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[2:53] conect city council committee meeting
[2:55] for Monday June 17th 2024 we're going to
[2:58] start off with two presentations this
[3:00] time I'd like to turn up the commission
[3:01] for
[3:05] Ferrari thank you council president uh
[3:08] city council mayor uh we would like to
[3:10] start uh tonight with uh uh a review of
[3:13] the audit uh we have uh John tski from
[3:16] kuak and Company are Auditors of the who
[3:19] audited the city's connected financials
[3:21] uh for 2023 and uh uh we're going to
[3:24] have John come up and explain the audit
[3:26] and what he's done and uh how everything
[3:29] looks and hopefully
[3:30] uh uh you guys can have some questions
[3:32] as you go along okay I'm going to turn
[3:34] it over to John
[3:38] John uh I just wanted to start off by
[3:40] saying thank you to um the mayor city
[3:42] council and um everybody who helped us
[3:44] out during the audit um really
[3:45] appreciate everything they did to help
[3:47] us complete the audit um we have a great
[3:49] staff here very well qualified uh really
[3:51] good people and we really appreciate
[3:53] everything that they did for us um so
[3:55] our ultimate responsibility for the
[3:57] audit is to be able to issue an opinion
[3:59] on your fin statements as to whether
[4:01] they're materially stated and whether
[4:02] they're in compliance with generally
[4:03] accepted accounting principles otherwise
[4:05] known as Gap so our audit takes place in
[4:08] three main phases um the first is our
[4:10] pre- audit phase which takes place in
[4:12] December so during this time what we do
[4:14] is we review your internal control
[4:16] processes um we test those internal
[4:18] control processes we perform variance
[4:20] and budget analysis uh review council
[4:23] meeting minutes and complete our
[4:25] internal risk assessment
[4:26] procedures um the next is our audit
[4:28] fieldwork phase this takes place in
[4:30] mid-march uh we use this information
[4:33] gathered um to develop our audit
[4:34] procedures our audit programs test
[4:37] account balances um to U verify if they
[4:40] appear materially stated the third is
[4:42] our reporting phase where we review the
[4:44] financial statements prepared by your
[4:45] senior accountant and um report on the
[4:48] final results so the financial
[4:50] statements that you have in front of you
[4:52] are a 77 page document overall it's
[4:54] comprised of several major parts the
[4:56] first major part is going to be the
[4:58] Management's discussion analysis on
[5:00] pages 1 through 7 adds are required un
[5:03] audited section financial statements so
[5:05] what this does is it summarizes the
[5:07] operating results and other financial
[5:09] highlights of the year if you're
[5:11] unfamiliar with the financial statements
[5:12] this is an excellent read uh Pages 8
[5:15] through 10 that's your independent AUD
[5:17] report where we issue an opinion on your
[5:19] financial statements
[5:21] um it is important to note that your
[5:24] financial statements are on the fund
[5:26] level only fund and account group level
[5:28] only exclusive up a non-current
[5:30] governmental asset account group we are
[5:33] pleased to say that we
[5:34] have we have once again issued an
[5:37] unmodified opinion on your financial
[5:39] statements the highest insurance we can
[5:41] give you consider a clean report we have
[5:43] no report issu with no F so Pages 11
[5:46] through 13 these are your governmental
[5:48] fund balance sheets and statements of
[5:50] revenues expenditures and changes in
[5:52] fund balance approximated operating
[5:55] results for the year end of December
[5:56] 31st
[5:57] 2023 general fund balance was unchanged
[6:00] due to the ARA loss Revenue water fund
[6:02] had a surplus of
[6:04] 323,000 sewer fund had a surplus of
[6:08] 136,000 recreation fund had a surplus of
[6:11] 4,000 a special grants and revenue fund
[6:13] surplus of
[6:15] 13,000 and your capital projects had a
[6:17] surplus of 26 million uh due to the
[6:20] proceeds from Sero Bond issuance and
[6:21] band
[6:22] redemptions so highlights of the 2023
[6:25] general fund activity these are all
[6:26] approximated figures prior your taxing
[6:29] Ed F below Expectations by 772 th000
[6:33] casino revenue exceeded expectations by
[6:36] 54,000 property sales fell below
[6:39] Expectations by 1.7 million uh sales tax
[6:42] revenue exceeded expectations by 2.3
[6:45] million insurance recoveries these
[6:47] exceed Expectations by $753,000
[6:50] adult use cannabis revenue for the year
[6:52] was
