobody on this council that wants to raise taxes. There's no incentive for me to do that because I pay taxes. But my point is, for what we're trying to do, when you talk about employees, I've always made the comment it cost us to lose employees. The average, when we lose thre

Would you, Beau, would you do me a favor and include that impact on the taxpayer figure for us? In other words, we suggest it's $203 a year for the average assessed value at home. And then what 67 and 68 would do. And remember, guys, too, there was a comment made about how that impacts our most vulnerable part of our community, which we always consider 65 and older. Their taxes are frozen, folks. They don't pay a dime toward any rate increase. Again, none of us want to raise taxes, I believe.