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This is for us, we continue as normal regardless of what is happening. So we're going to be here for the next couple of hours to really go through our budgets and really focus on our budget itself and each of them within each of the different departments. So before we begin, what I'd like to do is give a couple of housekeeping rules so that both council and residents are aware of

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how today's going to work and then I'm going to turn it over to town manager

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Harubin, who will give you more specifics about how today specifically will work.

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So because we're on this type of setting, we are having a meeting going on.

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So for the council, when it is time or when you have a question or you'd like to

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speak, please raise your hands so that you can be recognized so that I ever want to be able to hear you

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because it does, it may get a little difficult to hear everyone if we're

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consistently talking. The way we're not speaking please put yourself under

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mute to prevent any feedback or noise from speaking or from happening. If you

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have to step away please turn that video off and then after each presentation I've

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opened the floor to discussion but I will go in the following order so I'll

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with Mayor Pro Tem, Bob Niples, and I'll go to Councilmember Sweet.

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Councilmember Dewey, Councilmember Osmond, and then I will end the discussion, and then

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we'll have one final discussion before we move on to the next department.

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With our residents, we will have the phone lines open, but they will only be open after

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each department has presented their actual report itself.

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We are asking that you focus your question to the presentation that's given at hand and please

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never possible. Please don't ask questions that were already previously asked. We're really

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trying to streamline that. We do have another way of doing, of accepting comments as well,

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and questions and that is through email. So Councilmember Dewey is graciously accepted to monitor

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or email, so if you have any emails, any questions or comments, we would highly encourage that

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you email her at a-do-e-w-w-y at burrwoodheightsnd.gov, again it's a-d-e-w-e-y at burrwoodheightsnd.gov.

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And that will help us even with accuracy as well, so if you have any call in, I will do my best

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to repeat your question in hopes that I would get it accurate as an

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accurate as possible. The email is always better for us as well. We will take

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two ten minute breaks throughout this time. One, we will take it after the end

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of section two and then one at the end of section three. So the section two part

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is after the police department and then the section three is after the budget

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summary accepts. From there, after that second grade, when we start section 4, we will not be

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accepting any additional phone call. We will not be reading any additional emails, but the record

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will remain open until May 13th until it is loaded on by the council. Again, we still encourage you to

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email your comments and questions of councilmember Dewey. Of course, always email any of the council

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some members, but Councilmember Dewey is going to be really focused on all of those events.

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Council, open the floor. Are there any additional comments, questions, anything that I may have

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missed before we begin or discussion?

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Here and then, what I am going to do is now pass it on to

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town manager Rodbent who will give you a summary of how today will actually work.

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Good morning, thank you, Mr. Mayer.

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I'm just a councilor.

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Cory, I'd like to talk a little bit about the budget.

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I just wanted to talk a little bit about the town's response

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and the contingencies that we've taken

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related to the coronavirus.

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Know that to a person, every one of our staff

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has been really working hard and vigilant and staying

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positive and really doing a fantastic job of just keeping

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We've been telling operations going as best we can.

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It is a new normal and we've had to learn some new tricks, including Zoom.

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But our town offices, we have switched to,

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everything that can be done electronically should be done electronically.

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We're not closed.

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We're still taking calls.

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We've only had a couple people come in this week and I appreciate that.

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Same thing for a quiz station. If anything can be done electronically, we'd appreciate

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that you do that. I closed our playground. It was with Eddie Hart was not something I

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wanted to keep it open as much as I could. Lake Artemisia and the park and fanning parks

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are still open. But really be careful. This thing is not planned and you know, like you go

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If you're going to do a car, if you're going to be out in public,

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seriously be 16 cars at least and wash your hands and be really careful.

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The senior center is closed.

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I miss seeing the seniors every day.

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Hope you guys are okay.

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The police have been doing a great job of checking in with everybody.

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And if you've got some concerns, call.

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We really want to make sure that we know how you're doing because

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when we're really worried about anybody.

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But cash collection is continuing as normal.

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We take an opportunity while everything's

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been closed and making a little nicer out here.

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The seniors are going to like what they see,

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but we did paint those poles that they could play about.

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So the paint has been done, and the carvings

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have been done, but the senior center

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and over here in town hall.

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So we're doing the best we can to keep things rolling

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and just, you know, give everybody, give yourself some space and be patient. We're gonna get through this, the best you can.

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And thank you to all the staff because, you know, we've got some folks that have been taking turns, you know,

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working in the office to sort of live in exposure, but, you know, we couldn't have had this virus business happen at a worse time

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because when it comes to the budget, everybody works double-time.

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It works on the budget to get things done.

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is to start digging deep into the budget and recitations.

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And I'll talk more about it at the end when I talk about summary.

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But, you know, we look at this not only as a physical challenge

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for all of us, but we're also looking at it as a financial challenge.

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and some of the decisions that we made going into this,

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but Michelle and I, they're back for us,

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they'll eight non-cocked nine per several days

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working all day long and looking to do the best we can

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to preserve the services that everybody enjoys here,

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not raise the tax rate and seriously look at what's

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essential and what we can put off a little bit so we're sure that we're going to have a tax money coming in and again

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I'll talk a little bit more about the end at that at the end and please hold your questions related to that until after that

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presentation but bear in mind that the budget that I put together is a imposed budget and it is our

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recommendation to the council. The council has the ability once the budget is

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introduced to make changes. So the budget process in general, the budget is in

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ordinance. So just like any ordinance, it gets introduced and it has public

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hearings. And along the way, the council has the authority to make a motion to

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change the ordinance. That's how it works. Our fiscal year starts in July. Our biggest payments

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start coming in in October, right? In my mentioned, in October. So we always take into account

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that we've got a few wants that we need to flow on reserves because of the things that

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we want to go to come in. So that's keeping that in mind. All right, as far as today goes, I'm

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I'm going to go through the presentation for the administration and the one-third public

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works and Director Hollis and the folks of the face department, Chief Ansley, I can

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attend on her and talk about the face department.

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Then at the end of the week we'll do a summary so that we can sort of show you all the format

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that we've been playing with to get where we are.

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So, with that, I'm ready for the presentation for the PowerPoint for the administration.

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Mr. Mayor.

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All right.

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I have a question.

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Thank you.

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I'm sorry to interrupt.

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I believe we are having an audio issue.

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I've got an email that there is no audio input.

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I'm trying to fix it.

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I just wanted to know if we could pause for a second.

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right.

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Okay I'm pausing

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member do I have

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Paula guys where did you have your hand up was it was it in the camera or was

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it on the chat so I don't I think it's about the little blue thing pops up I just

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wanted you to know we're gonna look for it the only thing I wanted to remind

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folks is when we say we're not reading emails it doesn't mean like we're

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We're literally not going to read them all later.

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We're just not going to put them in the meeting.

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It's no big deal.

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But yeah, I was, I just did the Ray's hand feature show.

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There shouldn't be a blue square on my picture.

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And then also next to my name in the chat.

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I'll leave it up right now so you can see what I look like.

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Yeah, I don't.

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2017.

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For what?

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It looks like there was another tab that had, OK.

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So, Amanda,

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you said there was an issue with not being able to hear.

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I turned up in volume, are you at all able to listen in over streaming or is it just somebody

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who called you to say that?

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It was an email, I got to find them, I checked myself and she said she was trying to use both.

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Yeah, so all I did, it looks to me like volume is going out from what I can tell in the back, and I turned up the volume here because I like sitting next to the laptop to record what you're all saying.

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I'm not sure if that will fix it at this point and let me also, oops, what did I do here?

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I'll send them an email back saying, let us know if we can.

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Yeah, okay.

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Maybe it's the case that people need to do one or the other.

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It's almost like listening to the radio while you're calling into the radio station.

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I would say try watching her on your cable team B because we have an open zoom to other

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outside participants, other than the folks that are staffed from the council.

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The audio issue should be related to the television, not all of us are on, so can he hear each

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other fine?