[6:53] $531,000 for new Revenue source for 2023
[6:56] Street opening permits these fell below
[6:58] expectation 700 188,000 and the federal
[7:01] arpa funds that were utilized $8.9
[7:03] million for the year 6.5 million of
[7:06] which was used for the loss Revenue
[7:08] calculation um overall we feel that
[7:10] management does a really good job with
[7:11] your reserves uh general fund balance is
[7:14] $18.9 million for the year ended 6.5
[7:17] million of that is restricted funds and
[7:20] the detail for these account balances is
[7:22] on pages 52 and 53 notes of financial
[7:25] statements band borrowings increased by
[7:27] 5.7 million to fund projects your New
[7:31] York State EFC borrowings $28 million
[7:33] converted to Long Ser
[7:41] con there was an increase of $48 million
[7:44] in the city's net pension liability this
[7:45] is for underfunded ERS and PFS balance a
[7:49] year end was a liability of 9.9 million
[7:51] for ERS and a liability of 42.9 million
[7:54] for pfrs total oped liability other
[7:57] post-employment benefits it's increased
[7:59] by $43 million to $294 million these
[8:03] valuations are due to gby savings 68 and
[8:06] 75 which require the acral of pension
[8:08] assets and liabilities and the other
[8:10] post employment benefits on actu
[8:13] valuations custodial fund is required by
[8:15] G state4 this includes the property
[8:18] taxes which are collected for other
[8:19] governments not yet remitted Pages 16
[8:22] through 58 of your financials these are
[8:24] the footnotes of your financial
[8:25] statements if you're not comfortable
[8:26] with the face of the financial
[8:27] statements or you wanted more detail as
[8:29] a significant account balances or
[8:31] material account balances in the face of
[8:32] the financial statements the notes are a
[8:34] very good read overall Pages 66 through
[8:37] 77 this is your federal signal audit
[8:40] since the city expended more than
[8:42] $750,000 in federal funding you are
[8:44] required to have it's called the federal
[8:45] single audit um Federal expenditures for
[8:48] the year were $29 million overall so as
[8:51] part of this Federal audit what we're
[8:52] required to do is uh rotate your major
[8:54] programs every 3 years major programs
[8:57] for this year with a Community
[8:58] Development block rant
[9:00] uh the home Grant and also the Arta
[9:01] funds as well um your art funds are
[9:04] required to be obligated uh for
[9:06] expenditure by December 31st 2024 and
[9:09] must be expanded by December 31st 2026
[9:12] there are currently $31 million um still
[9:14] remaining of your AR funds to be spent
[9:17] um from the overall accounting and
[9:18] control standpoint we feel like your
[9:20] staff does a really great job a really
[9:22] great team here a lot of strong people
[9:24] um they were very helpful during the
[9:26] audit um if there was any questions at
[9:28] this point you know audit process that
[9:30] was just a brief overview of the
[9:31] financial highlights the questions on
[9:33] the audit process or the audit in
[9:35] general financial statements um I'd be
[9:37] happy to take at this point could you
[9:39] just go over a again about the liability
[9:40] that you talked about the 9.9 million
[9:42] liability increase sure the um
[9:45] underfunded ERS and pfrs so those
[9:47] evaluations are so ERS and pfrs are
[9:51] under gas saer number 68 the state has
[9:53] an actal evaluation done and what they
[9:55] do is they have to report to us whether
[9:57] we have if they're in an asset sit
[9:59] situation or a liability situation for
[10:01] overfunding or underfunding both of
[10:03] those um pension systems are underfunded
[10:06] which essentially means that they have a
[10:07] liability that that is allocated on a
[10:10] pro-rated basis to each municipality
[10:12] that's part of that system so in theory
[10:15] as of 123123 should those systems fail
[10:18] in theory the city would owe 9.9 million
[10:21] for ERS and 42.9 million for police and
[10:23] fire we know that would never happen
[10:25] there's safeguards in place but gby
[10:27] statement 68 does require that that is
[10:29] plac on in the long-term dead fund as a
[10:32] life and that's the same with G State 75
[10:35] for the other post employment benefit
[10:37] benefit that's a liability as well
[10:39] that's done on an Actuarial basis so the
[10:41] actuary provides a report that says you
[10:44] know this is your projected liability
[10:46] based on our our inputs and outputs into
[10:49] into this calculation at that given time
[10:51] so I know those numbers seem really
