foreign
thank you
foreign
thank you
okay
can we
correct that yeah
we have a list of stuff right here yes
any other questions
thank you
I will go into assessment
Ferrari yes
assessments uh the total budget has only
been coming up 8 979 and it's all
you know because of payroll increases
sure I honestly nothing else in the
budget really changed that's really
changed we finally after a year and so
many months yeah we have a data
collector starting on Monday so that's
yay and we're looking for a clerk right
now and that's so that should wrap up
pretty soon
but otherwise you know besides the
salaries I'm interested to see so for
the past couple of years because of
legislation with covet we haven't sent
out any mailings or had to do any
mailings of big names we're sending one
out this October so I'm interested to
see we ended up we end up usually having
a little bit of overage anyways so but
I'm afraid mailings are going to go up
and there's some legislation
um at the state level
that has to do with one of the
exemptions we have and that they want us
to alert everybody who owns property
even if they're not really like we know
there's probably people who are not over
65 their own property when the
legislation could state that we have to
let everyone know who owns residential
property about this particular exemption
and think about the
occur and we have the 15 000 Residential
Properties so it's it's
nervous about that I think there's
enough assessors around the state here
we're talking about this at our
conference there's not assessors around
the state who are angry enough about
that that they would try to fight
against that just because of the postage
if that was to come through then we'd
have to find it a more creative way like
anything else that goes out from the
city to all Property Owners you would
I guess that's for something in the
future
but otherwise really you know changes
you know
steps that goes for the board assessment
groups yeah
so is that the only vacancy that we have
the well as of right now right just yeah
we have two vacancies to get it left
around the clerk but somebody starts
Monday so they collector I'm not
counting that yeah
that would be probably I would say
three or four more weeks but that would
be vacant
so whatever that line was this year
still
thank you
should we be adding postage
um or just I you know what I I
don't just
haven't sent out
years so it's hard to know I know
postage has gone up but we still do have
enough because we kept postage the same
every year and it was so I think we'll
be okay
but I don't know it's just something
it's something to think about I guess
because it's hard for us to know
how many
because the legislation there's a lot of
people that won't need to won't be
renewing in the future there's a lot of
people that we know probably didn't meet
the income qualifications and all that
so it's just a matter of
um waiting to go through a year but to
see because we may have some
mm-hmm
I want to think of some other ways too
and they can clinical tool with the tax
bills maybe yeah well this is just in
general the regular renewal process
that'll happen at the end of this month
gotcha okay
you're saying it's gonna happen I didn't
want to be the decisions of mail the
notification out no I'm sorry that that
is still it could that could sit dormant
for a long time depending on whether
somebody gets a priority
um but I think we do a normal renewal
process we do a mailing to everybody in
the past two years we haven't
necessarily had to do that because we've
had legislation that extended all of the
exemptions so
um this will be a good trial run to kind
of see what the posters will be like
um so it's hard to say okay and I think
and we've again we've had overages in
the budget so it should be able to
account for that
and it's not the numbers aren't
necessarily going to change
I'm still looking at the same amount of
extensions so if we haven't been mailing out in two
years then safe to say that we'll
probably be okay yeah yeah but it'll be
a good kind of uh reference point moving
forward
foreign
increase that's basically a pay raise
just two uh I'm I'm here requesting for
uh my uh Deputy uh Derek uh the mayor uh
you know had a four percent increase we
were hoping to get him up to 80 000 uh
that's where we'd like to have them
North America you know give everyone
this four percent so I just want to
write that down there uh there's been
doing a great job he's getting ready to
you know take over position uh
I I keep telling sooner than any things
so uh he's lord of the old Lottery uh we
had a lot of trust fund he's doing a
great job with all the other departments
that we deal with which we'll speak
tonight
in my case it took the four percent you
know we're good with that our longevity
is what it is uh the other increases is
in the stipend uh for uh uh Derek and I
we both attended meetings we we're here
late almost every night uh when we're
just asking the stipend to increase the
same as Chris long and so in the Parks
now uh the total uh everything else uh
pretty much is stays the same
and that like I said the biggest Saint
Chris is is Takeoff
if you have any questions on any of
these uh
just explain the Feast of service yeah
fees for services is is that uh you know
that's when we pay our audits our uh
Nikon bills we pay our Arbitrage bills
we pay our fiscal advisor out of there
and one of our biggest things we do to
oped which is the other post-employment
benefit uh uh research that's the big
thing too a big cost of that so that's eats that up pretty good
Anthony what was the second thing you
said after Nikon
trash yeah what's that what happens is
that uh we have to have it certify that
all our borrowing that we're not making
more money than
uh our interest rate that we're
receiving because we have our money uh
invested in Banks or whatever it's not
making more money than our uh costs so
we have to have it certified that that
each uh each level of borrowing that we
have
some way to get money yet
cheese okay thanks
go ahead please with regard to the
statement so are you anticipating more
hours well I I think we've we've been
working more hours
