City Commission - Regular Meeting

And this morning I'm going to ask Commissioner Brock.

Thank you. Let's pray. Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for this wonderful community that we live in. Give us understanding and strength to make decisions that are in the best interest of this community and serve your will. In your name we pray, amen. Amen.

Glad to see everybody here early this morning. And to get things going, I'm going to ask the clerk to please call the roll.

Mr. McDaniel is not feeling well this morning, so he won't be with us. First on our agenda today is to make approval of the 2025 budget revisions, and I'm going to call on Tony Reinhart.

Yeah, thank you, Tony. Yeah, all the revisions were pretty clear. The finance department always does an incredible job, so I'd like to make a motion that we approve it as submitted in the committee. Second.

All right, we got a motion and a second for approval. Any comments?

Just that our director also brought us up to date on the funds for the water treatment plant that's coming forward. Everything looked really good. With that, we had a nice meeting.

Going forward, could we possibly make sure that that happens? Mr. Pro Tempter. Sorry about that, Commissioner Cochran.

I'll vote yes. Next on the agenda, we are going to look at the L hosts. We need to... Thank you. City Manager is going to hand out some information.

Questions from my end. Similar situation came up went to the voters and was voted down and it was due in my opinion basically because of clarity i heard you explaining questions i got over the weekend was like tell me what makes you a homestead taxpayer That's my first question.

As defined by the assessor's office. Right. Would you have to sign up for that?

For the homestead? Yes. Yes. So you have to go down to the taxpayer's office and tell them that I own my own property. This is my primary residence. Can't be your property that you rent, et cetera. Is that correct? That's your primary. and you have to be a certain age to qualify for that. That's a property. That's right. And your primary resident. Make you eligible to go down and sign up for a homestead. That's correct. And that's open to anybody.

All right. My next question that I heard a lot of is, We heard a lot of talk when we was building this new school, et cetera, and the importance of the e-splash tax. Could you clarify as to when did it come up and when does the next splash possibility come up? How many years are we out or how many months are we out?

That previous was a shorter time frame, wasn't it? It was fine. Wasn't it fine? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Phil, you do have Homestead, by the way. I just checked your file.

Well, it was more of the questions that were coming to me. I'm trying to express to the citizens because of the fact the opportunity we missed last time, I think the county wrote to him, we did not. And with them having to, I'm assuming their father is here, if we go ahead and do the resolution, that'll put us in.

Bill, like you said, though, the negative the last time was that the time frame was going to be like two years before people realized the benefits. not this one, so this one's much quicker and much simpler.

Mr. Mayor, what is our current tax on the dollar now? Is it seven, eight, nine, or what is it? Seven. Seven? Seven, that's right. That's all the questions I have.

I guess that probably goes back to we're just putting this to the voters. Will the voters know that?

Yeah, immediate. And then the following year, you'll have a whole year of collections to go against your tax.

He's actually out of the state doing something for this before the state but

Yeah, that's, to me, that's the, maybe all the details aren't here. Right. By the time, we're just allowing the vote. Correct. Right. That's right. By the time. the vote happens, you know, the intent is all the information will be provided. I mean, it's not that we're voting on what we're aware of today. We're voting on when all the information is available.

All we're doing really this morning is allowing it to go on the ballot. And like Commissioner Brock said, all that will be cleared up before November. Actually, it should be cleared up when they start. Maybe they start session on the 16th. I think. Anyway, the special session. I think the 17th is their beginning, if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully by the end of that, end of the session, we'll have answers to all the questions that everybody has.

Mr. Clerk, if you'll call the roll. Yes, sir.

Okay. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Do we have anything else that needs to come before the commission this morning? Nothing for me. All right. If not, we are adjourned. Thank you.