City Council - Regular Meeting

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[Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you so very much for the time that we have here tonight as a council and other representatives of the city and the guests that we have here tonight Lord I just um pray that as those Auditors head home Lord that you just give them safe travels Lord as they head back tonight and thank them for coming over Lord I lift up every single person in this room as they made decisions on behalf of the city Lord I pray that all that we do and say be um glorifying to your Holy Name Lord we thank you we love you and everything you do for us in Jesus name amen amen all right we'll call meeting in order and the record show we do have a qu and we have a pledge of Le us to un

states of the United States of America and to the stand one nation under God indivisible and jce for all [Music] [Music] thank everybody for being here all the staff gentleman from T and keing CPA keep us straight he'll appreciate you being here and uh this will proceed into our agenda the first item is approve the minutes for the council meeting February of the 10th I'll make a motion we approve those minutes I'll second [Music] Motion in a second all in favor say I I I all oppos motion carries now item two we want to receive the 2023 24 audit report and I'll turn that over to it's up to you so I'll give the short version y get good any questions hey we love coming over here to your city love what yall doing here working with your staff uh it's it's great and everything's in great shape on U you don't got the report in front of you on page two we've got a letter from us to you it says we audited the financial

statements that are presented here here present fairly the financial position and results of operations of the city of Y sheo so a very clean opinion it can it be very clean sure can accountants uh give you know adjectives very clean opinion just a clean opinion following that the Management's discussion and Analysis and in there we uh take the basically the financial data and it's more in a narrative format there's a lot of good information there but what I want to point out is on page eight there's a table that uh what this is is the government wide financial statements it's adjusted for assets it's adjusted for pension assets liabilities and all types of things like that but there's still some some comparisons that we can do so you can see there on the right hand side the total government we've got governmental activities business activities that's your Enterprise fund but you can see cash is up from 5,590 to 6,349 uh overall current assets are up from 6,436 to 7,168 and down at the bottom you can see your net position is up about 8% from 11 mil 774 12,686 so really good job you're doing with the resources that you've got here in muu uh the things that you're doing are great on page nine you see that uh we're looking at the revenues and expenses again we've got depreciation in here so it's not

cash in cash out like you typically look at your budget but this does have again some compar comp to the items you can look at revenues overall are down just a little bit from the previous year um margely your taxes are up that's 1.27 compared to 1,254 uh your charges for services that's going to be your water and sewer those type of things is up 3,146 to 3,233 um but overall just about the same 7,20 to6 m89 three and expenses are just pretty much the same so overall youve got an increase in that position of $992,000 I really like to jump from there to page 18 there's some other financials in there that show the same thing that we were just looking that but on page 18 there's there's two schedules 18 what we're looking at is the government um you know the government side of your city so that's taxes collected and expenses for street services police safety those type of things and it's cash in cash out so basically we're looking at a cash flow statement on Government Services here you can see total revenues 4,853 expenditures of 4 million 526 so an increase in your fund balance of 327 from operations you got transfers in of 380 and transfers out and some uh

S capital assets so overall an increase or net change in fund balance are basically the fund balance here is is close to cash of 700 $1,000 on um page am I going too quick no no I'm just just as interesting as anything right this is great stuff on page 20 21 we've got the water and sewer balance sheet and uh balance sheet and Revenue statement you see there the balance sheet for proprietary funds again that was on those tables in that first part and uh the income on exhibit D2 total operating revenues of 1,948 expenses of 1,533 and transfers out basically an increase in your net position but on page 22 just like that that C2 schedule where we're looking at cash in cash out we take the revenue and expenses of your water and sewer fund and you see on page 22 receipts from customers payments to suppliers payments to employees so there we get net cash provided by activities 828 the the transfers while that went over to the government side so overall an increase in cash and cash equivalence there of

253,000 so like we looked at that that schedule where we looked at the increase in cash right there it is in the two parts the government side 700,000 and then here on this side 253,000 so that 72 $ 900,000 increase in cash is any am I missing anything don't think I should have opened with a [Music] joke y'all got any questions after that we get into the notes to the financial statements trying to be brief but y'all can stop me at any time ask any questions and you guys don't listen to me talk all night got other things here on page 23 we start the most of the financial statements the first part of these were really just looking at uh significant accounting policies and some other really good information but where is it on page 35 we talk by leas is receivable um on 36 got detail on your Capital assets so just as you added cash to the bank account you also added assets you see there total on the government side you added 380,000 in uh government assets 210 to infrastructure ructure 8,807 to buildings and improvements and then just equipment 160,000 and 55,000 in water and sewer

system improvements so also as well as cash you added assets of over $400,000 on 40 we're looking at your long-term obligations uh the note starts really on 39 but we've got the detail in there on page 40 you see a little bit of increase but the GL refunding Bond decreased 257,000 um net pension liability that's that's an accounting entry just and that has to do with that that whole uh part of that retirement fund it's booked in and out it's for accounting purposes but on business type activities you see 175,000 uh on the go bonds so they also with the purchase of equipment you've also got a decrease in your debt of um 4 basically $20,000 any any questions there am I going too fast you guys have anything that you want me to point out other than great y' are that's that's good how you doing okay following this we get into all of these notes about the gmrs pension plan like to say that's on that liability schedule and it shows you know pension assets pension liabilities those type of things but those are accounting only I mean it just has to do