actually I'm hoping to work lifestyle so
I'm gonna say well we didn't work here
we attend all the meetings we're here
not only for finance and uh committee
means we're also we also have to deal
with uh of water and soil or all those
other babies so if these guys have to
take after hours
not all departments get those uh no but
you know many do
so when you meet with these other
departments yeah
are they on overtime or are they uh
mostly without a department heads then
uh most of the ones we like crystalline
uh uh Joe panjango and uh uh what's his
name Paula fine Chris Wallen you know
when we meet after work you know you
know because really it's a time for us
where we can like really talk because we
don't have the phones without people
coming that's what we do a lot of work
as you know Chris was talking about
yesterday's all this stuff that we know
and the plans that we do the famous
stuff we do we usually do that after
hours
just just because it's easier any
questions
all right let's move to um page three
accounts and disbursement okay uh okay
I'm a guy I gotta tell you about this
and which I'm proud of these guys so
really uh
and and there's two things that you got
to remember an accounts this year we
lost three people in that department and
so uh we replaced the administrative
assistant uh from 56 so we got a new
Junior accountant we just got him we're
trained right in the middle of training
now they're a big part of that training
and we think we found a great guy uh we
also got a Percy mailing clerk which
started uh this year uh and you know
we're teaching her and she's doing
really well purchasing supervisor this
is probably one of our biggest we are so
lucky we found a person that's so bright
so smart and uh
scroll up uh experience that she
actually came from the city of Albany
that she went to court alone and now
she's with us and she started like uh
two months ago and we're really working
so uh
we're really you know we we were with
nobody we went from nothing and to we're
really getting this stuff back in shape
that's right Liz uh Elizabeth
one of the best uh bookkeepers that we
have here in the coming so uh she's a a
really great person that's great
reporting she's just not a people person
foreign
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790 like I said that's basically a
uh the front panel increases
and like I said really proud of these
guys I mean you know we're we started
we're starting from scratch how proud of
the guys that we stayed Derek myself
lives in Amanda because we're actually
doing the pork of six seven people just
uh three and four of us yeah
reimbursement
so are there any openings at all uh
right now uh there is not right now you
know uh we're thinking of uh no not
so the junior calendar so that was in
there that's that's a new position
that's his new position uh the the
person with their mystery system she was
supposed to uh develop into an economy
but after a couple of days she uh
it's gonna like it so she left oh okay
she actually went to this back to the
store Department worked for the problem
all right thank you
yes as quickly so was that so that
person who's going to move into uh
transition into uh junior accountant so
did you collapse that position or is
that position still
exists no that Junior College is the new
a new new position and was actually the
administrative assistant was the only
position okay and that's what we uh we
deleted her well we're we're not funding
her position we are funding between your
account to take that place okay
that makes sense
yeah
she was she's a 15 year old a year
interesting
yeah
explain a tuition or reimbursement okay
reimbursement uh it's actually for uh
our produced supervisor and our Junior
Captain uh they both uh they both sort
of request you know because it's in the
contracts actually if you get approved
they won't last I'll give your comment
and wants to eventually become an
accountant for that account which you
know we're pushing to do awesome so
we're worth the wait put that in there
for him to go to school and say with the
our personal supervisor who has a degree
she's looking to become to get a masters
you know
we're pushing that you know to move
forward on education too
Yeah you mentioned that the purchasing
email clerk was recently hired yes
so just for clarity uh it has our breath
next to it sorry requesting Oracle funds
oh no yeah what happened was last year
with winter when we were trying to find
the person we that would be fulfilling
an old position at that article and we
really only finally uh fulfilled it this
year according to 22. so we're going to
continue that felt there's more able to
foreign
they would transfer money if somebody
wants to go because that's all if you
approve the kid you just can't cuddle
right but it hasn't had the opportunity
though yeah it doesn't matter what
department you're in right okay yeah it
has to be in line with your job I
understand yep
all right what's most paid six
Board of discussion over here that's
exactly the same in fact I think you
just uh
keep going
is is
Human Resources okay listen human
resource I got to tell you again thanks
for thanks to Derek Bliss and myself our
whole in 2021 our whole human resource
department left
yeah
and uh we were able between the like I
said the three of us to keep it going
that everybody still got paid everybody
you know got going and we've not
required a
you know a like a full staff
uh to look at one of the things we're
looking for an additional it says HR
assistant ips3 as a picked up position
we're looking to add and and mostly
that's the split for our production
Administration and HRS because we have
nobody we haven't had a person in our
front of our office and so 2019. where
Amy Hill was so we're looking you know
that we're looking to fill that both of
us can use here you know just to just do
you know take uh paperwork to take names
to answer phone calls that you know to
just do uh regular work you know for
both departments uh also again like I
said so we we have a brand new HR
administrator we have a brand new
payroll uh uh audit clerk we have a
brand new uh personal benefits clerk we
