Planning and Zoning Commission - workshop

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Yeah, no worries. So I don't know what material you have in front of you, though, because I was not prepared for today. So my apologies. I didn't know anything about today. So I don't know what documents council has. So I don't know if you can fill me in just a little bit about that, Rob. I've

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Candice, I don't know if you're able to pull up. I don't know if I think Jeanette sent a presentation over for Tuesday for us. I don't know if you can pull that up now.

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Is it the it's the presentation or just the spreadsheet? OK. The force, I think there's four slides. No, but I have it in front of me, so if it's up, I'm ready to go. Say that again. OK, alright so. This is our budget. Our board did approve this on August 13th and this is what will present for approval for you all on Tuesday. But just to go over a few things, our revenue, we're projecting revenue to be a little bit higher than last year for us. I think we had $2 million this year projected. Sales tax has been really good this year, and that's a great asset for us. That's where most of our funding comes in. Interest income should come up a little bit. We've got some We transferred $2 million into one of the text pool accounts, so it's going to get a little bit more interesting than it was at the bank. And so lease and rentals, that lease income, $22,500, that is from Illumens. They have started paying 10% of their lease value during the construction phase. And so in just a few moments, whenever I talk about expenses, you'll see the expenses as part of the contract. We have to pay the city of Mount Pleasant and the city of Winfield part of that lease payment. So and then interest income down at the bottom. Um, from the revolving loan fund, um, that's a USDA fund that, um, that money is restricted. It goes in as revenue and then it. Uh, in just a minute, I'll talk about that. We don't have a balanced budget because those funds are restricted. So, um, the 6500 dollars in interest, it's probably going to be more than that. But. uh that's a conservative estimate but those funds that come in through the revolving loan fund are restricted just for the revolving loan fund so this year we're projecting total revenue of two million three hundred seventy nine thousand that's uh right in line with uh what we had last year um minus the diamond c payments that um diamond c uh did pay back their um Monies that they that they were going to use to redo the building in downtown. They've paid that money back. And so. That is not, you know, they paid that off. So it doesn't show up in revenue. So 2,379,000 dollars is what we're projecting revenue. When you look at the expenses, I did something a little bit different than this year than in past years that the EDC has done. I've broke those down in types of expenses. We have our payroll expenses, operational expenses, and project expenses. As you can look, everything that's associated with payroll, we are separate employees. We're employees of the Economic Development Corporation, but we do pay the city for payroll services. We pay to be part of the retirement system and to be on insurance. And so that full-time salaries there, there is a 3% increase figured into that. For employees this year for all of staff, including myself. Then you can see social security. Other things we did get, we do have the cost associated with the increase in health insurance this year. I think we're probably a little bit conservative on our estimate. That is probably a little bit high. I think I got the new number from Rebecca last week, and it's a little bit lower than that. it's it's not it's not anything significant so payroll expenses of 477 800 our operational expenses this is to to run the business and so you can see there's some category name changes in this when you look at the comparative spreadsheets from last year just there were some categories that really didn't fit with where the money was historically and so we've Asked to have, I think, 4 categories and I will talk more about that in depth on Tuesday when we present for approval. But those operational expenses, those have come down some compared to others contracts and retainers. And then there was 1 that we had, and I'm trying to remember what that category was that we totally alleviated that category. And it was about 75,000 dollars. But we've, we've kind of not used. Legal, there's not been as many legal fees has there has been in the past. We've tried to eliminate some of that. by working through some stuff before we call legal. And so you'll see intergovernmental expense, that's the $15,000. We increased that last year. That's what we pay the city for to handle those payroll and HR services. And so operational expenses are 521,200. and then you get over project expenses buildings and grounds that's what it takes to operate the business parks mowing different aspects of that priority projects that gives us if we have to do something at the business park that gives us the leeway to not have to come back if it's less than 50 000 to council that's cumulative 50,000, if it's over that 50,000 through the year, then we've got to come back to council for a budget amendment, economic development commitment. It's 640,000. You're going to notice that's lower than last year because of the last 2 items in that expense. But the lease payment to the cities. 42% 42 and a half percent of the lease payment that we get in revenue from the lumens goes to the city of Mount Pleasant and then 14 and a half percent. Goes to the city of Winfield for infrastructure. Those last two categories there are principal loan payments and interest loan payments. That is, and we're going to ask on Tuesday for y'all to approve the loan that we're taking out to pay the upfront cost associated with the illumines project. That incentive y'all voted on early last year in 2025. We decided as a board to take instead of using all of our reserves to. to take out a loan to pay $6 million that will be due. Illumens when they get their TCEQ permit, which should be in the next 15 to 20 days. And then when they secure the rest of their financing, which that should happen in the next 30 days, and then they break ground. And so we went to Guarantee Bank is going to be the lead bank, but they did include a American National, Cypress and Pilgrim Bank are all going to come in equally on that six million and they gave us a rate of five and a half. 5.4% on APY. We're going to ask you all to approve that on Tuesday, but those are lease payments. We're going to make an annual payment every year. And so this will be the breakdown of that 1st, annual payment. 270 will go to the principal and 325 will go to the interest part of that. So project total projects expenses of 1,373,500. you can see that total expenses do not match with the revenue and that's because of the restricted funds of the interest from the revolving loan so certainly would answer any questions that you might have council mayor yes ma'am Okay, let me go to the spreadsheet because I'm looking at the report. Okay. What category again? Yes, so that was what the category used to be, was other supplies, and I have no idea what that was. so i don't know what other supplies was we're changing it to local bre expenses that's if we do advertising that's to do you know our local expenses as far as meals if we take someone out to eat it shouldn't be that i mean certainly we're not going to try to spend 25 000 on meals in town but it also could be um like our boots and biz and those kind of things um that we we have um it also would be our annual state of the economy is in there i believe Any other questions?

