Remarks by Ronald Zorrilla
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“Hello, Cornelia. I hope you feel better soon. Thank you for showing up either way. I was wondering about the heat hotline how that works because I know none of it it looks like none of it was spent this year and it's not budgeted for next year did the staff or some other part of the department take that over it doesn't exist anymore no I put it in last year's budget just to make about to see if it would balance so I didn't need it so I took it out because the overtime budget suffices What exactly is the heat hotline?”
“Got it. and that wouldn't be it now it's folded into the overtime yeah okay um i did uh i don't know if this is a mistake or um maybe it's a miscommunication your salary on the first page doesn't match the request on the third page it's off by like”
“So I have a- This is not correct. The 127 is the correct, which one is the first page?”
“Okay, so we have to update that first page. Yeah.”
“Yeah. Do you ever tap into the, I know there's a trust fund for the revenue that comes in from rental registries. Do you ever use that for education? I think that's one of the reasons we can use it. I'm just curious.”
“There's a lot of paper there's a rental registry trust fund that exists that is that has $328,000 in it that hasn't been used and I was asking if it can be used for some of this stuff.”
“i don't i i mean we'll learn more but it it exists and it's there and the revenue comes from your the rental licenses correct and that's what it was designed for to bring when we bring on the the additional staff that was supposed to pay for their their salaries the revenue that came from the rental registry so when we look at the revenue side if we could just look how we can use some of the trust fund money to stay away from tapping the general fund it would be great”
“Maybe this is for the comptroller's office. I'm just curious, health insurance, actual for 2025 was 261,900. Spent year to date is 205,000, but we're asking for 450,000. It just seems like I'm not sure why it would double unless the number of staff significantly went up. I'm just curious if that's correct. And we could check later, I know.”
“Is that a similar formula we talked about the other day?”
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“Thank you. I have a couple things. You mentioned in August 20 of those ramps were done. How many are we at now?”
“got it i also wanted to thank the dpw staff that are sitting back there thank you for showing up appreciate that uh the ev charging station is that uh i'm just curious if any of these cost centers covers that like grant that we got for ann street and the ev charging does that fall on dpw at all i don't think so the first time i heard about it to tell you the truth was last night um but”
“i don't know the answer to that sorry i would think that that's going to be metered um got it thank you um i did think i think we need a correction on page seven i know that the equipment supervisor is being replaced by the electrician but the page eight has them at 94 000 and this sheet page seven needs to be updated to reflect that so it's at 75 so the total should be 155 000 it's like a difference of 21 000. yeah we have to put a placeholder for that requested position in because from what i understand it needs to be created oh got it by civil service okay um page nine it's a minor thing…”
“I just want to make sure we have the right information. And then I'm going to go to the budget, although in the back. You have a lot of pages, sir. Sorry. Your mic's off.”
“uh 300 broadway is uh is owned it's called broadway school courthouse okay yeah thank you so that line item is just for that building okay i was trying to i was confused thank you those multiple lines i was uh for the i know that the sanitation enforcement officer is vacant right now so i know we've been in the city manager's report we have received like reports of Violations, who's handling violations of the codes department right now since that- The sanitation supervisor is doing that work. So they're doing- In between his regular duties. Wow, okay.”
“Okay. Under traffic department, page 32, I don't know if this was like a fat finger error or if this is, it was at 4,800 and we're asking for 48,000.”
“thousand yeah so that has to be lowered it's going to be we i david actually brought it to my attention today and we talked about it's going to get fixed okay and the other equipment on 205 it says tool replacement 3000 but when you were speaking you said sign potter is actually 40 000 is it 40 or is it 30.”
“got it uh a question about uh i know that chips consolidated highway aid under highway there's only two lines and one of them is chips and we had 2.9 million dollars and i don't think we used it last year can we just get some clarity on like why we didn't use it does it roll over it was that and the touring route uh funding which i don't see on here at all”
“Got it. So next year, there might be money left over that will be in that line item, or was it moved to a...”
“yeah i think we're counting it as revenue which throws off the projections right they uh o'connor davies had recommendations on how to better budget for those those funds okay um off street parking it looks like we need to remove there's the three hundred two thousand dollars there as the top item but i think that that's like there's nothing under it besides ten thousand dollars so i think that that just has to be cleared um for parks there's a other services line that is that we only spend three thousand five hundred dollars on and i know we're looking for a trimmer we have an arborist i…”
“I know we only, as of date, we only have used half of the park's money, a million dollars. Do we plan on spending it down for the rest of the year?”
“I would like to see it spent down because I think our parks, it's definitely an issue that gets a lot of commentary. I'm glad we got a grant, but I think that... the the perimeter and the poly so many people are using that park and it's it really needs some love that perimeter you walk around the poly it's like a lot of erosion and it's falling apart yeah not sure if that could be included in this year or next year but it would be great to”
“Sanitary sewer, there's also an other services line there that we've only used 92,000. It's... It says the appropriation has been increased from the 2026 budget due to operational, but it cuts off the rest and I don't have the electronic version. I'm just curious, how does it go from, we've only spent down 92,000, but what is that 356,000 gonna cover?”
“Got it. I'm a new kid, too, so I might be asking questions. No problem.”
“I know the city manager mentioned that we're moving the camera truck and equipment, and I think he also mentioned some software, Sensophone, SmartGrow. SmartCover. Is that in one of these line items? Is that under the other services? Yeah, it is tied into one of the...”