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I did go to my computer to try to listen to it and I had a hard time hearing it. I thought I heard a very low and I'll go back and check again.

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Do you want me to open up the first item here on the agenda?

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Yes.

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The update is that the TV is working now, but nothing on streaming.

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Nothing is on screen?

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nothing on the streaming. So the audio is now working on the TV side, but what you

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on our streaming version on our website. Oh, interesting. At least then hey that's something.

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Well we did have, I'm not sure what was done with the carpeting and if there was anything that was

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maybe disconnected, it might be an issue with encoder maybe it was bumped into. That sometimes

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has an issue. I think if we have the TV version fixed, I think that we could tell people

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to go there rather than look at our streaming. It would be difficult for me to fix the encoder

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if that's the issue for the streaming.

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And isn't it the case that we always re-broadcast everything that's been on the TV's?

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the website afterward. Right, and I can usually make a copy of the B8 and the

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recording for the TV and then upload it to streaming with voice. That's that's

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Yes, sir.

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So, the world will continue to evolve.

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Whatever it is that we need to do, hopefully, you know, if we have issues in terms of hearing, you know, we can only do so much at this point. You know, I know that one of the comments were that, you know, even with the phone, we had to keep on open a little bit longer because there's a delay between the stream and the TV as well. So we'll have to, you know, play with that in case that the comments.

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are we ready to go back?

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We can, yes.

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Just let me know if you want to move down the agenda.

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I'm looking for administration.

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We can take it.

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Okay, so that's okay.

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no, I can't see it.

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You can't see it?

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No, I'm going to be in chair again.

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I'm seeing that's on the big screen here and it's something all right let's see share yeah

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here we go here we go we got it okay all right just the word about the administration and

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presentations from the departments in general so we are focusing our presentations on what we

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call enhancements. That is anything that is over and above or cost work than we had last

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year. So those could be in some cases increases beyond our control or also including projects

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some of which are already funded, some of which would come from the funding. So the

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The Administration Department is responsible for making sure that everything runs smoothly.

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We are the glue that kind of holds together all the internal services and works with the council

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to make sure that everything in the council gets carried out.

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You can go ahead and change the slide.

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is just a talk about the staff that we have, so we have the chief executive officer,

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financial officer, basically, you know, a conductor of a great sentry of employees,

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assistant to the town manager.

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This was a change that we made in a couple of the positions during the current fiscal year

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just to make sure that there were more folks that were in an elevated position and just a administrative role.

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So working on policies and other issues and we've also initiated some project traction this year.

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So then folks can see where we are and put together projects that the council has approved.

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And also to separate out human resources functions from the treasure because the treasure has an awful lot of treasure work today.

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The treasure, as you know, helps Michelle Rodriguez who has helped me put this budget together and really done the heavy lift and tweaked all the numbers multiple, multiple times.

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person who is conducting the show today.

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I'm not sure I want you to mention that.

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We have, you know, depending on the learns of your tricks this week, so far so good.

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A person also makes sure she prides in administrative support to putting the agenda together from the council

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and manages the elections and keeps track of all of the documents that are approved by the council,

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and urgent control, and also has started to do some tracking of agreements and contracts that are approved by the council,

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so that we can make sure that we're approving them in a traffic fashion.

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And then we have the public information aid.

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That position is currently vacant, but we've identified someone who was young and talented

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at doing a lot of creative stuff, and I look forward to getting here in here, but now

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it's not the time.

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So we will get her going as soon as we can go in next slide.

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The role of the council is clearly different than the role of staff.

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The town council's job is to look at the legislation and consider the legislation that we put in front of them and to give us advice on where they want to go with policies.

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Understand that that includes ordinances, resolutions, and some other things.

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We operate in a system where on all basis, we'll take some time and discuss things through a work session.

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So then we can get out of all the discussion out and then things after hearings of the necessary

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the case of ordinances and then vote on them and read it down to each other.

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The other pool of the council serves is to serve as the representatives of the town to

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elected officials from other jurisdictions and with that I wanted to mention that we do

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a do hold an annual legislative dinner and it's a great time for us to talk to the delegation

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from the county and the state about the things that are important to us. Council members,

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sweet time, attended the bond bill session on Saturday and on the cell ago and we did receive

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word that we are receiving the funding. It's not a whole amount that we ask for but we are

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receiving the funding from the state and the cost of the town to replace those on the

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senior center town center bill. So that's great news and that's just so

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that is great news and

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how that is supposed to work. So our responsibilities are to look at the budget, to look at everything to

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do with financing, and that includes looking at finance policies and purchasing and how

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we spend that money throughout the year.

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Right now, you know, my instruction to staff has been, you're very close, you're really

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careful and how you're spending things that aren't purely operational, try and pull back

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if you can't.

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So, that's sort of where we are in relation to the virus, but that is our responsibility as

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as far as finance is concerned.

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Human resources, hiring, hiring,

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most of staff, employee benefits,

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employee compensation, personnel issues,

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all of those, all of them in the administration.

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And again, the table of televisitation

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and communication with social media,

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tracking of all the resolutions

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and paperwork and other responsibilities.

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Go ahead.

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All

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right, so I'll talk a little bit about the budget itself.

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We have included 2% cost of living increase.

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I'm not sure if that's actually going to keep up with the cost of living, but that is

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the number that we've included.

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Last year and in years previous, the town was able to do a 2% merit increase for employees

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who have been employed for at least a year as of the beginning of each fiscal year, this

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year in response to the virus, we have reduced that to one percent. So that is one of the

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So we're going to move to the next slide.

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Yes, please.

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This budget enhancement is to actually take,

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actually codify it.

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Convocation is a process where all of your ordinances are grouped together by subject matter,

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put that together and

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this will allow them to be put in and over systematically, very

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common for cities and towns to have to service.

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And every time you do a change to your ordinance, they actually will make the change.

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One of the great benefits of that is it will also be posted online, accessible through our

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through our website. That's

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a bit of a manual process. It has a $90-hundred-dollar

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initial cost to quantify what's already accrued and then an annual cost for

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the supplementation to be able to keep updating as we go.

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I think that's a good problem because we caused real quick. There's a lot of

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feedback or clicking or of some of the

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discussion it's about. It looks like there's

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three of us that are at

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work

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concerned that it might interfere

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with the. Yeah, so I don't know

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if. Happy to let it just let me

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know when you're in person. If you

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could try to mute and see if that

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improves

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the other piece to it

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that I'm looking at is it does

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not look like we're recording I

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couldn't be wrong but I do not see

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the red dot that's saying we're

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It would still be reported on the television.

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Yes.

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It was a different recording system.

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So you can.

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The television broadcast not the Zoom program directly.

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Yes.

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That's correct.

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We are recording through the system in the council chamber.

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and then there's the zoom recording that's different and separate.

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Perfect. Okay, thank you. Continue to have a minute.

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Next slide, please.

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Oh, wait a minute.

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Services is just increased from the company under audit.

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There's nothing changing about it other than time goes by.

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things get a little bit more expensive. So go ahead and change the next one.

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Health insurance,

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not just ours, but everyone's health insurance goes up a lot this year. This year,

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we are a member of the local government insurance trust, and we offer health insurance for all of

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employees, employees that are paid

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for by the town. What we have done is in

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the

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coverage,

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you know, that will show up in a budget spreadsheet that's online.

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The insurance costs went up, or

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I can't see, because I'm sorry.

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So back up.

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The next one.

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It's

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not an increase.

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So we had this year that beyond our control

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is the

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town participating for employees.

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And it has gone up from 8.6%.

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The current fiscal year to 9.38%.

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As you can see on the slide.

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And that is a $29,500 increase.

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The next slide.

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a couple

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of things that we propose to consider on

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our c and all of the functions that we have.

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Thank you for your time.

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Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your time.