have a a brand new payroll manager I
mean these people haven't even been here
a year yet and I'm not saying it was
easy but yeah it's it's we've had a lot
of months and you know we had some big
box we had some little bumps but we're
going through it and these guys are
really working real hard it's a young
staff which which is a really nice
because I'm I'm hoping that and if they
take my uh they take my uh look back at
me and put 38 years in so so you know
there'll be no fluctuation as they go
through so I want to say I'm probably
the guys that are I've been working to
get this through this so
uh that's that uh what else
we we do have a part-time person for DM
salary uh she works 15 to 16 hours a
week and uh you know is this because of
payroll you have to keep things for 40
years
as long as the she mostly works because
he's doing paperwork in the in the in
the back just moving stuff in and out
you know
huh
um so one of the questions that I asked
and you answered was about
um 1430 the um eliminating the employee
health and safety program right and I
understand that you couldn't fill it
when we want to we want to fill that in
the future I mean that is something
because uh it seems like it would be an
important role and that's what I'm
wondering like who is doing that now
nobody's doing it oh no we never had
anybody doing it oh we wanted to do this
and it was our idea and we're trying to
bring a person in so that they would do
all the uh you know workers comp you
know teaching people how to pick stuff
up like you know right and vote
Department you know instead of just we
have this one day a year classes you
know what I mean yeah we're looking to
have somebody here all the time and the
whole idea
behind that is try to reduce the amount
of workers
we definitely want to do that in future
with us we just did not have any luck we
think maybe the pain is not high enough
but we we didn't even get any
applications at all and we even went to
MVP we're trying to stack people on MVP
well okay
so some of the classes that I mean the
MVP does offer and that we all get
regular emails about some of that can be
incorporated into yeah okay so it's not
you wanted somebody full-time though
like because you know oh yeah
you know make sure they're wearing the
boots instead of shoes you know stuff
like that you know I mean that was that
was our idea of this but like I said we
just couldn't get anybody
um we uh we looked at other cities uh
City of Rochester got found somebody
Syracuse didn't find anybody Rochester I
got a guy and they said they helped him
a thousand percent help us yeah
plus of course yeah yeah okay oh yeah
we're definitely we're definitely going
to want to do that in the future and and
you know we we decided like it would
probably leave the HR assistant that's
probably more beneficial for us right
now than uh yeah okay so we were just you know we're
looking at the budget wise too sure how
do we save money now yep
a question on a formative action officer
yeah I know over the years Iran had a
you know comes with us with uh requests
for additional Staffing and the amount
of workload is being increased well you
know yeah how are we able to support him
and we also have a support staff for him
in his mother that's the thing right now
is and I talked to the mayor about this
answer on you know writes a good friend
of mine that says hi you have to tell us
you know what what is your job are you
the firmative action for the city are
you the are you actually running the
Enterprise Community what is that called
the positive Zone you know it says you
know we have got to figure out what
you're going to do before we can you
know you know what is your job what's
your check what is what are you going to
be doing full-time right now he's
getting through it in the future I don't
know like what we're talking about uh
with the arpan funds uh with the
Enterprise
run the projects I guess right so uh
so then so it's like a little confusing
and we're not sure
so is it wrong reviewing the contracts
to make sure they are able to be complex
yeah I don't think he has any problems
doing that I think it's the biggest
problem is where his workload is is an
Empowerment Center
on the zone so we talked so it's a
question of um are we talking about
roles clarification for the position or
are we saying he wants to have his own
Department right okay right so really
it's really up to you guys if you guys
think you need one you know you can
always add
staff for anyone
I just I just thought
you know because if you if they're going
to build that thing that's going to be
like two years in the making before
getting going I figured well you know
maybe you'll wait a year or two and then
you know just really see what which
direction he's going so he hasn't
requested it is what I'm here
and he requested it uh you know
kind of like says not yet
an administrative assistant you mean
that would be him administrators two two
other people it was it was a three-year
room Club
three uh three uh people of the
apartment yeah
because my phone has workbook definitely
going to be increased I mean he's
working with the Virgos Department to
make sure that they are in compliance
for the time they live to be a
requirement I know with this hiding on
him with the millions of dollars or
initial projects and there's a sense of
that he's coordinating with the duri
foundation
but like I said you know maybe you know
I'm not really sure how that plays into
being the first officer for us you know
so does that that's a good question
because I know that um at one point he
was um uh other departments were
graciously assisting him and some of the
things that he was doing so I'm
wondering like if that you know
because I imagine someone's leaving a
department to go assist him in his
Department then
there's a need for some assistance there
and then that's also leaving you know
some their their responsibilities that
they're supposed to be doing too so it's
like so it's clearly a need for him to
have of some support on that
you know like I said this is opportunity
to give it to him but with the new
position in HR that you said was going
