Town Board - Regular Meeting

Number 16102, we're back to our budget meeting. First up, we have Chief of Police to talk about PD and other budget items, other, you know, categories, departments.

Okay, oh, never mind, because it's a continuation we don't normally.

I took the union contract and calculated that out.

I would want to make a decision on that now. Or we can revisit it.

No, all good. I think that's a good number. Another quick question. The new car that came into service, was it 55,000? Was it the whole number?

okay that was the cost of the new car but that's where we and that's where we ended up which is like you'll see the adopted budget was 55 000 and modified yeah yeah that's what i was asking about the car because i was like well it's modified so we know some things but where's the expense yeah what'd you do with the old car sell to another police department

Okay. And also just, I've said it before, but I'm not sure the public, just for them as well, the personnel services number does not have any of the contract increase. So I have a number in contingency so that we've got it in the budget, but it's not reflected here because I don't want to tip our hand while we're going through contract negotiations.

Great. I just got to grab some of the paperwork up right back.

Yeah, I was like, wait, what line did I do?

so i think that's probably a reasonable reduction in light of that however i'm glad you brought that up because i wasn't thinking about that that um that reimbursement is going into a different line we have a cdbg grant expenditure line but we may not put that in again for next year in which case then our costs would go back up right so i i'm not

no that's where the money that we're spending right now is 25. yeah and so we don't have any in the 26 right ask that's what we have to publish here no that's for the 27th yeah yeah we're always a year behind yeah that's so we didn't put it back in for that year so So, we didn't put it in for 20, so it won't be in the 20. yeah, we didn't put it in for 26, which means it's money available for 20. so we should put it in 27. But then that won't help us until 2028.

Yeah. Got to love the CDBG. Can I get any more confusing? Well, it was, it was a little bit hard to administer to. Just, I know the machinations that you went through trying to, like, designate.

Do you recall how much the 4 poster program used to cost us annually? I feel like it was a big number. It was a very large, like, 250,000.

I was thinking 29. Grant was for 29. Okay. Yeah, it's just, we need to attract the hunters. And I know, like, the reason I asked about the four poster program is just because North Haven miraculously got sign off from all of the people. I don't think we could accomplish that here, but I know that some people want to try that again, having heard that North Haven was successful.

I'd also be curious about your thoughts on whether or not you thought it was successful in bringing down tick-borne illnesses?

Bo, so in the old four-poster program from, what, 10 years ago, how many four-posters were deployed?

And you probably, to be effective, you would need 100 units.

Yeah, no, that was my big recollection. I just, In trying to come up with ways to deal with tick-borne illnesses, which seem to be getting worse.

Well, and I mean, it's now reached a level of, it's really a public health problem. And, you know, I don't, I'm trying not to speak out of my own experience, which, you know, I just spent three weeks in the hospital from a tick-borne disease. But I know a lot of other people who have as well. So I think this has got to be taken more seriously. Maybe not right now in the middle of this budget, but... The town has to shift direction on this.

That's why I was like, how much money would this entail? If we do a pivot and do something with four posters, what would that look like? So what did we decide on for the number? 29? Yep.

And I think that there was an employee that was largely designated, so I had another $70,000 for that.

Thanks, Val. All right. I think that's all of your categories.

Yeah, so page 34. Yeah, I was going to say, there's a lot there. Oh, actually, I did want to try to correlate a number. the police towing?

Yeah, I just we're over on towing expenditures. So I did want to find out how much of a budget modification I can make to increase the revenues that potentially could come in for those versus then upping your towing expenditure line.

Yeah, just because I wanted to do a budget mod.

And we haven't hit twice the budget, at least through August 31st. It was $1,495 out of $1,500 had been billed or received.

Yeah, not for Monday night's meeting, but for the next month's meeting. Other revenues, the police revenue sharing.

Yeah, I think 1 year there was risk of it actually going down, but I think. Well, it went down in 25, it was right. Yeah.

And we do keep getting that lex program each year.

Okay. Yeah, just I used to see grants that, like, repeat year after year.

Yeah, no, that's good. Yeah. I saw you put it in so I left it in, but.

Thank you. Thank you. Is Jack over there?

Quick random question now, who are the jail attendance.

Yeah, yeah, no, thank you. I'm afraid to ask if there's anybody out there that's interested. The former part-time people were failing the psychological test.

I like my sugar straight up. Well, that's how I got you. Yeah.

And executive session the other day? Yes, I wanted to once we're done with Jack. There's like other open session stuff, but then I did want to go back.

When will we go over that on Monday or Tuesday?

Okay, we can do yeah, I wanted to start in executive session because there were some questions. So I wanted to get the answers to the questions. So there's a conversation. Okay.

Yeah, I've got to go to a doctor's appointment. So that would be good after Jack.

No, and I have, like, some that I still need to do some work on. It was just a weird week. Like, every time I tried to get to this list.

One for HR. Yeah, I was going to say, some of these were waiting for next week. And then also, I just have a list of things. I was like, OK, what on this list can we do? Yeah.

Yeah, Monday is going to definitely be busy with presentations. And then Wednesday, roll up our sleeves.

Yeah, like a deadline. Which Wednesday will be? 16. Okay, I'll let you kick off.

Yeah, I was just sort of like, yeah, extrapolating the rest of this year and then also what prior years have looked like.

Good, good. I'm just amazed that an EpiPen is $500.

It's great. No, on the longevity is this new longevity or is this a split between.

Another salary line, this is new and this is something that Jack has asked for for a number of years. And so we've been discussing it with labor council. To see whether or not the legality of it and. Okay. We need to, we need to finish that discussion, but it is a board town board decision. Okay.

And he proposed less than what it was rounding. Oh, okay.

Yeah. If you just look at like all salary lines, I've been rounding so that they're nice round numbers. I hate pennies. Okay. Got it.

So we have the open items list, but I think we'll just. Hit that on Wednesday morning.

Yeah, and then also just some like schedules and things that I need to finish up. So. Okay, okay. So, but I would like to go into executive session, because we wanted to go over the employment history of a few employees so that we can continue to look at some of the. Increases and redistribution positions and stuff like that.

I'll paper. And so our next meeting will be on sort of a journey. After we came back out of executive session until Monday at 10. Thank you.