[10:54] massive you know and it's kind of scared
[10:55] up some they for lack of a better term
[10:58] can be considered paper liability ities
[10:59] where they're not going to be funded
[11:01] they cannot be funded but ultimately
[11:03] those are viations that have to be put
[11:05] on to the STS thank you so question you
[11:09] said uh that part of the federal AIT
[11:12] process that you have to rotate three
[11:14] major programs what do you mean by that
[11:16] so every so your major programs are any
[11:19] programs that are over $750,000 or meet
[11:21] certain risk criteria so that AUD if
[11:24] that program was audited in the previous
[11:25] year it was over 750 we had findings we
[11:28] then have to AIT that program again so
[11:31] every third year so essentially like um
[11:34] like your lead Grant you spend more than
[11:35] $750,000 on your Le Grant this year but
[11:38] I audited that program last year without
[11:40] any material there was no findings no
[11:42] significant efficiency so I did not have
[11:44] to once again audit it this year as well
[11:46] the arpa program is so large that we
[11:49] consider a higher risk from our
[11:51] standpoints our internal risk assessment
[11:52] says this is brand new program very high
[11:55] dollar amount we're going to audit it
[11:56] every year IR regardless of what we can
[11:58] or cannot do so that's that's kind of
[12:00] from our our our side what we're doing
[12:02] for our risk assessment that program
[12:09] okay so I had a question and I imagine
[12:12] your report it gets more detailed U just
[12:14] wanted to confirm you said Pages 52 and
[12:17] 53 give that assessment of the balances
[12:19] uh I imagine that gets into uh how our
[12:22] rating is a c is
[12:24] outline I'm sorry you're reading or I
[12:28] think there's like a a like a the bond
[12:30] rating so the bond rating is discussed
[12:32] in the Management's discussion and
[12:34] Analysis the details of the actual fund
[12:37] balance with all the different funds
[12:38] that's going to be on pages 52 and 53 so
[12:40] you can see how much is restricted what
[12:42] it's restricted for if there's
[12:43] incumbrances details of all those
[12:46] different balances thank
[12:50] you um you mentioned um the arpa um loss
[12:54] Revenue $8 million that was set aside
[12:56] and we only used um $6 million does that
[12:59] mean that we have $2 million available
[13:02] using 24 now yeah well I was going to
[13:05] say was even more than that so was I
[13:07] think
[13:08] Tony I think it was $11 million in total
[13:12] but we use six six and change this year
[13:14] and then the rest of it is budg
[13:21] for anyone
[13:24] else you said the audit went very well
[13:27] thank you all for having me here tonight
[13:28] and if there's any questions you know
[13:30] afterward after you're done here if you
[13:31] think of anything just um give my
[13:33] contact information ton or D and can
[13:35] take care
[13:36] of thank you
[13:46] than okay um excuse me um we've been
[13:49] talking about this for um a while and uh
[13:53] about doing a quarterly financial report
[13:55] so that we don't see a similar situation
[13:58] as we did last year we get to the budget
[13:59] we kind of have an idea where we were
[14:01] financially and how things are going so
[14:03] Mr Ferrari is here
[14:06] today we just kind of go over it um
[14:09] where we are with our
[14:10] Revenue excuse me are you going to vote
[14:14] to adopt please oh yeah for the audit to
[14:16] accept the audit to accept the audit yes
[14:19] but um but let's just do that under
[14:21] government office because I usually do
[14:22] it in a committee so let's do it
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[14:25] there all right you want me to go ahead
[14:28] or you yeah we'll do that in government
[14:30] house I'd like to present DK who's going
[14:34] to present our first quarter uh
[14:38] uh details for you
[14:41] Derek thank you so we're just going to
[14:45] review the first quar report for the
[14:46] fiscal year
[14:48] 2024 uh I'd like to start with the
[14:50] general fund um start off on a positive
[14:52] note uh the city's connect uh did
[14:55] increase its rated from an A to an A
[14:57] plus after completion of the official
[14:58] state statement and interview with our
[15:00] S&P experts um from operational
[15:04] standpoint uh based on the original
[15:06] adopted budget through March 2024 the
[15:08] city has attained 40% of its projected
[15:10] general fund revenue and expending 22%
[15:13] of projected general fund expenditures
[15:15] uh during the same period of 2023 the
