[0:00] um the board chair I don't remember who

[0:02] it was at the time we had a letter from

[0:04] board chair where there was a similar

[0:05] situation okay where the person wasn't

[0:08] didn't show up for things they were

[0:10] supposed to show up for so I clearly we

[0:13] need to do something to address it so

[0:14] that people realize that you're

[0:16] [Music]

[0:23] not is it possible for to email your

[0:27] suggested sure abely yeah and it's we

[0:31] you know we're fortunate and that we

[0:32] have some time for so I'll I'll we can maybe um give our input so before

[0:38] we

[0:39] bring I'd love to hear what that will

[0:41] Str whatever you're looking to do to yes

[0:44] that would be wonderful you probably

[0:46] work with HR to try to figure that

[0:49] out counil thator Council it's kind of

[0:54] oh no they're just kind of paid out I

[0:57] like I give I give Anthony a document he

[1:00] signs off on it and then I do a invoice

[1:03] for all of the staff members of the like

[1:06] said for this in case we did we went through codes we went through

[1:10] legislation we yeah we did unfortunately

[1:12] I mean at the end of the day I don't

[1:13] want to do anything against what our

[1:15] city code says but yeah I mean this is

[1:18] like let me just ask did you ask the

[1:20] individual hey are you willing to take

[1:21] half since you only showed up half the

[1:22] time no this question was not would not

[1:25] be agreable to that okay so we'll do

[1:28] with that I know we disc a couple years

[1:30] ago this very same room here we had a

[1:34] the who was the chair I don't remember

[1:35] who the chair was at the time the chair

[1:37] came to us same thing um it was oh was

[1:40] it Mar or say it's probably the same

[1:42] person okay because it was I can't

[1:44] remember no it wasn't is it wasn't the

[1:45] current chair different chair it was

[1:47] only two years she just passed away it

[1:50] must be before my I think it was a woman

[1:52] Bill Sanders oh no it was yeah I can't

[1:54] remember her name she's she just passed

[1:56] away very season oh did she really yeah

[1:59] okay so was a woman I just I remember

[2:01] that I just don't remember her name she lived in cerg village for a while

[2:05] and I went to visit her she it was a

[2:07] nice one she was

[2:09] great

[2:15] we this was brought to this was brought

[2:17] to our attention a couple years ago when

[2:18] we were doing a a recertification

[2:20] renewal of individual and then there

[2:22] were question from the chair that we

[2:24] should not proceeded and then back and

[2:25] forth back and forth and fcil decides to

[2:27] move forward and here we are again so

[2:29] this was opportunity for you to help us

[2:33] you allow us to help you to address it

[2:35] so you don't have to deal with this next

[2:37] year it's and it's more of a you know I

[2:39] mean it's a tough it's a it's a long day

[2:42] not everybody pulling their it's one of

[2:44] those you know I appreciate I I find it

[2:47] um you know you're not there for the

[2:50] initial day what you're going to be what

[2:52] are you delivering well that was my you

[2:56] almost could weigh in on anything

[2:57] because you weren't there for but have

[3:00] to look at every application and not

[3:01] everybody goes through grievance day who

[3:03] submits an application so

[3:07] it's okay but I'm happy thank you I

[3:10] appreciate that let's address it please

[3:12] this is the opportunity to do it and we

[3:14] we're going to help appreciate that so

[3:17] that's that's any other questions for

[3:18] the assessment office no seeing none

[3:21] thank you Molly and have a good evening

[3:23] have a good

[3:24] weekend all

[3:28] right

[3:31] we'll see you by the

[3:33] door all right we'll go we'll go back up

[3:36] to page two and we'll do Finance

[3:40] Administration and then roll our way

[3:43] down and close out all right Finance

[3:48] Administration

[3:50] a1310 uh poos 2023 adopted budget

[3:55] 39500 24 budget 39 395 492 is 7%

[4:01] increase uh see

[4:05] fills just walking through the budget

[4:07] quickly the longevity is Anthony

[4:11] director Commissioner of finance and

[4:12] Deputy Commissioner of Finance