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Say that again. Are you talking about insurance wise? Yes. Yeah, that's. that's the portion for three and three uh employees um and then tmrs you know that's a set number that uh that's a you know an actuarial number and we got that number from rebecca and then as far as the employee you know it's our it's our uh expense for three employees and and then i think uh i'm the only one with the spouse spousal coverage and then um the Other 2 staff members are just single coverage, but that's our portion meant for the 3 employees. Yes, sir. Yeah, correct. So yeah, we, you know, are we're not set up on a step plan. So this basically is our step plan.

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Yeah, actually part of the agreement was for them to be annexed by December 31st. And so that is in the works. And so we're working through, they're going to voluntary annex some other property as well as NXG. So we're working through that with planning and planning department. And so we're well on our way for that to happen ahead of schedule. Yeah, no worries. Thank you. I'll see you all Tuesday.

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So the adjusted budget that I saw was $10,000. So that's a lot of money. If I could manage to add $10,000 to here, it would be a lot of money. So I'm going to make sure you have a lot of money. And it's perfect for all the other institutions that need it. Actually, it's a lot of money. And I'm proud of it. And I'm proud of the effort that you've put into it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you so much Thank you. Thank you. And so I really do think that. And I think. I think. I think. The other staff has been taking some of those tips and taking some of those tips and taking some of those tips and taking some of those tips and taking some of those tips and taking And I just want to say thank you to all of the people who have supported us throughout this journey. Thank you to all of the people who have supported us throughout this journey. Thank you to all of the people who have supported us throughout this journey. Thank you to all of the people who have supported us throughout this journey. Thank you. Thank you. This is super interesting.

If our animal control officers last more than two years, all right, no. So we have an animal control officer, and we have a senior animal control officer, and we've mandated that if there are any things that they go through in a conversation, we make them a senior animal control officer. And it requires... It took about three to four years to get that training. And then we also started . And it's just . The market doesn't pay them. But we wanted to encourage that training. You know, a little story for you. About 19 and six years ago, we had a strength on . You know, we had one thing. And so there are several of those such as some self-defense, some tools that they can use with animals, and some advanced animal control options for them as well. And we're using a lot of those tools. So that's that.

I'm sure there's more. Thank you.

So some of that depends on how long it takes to take them to the court, and when you get a court date, that depends on most opponents, depending on if they're going after the team, if they're going after the ball, if they're going after the ball. So an aggressive animal, that's what we call a dangerous dog. Dangerous dogs, for the last 10 years, have been one of the most effective dogs in the world. Several of the most effective dogs and then you get to seeing the industry from all over the world to say to them, this is what I want, this is what I want, this is what I want, this is what I want, this is what I want.

