City Council - public_hearing

I call this meeting to order. Welcome to our council meeting. In the interest of time, efficiency, and ensuring everyone that wishes to address the council is given the opportunity. Opportunity to do so the following will apply to all comments made by the public each speaker will be permitted three minutes to address the council These time limits may be changed by the mirror by a majority vote of the council. Thank you for participating in the city government At this time we have asked City manager if you would do a prayer for us offer a prayer for sure sir

Amen. Amen. Amen. This meeting has been called in compliance with our budget approval process requirement. At this point, City Clerk Howell will read the final millage resolution and the fiscal year 2026-2027 budget resolution into the record by title only. Then I will turn the discussion over to Finance Director Burrow for further information. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

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Thank you. This is a public forum. Anyone in the council chamber wish to address this item may come to the microphone and state your name and address and have three minutes. Anyone else? Seeing no one else, I close the chamber of public comment. Anyone online, sir? No. You know what I learned, so I closed public comment. Bring it back to council. What state council? I guess Ms. Strange.

Mr. City Manager, in memo number two, there is a proposed, additional proposed cuts to bring us down to a rate of 4.2060. Do you have any concerns at all with the city being able to provide the same or even better quality of service that we've been providing to our community at that rate?

All right. Thank you. That's all I have.

It was $339,000. Yeah, that's the number I have.

Thank you. Mr. Scott. I'm just trying to make sure my figures are right, because we just changed a whole bunch of things, and I'm trying to make sure, and I know Mr. Bain just went through it with you, because the memo I got earlier today, like I said, it moved 50% of the... Mr. Norris, but community development into CRA, and he's not feeling comfortable. And of course, down here, we're saying 101,000. So we were taking 50% of the 101,000, which was 51,000, right?

So how much of the 50% that we were talking about allocating to the CRA? That's what I'm saying. So we're talking about 51,000. No. Okay.

All right. All right. See, I guess that's why I was confused because what I'm seeing here is that I was trying to figure out what we mean when you say 102. Yeah. And we take 50% of the allocation. So we're talking about 102,000.

Okay. And you're saying the design center had two, a three 31 in there.

So we do all that, Mr. Scott, I haven't been able to calculate that too fast here because of business and everything. When we do all that, where did that bring us down on the bottom line?

Okay. Let me ask this question then. If we were to go to a 4.20 period, how much difference would that make? don't like that six sitting out there i like i like solid numbers yeah i mean point uh six oh yeah i'm i don't think we're looking at that much difference and of course can we mr van wagener look to find a couple another probably i'm i'm calculating it'd be less than a hundred thousand very little amount it would be roughly forty thousand dollars so mr van wagener you think we can find that yes do i know the answer tonight no but yes okay i think we could find that or you know you could

Well, all right. Before I ask for a motion, I'm going to go back. Ms. Strange, you have a statement?

Sure, we can go as low as you want, Mr. Mayor. I'll support 4.2000, and I'll put out there what I know of the budget. One thing we didn't do that I had talked to Mr. Van Wagner about was we have a grant writer, so we could look at expenses, but for purposes of making decisions tonight without him having the benefit of... talking to staff and going through it. I have confidence that 40,000 is going to appear over the next year somewhere just in the general operations. I think our staff are very conservative and that it will manifest. But I think the easiest thing to do is look on the revenue si

You're done? Thank you. Mr. Van Wagner, I want to say thank you for the work you did with the budget and also you, Scott, as well. I'm trying to remember the questions on the county and the MSTU. I know a gentleman has some questions on MSTU. I can help with that. Can you answer those? Sure.

And, of course, the other thing along with that, I'm not sure if that's what you were saying, is for your trash pickup, I think you're paying the service through the county. And I don't think we will start charging that until... When the contract ends up. We'll start that. Yeah, we'll start charging under the city rates when the contract ends. I think it's another year, is it? I can't remember. Okay. So, yeah, you would still be under the county and privatized trash pickup. And then once that contract runs out with the county, you will come under us, okay? Anything else? Not an entertainer motion.

I have a motion and a second to set the millage rate at 4.2%. Any further discussion?

All right. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, let it be known by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Chair vote aye as well. Motion carries 5-0. Marriage will be 4.2. All right. Resolution number 2026-03-0.

I'm going to move to approve resolution number 2026-036R with the amendments proposed in memo number two as amended here today by changing economic development adjustments from personnel to operations at a rate of $87,000 and also adding $40,000 to the revenues line items for grants.

So, okay. Of course, the... True North, that's the new communication department, okay? So we're reducing it by $20,000, okay? And the design center by another $20,000.

Well, I was thinking when I first said that, for that amount of money, we could go through the design center and everything and get it. So that's fine.

I move to approve resolution number 2026-036R with the amendments identified in memo number two presented tonight as amended from the dais with economic development operations to be reduced in the amount of 107,000 and communications to be reduced from line item 98,000 to 78,000. I second. Okay.

Any further discussion, questions? If not, all in favor, let it be known by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? And the chair vote aye as well. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you.

That should be enough time. Thank you. That's it.

Okay. Thank you. If nothing else, need to come before this board, this council meeting adjourned.