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needs to be replaced. They use it a lot, and it is an oldie-button duty. It has

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actual digital numbers that are made out of plastic that flip over. There's

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nothing modern about it. However, I will say that this is one of the

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expenses that we may want to consider improving as part of the closed

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budgets for them to you but I would recommend that we hold off on pulling the trigger on it

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until January so there are some expenses that are not things that have to start

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enhanced excuse me that have to start as a jar one and this is one of them and I would

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encourage you to consider this but we would not spend the money in the project until we know for sure

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that we're in a good place.

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But the term, you know, related to the Catechon

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is going to be active in this virus.

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Next one.

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We have custodial services before our buildings,

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or all four of our buildings, I should say.

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That contract expires the end of June,

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so the end of our fiscal year.

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Staffs in a great job of putting out

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requests for vids for custodial services,

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and as you would expect the price came in $2,000 more for the increase but I

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think it might actually get a little bit better service. The current service

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that you have the way the contract was written with them and so specific to

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every single thing that they do is delineated with the cost rather than you know

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please claim this room and that one. So that is $2,000 increase and that would be one that does

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have to go into effect until I walk. So those are all and I think that's last slide for

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all right. So those are all of the instruments. Everything else is basically state the same

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for the administration department. So with that I'm going to turn it back over right now to the name.

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I think your time manager, Brad, at this point, I want to open up for discussion and I'm

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going to start with Mayor Pratim Papua, make those any comments.

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I'm meeting myself so you can hear me, right?

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Yes.

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Cool.

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One question I did have for Maria is on the Merit increase, and if that's compared to our

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surrounding neighbors, I know everyone's going through this problem right now.

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Our budget process is actually ahead of our neighbors, because your timeline is tighter

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than theirs.

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I have not consulted them, but typically everybody was doing two and two, and I have not

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consulted with the other communities to see whether they are on the same wavelength as

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well as the proposals concerned.

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Okay. Okay.

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Everything else? I don't really have an issue with. I do think it's a good

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idea to hold off on the hares and the oven until January. It's probably important for

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all the residents to realize that since there's a delay in income tax filings, there's probably

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going to throw all of our taxes back in addition to the recession that's happening right now.

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Other than that, I think it was a good presentation. I don't see anything overly controversial.

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Thank you so much. I can't remember so many comments.

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Not particularly on the presentation. It's very well done. I'm just looking at the second document with all the costs and everything.

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was going to see if we got any new quotes for the chairs.

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To be honest with you, we didn't get any new

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quotes because those are really cheap kind of commercially available chairs that are used by a lot

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of places that do catering but are not fancy. So would you go to anything and much more quality than

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I mean, those are functional and they'd be fine, but if you go far below that, you're going to get into something that's not of a commercial nature, and I wouldn't recommend that you go, you know, we have to do things that are commercial, because we're a commercial operation.

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You know, you're running out of place to people that are using it at their own discussion.

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I wouldn't go, I wouldn't go any less quality than Boyvada doing his research somewhere.

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Right. Sorry, that.

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In the $800 increase for audits, that's just like an increase in their building.

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We're not asking for any services that we don't have, that's their increase over time

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for their services.

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Okay.

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That's it.

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I'm done.

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All you in.

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Thank you so much.

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Council Member Dewey.

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Yes.

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First, I want to thank you for putting this together and thank the Administration Department

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it for the flexibility and nimbleness, I would say, that they've had to show. So thank

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you all for that. Just a couple of additional things. Really, no questions as much as a

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comment for me. So I definitely agree with this idea that for the chairs in the oven,

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pushing those back until January at least. But I'm still, especially given the current

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situation, I'm almost in favor of doing the oven in January and then waiting on the chairs

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and I feel like, you know, given the last few weeks' events,

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I've been sort of ranking everything in my head in terms of priorities,

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and as much as staffing those chairs is a pain in the behind,

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and there are a little bit questionable on the conference room chairs are too.

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To me, given all the other things we have going on,

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I would personally be okay with saving the chairs until June,

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giving them their six months.

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If I may, Council Member, we had a technician come in and look at that oven, and he was

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so fascinated with it because he had never seen one that he prepared it for free.

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And what he found was that someone, you know, unintentionally had moved the heat sensor,

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and it is now working much better than it has probably worked in the last 10 years.

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Well, that's comforting. I was sort of thinking of that as a safety issue, but it sounds like not something that they solid state that's better quality than something you're going to buy today.

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If you want to get that decision, I would almost encourage you to do it the other way around.

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Okay. No, thank you for that.

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I'll prove the chairs because they're kind of funky.

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No, thank you for that information. I was thinking of it the other way with the oven being the scary emergency and the chairs being.

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I mean, you're not going to kill that of them, not seeing, you know, it's probably, you know, we probably asked a few years to it's life by it.

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They just don't make them like they used to. They don't make them like they used to.

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Thank you for that. I appreciate it.

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You had a, you had a lot of comment too.

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No, that was it. It was all jumbled together. Everything else made a lot of sense and it's in line with what we talked about. So I'll yield my time too.

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Thank you. Thank you so much, Council Member Osmond.

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Hello, everyone.

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Good morning.

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So, that was very nice. The Alvin works. Let's not replace the Alvin.

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The chairs, understanding that we can always change the budget.

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We can leave them in the budget.

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And before January, we can determine whether we're going to use that line.

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The chairs, pending what we learned from the situation of the pandemic.

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question on the sanitation contract.

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Are there standards in place that are performance-based,

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so that if every little thing that they do is not a line item that you pay for, then

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is there a performance standard and expectation that sort of a white glove test, you know, a written

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performance-based standard that you can apply to tell them you haven't met the contract

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You got the meat contract?

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Have you met Obama-doors?

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Yes.

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This isn't a town manager.

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She's performance-based.

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They don't get paid unless they want this happy with the work that they get paid.

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Okay, so there's a statement that describes the procedure for getting...

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I'm working on the contract right now.

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And I have the option to put that in.

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We're not happy.

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You don't get paid.

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Okay.

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If I was pretty fussy about things like that, I mean, this isn't our house, it's yours.

461
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And we're going to make sure that this is the best shape we can make it so that she doesn't

462
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:27,760
sign off.

463
00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:29,760
I don't sign off on a check ticket.

464
00:40:30,780 --> 00:40:31,080
Okay.

465
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,500
Well, if that works and they're willing to accept that kind of contract, great.

466
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,660
Otherwise, if they're a little hesitant about that, if there's any way that they bond and articulate

467
00:40:39,660 --> 00:40:45,680
what her performance level of standard is, performance-based contracts work really well for

468
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:52,340
genitorial services. An example, as you know, would be cut the grass, not two times a week,

469
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,660
but make sure the grass never grows above six inches. And then that way they determine the amount

470
00:40:57,660 --> 00:41:02,420
of time they have to cut it, and that's the difference to be prescriptive in performance-based contracts.

471
00:41:02,580 --> 00:41:06,700
And that's not this kind of contract. This is contract that says you come on Monday and

472
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:38,320
That's all I have I'll yield my time thank you so much. I will echo my sediments as well to the thanks for the entire administration department not only for this and putting the presentation together and for our wonderful treasure who kept on putting the numbers back and forth and back and forth, but also just for the rest of the day.

473
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:44,320
many and all the hard work that was put before us over these last several weeks as well.

474
00:41:44,780 --> 00:41:50,760
One thing I will say is that, you know, I'm in favor of everything that's here. Hearing that the

475
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:58,500
oven is now working properly, I do agree with town manager Brad Ben that I do believe that

476
00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:05,160
we need to get those chairs before we do the oven piece because, you know, the town center,

477
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:10,940
There's a lot of activity that goes on up there and I think it would help enhance our

478
00:42:10,940 --> 00:42:11,540
town as well.

479
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:17,180
So, at this point, I'm in favor of everything that is here as well.

480
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:23,060
Council, I'm going to open it up to one final discussion if you do have any additional

481
00:42:23,060 --> 00:42:27,500
discussion points before I open the phone line or read any of the emails.

482
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,260
Please raise your hand so that I can recognize you.

483
00:42:35,530 --> 00:42:36,290
Council member, do it.