[4:15] positions um the admin expense uh which

[4:18] we're keeping the same as last year

[4:21] that's for um Civic plus the Del um

[4:25] subscription uh Tyler business forms um

[4:29] fees for services uh that's for our

[4:32] auditing or kak company whoever CPAs

[4:36] that's for theorder for every year and

[4:39] the reason why it's additional 8,000

[4:41] more than the previous year is because

[4:43] uh in 20 Arps I would

[4:47] imagine had to do this

[4:49] many oh okay so got do a bit more work

[4:52] got it yeah another expenses cic plus is

[4:55] the city website cost there which under

[4:59] fee for service you mean correct okay um

[5:03] travels and conferences that's um for

[5:06] nygfoa that's Finance Officers

[5:09] Association for New York State and our

[5:12] conference that our accting use every

[5:15] year um inservice training uh that's any

[5:19] Mis training staff needs supplies that

[5:22] just general Staples coner and uh paper and uh

[5:28] ribbon um so that's pretty much it for

[5:31] the finance Administration portion of

[5:33] the

[5:33] budget you guys do your training in

[5:36] person or on my house we do both excuse

[5:39] me the travel and the conferences uh

[5:41] there are G to the

[5:42] conferences so actually we actually

[5:45] travel pass the onl there's both um

[5:48] Tyler um does online training as well um

[5:52] which we have a training this Monday

[5:55] okay for staff but dereck's been going

[5:57] to the conference whereever

[6:00] national

[6:05] conferences counsil in dispersement you

[6:07] want me to go through that one yes keep

[6:09] going if there's no question keep going

[6:12] coun dispersement yes Council

[6:14] dispersements go ahead

[6:16] 8315 uh adopted budget

[6:21] 31636 propos budget we're looking at

[6:24] 33843 that's a 7%

[6:26] increase um we have a full St

[6:30] um for the accounts

[6:32] dispersements um we're looking at uh for

[6:35] the longevity um we for two individuals

[6:38] that will be our accting supervisor and

[6:41] our senior depy clerk are coming out of

[6:44] that line the grade pay is uh right now

[6:47] is coming out uh for the uh purchasing

[6:50] mail clerk who is assisting us uh with

[6:53] um our senior audit clerk who's

[6:56] currently an attorney leave she's going

[6:59] to be out for a few months and we

[7:02] figure this is going to be enough to

[7:05] keep us for

[7:06] 2024 um let's see uh so other than that

[7:10] the 400

[7:12] lines the uh postage um we're increasing

[7:16] to

[7:17] 10,000 um right year to date now we're

[7:20] at

[7:21] 5,315 um we're looking to that for

[7:24] anticipating that's going to increase

[7:25] for next year uh the administr expense

[7:29] uh um that's our kofax PDF we're moving

[7:32] from acrobat to kofax throughout the

[7:35] city it's

[7:36] cheaper um and it gives you the same

[7:39] benefits for the most part um I've

[7:41] noticed um our travel conferences that's

[7:44] um sampo that's for our purchasing agent

[7:47] um nyj is for our accting supervisor and

[7:50] Junior accountant and also Unice

[7:53] sometimes we send one of them to cont as

[7:55] well um supplies um the general Staples

[8:00] are documents title forms Amazon

[8:04] Services

[8:05] Inc um HD in um the copard maintenance

[8:12] is our Xerox and I believe it's Canon to

[8:16] um as well um and then we're also

[8:18] looking at tuition reimbursement for our

[8:20] Junior accountant we want eventually uh

[8:22] give the accountable as long as he

[8:25] passes his tests and he's uh a more

[8:29] credits um to get his Bachelor um so

[8:35] opport do you have any vacancies the

[8:39] accounts and dispersement no all all

[8:42] fill except for the one person who is on

[8:44] leave correct okay I have a question

[8:47] goad okay as everyone that has ARA fund

[8:51] y

[8:52] so was this let me just was this

[8:55] position filled before the art of money

[8:58] came was

[9:00] Sarah Sarah came in and when no name no

[9:02] name purchasing person came the

[9:05] purchasing clerk came came in uh right

[9:08] at right when uh right before AR I

[9:12] believe she came in right at in 20 oh

[9:15] wait maybe

[9:16] 2021 so I believe we have position open

[9:20] yeah and so that's why SAR was

[9:23] [Music]