[15:17] city had attained 41% of projected
[15:19] revenue and expended 23% of its
[15:21] projected
[15:22] expenditures um some of the budget
[15:25] concerns for the general fund are in
[15:26] certies in health insurance costs
[15:29] um there's 11% increase from 2023 to
[15:33] 2024 this is in the same period from
[15:35] January through March uh vehicle repair
[15:38] budget um has increased by
[15:41] 68% uh compared to
[15:43] 2023 um tipping fees increased by
[15:47] 107% uh compared to 2023 the waste
[15:50] recycling per DM salary increased by
[15:54] 28% um Public Safety overtime costs um
[15:58] respective the PD has increased by 5%
[16:01] compared to 2023 and again this is from
[16:04] January to March of 2024 the far
[16:07] requirement increased by 16% during the
[16:09] same time period um there's only one
[16:13] meeting contract which has not been
[16:15] settled which is on tonight's agenda uh
[16:18] the PBA uh for
[16:20] 2024 um the golf fund uh from an
[16:24] operational standpoint based on the
[16:25] original adopted budget through March 24
[16:27] the city has attained 2% projected golf
[16:29] fund revenue and expended 7% of its
[16:32] projected golf fund expenditures through
[16:34] the same period 2023 and seven correct
[16:38] correct 2% for Revenue 7% for the
[16:41] expenditures 2024 uh compared to 2023
[16:44] the city attain 2% projected revenue and
[16:47] expend 20% of its projected excuse me
[16:51] projected
[16:52] expenditures uh the expenditures for
[16:54] 2023 are due to higher typ type Capital
[16:58] Reserves expenditures compared to the
[17:00] same period in 2024 the length of the
[17:02] season will um definitely um influence
[17:05] the financial outcome of the golf fund
[17:07] um as of now there are no budget
[17:09] concerns in
[17:12] 2024 the water fund uh from an
[17:15] operational standpoint activities in the
[17:17] water fund are closely tracking those of
[17:19] 2023 raising no budget concerns at the
[17:21] present time based on an original
[17:24] adopted budget through March 2024 the
[17:25] city has obtained 58% of its projected
[17:28] Revenue spend 20% of projected
[17:30] expenditures through the same period of
[17:32] 2023 the city has attained 67% of the
[17:35] projected revenue and expending 19% of
[17:38] his projected
[17:39] expenditures the revenues are down in
[17:41] 2024 due to the timing of issuing uh n
[17:45] Uno water
[17:46] bill uh which is uh approximately
[17:51] $648,000 the expenses are up in 2024 due
[17:54] to early use of water repair line of
[17:58] approximately 455,000 in
[18:01] 2024 the sewer fund from an operational
[18:04] standpoint based on operational adopted
[18:06] budget through March 2024 the city has
[18:09] attained 63% of its projected sewer fund
[18:12] revenue and expended 16% of its
[18:14] projected sewer fund expenditures
[18:16] throughing the same time period of 2023
[18:19] the city has attained 62% of projected
[18:21] revenue and expended 18% of the
[18:23] projected proes use of type Capital
[18:25] reserves is much higher at this point in
[18:27] 2024 than the same in 2023 by
[18:30] approximately
[18:32] 66,000 so the finance department will
[18:34] continue to monitor the numbers and
[18:36] Report City Council on a quarterly basis
[18:38] um are there any questions at this
[18:43] point um thank you for the breakdown
[18:47] looking for clarification you said the
[18:48] vehicle repair increased uh are you able
[18:51] to differentiate between like reing
[18:53] maintenance and then just
[18:55] acents uh the vehicle pair parts and
[18:58] bringing to uh uh Gad shop to get the
[19:02] repair um I think most of that is do the
[19:04] inflation the parts supply and demand um
[19:07] so we're definitely seeing that
[19:08] everything's
[19:11] up so just you're you're not you're
[19:14] suggesting that's probably just because
[19:16] the increase of pars not necessarily
[19:17] like more vehicles are breaking down or
[19:19] there's an increase of things like that
[19:21] it could be potentially B of Aging Fleet
[19:24] and um you know just supply and demand
[19:27] and then as We Know with the cost ofair
[19:30] and you know getting those uh pars
[19:34] from um you also said there was 11%
[19:37] increase in for our healthcare costs
[19:40] yeah yes um well that's compared to
[19:43] 2023 um it's going up um we I think we
[19:47] showed you guys in the past and the
[19:50] council wanted to cut um and was
[19:52] approximately a million dollarss at one
[19:54] point but um it's just you know the way
[19:56] the market is at this point um