484
00:42:38,090 --> 00:42:44,850
Thank you. Just a quick reminder to folks that these have come before us at work sessions.

485
00:42:45,230 --> 00:42:49,630
So if anyone wants to look back, if there's an item that's an interest to you and you

486
00:42:49,630 --> 00:42:54,010
want to look back at the detail discussion we had, you have a few weeks ago at this point.

487
00:42:54,450 --> 00:42:59,130
I think late February and early March, those are on the website. So all of the information

488
00:42:59,130 --> 00:43:02,830
is there too. If you just want to see the other time we talk about it as background, I just

489
00:43:04,150 --> 00:43:08,090
Yeah, Mr. Mayor, if I may, thank you, Councilmember Dewey.

490
00:43:09,010 --> 00:43:17,850
When we discuss them in work sessions, we gain more paid work than is online attached

491
00:43:17,850 --> 00:43:24,650
to this agenda, but attached to each one of these enhancements is a form that staff

492
00:43:24,650 --> 00:43:26,450
is prepared justifying each one.

493
00:43:27,310 --> 00:43:31,610
So when you look at the agenda for today's meeting, you'll see now only the power points

494
00:43:31,610 --> 00:43:37,330
but you'll see what we call budget enhancements and that has the details about what would happen.

495
00:43:37,530 --> 00:43:40,230
We didn't buy it, and I'm going to put some money here so that's it.

496
00:43:41,570 --> 00:43:42,150
Thank you.

497
00:43:42,970 --> 00:43:43,910
Thank you very much.

498
00:43:45,630 --> 00:43:51,270
Seeing no other hands, Council Member Dewey, are there any emails that have come in before I open the phone?

499
00:43:51,930 --> 00:43:53,330
Yes, there is an email.

500
00:43:54,090 --> 00:43:59,610
From resident, this is Jody Culpa, and I'm room at TN Street asking about the co-cification,

501
00:43:59,610 --> 00:44:04,610
wanting to know how would that benefit the town, and could it be delayed until the next

502
00:44:04,610 --> 00:44:05,230
fiscal year?

503
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:14,020
Mr. Mann, so right now we have a town code that is not codified.

504
00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:24,400
So when we want to find out what the history of something is, literally someone is going through

505
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:35,640
In a lot of cases, minutes manually, there was a lot of improving legislation in the past that wasn't actually legislation that was written with the Toronto Council.

506
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:40,460
So there's a lot of scrambling around to find things.

507
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:51,960
The standard process is that something gets approved and gets put into a format that is there for history sake.

508
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:59,920
We don't have that right now, so it's a basic function of good government practice.

509
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:05,960
I'm kind of being put off. Sure, you've put it up for a long time already. You know, I'll understand

510
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:13,740
that you also have a clerk who, as at some point, I'm blessed, I'm going to retire. And before

511
00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:20,440
that happens, this needs to be put into a form that can be transferred from one person to

512
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:26,560
the other seamlessly without anyone trying to figure out what the last person did. So, it's

513
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,400
It's a best management practice that will just bring us up a lot of times.

514
00:45:31,540 --> 00:45:32,240
Can't be put off.

515
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,780
Sure, we've been putting it off for a long time.

516
00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:39,740
But I would encourage you to go forward and give this things right.

517
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:44,500
Okay, thank you so much.

518
00:45:45,060 --> 00:45:47,660
Council member, do any additional emails of this time?

519
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:49,020
No, just that one.

520
00:45:49,540 --> 00:45:49,720
Okay.

521
00:45:52,580 --> 00:45:53,020
So,

522
00:45:57,090 --> 00:45:58,230
with that, Mr. Mayor,

523
00:45:58,230 --> 00:46:09,230
I'm going to introduce House Goodwin, who is going to go through the presentation and enhancements for the co-compliance department.

524
00:46:09,690 --> 00:46:16,810
Before she does that, let me open the phone lines for any additional comments for administration before we move into my houses.

525
00:46:17,290 --> 00:46:17,610
That's okay.

526
00:46:17,610 --> 00:46:26,670
Okay, so the phone line is 30147495703014749570.

527
00:46:26,990 --> 00:46:27,450
In

528
00:46:38,140 --> 00:46:43,580
that maybe next time it'll be good to give the phone number, then read any emails.

529
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,960
That way, that delay can be taken care of, and we can put folks on hold for minutes we have to.

530
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,160
Good idea.

531
00:47:02,460 --> 00:47:04,940
3-0-1-4-7-4-9-5-70.

532
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:15,980
Can I just say this whole process reminds me of when you see people interviewed on the

533
00:47:15,980 --> 00:47:21,180
space shuttle or something, you know, you know, we're not floating around the air, but it

534
00:47:21,180 --> 00:47:25,240
seems like the same kind of communication with people just so far far away.

535
00:47:25,660 --> 00:47:26,020
Exactly.

536
00:47:26,020 --> 00:47:34,240
Okay, you're having no phone calls. We will move into code compliance. Good morning.

537
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,440
Ms. Goodwin. How are you today?

538
00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:38,140
Well, how are you?

539
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:39,760
Wonderful. Thank you so much.

540
00:47:40,220 --> 00:47:44,320
Good morning to everybody. Everyone is doing well and staying safe.

541
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,520
I'll go ahead and move right into our presentation for our advancement.

542
00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:54,780
just to start with our mission statement.

543
00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:00,140
So prior to itself, one adherence to doing our part

544
00:48:00,140 --> 00:48:04,280
in guarding the health safety and general welfare of the town

545
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,600
by monitoring and requiring compliance with property

546
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,260
building and environmental regulations that work by the town

547
00:48:12,260 --> 00:48:15,780
by French George County by the state of Maryland

548
00:48:15,780 --> 00:48:17,040
and federal requirements.

549
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,720
and go to the next slide please, all

550
00:48:24,110 --> 00:48:24,370
right.

551
00:48:25,130 --> 00:48:28,530
Co-compliance staff consists of my fellow director,

552
00:48:29,330 --> 00:48:33,010
a full-time focal client officer two, Ms. Tammy Demby,

553
00:48:33,670 --> 00:48:36,550
and a focal client officer one Ms. Zelda Bell.

554
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,320
The client has several functions,

555
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:43,980
but just to go over the most prominent,

556
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,160
first would be our rental properties.

557
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:52,060
We have about 250 rental properties in the town currently.

558
00:48:52,060 --> 00:48:57,920
We inspect the properties at least once yearly, just to ensure that they are maintaining

559
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:03,960
safety and sanitation standards as our ordinance is, for insurance and county code, and

560
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,660
the international community maintenance standards.

561
00:49:07,980 --> 00:49:15,420
We also issue permits for a building right away, a roll-up dumpster and temporary storage for

562
00:49:15,420 --> 00:49:16,160
properment,

563
00:49:21,490 --> 00:49:26,810
licensing, we accept applications and issue business licenses for our talent

564
00:49:26,810 --> 00:49:27,250
businesses.

565
00:49:28,190 --> 00:49:33,810
In the property standards, we survey the town regularly and charge that to administer

566
00:49:33,810 --> 00:49:39,510
a fair and comprehensive compliance program amongst our residential, rental and commercial

567
00:49:39,510 --> 00:49:45,790
town properties to correct violations and hopes of enhancing property and community values.

568
00:49:45,790 --> 00:49:46,990
For

569
00:49:49,480 --> 00:50:17,300
zoning matters, code monitors, properties, for zoning violations that are forced by the county, we present to the town council and give recommendations in support of or not for variance requests and then we forward those recommendations will report the council's recommendations to the county board of appeals and then last but not least, we also process and keep track of personal property taxes for business.

570
00:50:18,740 --> 00:50:21,500
So moving on to the next slide.

571
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:28,940
So code is recommended a discontinuation of the VAM program, in short we've seen an

572
00:50:28,940 --> 00:50:34,820
extreme decrease in ridership over time, we just feel that the funds that have been

573
00:50:34,820 --> 00:50:39,900
allocated for the VAM program in the past would be of better use to the department elsewhere.