[9:25] in uh the person was in the position

[9:28] then she moved to the purchasing

[9:30] supervisor and then the new person

[9:31] filled the

[9:33] position the junior open and were

[9:36] eventually able to fill it

[9:39] after yeah because for two years we've

[9:42] used arpa funds so that's going to be we

[9:45] have to figure all that out

[9:47] yes all right is there no more question

[9:51] let's move to that one

[9:54] receipts okay receipts uh give us the

[9:57] rundown there of course can I can I just

[10:01] ask a question before you start so this

[10:03] is where I thought that maybe there's a

[10:05] typo on you look if you look at um under

[10:09] Administration salaries

[10:11] 132500 if you look at the real estate

[10:14] tax

[10:16] clerk well I don't know I mean in 2023

[10:20] you see the difference between

[10:22] 19770 and now

[10:24] 44906 that person that person half year

[10:27] thank you okay thank you sorry about

[10:29] that yeah if you look at the top that we

[10:30] have moved and combined okay thank you

[10:33] keep going sorry I didn't see that thank

[10:36] you3

[10:38] 25 um the adopted budget looking at

[10:44] 327,00 for Budget

[10:47] 3322 uh that's a 2%

[10:51] increase I believe they have a full

[10:53] staff

[10:56] uh and uh longevity is from the um

[11:02] supervisor receipts and also the real

[11:05] estate tax specialist um yeah the grade

[11:08] pay is given to the real estate tax

[11:11] specialist um when the supervisor is not

[11:15] in the office um postage is for all the

[11:18] task mails we do uh throughout the year

[11:21] I believe we have two major tax

[11:24] announ the they disc at the end um

[11:29] the advertising is with Z notices and

[11:33] taxes supplies staes Amazon

[11:38] woner uh me contracts are for the

[11:41] printers and

[11:44] um

[11:46] Solutions and oh I miss the uh equipment

[11:49] uh that's for their SE printer uh and P

[11:53] at the window it gives a receipt to the

[11:55] customer so they need make sure they

[11:58] have upd that are working

[12:00] correctly and that's all for backups as

[12:04] well are there any vacancies in this

[12:07] apartment

[12:11] no any questions under

[12:16] yeah is there a supervisor in there yeah

[12:19] Linds

[12:25] oh that's looking at the back here

[12:28] somebody's missing

[12:29] that's why I was wondering why she

[12:31] wasn't here yeah she couldn't make it

[12:32] today oh okay well she did reply she okay all

[12:40] right let's move

[12:43] to page 17 and there's a little bit

[12:47] there that we just touched

[12:48] on four items you look atal

[12:53] sprting um no page page 70

[12:59] 17 miscell miscellaneous undistributed

[13:03] expense okay um we have unallocated

[13:07] Insurance to the general fund uh we've

[13:10] been advised that we're going to have a 6% increase so we uh we uh added that

[13:18] for unal un allocated Insurance um that

[13:21] insurance passed through every fund so

[13:23] we have a a general water SAR and golf

[13:26] all page a portion of the m

[13:29] thanks uh under contingency U as you see

[13:33] in uh in

[13:36] 2023 uh we had that

[13:39] 300,000 uh as of uh right now uh

[13:42] actually we're doing so much better than

[13:43] we did in 22 because thank God not all

[13:46] the houses are burning down like they

[13:47] did in

[13:49] [Music]

[13:51] 22 where are so we're we're at about

[13:55] 190,000 so far so we're asking for the

[13:59] same for uh

[14:01] 2024 I'm sorry what does the concy cover

[14:05] oh we cover the things that are not like

[14:06] really budgeted like uh when a when a

[14:08] house demolition demolition house burns

[14:11] down or uh or there's like a a an

[14:15] expense that you know that we didn't

[14:17] know I think I think uh uh Paul had a

[14:21] hard time trying to purchase a a broom

[14:25] for the sweeper we actually took

[14:28] contingency just so CU we had to do it

[14:30] right away you know okay so it covers

[14:33] the things that are not

[14:39] budgeted why are the May's recruitment

[14:41] funds on the unart okay the what oh yeah

[14:45] we moved that we moved that the mayor

[14:47] recruitment funds there because

[14:49] according to Andrew Cen if it's in the

[14:51] mayor's budget it can only be for his

[14:54] budget so we put it here so if he needs

[14:57] it for water

[14:59] or different departments we can we can

[15:02] use it that was that was to ad I'm sorry

[15:07] should I mean that one maybe you could

[15:09] call it something else then so it's not

[15:10] that he's recruiting people for his

[15:12] office it's for General and that's why he moved that I mean

[15:16] according to Angel uh he said that

[15:18] because it was in his Department that he

[15:21] could only use that for his department

[15:23] so that's why we moved it out until you

[15:25] know undried miscellaneous so that if if

[15:29] another department needs it they can use

[15:31] it yeah the way it looks like right now

[15:33] it looks like the mayor's the only one

[15:35] even though it's in a different place

[15:36] looks like the mayor is the only one

[15:37] that could use the we could take the

[15:39] mayor out of is that the case no any

[15:42] anybody that well any Department well

[15:45] the mayor does the hiring and firing

[15:47] right

[15:48] so so if it's for recruitment so when a

[15:52] department means uh something say you

[15:54] got a budget of uh uh 60 something, the

[15:58] person wants 80,000 a year and you want

[16:00] to hire them yeah yeah then you can use

[16:02] that money to recruit them

[16:05] yeah you know it's not it's not for

[16:08] department for recruiting a new position

[16:10] yeah well it sounds like yeah that that

[16:12] was that was something I I suggested to

[16:14] the to me because there were time when

[16:16] there were difficulty getting people so

[16:18] there have incentive similar to the

[16:19] private sector where there's an

[16:21] incentive to get somebody on board yeah

[16:23] there's upfront um s in and you hire

[16:26] them and things like that but you know

[16:28] things have changed over the last couple

[16:30] of years regards to recruitment people

[16:33] looking for job now rather than we

[16:36] looking you know well like you

[16:38] said I don't like exactly like you said

[16:41] if somebody comes in and the payroll

[16:43] process like says that their budget

[16:45] 60,000 and they want 75,000 for instance

[16:49] then you know you they could recruit

[16:52] them with this with this that was that

[16:54] was the idea yeah it makes sense those

[16:57] were difficult times yeah yeah any

[17:00] question on on this go ahead please um

[17:03] on the senior center I see that your

[17:05] funding for three do we do anything with

[17:08] the ancient or of Hibernians in we are going to start yeah go ahead well

[17:13] I I actually have some notes to to speak

[17:15] to that if you

[17:16] want unless you were going to say no I

[17:18] was going to say as we we're mostly

[17:20] dealing with the Catholic Charities but

[17:22] now with Ancient Order of Hibernians uh you know uh because the charity is