to serve other offices could that also
help to serve well actually that is he's
in HR
isn't in charge it was actually going to
pick a floor no I know but I know where
he is but this is
right but that that sounds like that
assistant you said I'm sorry I'm sorry
I'm clear on how he
sounds like to me like
you know how to create his own job
position
that's what you're saying to me but I'm
not really clear on that girl you know
I'm not sure for Life yeah so that's how I'm telling that I'm
talking about
yeah yeah like I said it's true yeah the
mirror I wasn't you know keen on that as
yeah but
um
so he's asking for his own Department uh
he wants to have a an assistant and uh
believe it and what's that I believe it
was an assistant and an intern
but actually uh a a clerk okay and so
because you know this mayor talks about
various things he wants to do and and he
says and we're going to use Ron's group
to do this this and this so clearly
um he's important to how he's currently
running it and it's also looking to
assign world with him
um and in years past I've asked this
question before about why Ron didn't
have an assistant and before he said he
didn't ask for it America
did not give it something I'm saying
it's an opportunity that's why we're
here to
yeah
well there were other people that asked
for positions also yeah we're turning
down so yeah um
I think we should definitely consider it
because his work will seem to just
increase
I guess I'd want to see just as you said
Miss Porterfield I'd want to see a
description I'd want you know Ron to
probably I'd want to see and and he's
not here so I'd like to talk with him
but also see what's the business plan
what is what is the the the
um the plan just like you said I mean
what is his responsibilities and his
role and
um as you said it you're you know it's sort of unclear right now so let's
see it all you know
well maybe I can get a hold of Ryan
doing tomorrow we haven't come tomorrow
by any chance do you have his budget
proposal that you can share with us that
he presented to
um not today not right yeah again to
receive something from Ryan
as an example of uh
we brought them in there okay so we've
got something floating out there that
would have rationale and that kind of
thing I would imagine right because
somebody can get hold of that yeah
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um you know it was
just something we do I just saw him
clear it seems to be doing this with the
sanction on the sea yeah
okay please When I'm Not Looking come on
you just go ahead and come on just talk
just go ahead come on I guess we'll talk
about each other I guess for me I just
want to make sure I could have been
treated
I guess for me I just want to make sure
we're equally looking at adding stuff
the same way I just happened to the
first page that came to mind and
Engineering construction at the time
they're asking for an assistant civil
engineer to be added and we didn't ask
for let's see sorry
go ahead sorry so in the engineering
construction design they're asking for
an additional support staff the
assistant civil engineer and it cost
thirty two thousand dollars and if I
remember correctly he didn't have
these stipulations for them to
substantiate why they were adding that
position so I just want to know if
there's any particular reason why we're
going to ask us that or is this a
different consideration altogether
I can respond to that I mean you know I
think that we've been knowing for
several years that the engineering
department which has now all you know
even all the Opera projects on on board
needed that additional staff and that
was I think it's been asked for many
times before before I was on accounts of
living right
do you think yes
um and in this case I just wanted just
to follow up with what Mrs Porterfield
was saying I just I think Ron does a
great job
um but I just want to see especially in
terms of this being a new program
um you know I just want to hear from him
yeah I think but that's I don't want to
speak for around you it's right like I
said it might be if we go out with
things right I'm just I'm looking as a
whole I'm looking at the big picture
with the city I'm not trying to be
personal like because I think Rob's a
good guy yeah well I mean that it isn't
personal it's about the department yeah
so like it says you know with America
I'm gonna put a mix on it so I'm just
trying to bring that forward but this is
like I said this opportunity for Council
if they feel that he should have it and
I guess to respond to Carl I guess I
feel like we've had rationale for the
engineering department and also for that
engineer that we've been asking for that
students I mean we did at many occasions
we try to add and it never happened
I can recall that Enron came on board on
the next following years he was asking
yeah
I think we tried on on that level we
keep trying every year okay we have seen
just like how you mentioned how the
engineering department is going to be
swamped with additional award Ron is
going to be sponsored additional work in
review to make sure people are very
compliance also he's working with the
police and fire to make sure that they
are oh they're going with you know the
um you know minority
um officers to get on board those are
all additional work on top of make sure
that a contractors
are doing what they're supposed to do
plus he's running outside the center so
getting a support staff for him will be
ideal just like how we are approving for
other departments to support staff it
will complement Iran is doing because
he's doing a fantastic job and there's
no doubt about it inside City Hall we're
hearing that outside inside of City Hall
of what he's doing contractor is talking
about he's helping contractors on all
different levels right to attain
certification to to work them you know
work give them the steps they needed to
apply for these uh Municipal jobs
in addition to that because because he's
doing that it's because the city was not
meeting our mwpe requirements hardly
ever so it was necessary actually what he did was create it was necessary
because we the the contractor said we
