Remarks by Mike Hoppock
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Okay, it is four o'clock. I will call the September 14th, 2026 Linus City Commission meeting to order. First, I look to staff for confirmation of the Kansas Open Meeting Act required notice has been properly provided.
Before we do the Pledge of Allegiance, there's something I'd like to share with everyone. Last Friday, it was an honor for me to be a part of the 25th 9-11 Remembrance Ceremony last Friday at the new Fire Station No. 4. September 11, 2001, showed us both the depths and tragedy. and the strength that can be found within community. There's a quote I saw while reading about September 11th, and I'd like to share that at this time, and it reads, the best way to honor those lost on 9-11 is to be the people we were on 9-12. During our moment of silence, let us remember the victims of 9-11 and give…
Second. We have a motion and a second to approve resolution number 26-8369, appointing Gary Norris to the vacancy of the city commission. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay, with that, I will turn it over to Nikki.
I'll start to my right here. Any questions, comments? If the light's on, it's working. Thank you.
And you have to keep a certain fund balance to help your bond rating, too. I mean, you always got to remember about your bond rating. So we're always, you know, being... aware of that plus I think you know we do they still have some fund balance and I don't know what that's going to do over the next year or two but you know we have some we have quite a few projects to do whether it's the East Magnolia Road or the the Schilling and Ohio intersection we may be able to use some again fund balances to help lower the amount of debt which saves us money over the long term one of the documents and I…
Well, one of the other things we did that was advantageous is we did the RFP for banking services, and we took our interest income from $300,000 to, I'm going to use the $3 million. So that's quite a few mills if we're looking at property tax. So that helped us to keep our mill levy down. So, again, when we compare to other areas, and people always want to talk about McPherson, and I did my analysis too, Our mill rate is 53.238. Ours is going to be 29. So there's kind of like what Commissioner Norris was saying. People say, well, we'll move somewhere where taxes are less. Well, I can give you…
Could you could you face us so they can hear?
Do you have any comments about the budget? Yes, I'm getting there.
We have no, do we have a- It's a chamber of commerce program. It's chamber of commerce.
No, Norm, we're talking about our budget.
This isn't about, what you're saying is not dealing with our budget. You're spending money. Yeah, but what you're talking about is not our budget. If you want to handle that, that'd be under Citizens Forum. Okay.
Okay, if there's no one else, I'll bring it back to the commission for action. I guess, first of all, I'll close. Oh, okay.
Okay, if there's no other comments, I will close the public hearing and bring it back to the Commission for action. We have three items.
Okay, please can respect Commissioner Davis until I'm finished.
Second. We have a motion and a second to approve resolution number 26-8370, levying a property tax rate which exceeds the revenue neutral rate. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? May. That item passes 4-1. lead us to the next one.
Aye. That item passes 4-1. That will lead us to the final one.
We have a motion and a second to approve resolution number 27-8367, adopting the 2027 comprehensive fee schedule for the city of Salina. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? That item passes 5-0. Okay, that will bring us to the consent agenda.
Do we have an item the commissioner would like to pull from the consent agenda? Are there any comments from the public on the consent agenda? If not, I will bring it back for a motion.
Second. We have a motion and second to approve consent agenda items 4.1 and 4.2. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? That passes 5-0. That will bring us to administration.
Leslie, do you want to answer that in any way?
Yeah. You might pull that ordinance at some point because I don't remember either. Okay.
Any other questions or comments? Are there any comments from the public on this? Okay, with that, I bring it back to the Commission for action.
Do we have a second? That we have a motion in a second to postpone consideration of ordinance number 26-11300 till November 9th and ask staff and SDI Director for additional information as to the hospital slash mill districts for further consideration Okay, I guess that's an ordinance. Do we need to do a roll call since it's postponing?
Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay, that item passes 5-0. Okay, that will bring us to item 5.2.
Have we gotten approval from the state of Kansas? Have we what? Gotten approval from the state of Kansas to do this third amendment? Yes. Okay, thank you.