[17:28] not you know fulfilling a lot of their

[17:30] stuff we have some

[17:31] excess money you know we're looking to

[17:35] bring a I can speak to that all right so

[17:38] we had some changes at Catholic

[17:41] Charities and so um for several for a

[17:44] few months I think like 90 days um we

[17:47] were down just to one of the programs of

[17:49] the three so that's why there's been

[17:52] some extra money that you see if you

[17:53] look at the year to date they've had um

[17:57] staff changes and we've been working

[17:59] with the new people and so we now have

[18:02] two going again um with the third going

[18:05] to be starting short soon um however I

[18:08] did talk um about this because the

[18:11] budget that they put in for

[18:13] 2024 it's my responsibility um they were

[18:16] late getting it to me um because we were

[18:18] so new with this new team and so I got

[18:20] it to the mayor later than I should have

[18:24] I was like a couple weeks late so their

[18:27] budget for 2024 is

[18:28] $60,000 from Catholic Charities for the

[18:31] three programs because the food it's

[18:34] primarily the food um they're going with

[18:37] they're going to be doing something

[18:38] different than what we had originally

[18:39] set up um and even if we had gone with

[18:42] what we originally set up that vendor

[18:44] also have increased their prices but

[18:47] what that means is that this number does

[18:49] not include the Hibernians and so I've

[18:51] also spoken to the Hibernians and I have

[18:54] their budget figure also which is

[18:55] $114,000 that they will need um um which

[18:58] would bring this to an additional 29k

[19:01] that we would need um in the senior

[19:02] center budget so I know we'll talk about

[19:04] this when we discuss our stuff but so I

[19:08] know the Hibernians they have money

[19:10] through Community Development they do

[19:11] but and he he deducted that from right

[19:15] um what he submitted in so so I I know

[19:18] uh our discussion was we're looking at

[19:20] Capal Charities because they only so far

[19:22] it's only been 10,000 for a year right

[19:24] so we know we have enough money to to

[19:27] handle that difference for so you Flo

[19:30] that into next year's budget

[19:33] no we'll finish this year but then

[19:36] they'll have they'll have another budget

[19:38] for cdbg next year right the Hibernians

[19:42] yeah but that he's he's taking that into

[19:44] consideration this is what he needs for

[19:45] 2024 he needs an addition he will need

[19:49] his total budget for the year is

[19:52] $34,000 bless you and um

[19:56] he's thinking he's going to get the 20

[19:58] the

[19:59] 20 one is cdbg one is cdbg and one is

[20:04] through the here right but CD cdbg um

[20:08] he's counting that in he's still going

[20:09] to need

[20:10] $144,000 that is already accounted for

[20:12] in the cdbg to be approved the oh just

[20:15] recently no that's the 20 that's the 20

[20:17] which

[20:18] 20 his budget

[20:21] is4

[20:23] $344,000 okay he's getting 20 from cdbg

[20:27] so he's going to need $14,000 which is

[20:29] not accounted for in this 45,000 there

[20:32] is money in CB that's from prior Year

[20:35] yes I think that's it that's that's his 20 grand that we're giving

[20:39] him from

[20:40] cdbg okay I think told me I I I think

[20:43] yeah we went through this last year can

[20:45] you pull the report for us to see how

[20:46] much money is available to the r of hbor

[20:49] cdbg cdbg funding they are lagging

[20:52] behind and their funding that is going

[20:54] to take them through so I think that's

[20:56] the reason why it was cut last year

[20:58] because they were money there the pot

[21:00] yeah they weren't sure I just want to

[21:01] make sure we cover everything they

[21:03] weren't sure that they were going to do

[21:04] anything this year too because then they

[21:05] lose a cook or something yeah uh they

[21:08] did and that's why he was down a little

[21:10] bit but now I mean he has to repl he has

[21:12] to replace the cook no they they have people in place and they work

[21:15] in l i just since you're talking about

[21:17] the this program here on this fre

[21:21] location are they fully attended cuz

[21:24] I've been hearing that they're not

[21:25] people are not attending that's why we

[21:26] had to cut that's why they stopped

[21:28] because they were having issues and part

[21:30] of the reason that they were having the

[21:32] issues at the other two sites was that

[21:34] the people didn't like the food

[21:37] yeah they're re they're revamping the

[21:40] program um and hopefully it'll be

[21:43] successful going into this this next

[21:45] year because I did receive a lot of

[21:46] complaint in terms of the food the

[21:47] location and the theice so that's why

[21:50] that that those two locations are no

[21:51] long we're funding here

[21:54] $45,000 we have one already wait wait let me just clear so the two you

[21:59] there were three yes two were not

[22:01] performing correct so now you have a

[22:03] different two we have yes although one

[22:07] of them is in place and started already

[22:09] at St John the Evangelist it's new it's

[22:11] only been a few weeks um and the other

[22:14] one is still to be determined and then