[19:59] FY can speak more towards
[20:04] that on the health side uh during the co
[20:07] period from 2020 to 2023 actually uh
[20:11] because of the the co outbreak our our
[20:14] uh uh fees for uh Health had steady and
[20:19] actually gone down but as as uh 2023
[20:22] emerged especially at the last uh
[20:25] quarter the last half you know people
[20:27] started going back to the doctors we
[20:28] have a lot more babies and I'm sorry to
[20:31] say we have a lot more people getting
[20:33] sicker um and than you know than we we
[20:37] we wish to uh in 2024 we saw that uh
[20:40] last quarter of 2023 move increasing as
[20:44] you can see at 11% more more people are
[20:46] going to the doctors more people are
[20:48] getting treatments and more people are
[20:50] getting uh work done so uh uh the the
[20:55] price of uh the price has gone up but
[20:57] you know I I always like to say that uh
[21:00] because we have such a great uh uh
[21:02] health benefit here at this concy you
[21:04] know we're proud that our workers are
[21:06] our C so well so it's it's it's to give
[21:08] it costs more money but you know we're
[21:10] giving a really good product to our our
[21:19] employees so we have a 2023 completed
[21:23] year and now this year at this point in
[21:25] time what areas are lying on expenses
[21:30] that we should be concerned of that we
[21:31] may I think I mentioned a bunch of them
[21:33] I think those are definitely you know
[21:35] you have a look out for um they could do
[21:38] another that sorry top three top three
[21:42] um health insurance is definitely one of
[21:44] them um you know with the overtime cost
[21:48] possibly PB and uh PD and fire
[21:51] department um you know the council did
[21:54] cut uh from this past budet year um you
[21:57] know this first quarter is really hard
[21:59] to tell at this point we'll have a
[22:00] better idea in the second and third
[22:02] quarter where we're going to sit um so I
[22:05] think about a month or so we'll have
[22:06] another discussion uh for a second quar
[22:09] more updated numbers thanks a
[22:12] lot um in terms of the vehicle repairs
[22:14] um 68% increase do you think that that
[22:17] might have been um lessened had we been
[22:20] able to vote in our last budget about
[22:22] going to the um going internal with our
[22:26] vehicle repairs which I think was what
[22:28] you guys had presented to us in the
[22:30] budget but was rejected by the council I
[22:33] I thought that we through if I recall
[22:35] correctly went through yes oh I thought
[22:37] we
[22:39] um I think I think it took a
[22:43] while in our in our group now okay but
[22:46] we did keep that guy on overnight okay
[22:50] that's also an increase but we're also
[22:51] thinking work time okay cuz I thought
[22:55] you said something about sending the
[22:56] vehicles out just just now talking to I
[22:59] was I no I I was asking is is it due to
[23:03] the increase of cost of price Parts what
[23:06] I saying we do both we do both Miss
[23:08] Patrick
[23:11] okay but but to her point I thought that
[23:14] was going to kind of uh that was
[23:16] supposed to cut our our cost as opposed
[23:19] to but now doesn't seem like it
[23:21] necessarily yeah I think like I said it
[23:23] took a while to get someone in that
[23:25] position so I don't think we're really
[23:27] seeing the fruits of yet okay maybe in
[23:30] the second third quarter we'll actually
[23:31] see you know that decrease
[23:36] okay thank you Mr waves uh I know kind
[23:39] of referencing our last budget cycle I
[23:41] know a point of contention or just an
[23:43] area of a lot of discussion was around
[23:44] the uh uh overtime budget related to the
[23:47] police department and fire department um
[23:49] I don't know if it's related but I do
[23:51] see both uh Chief Clifford and chief up
[23:53] here and in tonight I don't know if
[23:55] either are available but I would love to
[23:57] hear from their respect if there's been
[24:00] any uh alteration in their responses to
[24:03] Public Safety which was uh a comment or
[24:05] series of comments I heard frequently
[24:07] from the community I know as you
[24:08] mentioned this is just the first quarter
[24:10] but there's a question that I will be
[24:12] asking throughout the year just has
[24:13] there been any uh administ or altered
[24:17] responses due to the uh or due to the
[24:21] way we budgeted over time sure I'm not
[24:24] sure if the Chiefs are ready to present
[24:27] this time for that and I maybe they'll
[24:29] come in next committee cycle to discuss
[24:31] that further with you me did did you