574
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:48,480
This would be a cost increase of $2,000 and would actually cover 5 out of 6 of the departments

575
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,840
enhancement requests for fiscal year 2021.

576
00:50:53,670 --> 00:50:58,350
So, just to give a bit more background about call of bus and how we arrived at this recommendation

577
00:50:58,890 --> 00:51:05,970
as we all know, call of bus provides local transportation services primarily to the town seniors

578
00:51:05,970 --> 00:51:11,810
and persons with disabilities, due to a decrease in ridership, we had transferred the VAMV

579
00:51:11,810 --> 00:51:13,130
utilize for call of us.

580
00:51:13,910 --> 00:51:20,170
We was alone to bring about in 2018 and then was transferred in 2019 because they had

581
00:51:20,170 --> 00:51:21,530
a much greater need for it.

582
00:51:22,070 --> 00:51:25,790
And they co-contain you to perform call of us services using our department view pool.

583
00:51:27,090 --> 00:51:32,570
Within the last year, we had just one resident who was using the call of us service.

584
00:51:33,110 --> 00:51:39,590
She was using it once or twice a month, and she no longer resides in the town, and then

585
00:51:39,590 --> 00:51:44,470
since that time, which was in December, when she left, we have had any other requests

586
00:51:44,470 --> 00:51:45,790
for her ride.

587
00:51:46,070 --> 00:51:48,330
So, we're really not operating the program.

588
00:51:49,610 --> 00:51:53,310
When we do acknowledge that there would be a need for alternatives.

589
00:51:53,670 --> 00:51:58,130
So, you know, there's Metro Bloss, there's the Bloss that's operated by Prince George County.

590
00:51:59,030 --> 00:52:04,750
There's metro access and there are buildings via program which provides free and low-cost

591
00:52:04,750 --> 00:52:11,070
cab services and then of course there's always our ride sharing services like Uber and

592
00:52:11,070 --> 00:52:19,270
Lyft which provides services 24 seconds so again just in summary we feel the funds would

593
00:52:19,270 --> 00:52:26,730
be a better use to the department in other areas as the all of us programs not all can call

594
00:52:28,980 --> 00:52:37,060
That's that. We can move to the next slide. Our first enhancer request is for network and software. This would be for

595
00:52:37,060 --> 00:52:46,740
Compate for the renewal to use the Compate for this year. Compate is extension database, extension to the

596
00:52:46,740 --> 00:52:53,200
department's functions. We store reports and information for our rental properties. We create our rental and business licenses.

597
00:52:53,200 --> 00:53:05,040
We manage our property maintenance cases, create records of all our permits, and also use it now to keep track of our personal property taxes.

598
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,720
It's our primary method of record storage and communication.

599
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:14,360
So the software cost for this year is approximately $9,800.

600
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:20,140
dollars in a $3,000 increase from last year, and this covers the cost of the

601
00:53:20,140 --> 00:53:24,940
software license fee renewal, maintenance for all the modules and detracting,

602
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:30,320
and co-comptages has an increase in their cost for the program, and then we also

603
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:34,540
have the additional module that we requested for personal property tax that's

604
00:53:34,540 --> 00:53:35,980
caused the cost to go up a bit, too.

605
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:42,850
Having an enhanced request for training and

606
00:53:42,850 --> 00:53:47,390
tribal, we're combined on this slide, but all Coast staff needs additional training.

607
00:53:48,270 --> 00:53:53,250
That training would include meetings of the Code Departments, Training Classes,

608
00:53:53,590 --> 00:53:59,050
professional works, some of the events we've filled would be valuable due to take place

609
00:53:59,050 --> 00:54:05,290
outside of just our local area, excuse me, so that's where we included that request for

610
00:54:05,290 --> 00:54:06,150
a tribal fund.

611
00:54:06,930 --> 00:54:07,650
It's a proper cost.

612
00:54:07,790 --> 00:54:10,110
We have to go out a little further for those training events.

613
00:54:11,530 --> 00:54:17,710
This training, of course, will help us to become more knowledgeable and effective, better

614
00:54:17,710 --> 00:54:23,990
understanding of safety, and just make us better equipped to perform our job function.

615
00:54:25,430 --> 00:54:31,210
This enhancement would include costs for training and study materials, books, workbooks,

616
00:54:31,890 --> 00:54:39,430
flashcards, especially in pursuit of certification for personal maintenance, and housing

617
00:54:39,430 --> 00:54:45,270
inspection certification which is issued through the International Code Council. So the total cost

618
00:54:45,270 --> 00:54:55,970
for training $2800 that's an $800 increase from last year and then $550 for travel which is an

619
00:54:55,970 --> 00:54:59,170
increase as it wasn't included in the budget for fiscal year 2020.

620
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,680
So next we have to request

621
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:12,720
access for uniform. All closed staff needs uniforms for two full-time staff and one part-time

622
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:19,140
uniforms. We fill our essential for safety, identifiability, just professionalism and

623
00:55:19,140 --> 00:55:26,760
cohesiveness. Total cost for uniforms that we gather through quotes with on-dee visa buy and

624
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:35,320
from other online retailers at $750. That's a $250 increase from the previous year and that cost

625
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:42,820
would include a uniform shirt, pants, an appropriate safety boot or shoe and jacket, as well

626
00:55:42,820 --> 00:55:47,080
as embroidery cost for those items and replacement has necessary.

627
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:56,460
And then last and finally, also combined, our vehicle expenses co-recently acquired an additional

628
00:55:56,460 --> 00:56:01,020
vehicle. It's the 2008 Dodge pick-up that came down from public works.

629
00:56:03,180 --> 00:56:04,600
The vehicle is going to be

630
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,560
operated full-time, so we are, of course,

631
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:09,820
anticipating there will be an additional need

632
00:56:09,820 --> 00:56:10,840
for gas and oil.

633
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,360
So total costs for gas and oil for $200.00.

634
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:16,820
That's the $300 increase from last year.

635
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:18,820
And I'm also going into the,

636
00:56:18,940 --> 00:56:22,780
excuse me, anticipating a need for preventative maintenance

637
00:56:22,780 --> 00:56:25,420
for this vehicle in addition to the one we already have.

638
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:29,580
And so we're asking for an increase of $100.00,

639
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,220
total costs of $200.00 for preventative maintenance.

640
00:56:32,220 --> 00:56:34,480
and that is global.

641
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:39,080
Thank you very much.

642
00:56:39,740 --> 00:56:41,400
Council, I'll open up for discussion.

643
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,200
I'll start with Mayor Bertel and Popponeckless.

644
00:56:44,900 --> 00:56:45,520
All right.

645
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,400
So my understanding from your presentation

646
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,060
and from what you presented in the past,

647
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:52,040
he's seen what a home is.

648
00:56:53,620 --> 00:56:56,680
Not great with math, which I'm not into it.

649
00:56:56,700 --> 00:56:58,520
The only real increase is the complaint

650
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,720
is the rest sort of.

651
00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:04,740
Right, kind of balances out the regulation of the event.

652
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:05,160
Yep.

653
00:57:06,860 --> 00:57:07,180
All right.

654
00:57:09,420 --> 00:57:15,220
Do you I'm curious to hear views get you see good value and

655
00:57:15,220 --> 00:57:16,100
compete for you?

656
00:57:17,260 --> 00:57:20,080
I mean, I played with any of the other softwares out there.

657
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,360
I haven't worked with any of the other softwares.

658
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,060
I like Conte.

659
00:57:25,180 --> 00:57:30,860
It has its part, but I will say that their team is very active

660
00:57:30,860 --> 00:57:37,040
they quit to respond and to help us work through the issues that we have with it.

661
00:57:37,580 --> 00:57:40,300
It's now functioning on our iPads, so that's great.

662
00:57:41,700 --> 00:57:46,880
So I mean, I like to call it the Compute Program and they are working in one enhanced in

663
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:47,240
a software.