[22:18] um

[22:19] start but Belle is doing great um the one the one a diamond it is so

[22:26] needless to say it's good food and they

[22:28] get a great oh they get good food from

[22:30] there yes well of course they yeah so um

[22:34] I don't know I just thought that any of

[22:37] those changes would have come back to

[22:38] the council for discussion so this is

[22:39] the first time honestly it's really new

[22:41] just happened it's really new but they

[22:43] were shut down for like a while CU we

[22:45] didn't know about that were they were um

[22:48] just putting it out there there's

[22:49] another group that's starting one case

[22:51] you want to consider them um at the

[22:53] Friendship House I understand that

[22:54] they're getting ready to do a senior

[22:56] senator there as well I know so what

[22:58] that is so you could you know what that

[23:00] is it's connected to Friendship Baptist

[23:01] Church they friendship okay um up but

[23:05] it's not in the church they be clear

[23:07] it's up on State Street near hawk or

[23:09] something so it's so if they've shut the

[23:11] one down that was at Crossings it's sort

[23:15] of a similar area okay I don't know

[23:18] where your other was considered but that

[23:20] one I can let them know too clearly

[23:23] closed yeah um well I'm glad you let us

[23:25] know cuz I well I was kind of waiting

[23:27] for tonight to cuz I just literally this

[23:29] is all like within the last several

[23:31] weeks no no but how long have they been

[23:32] out of not working oh those were those

[23:34] were out for quite yeah quite some time

[23:38] yeah yeah yes and then they were out of

[23:41] service but then they were not fully the

[23:43] attendants were were lagging they were

[23:45] not at like the full capacity that's why

[23:48] they that's why they went that they were

[23:49] like a few people attending and it

[23:51] wasn't worth you know the the the two

[23:54] sites weren't working yeah exactly so

[23:56] that's but then then there's been these

[23:59] other changes at Catholic charity so

[24:00] that's been part of the issue as well so

[24:02] it's been The Crossings and what was the

[24:04] other one that wasn't working it was

[24:05] Stein Mets Park and The Crossings okay

[24:08] Hillside Crossing so do they have a new

[24:10] plan in place that they can present to

[24:12] us I can have them I that would be a

[24:14] good idea yeah I would like to hear can

[24:16] they do that

[24:20] um not this Monday but um I will let me

[24:24] contact them and find out when they'd be

[24:25] ready to do that but we'll have them

[24:27] come and present like we did when we

[24:28] first started CU we might get this

[24:30] budget before that can they email if

[24:32] they have a presentation or a plan in

[24:34] place email it to to us let me um yeah

[24:37] if you don't mind yep so um do you also

[24:40] want to see what the hyberg is they're

[24:44] we contractor from cdpg the invoice

[24:46] submitting I was told that they are

[24:48] being paid up front now they're not

[24:49] behind in payments which is kind of good

[24:52] remember there was a struggle to get to

[24:54] get them paid and it was a struggle a

[24:56] struggle for them to to submit voice

[24:59] think that and to get all the people

[25:01] work but um now they are current and

[25:04] they're current with terms of red boys

[25:06] they current in terms of payment oh good

[25:08] so thank you all for doing that to help

[25:10] them out okay so they are I know we met

[25:12] with them a few times yes I know we met

[25:14] several times back and forth and they're

[25:16] running good I mean their attendance is

[25:19] way over harage very good now we're

[25:22] getting people I will tell you that I

[25:25] went to the one when it started at St

[25:27] John the Evangelist

[25:28] people to hians as so remember that our

[25:31] initial goal was to try to have

[25:32] something 5 days a week um so those

[25:36] people are you know coming to this so

[25:38] hopefully it'll as we continue to grow

[25:41] and you know how how um how many days a

[25:43] week is the high burning open two two

[25:46] Tuesday Tuesday Thursdays so our goal is

[25:48] Monday Wednesday Friday they're going to

[25:50] be Mondays they are Mondays and then

[25:52] bellw is Fridays and so it's the

[25:54] Wednesday one that we're still so but B

[25:56] is not functioning right now B is B is

[25:59] going very well well

[26:02] no so miss peld you mentioned

[26:06] friendship why don't we contact them and

[26:08] see if they can um fill in that um let

[26:11] me can I just I'll ask cath because

[26:13] remember we I do want to say that we

[26:16] contract with Catholic Charities and

[26:18] basically they need to figure that out

[26:21] but that's I'm going to tell them about

[26:22] that place well I think and I think well

[26:25] that's Friendship House wants to be I

[26:27] think under Catholic Charities I think

[26:29] they well if as you said food is the

[26:32] issue I have it's my belief that they

[26:35] would they would fix the food so I don't

[26:37] know how that would all work out if food

[26:39] is the issue then maybe we I don't want

[26:41] to talk about people no but anyway um I