We have to pay the day. So we've hired two animal controllers in the last two months.

So it's been one in a day and one in a month. It is a very, very challenging job.

So there's lots of reasons why we need an animal to protect our animals.

It is very strong in protecting our animals. but he said there was a day when he said

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Uh, it's the animal control office. Everyone supports the force, and it's trained to do it. And so we don't have the shelter, uh, manager, manager, or the, uh, other employees in the village. Well, this third body, this third animal can pull off a little bit. I mean, obviously, we want a full-fledged environment. But it is just one of those things. I would never say don't pay one of my employees no money. But I don't know that that kind of role, it's still just going to be passing on the moment. We try to find the right people. I think the third one is to alleviate all the pressure that we face right now. I'm going to go after Houston. So. Well, so a few years ago, so we've had a lot of employees in the front line. And when somebody's picked on a person, it's the other person. So these young people often, you know, in the street, they'll pick on a person. And as a case example, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people in the back. So a few years ago, I looked at the hours of several sessions of videos I've mentioned before, and I had a spreadsheet on my computer that I looked at, because at that time, we were splitting some people's days off, so we didn't use a daily amount of time. They come in any day, start at 8 a.m., but it's 2 hours until 10, 15 minutes. So I was trying to make this available. and they stay open until 5, and until 4 until 5, they see the animal, see the nurse, and they do, I don't know, related to that, they do some night events, they do some evening events, they do some train events, they have some events, they have a small donation event, but when you look at that, I feel probably in a good place to put myself on that. Yeah, so we use volunteers and we have new people with community service in the city. My staff, it takes them a few hours to train some of us. And they also have to monitor them and sort them out. We actually had a gentleman who came to the service last year. I don't know how many, I don't even know how many. He did great work. Some of them don't know how to work. Some of them come for a very short period of time, and then they don't want to come. And we spent a lot of time with them. I don't have a question to get it to you. We look at it. We love our volunteers. We have some volunteers who are fantastic. We've been coming for years. We have a couple of women who come on the same day every week. They handle all the tasks. And they just, they do laundry. They do all the dishes. And they are regular. And we love them. We kind of have to go on through when hospitals are, you know, when you're talking about kind of the safety system, because when you're just talking about what's going on in your home, but it's also, like I said, some of them come and a lot of these people want to just take it out of their homes and spend time with them and do stuff like that. It's just managing when they're coming and having some of those things happen to them at home. So police department, I'll just keep going. We have 33 sworn. So we have one sworn police officer's APT. I have a second one here in the back. And then I know when the new budget is in position, I'm going to tell you what I think about that. So the growth in the city, especially with the apartments, and I'm going to tell you what else I think about that. The number of residents of the walls, including houses and apartments, and the number of apartments we have, was actually a larger increase in percentage than what I anticipated. So I see it as something that we must go projecting out over the next five years. Yeah, it's difficult because you want the revenue first, but then by the time I get somebody hired, I mean, you're in the process. I'm having to go on, sometimes I'm stuck with the vision, but I just want to go through the process. But now that I'm in the process, I can get people to hire me.

I don't have to be in the process. I don't have to be in the process. So, yeah.

We have to have a certain map to be able to see how things are going. We're talking on the phone right now, one of the things we've been trying to do all day Thank you. I just wanted to show you real quick, I'm going to slide in the folks a little bit. Five years since the first one started, we're down very good numbers for all of our customers. Nothing's going to change right now. I'm here to thank you for the motivation to talk to me.

A couple of times, I've kind of, like, I love it when people have an opportunity to talk to me, but I don't like it when people don't talk to me. This is a lot of things that I've done myself. But then, you know, I think that's a lot of things that I've done myself, you know, I got the budget last year. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. and that is all of our

Thank you. Thank you. So they backed it up. One of the things that I think is really important is that you have to be part of that.

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Never. Um, what I did is I, I told, so on their website, I have a lot of vehicles in the most important. I pulled them in. Um, I used a little, uh, a phone to figure out the capacity for those vehicles. And so, for example, in October, new budget, during fiscal year 27, we will talk about another 10 vehicles. Uh, I will also discuss that. So we're paying them off now. We've ordered one vehicle. We've been waiting. We've been waiting. I'm really happy with that.