[24:33] hear the question did you hear the
[24:39] comment I can speak in general
[24:42] ter come
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[24:51] on I know your fingers on the post of
[24:53] this all the time so I know your fingers
[24:55] on the post of this all the time so so
[24:58] you want to understand the
[25:00] question U so just to repeat myself um
[25:04] throughout my conversations I've heard
[25:06] and also it was a comment that was
[25:08] consistently repeated that any uh
[25:10] adjustments that were made to the
[25:12] recommended budgeted lines for overtime
[25:14] would have a negative effect to your
[25:16] ability to respond to events throughout
[25:18] the
[25:19] community so my question is have you had
[25:22] to alter your response due to the um due
[25:26] to what money was allocated to over no
[25:29] not at this
[25:30] point uh we have minimum Staffing of 20
[25:35] uh we put 20 on the street every day we
[25:38] answer every call that comes in uh like
[25:41] normal and the money is there now to pay
[25:44] for all the overturn what happens in the
[25:47] third and fourth quarter is yet to be
[25:49] seen that's why I was so passionate and
[25:51] adamant for that figure that we
[25:54] presented um as of the first quarter
[26:00] the amounts that we were looking at we
[26:03] were right on target for that amount
[26:06] that we
[26:07] requested uh now if we remain at that
[26:11] we'll see we're definitely not going the
[26:13] other
[26:14] way
[26:21] Chief simar response um I think it's
[26:25] fair to say that the first quarter for
[26:26] the police department is always be least
[26:28] expensive for us seems like uh weather
[26:31] is usually Cooperative from the first of
[26:33] the year until uh you know April May and
[26:37] uh we we do a lot less proactively more
[26:40] responsive so we really didn't you know
[26:43] we we we really didn't do much different
[26:46] than we normally do um but we do expect
[26:48] that with the summer months upon us uh
[26:51] we have more that will be busier we'll
[26:53] be putting more assets out there as the
[26:55] certain holidays come around like 4th of
[26:57] July so so we will expect it to be
[27:00] probably a higher percentage than first
[27:02] quarter for our overtime spending thank
[27:04] you
[27:07] aome any other
[27:10] questions okay um thank you very much
[27:13] and U we'll see you for the second
[27:15] quarter absolutely I'm sorry no I just
[27:17] moov your glasses around yeah oh mayor
[27:20] the
[27:21] uh
[27:24] just be uh trying to be polite my word
[27:27] choice uh last year's budget process was
[27:30] somewhat of a debacle said trying to
[27:33] avoid that this type of information has
[27:35] always been provided to the council we
[27:38] had generally made public comments at
[27:41] the adoption of the budget that we would
[27:42] go back and look to change the code in
[27:45] the charter where today it reads that
[27:48] the mayor submits it by October 1st the
[27:50] council adopts it by November first uh
[27:53] there were some opinions granted that
[27:55] there were no impact or effect of not
[28:01] adopting a
[28:02] budget uh I've made some staff
[28:04] adjustments to uh reflect that prior
[28:07] opinion but thought the council was on
[28:10] the mindset to put something on the
[28:12] ballot to clear that up so that if a
[28:16] budget is not adopted by November 1st
[28:19] you adopt either uh the mayor's proposed
[28:23] budget last year's budget some
[28:25] contingency budget but to take the ambig
[28:28] do it out of the whole process and that
[28:31] uh I've waited for that the action of
[28:34] the council we are coming up to a point
[28:37] where the timelines to put forward
[28:40] resolutions that would go on the ballot
[28:42] for this November uh there's still time
[28:45] where we can do that but I would assume
[28:47] the council is going to act on that in
[28:49] some fashion we can pick up the
[28:51] discussion at the next committee meeting
[28:53] thank
[28:54] you oh I'm sorry Mr yeah my my only resp
[28:58] response to that would be I I would
[29:00] disagree in that I would categorize that
[29:01] as a debacle I think it offered a lot of
[29:03] areas of improvement and a lot of
[29:05] learning opportunities for the council I
[29:07] would agree with that if we allowed it
[29:08] collectively to repeat again in our 2024
[29:11] or 2025 conversations but I definitely
[29:14] agree um Mr Mayor I think cleaning up
[29:16] some of those um lesser cleared areas
[29:19] specifically with regards to whether a
[29:21] budget is adopted I I definitely can