with your proportionate share of the TS Pension Plan Marine 41 right now than sir you want me to go back and and do the whole thing I I practice now so it ought to be correct I think we're good those notes on the tmrs plan go for several Pages there a lot of description about the computation of those assets Pate share on page 52 we've got the general fund compared to the budget really can't say much of Y done great budgeting great planning everything looks great there same thing on page 53 the economic development probably one of the places we go see best on economic development as you say actually do what they're supposed to do uh 54 home Grant Grant income and home Grant expenses and then on 55 the budget comparison on the clf frf gr see there actual expenditures of 169 and 76 and expenditures leaving the need fund balance of 92 we got some more schedules following

that about the pension but on page page 63 got a report um you know when we're looking at your your records and everything we're not looking at the numbers we're all so looking at internal control in the city uh the job that your staff is doing um your CFO your manager uh the clerks uh making sure that they have control over your assets over your resources and that's what we're talking about in this letter and we just found nothing at all to report to you on that so a clean opinion on control rules regulations and everything so everything looks great absolutely and you added money to the bottom line taking great care of resources paid debt and L assets so I think your citizens ought to be really proud of what y are doing say becoming one of our favorite places to come doing a great job have everything laid out for us you done what you're supposed to do yeah I love those those boxes we like to hear that we're we're off the proud of our staff so you you have a right to be they really do what else [Music] R appreciate you yeah thank you thank you

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financial report second motion second all those in favor say I I all oppos motion carries now our next item is to consider the election judges rone thank you mayor uh Joseph Guerrero has agreed Serv election judge for City's general election Virginia Bowers she's agreed to serve as alternate and I'm much going be our Clerk I think God they all have helped us in the pass so we feel comfortable with I'll make a motion that we appoint all of them to the judges second move a motion second all those in favor say I I all oppos motion carries our next item is to consider the cancellation of the May 3rd 2025 general election for District 1 mayor the law allows for the cancellation of an election while candidate is unopposed BR is the only applicant p on valid for district one therefore I recommend cancel election for that district one I'll make a motion that we cancel that election second have a motion a second all those in favor say I I I all oppose motion carries congratulations CHR the next item is to consider the contract Amendment with s pl we Services mayor part contract allows for an inflation rate adjustment uh s we say requested a 5% rate

adjustment uh the last R increase that requested was 3 years ago was in 2022 staff recommends Council approve that request that adjustment it it's a 5% no right here it says that they requested a 5% rate adjustment doesn't say up or down I guess he does have a point he does have a point make a motion that we approve the 5% increase a second Mo a motion a second all those in favor say I I all oppos motion carries next item is to consider resolution r820 325 denying Atmos Energy's proposed rate increase mayor this has become a yearly event uh this resolution denies the r application consideration proposed by ad energy what it does it allows a with West Texas City legal council to enle shate and the purpos rate increase U it is before the Pu right now so there are it's just the Motions you know we go back and forth so same song of day it's just different different different year so this will Deni the proposed adjustments I feel like we do this like every month yeah but I know it's not that seems like well between ADM Andel energy I think is simp mon yeah I'm I'll make a motion uh we pass that resolution denying their rate increase motion a second all those in

favor say I I I oppos motion carries our next item is to consider a recommendation from the MEO Economic Development Corporation to renew the contract with leading EDG Min EDG has contracted uh leading EDG for several years now uh it's time for Renewal EDC earlier this morning they all recommended to R [Music] cont in the period we contracted was leading EDG there's been believe is that 80 something contact with different business uh potential businesses or uh local businesses as well one thing that I do want to make you know known that that is available to the public and how cost is there's anybody that feels like they need some help starting a business or just to uh uh come in and talk to them and see how they can improve their businesses I know course you have talk them maybe yeah Taylor is great he has a lot of resources and he does a lot for um the city of LEC like what he runs so like getting his bigger city Vibes to meal shoe is like really helpful and if he doesn't have the answer right there with him he definitely finds it for you so like any person who's considering in business I always recommend them to go speak to him even if they're not really needing anything out of like meil shoe or the EDC but just to talk to him and pick his brain he's really good with like all he does and he's just really good Mentor in general um I think with what his wife does for a living um I think she's like a she's like a psychologist or counselor or something like that so like the way he talks to you is just really good like just good

mentorship in general it is free to the citizens so take advantage of it I'll make a motion that we renew that contract all second motion second all those in favor say I I all opposed motion carries next item is to receive the financial State for the month ending February 28th of 2025 make a motion will receive the financial statement all second Mo motion second all those in favor say I I all opposed motion carries your next item is to receive the administrative reports here the TM reg3 meeting will be held Thursday March 27 at the Woman's Club uh Council are invited if you plan to join us uh please talk camera um like to know by the Friday that will RSVP it's always a good time with fellow cities around the area on Project updates uh uh and all the the North Country Club Edition it's going uh the Main Street project phase two should begin should start it this week so we're hoping that that gets going again what that entitles is uh intersections at each one of the Box those dips will be uh redone to make it a more a smooth uh Crossing from there so Home Project has been completed uh in the process of submitting paperwork to the state start getting reimburse for

that project and that's all I have Council have any remarks