So, I've got a couple presentations that I'm hoping to do in the future, but there's always a few questions that I can answer.

So, for example, I'm using my Facebook, but I can use my Facebook as a way to spend more time on Facebook.

So, I'm going to stop there. Thank you.

a lot of the other departments in the system that are involved in it are looking to be making the algorithm work. And so, and the way in which they're doing it, they're failing to make the algorithm work. So, they've been asking me to use some of the chemicals in my lab. But as I've looked at it, we have a lot of people in the system that also know some of the things. And they can tell me, you know, and they can tell me that, you know, So we look at a little bit of a And the problem is... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My wife is in practice. She's studying the homework. I try not to use it in negative connotations.

No, no. So last year's budget was, yeah. Last year's budget was 528,000. Thank you.

The office is looking at a much better service. In the subject presentation, we've given you some evidence that we're going to have a better service, other than a lot of failures that we've had. It will be much better than where we are. Right now, we are behind. I'm hiring at $56,000 a month. All right.

Uh, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Um, no. Uh, uh, you know, it's supposed to be just generally the highest paid in the area.

Um, and so we're, you know, uh, and so we have a lot of, uh, uh, oh,

Thank you.

I don't need a plane. I don't need a plane. I'll give you an example. And it is time to add another option for myself. It is back to you. We have... I... We have... We have... We have some... I have a field in CID that I would love to fill with... Just to fill one more... And so if I could have somebody get it for me, just to fill it back. Now, that was near and dear to me, so I did that for a couple of years. And I was going to do it again. But I don't know.

I just want to thank you for coming. Thank you. Cool, though.

I mean, that is a police officer. And they have the visibility of a police officer in the field, though, is what prevents crime. Those traffic stops that you see, every statistician will tell you that that is a crime prevention 101. Then doing traffic stops, talking to people, walking down the street, riding a bike, coming out at night, going on business tours. That is what we do for crime.

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So I can use a few of those. So I can use a few of those. So I can use a few of those. Thank you.

Yeah, I think one of the things that I thought was really cool about this program is that it's really clear how successful you're going to be as a student. And I think that's one of the things that I thought was really cool about this program is that it's really clear how successful

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Yeah. I don't have it, but...

So, a new officer with an overhead at the new TASIA is almost... It's about $100,000. And then... I can't remember what the salary adjustment was. Was it $194,000? Yeah, was it...

I want to say $194,000 or something. Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, we can get a lot of them. I don't know if I understood that number. Is that sending them to get paid? Is that hiring people of all ages? So if we can get a lateral who's already gone through the academy, we like that option. We do pay them for their experience when they come in. But most of the time that we have hired, we are sending them to an academy, which is five or six months, and then they come back. We do a few more weeks in-house, and then we do field training for another 14 weeks. So it's almost an 11-month process before we get them on the street. Currently, I'm in the final stages of hiring one to send to the next academy. We just had one who finished about a month ago, and she's now on the street on her own. Of the last three I've hired, I sent to the academy. The fourth one is now sent to the security academy. Laterals, it just depends on if people want to move them. But we do a thorough background, and so we, frankly, So we have a platform up here. And we have a three-part session, one part for administration,

in our area . We also have . The budget . So the . Thank you. So, I know it's not in the budget, but I'm hearing about it.

So, what's the delivery time on the car? I know that it's going to be... Oh, it feels like it's been dragging.

That's my fault. Thank you.

That was discussed a couple of years ago. I don't know what state they're in.

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At the same time, right?

I mean, you can put that contract in place. That was the best at the time. I think at the same time, hearing the budget meeting, I think it was a good thing to do.

That way, it was good. I think it was a good thing.

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I don't know why everyone needs to start a podcast, but it's the same way when you're in the city, right?

You really don't want to talk about it. But when you talk about it, you don't want to talk about it. You don't want to talk about it. You don't want to talk about it. You don't want to talk about it. You don't want to talk about it. Thank you. Thank you.