664
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:53,640
They have Compute 2.0 that they're going to roll out in the near future, so we have a release

665
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:54,220
issue with them.

666
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:54,980
I like the program.

667
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:55,880
Thank you.

668
00:57:57,420 --> 00:58:06,840
If I can add to that, I have used other softwares, and most of the other ones that I've

669
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:15,000
used are really designed for much bigger code operations than we are in our custom.

670
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:20,500
Literally, they take our forms and create the screens out of them.

671
00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:28,360
and the value that is compared to our size would be hard to justify.

672
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:36,580
So the beauty of Concave is they're designing a system that they do customize for us

673
00:58:36,580 --> 00:58:42,140
but the basic part of the program, you know, you're not starting from scratch

674
00:58:42,140 --> 00:58:47,240
customizing the whole thing. So they're a little more geared to our size

675
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:50,980
than something like trackator track wise.

676
00:58:52,780 --> 00:58:57,960
Okay, that's one of everyone's happy with it and sees the value and I'll be okay with

677
00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:58,580
the increase.

678
00:59:04,180 --> 00:59:04,460
Okay.

679
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:05,500
Thank you so much.

680
00:59:05,580 --> 00:59:10,700
I was just waiting for Mayor Hertz and Bob Naples to turn on mute because I didn't know

681
00:59:10,700 --> 00:59:11,440
he had anything else.

682
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,400
Next up is Council Member Sweeney.

683
00:59:17,930 --> 00:59:22,890
I just want to kind of echo what Jason's at about the call of us

684
00:59:23,690 --> 00:59:25,330
kind of equaling out

685
00:59:26,290 --> 00:59:32,650
Or being like a net neutral or the rest of them and yeah, I don't really have anything

686
00:59:32,650 --> 00:59:36,820
I'll do them that to ask so all you

687
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,760
Thank you so much council member doing

688
00:59:41,260 --> 00:59:48,200
Thank you. Yeah, you know, I agree with that. I think that's important to know sort of the way this particular

689
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:52,880
departments, items are leveling out but I also think it's one of those that we've talked

690
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:57,520
about in the before in terms of actually budgeting for what we're spending.

691
00:59:57,780 --> 00:59:59,980
So things like fuel that we need to.

692
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,760
I think it's important that we are trying to account for that stuff in the budget as much as possible, just in terms of accuracy and all that good stuff. So I think with all that said, in addition to getting that feedback on how concrete is working, the fact that it's now working on the iPads, I don't have any issues on the items here. Thank you. Thank you so much, Council Member Osmond. I think it's good that the dropping of the man will provide funds to support the other and

693
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:45,040
enhancements. I would just note that with the circumstance, with the pandemic, that maybe we certainly have to revisit the idea of travel and so that we can let that ride in the budget, but then reassess it for the end of the world. And I would ask that you know, the one that you know, in actions will do.

694
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:52,220
I would encourage you to let the conferences decide whether the conferences can be held.

695
01:00:52,220 --> 01:00:55,560
They're all going to be relying on states of emergency.

696
01:00:56,860 --> 01:01:03,160
All of the conferences that were to be held this spring have already been canceled.

697
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:08,800
So, you know, I can rely on the state of emergency to decide whether a conference is safe to be held.

698
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:11,140
It's probably the best way to go.

699
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:13,380
You know, the police conference was canceled.

700
01:01:13,620 --> 01:01:20,020
I'm going to bet that your MML conference in Ocean City will probably cancel that soon.

701
01:01:20,020 --> 01:01:23,700
But they're not going to hold those conferences if it takes an emergency

702
01:01:23,700 --> 01:01:24,060
effort.

703
01:01:25,220 --> 01:01:25,720
Understood.

704
01:01:29,740 --> 01:01:30,800
I don't have anything further.

705
01:01:31,660 --> 01:01:31,840
All right.

706
01:01:32,140 --> 01:01:32,440
Thank you.

707
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,760
I really have nothing more to add regarding this.

708
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:39,290
I think everything is putting self-explanatory.

709
01:01:41,300 --> 01:01:47,840
I'll let you answer my question in terms of whether or not the connectivity and the communication

710
01:01:50,220 --> 01:01:58,000
that was a concern at the beginning, so the fact that that's working, I'm happy about

711
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:08,540
that. So I'm pretty pleased in terms of that overall with your presentation, so I really

712
01:02:08,540 --> 01:02:15,740
have no questions or comments or concerns about that. At this point, I'm going to open up one last

713
01:02:15,740 --> 01:02:22,680
time for council. I know that we do have a couple of comments that I'll get to, but right now,

714
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,960
I see councilmember sweep having his hand up. You want to make a sweep?

715
01:02:28,060 --> 01:02:29,900
Oh yeah, I just wanted to echo

716
01:02:30,740 --> 01:02:36,380
kind of what Maria was saying about like letting conferences kind of cancel and just the importance of

717
01:02:36,380 --> 01:02:42,700
having that in the budget, even, you know, the one that we're going to approve it may because it's a lot

718
01:02:42,700 --> 01:02:48,380
easier you know if this once this clears up just to go forward with the

719
01:02:48,380 --> 01:02:54,540
monies and the budget as opposed to the new sort of this like hold on it until

720
01:02:54,540 --> 01:02:57,420
a later date so that's all.

721
01:02:59,810 --> 01:03:02,810
Okay thank you so much. Two comments that came

722
01:03:02,810 --> 01:03:12,610
from our chat itself one was how many commercial license do we have and did we

723
01:03:12,610 --> 01:03:20,070
get several quotes on uniforms to find the best price.

724
01:03:22,850 --> 01:03:24,350
I'm sorry, I'm not forgetting mine.

725
01:03:24,770 --> 01:03:31,810
Let me answer that question directly with staff when she sends it to me again.

726
01:03:31,950 --> 01:03:36,150
I don't think that that question was meant for the entire council is from the staff member.

727
01:03:36,730 --> 01:03:39,970
And I don't think it is related to this code presentation.

728
01:03:45,860 --> 01:03:53,200
And the question related to uniforms, we get the uniforms largely from the same place

729
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:59,260
of the police departmentals and the organization where we buy them is the same place like

730
01:03:59,260 --> 01:04:06,360
where the firing ranges and all Prince George County is buying their uniforms there.

731
01:04:06,580 --> 01:04:09,260
I can't imagine you're going to find a cheaper radio or else.

732
01:04:09,260 --> 01:04:10,200
Okay.

733
01:04:12,340 --> 01:04:21,160
Thank you so much. One final open for the discussion for council before we open

734
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,140
emails and bookmarks.

735
01:04:26,380 --> 01:04:31,580
Okay. Hearing none. While council member do is looking at our email,

736
01:04:32,220 --> 01:04:43,560
our phone number 301-474-9570-301474957070. Council member do we any email?

737
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,800
else for code. No, no. Okay.

738
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:56,740
Thank you so much. The online is open 3014749570. And for the record

739
01:04:56,740 --> 01:05:00,900
again, the email is adoe, so adoewe.

740
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:03,860
And

741
01:05:20,180 --> 01:05:21,160
we will

742
01:05:25,770 --> 01:05:37,430
move on to the Public Works Department and their budget enhancement and presentation.

743
01:05:40,890 --> 01:05:41,650
Thank you.

744
01:05:42,330 --> 01:05:42,690
Thank you.

745
01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:45,670
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

746
01:05:48,470 --> 01:05:53,130
The mission of the Public Works Department, shown in the screen, is one of those that it

747
01:05:53,130 --> 01:05:55,610
would be really obvious that they do their job.

748
01:05:56,970 --> 01:06:04,730
Everything that has to do with a direct service that's provided to every home in this town

749
01:06:05,530 --> 01:06:10,570
on more than a weekly basis comes from your public works department. They're picking up your

750
01:06:10,570 --> 01:06:16,950
trash, they're picking up your yardways, it snows, they're handling the snow, anything to

751
01:06:16,950 --> 01:06:22,990
do with trees that fall on the roadway, anything with the public right away, those are your folks.