[29:23] agree that having more finer language to
[29:27] alleviate our interpretations only helps
[29:29] ensure that a budget is passed in timely
[29:31] manner for the
[29:32] city and um that's one of the reasons I
[29:35] was hoping I was asking that we had do
[29:36] this process so that we're once we get
[29:38] to the um where we have to actually look
[29:40] at the the overall budget we will have
[29:42] had discussions throughout and have a
[29:44] better idea of where we were so we will
[29:46] have the back and forth and
[29:50] um long elongated prolonged um budget
[29:54] process that we had last year so we can
[29:57] put that forward to have discussion at
[29:59] the next committee meeting thank
[30:02] you okay go ahead I like the col
[30:06] government operations we have two items
[30:07] on the agenda actually the audit and I
[30:11] we put three items on the agenda right
[30:13] so first I what we'll
[30:17] do we to accept our
[30:21] audit so second all those in favor
[30:26] I all right next agenda item is going to
[30:30] be ring Dr Kelly tolin of other clinical
[30:32] psychologist and is Chief
[30:40] War good
[30:42] evening um so working with the Police
[30:45] Department fire department has been in
[30:47] the process of establishing our home
[30:50] peer
[30:51] support team as a matter of fact we're
[30:55] joining the police department um with
[30:57] their te they're doing a fantastic job
[31:00] uh and we are modeling our team after
[31:04] theirs and we'll be working closely with
[31:05] them part of our par support team is
[31:08] bringing on a clinical psychologist and
[31:11] we are uh asking to approved a contract
[31:15] with Dr Kelly toin who's the same
[31:18] psychologist at the police work
[31:20] with uh her contract calls for a
[31:25] $1,400 uh retainer fee every month
[31:29] uh we'll be modifying our original
[31:31] proposal of a year contract to 6 months
[31:35] and um there was some questions that the
[31:40] uh uh council president had asked I have
[31:44] answer to so the background of our the
[31:48] reason why we want our prayer support
[31:49] team is because of the increase in
[31:53] mental health challenges that First
[31:55] Responders are are facing and in the
[31:59] legislative request I listed some of
[32:01] those they're actually pretty trouble uh
[32:04] to the point where we just dealt with
[32:06] two issues uh about 10 days ago of
[32:10] people that really needed some
[32:12] intervention so due to the work our
[32:15] people do and the stress that comes with
[32:18] that and the amount of time that our
[32:20] people are working um we're seeing more
[32:23] and more challenges so it is extremely
[32:28] important that we have a team and with
[32:30] the team we need the clinical
[32:32] psychologist so that's why I'm here to
[32:34] ask for the approval of the
[32:39] contract Chief um the compensation of
[32:42] section three page um section three um
[32:47] $1,400 with retainer and that not to
[32:50] exceed
[32:52] $1,000 for additional service so that's
[32:54] like 4 hours is that enough
[32:58] on top of the $1,400 so the $400 is uh
[33:03] her retainer and all the services she'll
[33:06] provide you see that on exhibit a that
[33:09] additional
[33:11] $250 a u an hour that would be in the
[33:15] event of
[33:16] some acute
[33:18] event and I don't want to get specific
[33:21] but it something happened and she was
[33:23] called in because of the sheer uh severe
[33:28] that that would be what she would be
[33:30] charging for that event it wouldn't be
[33:32] for oneon-one for oneon-one
[33:35] uh sessions she' be charging she'd be
[33:39] invoicing the insurance so this would
[33:43] be in the event of something
[33:46] happen
[33:49] specific so I think what we're seeing um
[33:52] in society right now is that there's a
[33:55] renewal of the social contractor
[33:57] institutions including school districts
[34:00] um First Responders things like that
[34:01] nature and I think that this is
[34:03] definitely in line um with
[34:06] that that's probably a contract that
[34:08] wasn't necessarily negotiated we just
[34:10] had to respond to because there's a
[34:11] different level of need here so I think
[34:13] that that's a important step to take a
[34:15] proactive step to take it's something
[34:17] that we can probably um
[34:19] unfortunately uh will likely we utilize
[34:22] one way or another so I I I appreciate
[34:24] that F and full support of that any
[34:26] other questions or comments on that um
[34:29] just a comment do we have the same PSA
[34:31] for the police department do we have the