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So our budget this current fiscal year is $606,006. And for this upcoming fiscal year, it is going to increase to $628,838. So most of it is from replacing equipment. And the rest of the increase is from . And I just wanted to highlight some of the things that we do at the library, specifically our summer program. We had an amazing turnout. I feel like I repeat every year that we have an even higher turnout. But that's wonderful with our community. And so we have 533 children registered for the summer program. That doesn't mean that... Kids don't necessarily have to be registered, but it's always a plus for us. So we probably have more kids that visit the library than that number, but those are the ones that were registered. We offered 121 programs over the summer. We go to daycare facilities and we provide books to 647 children. Um, over the summer, and then also we had 1125. And so they receive a coupon from our amazing local businesses in town that really want to incentivize and continuing education over the summer. And in order for them to get a reading coupon, they have to read at least three hours every week. So we added up the summer, and the kids that were in the summer reading program read at least 4,810 hours. over the month of June. And so we just have incredible staff. I always am so grateful for my staff. They come up with these wonderful ideas, try to see what needs there is in the community and see if that's the way that we can fulfill it. And we have amazing things coming up. We're introducing more cooking classes this fall. Saturday class, snack Saturday to have the kids sort of be more active in cooking and making snacks for themselves and their families. And then also training classes as well. I'm hoping to hear any questions. Some of them aren't. So snack Saturday, it's going to be, they're not going to be cooking anything. It's going to be more like they're going to make yogurt pancakes. They're going to do little sandwiches, something to get them to come out. But some of them, like our sourdough class, that one is going to allow children to come in too. And so that way they can learn how to make sourdough. Yes, that is going to be for Fibonacci Day because of the sequence on some of the fruits that there are. So that's a grant that I received. So we're incorporating math into cooking and different things that we're going to be doing in November.

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Yes, ma'am. That's the HVAC.

I want to make sure y'all hear me. Now put it in a little water tank, right?

That's good.

That's all it's doing. Put it in a bottle of water. Here's one thing. Put it in a bottle of water. Put it in a bottle of water. Put it in a bottle of water. Put it in a bottle of water. Thank you. Thank you.

You're looking for the airport.

It is not far. I've been going. Nice to meet you. Anyway, for the new year, our new year is 336,000. So that's about it. That's about it. That's about it. uh... uh... uh... uh... Thank you.

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Thank you. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... And then the other piece that we added, that is the Gulf Stream Coliseum. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. wait wait wait wait wait wait wait We gave them a waiver and told them to do it. And that's what they did. They moved on. We got to get out of that. We got to get out of that. We got to get out of that. We got to get out of that. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, yeah. you Thank you. So this is the file that I just described. This is not part of the system. This is part of the CD. So this is just a little bit of the back thing after all of this. The project has been made to some extent for all of the systems and all of the sites. We can't really show the connection because of the site. All right.

We did have an increase in this budget for the two additional employees. They were transfers from our utility maintenance department on the salary. So the salary for this increase lowered the utility maintenance department to about $6,000. The most major change is the penalty cost has gone up. Most of that cost, hopefully, is also in this year's budget because we definitely don't want to open it up early for the summer of 2017. So we have to pay for a few extra penalties after the summer of 2017. So hopefully, most of that cost is already So you don't see that. And because the plant isn't running, it actually goes energy cost for the startup. It's no longer there, so it's just the thing that's running. It's actually running. So let's talk about that. With the bond project, you have the filter wheel. Oh. Oh.

First of all, this is my wallet. I'm going to see how it's going. Hopefully, I'll be able to send it to you.

The only thing that really stands out on this is the pinnacle call that John just loaded with the new client. The lesson call has gone down, so the new client goes down a little bit, so the lesson call is going up and down, so that's going to have to have those two calls, but it has gone down, and then it's going to have to have six calls.

We were supposed to do a law study. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. that I've been doing for a long time.

I've been doing it for a long time. I've been doing it for a long time. I've been doing it for a long time. I've been doing it for a long time. We, uh, So the parents use our glasses for our licenses. They don't open that very well in the field. They usually wipe them off. So we don't need to go to class until September. So we don't have a month. We don't need to go through the month. Thank you. um um

Thank you. I also want to acknowledge all of the people involved in this project, the leaders of the community, and all of the people involved in this project. I also want to acknowledge all of the people involved in this project, the leaders of the community, Thank you. Thank you.

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