don't have enough mwgs so therefore Iran
created training class so now we can
feed the mwps in from this training
classes community so it does tie
together so yeah that's why so what was
what would the salary be well I believe a bunch of them put in I think
the salary for the assistant was 62 if
you remember that I would have to look
at it and then uh
so I guess a little bit of my confusion
is around or talk what you know we're
talking about the position
um and so I hear some people referring
to it as the position and then some
people they're referring to it as a
department
and I think that if we're talking about
an apartment and it's been it's pretty
clear that that um we're not moving or
thus far haven't been moving in an
equitable manner to your point Mr
Williams
um so I mean so
are we
the affirmative action officer
affirmative action department is is
what the parent is is really what we're
trying to create here if he's doing so
then I guess we got to stop talking
about if I as a position and then we
should probably refer to it as a
department if that's the direction we're
heading in and if that's the direction
heading then we are obligated to a
resource of that sucks right very good
okay
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okay so I guess um just to think about
that
I think and I guess I would have to just
research this but I think in terms of
affirmative action duties in a workplace
I think that has to do with firing and
those kinds of things at least that's my
experience in my own
former workplaces so that that would be
an HR function
um but the mwbe contractual you know the
uh review of all the contracts Etc that
goes across all of our city departments
um obviously the work that he does with
police and fire is HR related right
um and then the Empowerment Center I'm
not really as you know I think that's
going to be you know trying to help
younger people get into careers
um I'm just not really sure yet I mean
what that is
um so perhaps in terms of what we do
moving forward we think about what we've
done with some of the other positions
where
um part of a salary comes out of I'm
thinking of like you know ogs and codes
right that some of the and even
engineering right some of the salary
comes out of one Department some of it
comes out of another department
um in terms of what the functions of the
job role
um are so
um anyway I'm certainly open to it I
just you know need a little Clarity
there but
um when we uh let me add a disposition I
tried to recall that we were like where does this position fit since and
it was more like
we need to fit them in a department
gotcha because at that time there were
no departments so in the past it was on
the table and it was agree that he's a
good fit for human resource at one time
until we can agree does we already moved
from the Iran and that's why it's stuck
under here because he's probably been
here for like five or six years right
that's made a great point I think you
know basically what he got like the
money was saying really in that role
again in affirmative action Department
maybe it's called Workforce all right so
well I'm going to request since you know
okay Miss Patrick uh my can I agree with
that
the question are we if you can have it
here tomorrow just to give us an
overview or maybe astronautica
so we'll have it done tomorrow just for
free both of you not to expect that just
a small bridge for you
go ahead
um
is it really present us to create a new
department that has to be done
because it's personnel
can you take that is
budgets yeah but there's we're talking
two different guys who talk about
creating an entire department oh that's
true yeah so that's so we want to be clear
about that
I'm wondering if the I think the mayor
is not here tomorrow night either yeah
so I mean to me if we even if we do
these positions we could still do them
here for now and then talk yeah let's
hear from him tomorrow what's uh you
know his position of
additional Staffing and what he's
actually doing there so yeah we're far
from there no matter what you're doing
that guy you're going to do a great job
yeah
this was under the mayor's office
go ahead please so when he comes uh when
the affirmative action officer so this
should be not be using names no no uh
when he comes so under the 60
an assistant and the interim three would
be at like forty seven thousand Pages
64.
35 so
um just what they would be responsible
for more media Alpine of their duties
um what he would use them for what they
would assist in we'll ask him tomorrow
I would appreciate it yeah
um yeah any other question on
a few memory scores
14.
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Eagles are we are we doing better we're
doing better but are we meeting them
though I I thought the truth can I hear
the question
so my question was
um are we I know Brian
um a big part of his position was to
make sure that we're meeting our mwbe
goals oh so I was wondering
with all the great work that everyone's
saying that he's doing I'm wondering are
we meeting those goals yet you know what
we do is when you bring it in tomorrow
I'll make sure it doesn't answer them
and I thought that was something
what page
yeah yeah yeah
we can have all of that for them
tomorrow
okay I'll address that stage 14 sorry
kind of central printing mailing
um
okay uh
um everything's basically the same
exactly the same as those last year this
is where we pay all our
postages and uh
expenses uh further math throughout the
whole city goes through a
partial person goes through a metal
excuse me go through our what's that
called 100 the mail the mail itself in
this 35 000 is the same one that has
last year
15.
there's no specifically postage going up
at all
and last year maybe
so far
it's somewhere um
a16 70 400 other expenses it's other
expensive okay so yeah because because
that's that's actually paid we we don't
use it post obviously we use the mail
carrier which is cheaper we get like two cents off for postage that's the
other expenses machines we have that
special uh
the Stamper and uh for uh
any more questions on this section
can I just ask you we do Central
Communications 1650 before tomorrow
16.