752
01:06:23,430 --> 01:06:29,310
And they're out there, they do a fantastic job. So that's what they do.

753
01:06:31,510 --> 01:06:33,960
This is a little bit

754
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:38,160
They're more on their mission and sort of the areas where they work, streets, sidewalks,

755
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:45,900
curb, gutters, vegetation, their monographs, and flowers are the kin.

756
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:52,840
All of your town events, they're the folks that do, don't notice because they're in there

757
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:56,460
before you can set things up and put things away when you're done.

758
01:06:58,140 --> 01:06:58,720
The

759
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:11,940
organization chart made a little bit of a change, maybe that's a perfect thing to see right now.

760
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:13,820
A little bit of a change this year.

761
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:30,360
We had advertised for to fill the position of the director who retired and frankly we weren't getting the quality of applicants that we should have to run that department.

762
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:35,900
largely because we're an office law operation and we're not able to offer the

763
01:07:35,900 --> 01:07:41,960
type of salary that was fitting up the job description. So I appreciate the

764
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:46,880
counsel's approval to look at that in a little different way so we're looking at

765
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:53,720
someone who has a public administration background and could manage a public

766
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:58,720
works department as well as they could, could department or something else, someone

767
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:06,160
who's really going to rally the folks that are down there, work on all the personality

768
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:14,020
issues, work on all the administrative issues, you know, it's a vital function and I have

769
01:08:14,020 --> 01:08:22,240
to give a shout out right now to Rosalie Jones who has been really helping me out with the

770
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:28,400
She's a part-timer right now. She's working at home and she's learning some new tricks this week, too

771
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:34,440
But she's been doing a heck of a job to keep things running administratively

772
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:39,140
This weekend and last weekend, particularly so thank her for that

773
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:45,960
Know that the change to go into administrative manager does you some savings?

774
01:08:47,440 --> 01:08:51,760
We have a number of positions in this department

775
01:08:52,240 --> 01:09:15,080
We keep those positions now posted as openings constantly because it is a piece of the type of workers that are really valuable to everyone and it's a really competitive world out there, maybe not right at this moment, but we have always a need for CDL drivers.

776
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:17,600
You know, I understand we're a little bit different,

777
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:19,260
and I'm a public work department.

778
01:09:20,060 --> 01:09:22,880
I need to know that when people have sent it to your house,

779
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:24,880
I would be like, what happened in the comments?

780
01:09:25,540 --> 01:09:29,260
So we do a background check and there's a balance

781
01:09:29,260 --> 01:09:32,780
between whether we've got something with the right skills,

782
01:09:33,260 --> 01:09:34,320
whether we've got the right time.

783
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:39,900
So we will pursue, again, the best people that we possibly can,

784
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:41,740
but we'll often have openings.

785
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:43,420
So we use a lot of temps.

786
01:09:43,420 --> 01:09:45,140
So, all right, next slide.

787
01:09:49,580 --> 01:09:51,660
All right, so now look at budget enhancements.

788
01:09:52,340 --> 01:09:55,900
We have a vehicle replacement fund, as you know,

789
01:09:56,820 --> 01:10:01,020
and vehicles that are proposed and as funded to be purchased,

790
01:10:01,700 --> 01:10:04,580
are being purchased to the vehicle replacement fund.

791
01:10:04,900 --> 01:10:09,120
So this is long-term planning that the council has been doing financially

792
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:14,900
to fund fees, vehicles, made a little bit of a change on this vehicle

793
01:10:14,900 --> 01:10:24,520
That's in front of you. The truck is in rough shape, but the truck itself is in rough

794
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:31,920
shape, but the dump body is in great shape. Whoever has a four-sided-by-stain steel dump

795
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:39,160
body, did you favor? So this is just for the replacement of this truck itself. This is a really

796
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:45,780
and poor truck as part of your concern and just a note about the way your financing for

797
01:10:45,780 --> 01:10:52,340
these are done and relationship issues related to your audit, you cannot move the vehicle replacement

798
01:10:52,340 --> 01:11:00,240
fund for some other purpose. It is in the budget to be used to be able to replace and you

799
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,540
can't use it for operations. So the next one

800
01:11:05,750 --> 01:11:13,410
is for a new garbage truck, refugees

801
01:11:13,410 --> 01:11:20,010
available, use it for recycling also. It replaces, well, the water replaces a

802
01:11:20,010 --> 01:11:24,590
bit of a nest number here. It's actually replacing a much older vehicle because

803
01:11:24,590 --> 01:11:31,830
the 2016 that is in line to be replaced will still remain part of art fleet. So in the

804
01:11:31,830 --> 01:11:36,690
In case of these really heavy vehicles, you put them in as a replacement, but you actually

805
01:11:36,690 --> 01:11:43,010
keep them so that you have four operable vehicles at any time.

806
01:11:44,410 --> 01:11:51,170
I believe the picture at the bottom is our new truck that has just been built for us

807
01:11:51,170 --> 01:11:57,730
that you approved last year, note that there is not a parking lot of trash truck sitting

808
01:11:57,730 --> 01:12:04,010
in some way. When you approve a purchase and we go through the process of buying it,

809
01:12:04,290 --> 01:12:08,110
never building that truck for you. So the bottom, the picture at the bottom is your

810
01:12:08,110 --> 01:12:14,590
new truck, the new 22. That should be here and hopefully that next few, next few weeks

811
01:12:14,590 --> 01:12:21,010
and happy giving it a very ride if you want to check that out when it's done. We have gone

812
01:12:21,010 --> 01:12:28,970
to putting car tippers on the back of all these trucks, as you know during this current

813
01:12:28,970 --> 01:12:35,470
fiscal year, we're actually going for it. We had the funding and we've gone with recycling

814
01:12:35,470 --> 01:12:41,170
toners for all the residences, upping our game as far as the recycling goes and being

815
01:12:41,170 --> 01:12:50,410
in a much better shape in terms of eliminating injuries to our staff. As we get this truck

816
01:12:50,410 --> 01:12:55,970
market line will be in better shape to in some cases actually have folks be able to

817
01:12:55,970 --> 01:12:57,310
use towers for the trash.

818
01:12:58,310 --> 01:13:04,310
We're not looking to or proposing or suggesting that we purchased them but we will let folks

819
01:13:04,310 --> 01:13:09,810
know which brand they can buy and where they can buy them locally so that they can also

820
01:13:09,810 --> 01:13:10,970
be used for the trash.

821
01:13:11,210 --> 01:13:16,030
The towers have the advantage of having wheels and laying on top of them and you know for

822
01:13:16,030 --> 01:13:22,270
There are purposes also been in to being much better on the backs of our staff.

823
01:13:23,690 --> 01:13:24,530
Next slide, please.

824
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:37,700
This piece of equipment, we run one leak back in and when it went down this fall, everybody knew about it.

825
01:13:37,700 --> 01:13:45,320
So, this vehicle was actually in to be replaced quite some time ago, but for some reason that wasn't done.

826
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:54,100
Even though the funding sat in the bank and sat there couldn't be used for anything else, but vehicle replacement.

827
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:59,480
So, we are looking at getting that piece of machinery fixed.

828
01:14:01,020 --> 01:14:08,900
Collective leaves with a lead vacuum is the most labor-intensive, the most expensive way

829
01:14:08,900 --> 01:14:09,740
to collect it.

830
01:14:10,620 --> 01:14:17,460
But being as we're a small town and those are the expectations of the community, we are

831
01:14:17,460 --> 01:14:18,980
not proposing to change that.

832
01:14:19,480 --> 01:14:21,900
We're proposing to stay with this kind of equipment.

833
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:24,980
I do not want to keep the old machine.

834
01:14:25,540 --> 01:14:26,180
We have none.