[26:44] think they would be preparing the meals

[26:46] much like the diner does okay so let me

[26:49] um let me talk to I'll give you um the

[26:51] contact information you want yes please

[26:53] send it to me and I'll give it to

[26:54] Catholic Char go ahead please and I know

[26:57] receive the document next week from

[26:59] Catholic Charities are you able to speak

[27:00] to that $60,000 is it an expansion in

[27:03] services or to be fully it would be to

[27:06] have three programs the cost of the food

[27:08] and the cost of the Staffing so yes that

[27:12] is what it is as opposed to the 50 thou

[27:14] it was actually 50,000 last year was the

[27:16] budget so oh 45 I know but we it was

[27:20] actually supposed to be 50 was the

[27:22] original budget that they gave us okay

[27:24] so they're only going up yeah they're

[27:26] only going up 10 it's just that the food

[27:28] C so so let's look at the plan let's

[27:30] look at the the location that they

[27:33] secured and we will like these SES

[27:36] around our city we would like to it we

[27:38] will We Like These service around our

[27:40] city so now we we are funding it and

[27:43] then it's not functioning that's a

[27:45] problem for all of us and the only one

[27:47] that is keep running is H Boran Hall the

[27:50] senior centor there and Belle and now St

[27:53] John the Evangelist so let's look at

[27:55] that and we can determine Way Forward of

[27:58] this way I think the other thing we need

[28:00] to keep in mind is part of what you

[28:02] originally planned was to have it in

[28:03] different neighborhoods of the city so

[28:05] why I want to make sure it's not all

[28:06] concentrated in one part of the city and

[28:08] another part of the city there there's a

[28:10] vacancy so I think it's important that

[28:12] we look at that especially since we lost

[28:13] one yeah at the

[28:16] crosss yeah I agree all right so we'll

[28:18] look at

[28:20] it thank

[28:22] you if I me can we get an actual for the

[28:25] hbor hall in terms of where they are

[28:27] yeah how much is available how much what

[28:30] are you looking for the funding for C

[28:38] CER under cdbg D

[28:41] cdbg you need do that next week yeah but

[28:44] there was money I thought there was

[28:45] money in the operating budget for

[28:47] Hibernians as well as the CB last year

[28:49] no no no there because it's Catholic

[28:53] cherry and the mayor asked me about it I

[28:54] said well because Catholic Cherry hasn't

[28:56] been using we only use 10 thou almost

[28:59] 10,500 said there's money left over so I

[29:02] said you know maybe if the if the

[29:04] Hibernians need money soon they can we

[29:07] can you know use this money now you know

[29:09] if they need it now yeah you know what I

[29:12] mean POS that's why I the question CG we

[29:16] used to roll it over every year at one

[29:18] time I can recall that they wanted

[29:20] 30,000 and we end up giving it 20,000

[29:22] and then they were money on the cdbg

[29:24] line that fill that Gap yeah once we get

[29:27] to report we'll see the history of it

[29:29] okay and how much is available in the L

[29:32] TOS I think there's a year or two I

[29:34] think they have last year in this year

[29:36] and then they got next year but the next

[29:37] year money really doesn't start until

[29:40] next year but you not you know January

[29:43] starts

[29:44] later yes because it's cdbg it's they

[29:47] were they were never in the operating

[29:49] budget which is why I brought the

[29:50] question should we add them because

[29:53] that's right they're getting their money

[29:54] in a different way okay yeah we'll we'll also look at that it's a good idea

[29:59] to have I I think yeah we'll look at

[30:03] that in terms of funding and where we

[30:04] taking the money to fund all the Senor

[30:06] Center I think they should be all

[30:08] together I do too yes and that's

[30:11] something I'm going to recommend that's

[30:13] a great IDE I was going to recommend it

[30:14] next week but I'm going to recommend it

[30:15] since we talking about um I would like

[30:18] to see that I've been asking since when

[30:20] this happened last year but all all

[30:21] seniors enter in one bucket with their

[30:24] own allocated amount it makes it easier

[30:26] to yes easier to track easier for the

[30:29] staff and the paperwork Trail and all

[30:31] these things that the senior center has

[30:34] to submit and the staff has to go

[30:36] through um we need to take out some

[30:38] burden from our staffing and and the or

[30:43] of H Buran has been they have a track

[30:45] record good track record so I I think no shade on the other ones but well you

[30:51] know starting up something new there's

[30:53] always going to be some so hopefully and

[30:55] I think you know I feel pretty confident

[30:56] with the the team that they now have in

[30:58] place and so I'm going to suggest is

[31:01] that somewhere like mid year we hear

[31:03] from them on how they're doing because I

[31:05] had no idea that they were it was not

[31:06] working out well so um but I will

[31:09] obviously try to get them in sooner okay

[31:12] yeah oh sure sure sure but I don't know

[31:14] make time for the budget to be back no no I know I know but if they could