and allocated insurance
yes our insurance expense went up about
two percent and that's strong enough
how uh we just uh we got an application
in for our cyber Insurance we're hoping
the space at the amount of 38 000
retirement fee so we will find out soon
so
okay
questions
so you don't question we'll move to
bottom of that page audio miscellaneous
undistributed okay expense the biggest thing is uh contingency what
makes it 300 000 reasons for that is uh
this year too we we spent a real lot of
money in contingency uh for uh
demolitions of uh
we're just trying to take a step of the
next year to go higher uh usually like
if you look at the past few years
usually we're in the 170 and 190 range
and we've got 250 to get enough but
we've already glued that out of the
water so next year we're hoping that
it's not a good thing about the cars
um how was our effort to collect money
from these uh demo
so you can't collect anything uh the
ones that do you know uh are a lot of
Partners right on you know and you know
successful I hate to tell you that you
know most of these things which are done
through a part like arsonists they can
pick they pick buildings directly you
know people had walked out and they're
empty and so on so there's no insurance
is zero the answers no the one that has
Insurance are we able to collect from
them
yeah it takes time to visit the process
because as you know uh if if we have to
demolish it you know the people uh who
own the house you know they want you
know it's a fight with them in the
insurance company us the insurance
company end up ownership
so does it go does it go through our
insurance company then no not our
expectations I mean who handles trying
to get the apartment
it starts with you know it's a fire
department sets it out home enforcement
you know the quarter forces disease you
know we make sure to have them shift
they have insurance and our Law
Department because after insurance
company yeah gotcha
our receipts department where you can
pay your taxes online
instead of us I'm going to buy it with
that but now if we charge it okay gotcha
credit card yeah
the next one here I've seen yesterday I
know this was a place called um how are
we doing with that movement yeah they're
probably also be coming in the next
weeks and I got delayed because the
coveted with uh Catholic Charities
operating through the three
neighborhoods
we're a winner too if we figure out what
happened malaise they've had sicknesses
and things with the virus so it got
delayed
any more question on this section
all right let's keep moving
all right I'm gonna make sure
page uh
age 31. again I don't think we did this
a police review board
but I just want to increase that from
fifteen hundred to five thousand dollars
was there a budget for that or you just
uh I think just I wasn't asked yeah I
wonder if it was an Ask wanna I don't
remember who it was
so this increases
yeah we I was told traveling training
okay yeah thank you
any other short question
let's keep moving is uh 34.
all the way to the bottom
uh
you want to make sure we step on
everything yeah it's not your services
the country services that is we uh
news
we need us to buy a bit of rent for uh
each of the veteran Halls oh yeah and so
we've supplied them with uh
support for you nice yeah that's great I
know we got a thank you note no Jim Wilson yeah
all right page 37.
you sound like
it's starting 70s
age 37. our youth programs this is for
the County Youth uh program that we have
set up
usually uh they send us a bill leverage
every year
yeah so this is separate from the summer
youth employment that we are doing with
the school district
no I think that this is this is this is
the money that goes to the county every
year yeah
in addition to the other money that we
did this year right okay
hmm
so we're basically double paying them
well they haven't asked for it so maybe they're not maybe they're taking
it out of the other one you know
because we had we did one just last year
you know yep
it seems like it would be a cdvg thing
to me but I don't know
especially if we're trying to have our
own program
um which I really support
um but that's just
I don't know
so so this was this was approved uh last
year right before the the
youth yeah right so cool that I think
yeah so this seems like
um
something separate from that that has to
be right because I think yeah yeah
ever no this year oh I'm wondering
because they were involved with the
other one yeah it could be
that they knew that happened there I
think they went the other way you know
what I mean well in years past we gave
them like a real small amount like for
three thousand if you see three thousand
so that's been something that's been
ongoing a very low amount but this 43.
it seems to me like a seamlessly it was
that if we if we did the other program
then this is in addition so it really
should we continue I should probably
call to find out it
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I just want to go through it that was
the other small one time
a city historian is 1500 that we take
it's a historian to do his thing up
there uh
historical uh District commission is
it's just a note-taker for the meetings
I've had
so that one has a second yeah
celebrations two thousand dollars uh
that is the memorials uh you know we
give our
supplies or uh
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so we pay the people that are on the
historic district commission ah
that's it
all right it's 38th
yeah
Board of zoning Fields
like advertising and he has a note taker
uh and the commissioner gets 3 700 and
uh they'll take her it's uh 18 million
dollars five hundred dollars is for the
advertising when they have to put this
stuff
and planning commissioners
the note taker gets eighteen hundred
dollars the commissioner gets 4 500
and advertising again is 7.50 so they
plan only because I think they have more
stuff going on yes and
does our private commission please plan a commission Sharon
let's think Commissioners then that's
what it says no one else on the board no
there are yeah
it says 4 500 for Commissioners
yes oh okay yeah so amongst each of them
yes yeah it's probably like a thousand
dollars I've done one person got 45 I
think you're doing well
nobody else got anything
okay there's no question we'll move to a
phase 44.
