Remarks by Stacy Goss
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Can you go back to the map, please? Yes. There's a lot more north of town than I was realizing. Or, I mean, north of 17th. Like, I'm looking at, like, for our quadrants.
And I would imagine by doing it over the top versus mixing it in, you're using a lot less of the coloring agent.
I think this is interesting. This is what I had wanted to hear about this. I think without putting a pen to paper and figuring out what some of the costs are, it's hard to say which option is going to be best for you to move forward with, but I would be curious to know if that historical district has any special regulations, so if that would be something you could dig into.
I think there's two points of concern for me. So one is Monroe to Adams, 2nd Street. There is a brick sticking up just west of Jefferson. I drove by it today on the way here. And then the other is 12th and Walnut, and it's like the – traffic pattern of people turning has moved the bricks so much that, like, you bottom out right there. Maybe not in a big truck, but in a normal car, you bottom out just going through there.
Yep. You mentioned some of the measurements, how many blocks are 27 and how many are 60 and whatnot. Okay. Would that be possible to color code the map of which ones are which width?
I think we have that. Just tell us which of the 19 blocks are 60.
I... Wanted to bring up the future agenda items that I had mentioned. I think it was August 4th and they were Voted on by council to be heard within 60 days and today is the 60-day mark those were the flock cameras the plastic bag ban the e-bike and scooter Regulations The brick streets and I the public comment policy. So that being said those are still important things that we should discuss. The community is expecting us to do that and I would like them to be on a near future agenda. Yeah, that's it.
We did. So in 2025, when the FEMA map changes came out – And I wish the engineers were here too. OK. Basically, the Cal Creek project was re-evaluated and determined that perhaps the original math that made it a priority wasn't accurate. And that's when we transferred or kind of moved over to the detention basins.
Something that I learned, two things I learned is, number one, the FEMA maps were online, and now they're not showing any longer. And I didn't know, and I wouldn't expect you to have an answer, but that's something I need to reach out to.
Right. They were on a state website. Oh, they're on a state website? Yeah.
I figured maybe they were pulling them so that they could change them because it was more of a GIS type system. And then the other thing is a resident who lives on like 3rd, I think, reached out about a giant pothole and some drainage issues in her block. And I learned that there's only three, I think you told me, there's only three conduits that cross the railroad tracks going south.
Okay. Is that something that can be increased? Because I know they're going under a railroad.
So the top of page 177 in the budget, it would go from 3.1 million budgeted to 176,000? Not to 176,000, but the net change to the general fund would be 176,000.
Oh, okay. I was looking at 177, which is the municipal airport fund.
And so the savings that would have been seen by having that position not hired, but funded for this year, does the airport fund get to use those in a different way or how is that?
Okay. I think that would be something that I'd... in the absence of a city manager, I would be open to hearing how that could be used to better the airport or sweep it back to the general fund. I think either of those would be wise.
Is that something that you could take? That was the question I had too, Mr. Chairman. Is that something that you could take the budgeted salary from your miscellaneous contractuals and use for that MRF? Because that's your MRF for 28.
And that would give you, I don't know what salary set aside for that position that wasn't filled is, but that would eat up quite a bit. I would imagine of what was left over and your new person's going to need supplies and whatnot. So is, is this amount here adequate for, what you're imagining they would need to accomplish next year?
And trading the FBO MRF equipment for your MRF equipment, I think, is a good tradeoff that if you're... I mean, that was $160,000 of MRF equipment. I would imagine that you prioritized the FBO stuff ahead of yours in this budget, considering that it was more timely. I don't know what page your other MRF projects are on. The field tractor was $80,000.
The one 60 that we were cutting for the Murph and just put that towards your Murph would one 60 would cover everything that he's trying to get at the 80 for the field tractor, the 35 for the zero turn radius mower. And then you, you said another dollar amount for the flail mower.
Well, I think with the unknown of he doesn't have an exact dollar figure on the equipment, give him up to $160,000.
This is the comp plan or the comp study that we did in 2024? Yes. Okay. And I recall doing it. And I recall the process. How far out did they basically project for our steps? You said that there was a while where there was no change to the top and bottom of the steps. Was that comp study in particular the one that changed the steps, or was that something else?
You said that two of the unions didn't prefer the way that the steps were, but that wasn't from our comp study from 25, was it?
So the wiggle room lies in the average merit raise. Okay. And shifting, so basically we have 4.5% to play with. The savings would vary because if the heavier part is the average merit raised, then that's the thing that would fluctuate. But if everybody gets the same COLA adjustment, then that's a set number and that would eat up that savings. So I guess the... It's hard to make a decision when we don't have, like, if there were a widget that we could slide around and say, here's how it saves. Give us a dollar figure.
I think I would rather see it flipped and see a 2.5% COLA and a 2% average merit raised. I think that gives staff the assurance that they're valued and that they're – I mean, even that doesn't keep up with inflation, but it leaves less to the unknown because if the biggest part of your raise is guaranteed, I think that's the steps that – means we're negotiating in good faith.