[31:18] email us something just to Y so we know

[31:20] what it's going to look like yep all

[31:24] right thank you let's move on

[31:29] to

[31:31] page

[31:33] 40 we this these

[31:36] are

[31:39] commissions D just touch on on big item

[31:42] tickets anything that we need to know

[31:44] not small

[31:46] item we have the the youth

[31:50] employment we did we did we did we did

[31:54] all we did Zing appeals plan commission

[31:56] already we did historic commission

[31:59] already okay was they didn't talk about the

[32:05] hisory commission must have missed it we

[32:07] didn't didn't cover we didn't touch on

[32:10] youth programs we did when really was

[32:12] here yes

[32:14] we the other four we didn't touch but um

[32:18] it's straight forward yeah there still

[32:21] same as last

[32:23] year we'll move to page um can I just

[32:27] ask a question sure about the historic

[32:29] commission so totally tin how many

[32:32] people um how many people are on that

[32:34] committee and is it

[32:38] full all right I'll send the email to

[32:43] Michelle you you going to send an email

[32:45] or you you you want one more I mean who

[32:50] because the commission seats and stuff

[32:52] that comes through the mayor's

[32:55] office depends turn to streamline I'll

[32:57] make sure we have all the questions okay

[32:59] so we can we can send it through M yeah

[33:01] absolutely so we don't miss anything

[33:03] want information yeah we're not missing

[33:06] anybody's yeah we're not missing

[33:07] anybody's U question and answer all

[33:10] right so let's move to page 48 and this

[33:14] is Anthony's um

[33:16] favorite favorite he was waiting for

[33:19] this whole year wait a minut which one

[33:21] page 48 benefit benefits

[33:25] 48 as you as you you can see our

[33:27] employee benefits especially under

[33:29] retirement is really increased from 105

[33:32] to uh 111 so that's about a $500,000

[33:37] increase um of course that's due to a

[33:40] couple things that's you know we're

[33:41] adding more people are coming to work

[33:44] and raises that we're providing

[33:46] especially to police and fire and um uh

[33:51] other the other unions uh their social

[33:53] security contributions is all based on

[33:55] the the payroll formulas that we have

[33:58] you know the

[34:01] 00765 total of the payments uh life

[34:04] insurance for the police and fire uh let

[34:07] me see benef unemployment insurance uh you know actually it's been doing

[34:12] very well uh disability insurance our

[34:15] biggest cost uh that went up a million

[34:18] two is is our uh health benefits um and

[34:23] that that is uh and that you know it's a

[34:26] big factor

[34:27] uh we actually hired a we have a a a

[34:31] health insurance uh analyst to help us

[34:34] to make sure that we do and um they are

[34:37] projecting the cost to be 14% higher you

[34:40] know um they're saying that uh there's

[34:43] going to be a 4% enrollment increase due

[34:46] to projected hiring uh medical Trends

[34:49] are going to go up 6% Pharmacy's up 6%

[34:53] one of our biggest things is 30%

[34:54] increase in our stock loss premium and

[34:57] that the stop- loss premium is is when a person uh a single person goes over