employee benefits
um
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a million ninety thousand seven hundred
ninety nine dollars but it's only a 3.2
percent uh really increase
just just to let you know uh
employee benefits throughout the total
budget
all benefits are 33 of the total budget
is benefits and uh 44 of the budget is
salaries so yeah so salary and benefits
it says you know 70 uh 70 uh eight
percent of the Republic
so uh let's let's take a look at some of
them one of the one of the first things
I want to pass out to you is uh
is the uh the increase
of retirement payment for a police
required
the front page is about 2022 and then
the second page is 20.3
um
so as you can as you can see uh in 20 in
this year 2022 would have been paid at
8.6 million dollars
by the 2023 this is just the estimates
projections I'm probably going to go up
because you probably saw that there's a
present because the stock market and
stuff yeah it's going up to 9.2 million
that's actually a seven and uh 7.4
percent increase 634 thousand dollars
increase
so uh that's one of the the bigger
expenses that we have is that the police
portion of the retirement or the
benefits uh
and uh as you see uh if you look at it
we need budget of 9.1 now you'll notice
the 9.2 we're we're looking at you know
because we have to retirement for the
ERS we we uh we're projecting that's
going to be less so we're thinking the
difference we're going to have enough to
make that up there's a difference from
the
ERS oh ERS is our state employment yeah
okay
this is basically contractual or no oh
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
you know well I was saying just recently
uh New York State Retirement Board uh
just uh said they're going to increase
so that's what kind of just as you can
see here there's some fire you know
we're looking at 29 29.7 was 30 that's
going to be over 30 for that for that as
well as salary you know that could be a
recruiting tool uh one of one of our uh
biggest expenses we you know we think is
really killing us is just a workers
complement and we're trying to get a
handle on it we actually hired them
consultant to try to help us deal with
this worker comp to increase in what's
going on and like I said it's basically
said there's three huge departments fire
police and uh waste but the final
increase are the most expensive stuff so
it makes it so much higher you know
life insurance everything else pretty
much stays the same another big increase
is uh uh of course is the hospital
medical insurance
uh
even though even though I asked a letter
from our consultant that we have
shown where the numbers will be used
thank you
country workers
so uh oh this is looking at 11.9
increase and uh and we're right at that
number we can go across the board
between uh
water sword golfing Channel
we try to you know we try to you know
keep for General as you know same percentage all the way
across so so we think we're doing okay
our biggest our biggest uh increase you
know because we still haven't uh had the
uh the final number and so it's not lost
because we're self-insured yeah and uh
which would really save us a lot of
money in the long run but uh our stock
box that was before it used to be
anything wrong to fifty thousand dollars
and now we're having increased it to
anything over uh seven to five thousand
yep and uh and then they insurance but
the insurance uh is is you know like two
million dollars a year you know it's
like 1.89 yeah so how are the numbers in
here accurate when you have basically of
not even 400 000 increase uh because we
look we're doing it across the uh all
the borders we're doing a water source
so what we do is we not set out water
solar and golf They even some of those
were not changed
because I noticed that yeah we would you
know we figured that if you look at that
number of fifteen thousand five fifty
four we're at that number I was going
across the board
I'm sorry where is that number uh I'm a
letter from uh okay I'm sorry
projected class for 2023.
we're trying to keep a handle on all
this that's that's what we're doing here
why does the unemployment insurance
figure go down by like 40. oh because uh you know what happens when we have
a coven we had a huge amount of people
leaving
whereas now uh
is kind of some stabilized yet
the other big factor in here is our new Mana yeah uh that's uh gone up
to uh uh 2 million three hundred
two million two hundred and forty
and uh that was 100
80 90 000 Acres they've been very good
for us our
retired employees say they love it uh it
comes to uh four thousand three hundred
sixty three dollars a person a year wow
that's
pretty cool yeah it's pretty good yeah
um my other question is I just don't
understand
um I just don't know what this is the
insurance buyout can you just tell us
what that is yes
oh
hmm
uh I think you pay for quite on a
quality basis they're very good
yes it's probably less expensive than if
we were paying Insurance okay I just
wasn't like sure
yeah
um a yearly family plan on our on our
things that cost twenty of thousand
dollars
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because no right because of covet people
really stopped going to the doctors
we haven't seen that increase you can't
go that's been saying good our biggest cause Believe It or Not uh
like that does like 60 as our high cost
claimants people you know 25 people were
very built cost hey
60. it's part of the rest of the 700
people
what happened
questions
I noticed that through every um home
study Department we see employee drug
testing yes can I see that myself
well because uh I I don't know it's
probably because there's nobody uh
everybody's part-time nobody drives the
vehicles
golf carts right yeah
I don't think so no I'm not bring it up
for Chris yeah yeah
just because I saw everywhere else and
that one was there over there
any additional question on this section
yeah go ahead please all righty so you
said that the insurance is spread out
I'm not seeing it so where I I know I
woke up one before I came there and I'm
trying to go through my shoot some
content
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you'll see the coupon
oh here's the soundtrack right here so
uh yes that's weird we have a call for
29 566. uh right it's about uh larger
450 000 soar a million three excuse me
general fund 13-6 and uh RX 70 000 gives
us a total of fifteen thousand four
ninety nine fifties 566. my point is
that it's not changed much at all that's
we're purposely do that trying to keep
it because as like I said we look like
well it's like you know really we're
going to have some excess money and so
I'm trying to keep it low because I want
to erase that portion that I was trying
to avoid raising taxes or raising fees
yeah
I mean that's that's what we're trying
to build
I can't I think I'm trying to people
right what a point for our episode our
consultant tells us don't even know
where she says so that way I know that
will be okay and I said I saw that this
year but it looked like we're going to
happen
like uh John said a little Surplus over
there and I want to keep that going
like they're those words
I think I'm thinking of the big picture
yeah yeah
any additional question
all right let's move to um
correct there you go
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mm-hmm
our total debt surface is up 10 to 685
374.
