Remarks by Erin Enouen
350 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 14
“Youth program? The youth program. And then... OCFS. I don't think that's getting coded in with department revenue. I think that when we receive it, it gets coded differently, but I'll double check because that comes in as a check that comes to my office. It doesn't go through Kate. Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah. And those grants come in as deposits, too. The state, all state grants come in as a direct deposit and they don't really give information on what they are sometimes. So in, I've looked back through from the beginning of QuickBooks and it gets, it's coded in different lines…”
“Yeah. Cause the, um, the portal sometimes tells you what it is, but sometimes it doesn't tell you what it is when it comes in. Yeah. And so if you have, I think a few times I've, Stephanie might've called you and been like, do you have a grant? Yeah. And that's because we get like a test or we get a direct deposit. Yeah. We don't know what it is. Um, Okay, so I'll be adding those two for those two aids because I didn't include those. Okay. What are you looking at?”
“So part of the difference is that the coding isn't necessarily the same. Like I was saying, like this and this.”
“How does the after school program revenue come in? Does the bulk of it come in? They pay monthly. Oh, they pay it monthly. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.”
“And then how does the revenue for basketball come in? Is it all at once? Beginning of the season, yeah.”
“So the only fees that are charged for the recreation department are for youth programming. Okay. We start looking at expenditures. So in the tentative budget.”
“Yeah, let's do, you know, this is for, this meeting is for the board. I think it is useful to have you go through your programs and For the board, I can always explain how they're mapping on into this format, but seeing how you're breaking everything down and as you're reviewing it, if there's things you want to call out, you can, and we will make note of it for consideration in terms of when we're actually agreeing on what our final preliminary budget numbers should be.”
“You guys like the line item or. Okay. Okay. But so you have to look at this.”
“I wouldn't... Because one, I thought that those staff wages were folded in. And I think it's actually, given the wiggle room that you built in, I think we actually do stick within those numbers, even with the programming. But so I wouldn't want to touch the staffing hours. And then for the other things, I think we... Did you also, sorry, cut you off. find that mistake I was talking about the youth programming so it was what I did is that you had two at the same you had four counselors for 24 hours a week and one counselor at 33 and I combined those I'll show you which I had to find I just got…”
“It's also, we, what goes in that code is what we received from the town.”
“Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to look into it too. But yeah, if you get me your numbers and then I can look through QuickBooks.”
“But so what I do is I take. this and I make, I add up by all the codes. It just, I didn't, I wasn't thinking about the staffing, but everything else I double check. I cross-check them.”
“You can easily add up three lines. Which of the? That would be total part CIMREC administration, and then it would be youth program, the total for that, and then it would be senior program, the total for that, and adult program, the total for that. So it would be four lines.”
“Depending on if you want to include staffing in that, then you would have to add those. But there's no staffing broken out for the program except for.”
“Yeah, and you, I mean, if I haven't shared this with the board, you guys do, you run very independently. You keep track of your expenditures and you are, you know exactly how much you've spent without even needing for us to pull that up from the record. So I know that you guys are very, you're running the program as frugally as possible. And it's very clear, but you're also doing that on your own. I don't, I've never had to let you guys know that you're overspending something. So I appreciate the level of oversight you have over a lot of little expenditures. There's a lot. Thank you.”
“Thank you for coming to have me. Thank you. Yeah.”
“As you guys join us, there's going to be a little bit of a battle.”
“Just waiting for Charlie. To. But if you guys, that copy, if you want to reference, we'll be looking at page 37. Is that what? That's the kind of budget.”
“Yeah, I'm just saying if you would like to look at something while we're discussing it, that's why we've provided that.”
“Okay. We just are providing a copy on the table. That's all. I should have brought all of them. I just wanted to focus on.”
“What the board has the handwritten stuff. Yeah. We have that in front and then we have the tentative budget. So do you want to walk us through?”
“So those are based on meetings that the board had with departments and the requests that they put in ahead of the filing of the tentative budget. So we did, they had requested that specific positions move up to a higher tier of the pay scale. So not like a pay, not a wage increase. Every single position got a flat 3% in terms of the, what's in the budget, like the position tiers. There's the tiers like one through.”
“Because those went from grade three to grade four and five.”
“Let's just pause. I want to pause right now. This is not a zero sum game. This is a budget discussion about the tentative budget, which is the draft budget, which is based on requests from the departments. So We are having the conversation right now. We had departments come to the board well before the budget process talking about how they thought that the pay scale for certain positions should be changed. And you're making a case that you feel that the clerks to justice should move up in the pay scale in the same way that two of the other positions did.”
“So this is the opportunity to say that, but there's not a targeting. It's not like a targeting. It's not a zero sum game. You know, this should, to me, this is, should be a productive, positive, friendly conversation. I hear what you're saying that you feel that there is a, some kind of neglect happening. And you can definitely talk about that, but that's just the context behind the, where you would see that two positions moved up to higher tiers.”