[34:33] same PSA for the police department I'm
[34:35] not sure it's exactly but conceptually
[34:38] it's the same it's um the police
[34:40] department it's 2,000 overall and then
[34:43] 225 for
[34:45] incidents um I just want to make sure
[34:48] that we have U up to date signed
[34:50] contract um we don't do that but that's
[34:53] that's the difference there he so it was
[34:55] modeled as the chief said off of the
[34:57] police dep
[34:58] Department my um I just wanted to ask
[35:00] Chief so are we going to be um this date
[35:03] in in that we have in our information
[35:04] say it's June 1st so we going to be
[35:05] changing that to July 1st July 1 yeah
[35:07] okay and I'll speak with court Council
[35:09] tomorrow about uh making it a six month
[35:12] as opposed to a year right so to keep it
[35:16] in line with how we do our um our budget
[35:18] and then we'll do it again in the
[35:19] beginning of the year correct well at
[35:21] the end of the year at the beginning of
[35:22] the year and cor Council wanted one
[35:24] phrase in the resolution so so we make
[35:28] sure that gets in there also oh it was
[35:30] just regarding legislative request sorry
[35:32] that was just regarding the legislative
[35:34] request okay we we'll put together the
[35:36] final
[35:40] contract thank you H um so you said you
[35:43] said something about You' be working
[35:45] with the team who else is on the team
[35:47] you
[35:48] haven't well right now we're putting
[35:50] together our team working with Dr toin
[35:52] and just to be fully transparent Dr
[35:55] Tobin's been working with us probably
[35:57] the last two months
[35:58] and has not been uh compensated nor she
[36:01] asking to be compensated I just state
[36:03] that to show you the character of Dr
[36:07] tolin she is not in this for the money
[36:11] like I said to her today you're not
[36:12] building a mansion any words she's in it
[36:15] because she believes it and she does
[36:17] wonderful work she's already counil a
[36:21] couple of our people
[36:23] um
[36:25] so we'll be starting in July what was
[36:29] your question oh who whe the type of
[36:32] professionals or staff or whatever you
[36:34] going to put on a team to help so some
[36:37] other departments have modeled their
[36:40] team uh through seniority um you know
[36:44] taking into
[36:45] consideration what the contract States
[36:49] here we're doing it basically on a
[36:51] volunteer basis our people will not be
[36:53] compensated there are people that are
[36:56] drawn to this
[36:58] and they'll be vetted by Dr toin and
[37:01] those members of the SK Police
[37:04] Department team to make sure there'd be
[37:06] a good thing so we we don't have names
[37:08] to give you at this point but we'll have
[37:12] that soon we're in the process very nice
[37:15] thank
[37:17] you so is Dr Toby is this a to uh
[37:21] actually do the homework on the site
[37:23] which uh which vendor we will go with
[37:25] each for each uh each category
[37:30] CH you thank you so so you said drones
[37:34] in addition to the other program that we
[37:36] have with the two drones I think the
[37:38] other one is and this would be these
[37:39] would be
[37:40] additional nope uh this is a what we've
[37:43] already you've already approved which is
[37:45] uh through Brink we have funding down
[37:47] and pay for that whole the
[37:50] contract Chief you mentioned a list vit
[37:53] here are you planning to upgrade the S
[37:55] at the same time or are you going to use
[37:57] um
[37:57] Cloud we're going to use the cloud okay
[38:01] any other
[38:03] questions see may have a motion to move
[38:06] this item so second all in favor the
[38:09] next item is the intergovernmental
[38:11] cooperation
[38:14] agreement yes so AC is give here the
[38:17] city's connected police department has
[38:19] received grant funding under the gun
[38:21] involved violence and elimination which
[38:24] again is the gri partnership for the
[38:26] fiscal year of 14 2015 the award is
[38:29] granted by New York state to the
[38:30] Department of Criminal justic Services
[38:32] the Grant application is a partnership
[38:34] between SK Police Department the SKC
[38:36] District Attorney's Office SKC County
[38:39] Probation Department and the skan county
[38:41] sheriff's the total Grant reward for all
[38:44] of the entities is $1,200
[38:47] 773 with the scity police department
[38:49] receiving 5
[38:56] $3,495 question on
[38:59] this go ahead please and so is all of
[39:02] ours going to um be so this is the
[39:04] budget here right you've given us the
[39:06] budg of house