[35:03] $175,000 we have a special Insurance to

[35:05] kick in to to pay for that and right now

[35:08] we have 15 people really over

[35:12] that right now so so that insurance is

[35:15] really helping us you

[35:17] know one of the big factors uh coming up

[35:19] in 2024 specialty drugs uh um because

[35:25] you know the huge increase of cost

[35:27] specialty drugs yeah what's a specialty

[35:29] drug uh uh you know uh like for instance

[35:32] um um calus you know the for uh when you

[35:37] have pis yeah do you know that's like a

[35:40] it's a drug that cost like uh $122,000

[35:44] an ejection wow yeah okay we have people

[35:46] using that we have a list of you know

[35:49] people with the high cost drugs you know

[35:51] W 14% seems like um what it I mean

[35:55] that's it doesn't it isn't it often

[35:58] going up that much every year we we've

[36:00] been really good in fact uh we we've

[36:02] been really steady and holding our own

[36:04] we think with MVP has been our

[36:06] administrator they've been doing very

[36:07] well with us and so uh This what they

[36:10] explain is this is like the after Co

[36:13] thing now people are actually going to

[36:14] go back to the doctors or actually you

[36:16] know so that's that's what what they're

[36:18] expecting um hopefully uh uh this year

[36:22] our Trend looks like we're going to

[36:24] either be even or a little bit under

[36:26] budget

[36:27] but we're we're holding very well so far

[36:29] this year so uh we're we're preparing

[36:32] next year uh to uh you know for next

[36:36] year to go through our uh for instance

[36:39] our y for our retirees went up a

[36:42] straight 6% which we were holding our

[36:44] own you everything else everything else

[36:47] is pretty stable after

[36:52] that so Anthony I've known over the

[36:56] years you had um especially Health

[36:58] excuse me the healthare section yeah you

[37:01] had um submit to us like performal

[37:04] invoice or estimates do you have that by

[37:06] any chance say one more time performa

[37:08] invoice estimates with regards to these

[37:11] costs going on the healthare

[37:14] cause last year you from the analyst

[37:17] yeah yeah yeah I have it right here you

[37:19] have that you want to report yeah if you

[37:20] don't mind can you um have copies for us

[37:23] to show how you know the trend yeah

[37:26] absolutely yeah last year did that help

[37:28] all the budget scenarios

[37:30] everything

[37:32] y rate history I got the rate history in

[37:35] there I got all set for it I'll I'll

[37:38] have them one of those expenses that you

[37:41] want we can do it on send it

[37:44] electronically or no I I no I have make

[37:46] hard cop for us please can you scan it

[37:48] not um yeah no you want a hard cop not

[37:51] enough not enough let's finish off we

[37:53] can have like we can deal with that on

[37:55] Monday Monday pleas

[38:00] there's no question just oh please do

[38:02] you have a year to date on our employee

[38:04] drug testing employee drug

[38:07] testing the number I think is that my

[38:10] department okay yeah I can get I can

[38:13] find it for you a

[38:15] 98984 is that the same

[38:18] Department that's that's the whole city

[38:20] we the whole oh okay cuz I saw them by

[38:23] Department I saw different department

[38:25] where's the problem

[38:27] sorry that I just want to look it

[38:32] up year to date

[38:35] 3,900 thank you

[38:40] yeah 3,900 usually when we hire a new

[38:44] person um do the drug test okay so

[38:48] there's we don't do the random testing

[38:50] anymore yeah not for this okay so uh let

[38:55] me just be clear because I saw saw um

[38:57] under like for instance under Paul's

[38:59] Department I saw employee drug

[39:05] testing it was um maybe under water sore

[39:08] maybe are we allowed to do that it was

[39:11] on the contract I beg pardon are we

[39:14] allowed to do that I don't know it was in his department and it was

[39:18] allocated like 900 and we only spent

[39:20] like

[39:22] $490 I specifically remember saying that

[39:24] on the water there's $1,000

[39:27] I and are very low what number is that

[39:31] John under the tab water fun y page um

[39:36] six and and the year to date was

[39:40] like yeah yeah maybe because it's a

[39:43] different

[39:44] fund it's a thousand bucks yeah okay

[39:48] yeah testing because we do General water

[39:54] sword General General water and so you

[39:57] do abide the different funds oh because

[39:59] you got to get them out of the funds huh

[40:00] you got to get them out of those funds

[40:02] yeah yeah yeah that makes sense under on

[40:06] so we random random is uh is okay when

[40:10] they get in an accident we can't send

[40:12] them to get drug tested we cannot corre

[40:15] I think that's that was contract some thaton you couldn't do

[40:20] that yeah he did discuss this almost

[40:23] every bu on control of the year for last

[40:26] several years there's something in the

[40:28] contract that says that we cannot um do

[40:31] the Dr they can do they can do randomly

[40:33] you

[40:34] can well that's kind of kind of yeah

[40:38] doesn't make

[40:40] sense that's what we said yeah oh okay

[40:43] it's it's part of the Union bargaining

[40:45] if you were stopped by the police

[40:47] because you had an accident they and

[40:49] they think you're INX whatever that's

[40:50] the immediate thing that happen I'm not

[40:52] sure why we're

[40:53] different I think that's I think that's

[40:55] a different thing they think you're

[40:56] intoxicated just that we cannot just say

[41:00] you know a lot of times be prior if you

[41:02] got an assent no matter what we would

[41:03] send you but if a police officer says I

[41:06] think he's intoxicated whatever that's

[41:08] different right yeah so but so then they

[41:11] contracted that they took that out that

[41:13] we used to be able to do it is what

[41:14] you're saying and then they we I guess

[41:17] somebody grieved it and we

[41:19] lost wow yes a few years ago yes yeah I

[41:23] remember that

[41:25] yes okay said all of our yeah we have

[41:29] complete um our review I think so oh

[41:32] yeah we're not missing

[41:33] anything I want to thank everyone uh for

[41:36] their time and effort going through all

[41:38] the questions and all the answer that

[41:40] was provided it's now over to the

[41:43] council and we're going to meet next

[41:45] Wednesday the 18th and I would like to

[41:47] ask all council members please submit

[41:49] your

[41:50] recommendation your concern and your

[41:53] changes that you may have I'm going to

[41:56] put Anthony in the spot if you choose

[41:59] please reach out to answer me copy

[42:01] myself with any suggestion but I would

[42:03] like you copy me so I'm aware of what's

[42:05] going on and we can keep track of it and

[42:08] when we meet Wednesday we all have all

[42:10] the

[42:11] information together and to track all

[42:13] the

[42:14] changes and hopefully um we can have a

[42:17] budget um next week oh that' be

[42:19] wonderful do you want Miss Mich on that

[42:21] or no for the any information that well

[42:24] yes yes because um it's relevant because

[42:27] M Michael will print all out and make

[42:28] sure that we all have a copy of all the

[42:31] answers all the questions copy me to

[42:34] because when you when you send it back

[42:36] to me I have Miss Michael printed out

[42:38] and we make sure that everybody has all

[42:40] com from member has cop the questions

[42:43] the answers to the

[42:44] questions all right all right you have

[42:48] Oh no you're going to recess no I have

[42:51] recess

[42:52] yeah yes come back once to recess second

[42:57] all in favor thank you I wasn't ready to

[43:00] go

[43:02] yet I mean last night was9 I don't think

[43:04] you I told you well last night was last

[43:07] night was Marathon because of so much it

[43:09] was a marathon it was because of the all

[43:12] the major

[43:18] departments

[43:20] [Music]

[43:25] do

[43:30] no Monday Monday are you coming Monday

[43:33] you're coming Monday

[43:55] right

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