um yeah one of the reasons is that we uh
when we rebonded everything and uh
we only have one band out there right
now uh let me just
do what you have
um
increase values like you said now so now
what we're doing is instead of paying
the interest on dance or paying a
principle knob too so that's why that's
why the increases yeah
uh let me just give you some figures
that we have here
the general fund we have a binds out for
65 million seven hundred thirty five
thousand dollars
uh soars 34 million 950 000 Waters uh 12
million 691
000 golf is 849 850
000. so it's
514 000 but just in pounds they also
have bands that those suppose are
anticipation notes of seven million 447
dollars and we have leases out there at
the two point
two million dollars so there's there's
quite a bit of that we're handling it
you know and what we did in the last
couple years is we went back and took
anything over a four percent uh we we uh we get that we uh we uh
refinance refinanced it there it is I
can't think of it we refinanced them and
uh you know we got the percentage of
like two and between two and a half
minutes so uh and again like you said it
was just paying uh
figure a part of the Princeton
yeah
they're not really happy about that but
yeah
it's invested evil and that's right
um
Joshua is that questions
I think they capture everything I don't
think I missed anything other than what
we have scheduled for tomorrow
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um
what I would like to ask if you have any
suggested change
please email it to Anthony
so that way we're ahead so if any
changes or any proposal to changes that
you may have please email us out to the
internet you know what thank you copy
people sorry yeah
did we talk about that tomorrow night
yeah but if you haven't you wanted to
turn it to them ahead of time that way
they can able to be in a better position
to explain it tomorrow
because we still have to meet tomorrow
and then we can discuss that if not we
can just
you know discuss it
tomorrow evening if my time how is
Friday for everyone are we good for
Friday that we can do meat I think it's
good with something yeah
we want to wrap this up and get this
because we're going forward if not we'll
have to meet next week
and probably a special uh city council
meeting there
copy me
and I will be an answering like what I
do all the time to get the answers
that's all the questions I know it's hectic but um
yeah if you have not received answers to
your questions please let me know I know
you have one more that the one that was
located yesterday from what years if you
can just put in a writing for me I can
see Paul today yeah I mean this is all
this stuff I I like to share that to all
the council members to all of us on the
same pages in terms of the question I
was asked and the answer is I uh the
thing you asked about the county cars I
got the other ones but the county cars I
have told you know pull the files on you
know because Joe is not coming back
until next week I thought it was coming
back uh soon I just follow the files
tomorrow that's why we can
Italian vehicles
that was one of the questions I was
asked
yesterday I thought I thought Joe was
going to be in uh
yeah
that's the only one I'm standing that
comes with yes
the one that you did back and forth
today yes we did got an answer to some
of those yeah if you go through all your
questions and if there's any missing
we'll get there
um so people have changes they're
sending them to the mayor and me and you
yes
what we have done in the past is that we
spend their time or we don't need to do
that or be sanitize
on the floor
so that really have answers to anything
any concern no why you can't do this
that'll probably be Friday night yes so
if you can send any any suggestions just
before we ask them the questions are
they providing or the answer providing
proposals gotcha changes to them so that
they can come back with
I just remember to make changes where
you're adding stuff you can either take
it away
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you know well maybe you know from about
something no one had a fun bounce or
Oracle loss or or uh yeah you have to
take it out of a different alignment
number so yes remember it's not one way
it's a plus or a minus
you know like it says if you want to add
stuff in your photos other places you
would think this job is not required or
not you know whatever you can take that
out and add
along that line you know it doesn't have
to be the same department but yeah
it's going to be the same fund the
fund's got to be all the same yeah
if there's nothing else at full
brightness I have solution to recess
I've got to write this time
yeah on a favor all right thank you all
in favor
um
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