835
01:14:26,180 --> 01:14:35,280
repairs to it. We'll look to sell that machine because it's dusty. You basically run a big fan

836
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:42,080
and that fan and all that machinery gets all full of dust and everything else. So it's a really

837
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:49,280
tough machine and like I said you know when it goes down. So this is to replace our current piece

838
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,760
to the point then, every two, three, two, three, two, three, two, three, two, three,

839
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:28,460
Funding from selling a piece of equipment goes back in to the equipment replacement fund. That's actually in your code somewhere. So, the piece of equipment will be a place car or a trash truck. You can sold that money by code. When it's back into that fund, to help offset any increases that happen a number of times or the adjustments that we have to make in the type of machine read, just natural place, especially in case of equipment like this, where you're putting it off.

840
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:34,560
The replacement of the backhoe couldn't have come off this year.

841
01:15:35,480 --> 01:15:44,400
It was ready to be replaced this year because there's still more life in that piece of machinery

842
01:15:44,820 --> 01:15:48,800
and I think that the time frame that was put in your vehicle replacement fund was a little

843
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:51,140
bit too short for a piece of machinery like that.

844
01:15:51,140 --> 01:15:59,000
And I have not put that forward in front of you, both for fiscal purpose safety when you can't touch those funds.

845
01:15:59,700 --> 01:16:03,200
But because we're buying a couple of big pieces of machinery this year,

846
01:16:03,440 --> 01:16:08,220
and Lee's machine looks at guys like to call him Lee Bird and track track.

847
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:09,340
Next slide.

848
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:10,700
We'll go

849
01:16:14,350 --> 01:16:14,970
to the next slide.

850
01:16:14,970 --> 01:16:15,210
Yeah.

851
01:16:15,570 --> 01:16:16,290
All

852
01:16:19,460 --> 01:16:19,580
right.

853
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:31,180
So at some point, we started purchasing all our own tables and picket tables and tables

854
01:16:31,180 --> 01:16:39,980
and all of those sorts of things for our public events, events like burn on high-stay, national

855
01:16:39,980 --> 01:16:44,000
night out, and this picture on bottom right is where they've been stored.

856
01:16:45,300 --> 01:16:54,180
It's a little hoop house thing covered with a tarp that is far beyond its useful life.

857
01:16:54,480 --> 01:16:56,420
There's actually some mowers in there.

858
01:16:57,380 --> 01:17:02,960
What I'm proposing is to purchase, on a note I would call Connick's box.

859
01:17:03,480 --> 01:17:08,760
It might be using shipping containers and other public works programs that I've managed.

860
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:19,860
that are relatively inexpensive. We have with us this help talk to the folks of code in the county to find out what our requirements would be.

861
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:24,960
So we're proposing to buy, I don't want to get a used one per se, I want to get one that's pretty new.

862
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:35,020
But a different kind of container that's watertight. You can invest a lot of money and all that equipment and you need to be able to restore it.

863
01:17:35,020 --> 01:17:36,080
next slide.

864
01:17:38,930 --> 01:17:47,030
This fiscal year we were able to replace the overhead roll-up doors on the main

865
01:17:47,030 --> 01:17:54,110
public works building. I appreciate the Council's approval on that. This is just continuing on with

866
01:17:54,110 --> 01:18:00,530
that program. The current doors, so you've got your main public works building and then you have this

867
01:18:00,530 --> 01:18:06,510
little smaller building with your face and the property to the right of it, and that building

868
01:18:06,510 --> 01:18:16,450
is holding some equipment, but it's also holding your hazards and materials, storage, and

869
01:18:16,450 --> 01:18:25,370
the doors and insulation on that building are, well, if it was somehow a property, we'd be

870
01:18:25,370 --> 01:18:27,950
the issue of a code violation, don't look out, don't look.

871
01:18:29,790 --> 01:18:35,350
So something about it, I think it may have made you know,

872
01:18:35,470 --> 01:18:37,690
maybe a homemade job to install the doors there,

873
01:18:37,850 --> 01:18:39,970
but the doors and the tracks, the rolls on the tracks

874
01:18:39,970 --> 01:18:41,070
and the doors don't match.

875
01:18:42,230 --> 01:18:48,390
So it is more than several times that the doors just slump and

876
01:18:48,390 --> 01:18:51,630
fall all the way down the bottom and you have this huge gap where

877
01:18:51,630 --> 01:18:53,910
George is not covering the opening.

878
01:18:55,310 --> 01:19:01,470
So we are looking to request the view to place the overhead

879
01:19:01,470 --> 01:19:02,850
George for that storage building.

880
01:19:03,250 --> 01:19:04,250
We can go on to the next slide.

881
01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:09,820
And this is what we talked about.

882
01:19:10,020 --> 01:19:12,720
I know Councillor Cumberstreet wanted us to look

883
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:13,860
in this grand insulation.

884
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:19,080
We have not found, I did not proposing this to you

885
01:19:19,080 --> 01:19:21,260
to talk about what type of method we will use.

886
01:19:21,260 --> 01:19:25,460
we will work with the professional companies

887
01:19:25,460 --> 01:19:27,380
to find the best thing that they recommend,

888
01:19:27,380 --> 01:19:31,040
but this is the picture of the installation in that building.

889
01:19:34,140 --> 01:19:36,520
Clearly not really exciting anything.

890
01:19:37,860 --> 01:19:40,960
So this is probably well-intended

891
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:43,740
that most of the themselves building installation

892
01:19:43,740 --> 01:19:50,320
is all far enough and it needs to be replaced next time.

893
01:19:51,440 --> 01:19:53,020
Oh, that's a good one.

894
01:19:57,390 --> 01:19:58,110
Let's see.

895
01:19:58,550 --> 01:20:01,170
All right, there we go.

896
01:20:01,770 --> 01:20:05,890
So, two weeks ago, we had the folks

897
01:20:05,890 --> 01:20:09,130
from a food scrap composting company

898
01:20:09,130 --> 01:20:11,030
come in and speak to you.

899
01:20:11,750 --> 01:20:14,230
This is sort of their minimum low service.

900
01:20:15,030 --> 01:20:19,690
The picture shown here is one that is a wrap-off in college park.

901
01:20:20,270 --> 01:20:23,090
So this is the cost for a wrap-off,

902
01:20:23,090 --> 01:20:30,830
They're probably actually being in the backyard here in town hall to be collected once a week for 35 gallon containers.

903
01:20:32,330 --> 01:20:35,430
And they don't provide the signs for free, they'll give us the graphics.

904
01:20:36,330 --> 01:20:40,230
The signs in the post and the little compost bags that people can take home.

905
01:20:40,930 --> 01:20:51,330
Residents will still have a choice to go through them for a subscription service if they want to pay themselves on their own or a collection at their home.

906
01:20:51,330 --> 01:21:19,090
But this is just a cost for a weekly collection, the model of this company uses is that folks start out by using the minimal level of service or drop-off and come location, and then you look over time how much you can increase that to see whether you can get to the point of marriage,

907
01:21:19,090 --> 01:21:22,270
a curbside collection, whether it be description-based,

908
01:21:22,490 --> 01:21:24,050
being the resident case for themselves,

909
01:21:24,690 --> 01:21:27,290
or through a service paid for by the town.

910
01:21:28,510 --> 01:21:33,630
The potential for reducing your waste

911
01:21:33,630 --> 01:21:36,770
through collecting key waste is enormous.

912
01:21:37,610 --> 01:21:40,910
You are a vigilance recycler.

913
01:21:41,470 --> 01:21:46,250
You will find that if you do no composting whatsoever,

914
01:21:46,250 --> 01:21:56,450
However, the majority of what you have left in your cash is probably plastic wrap that can't be recycled by anybody anywhere or food waste.

915
01:21:56,730 --> 01:22:00,230
So this is an opportunity to sort of plant that seed and see where it goes.

916
01:22:01,410 --> 01:22:05,590
$2,900, I think in an auction itself.

917
01:22:06,210 --> 01:22:09,550
It's nothing else in the value that education benefits people around.

918
01:22:10,730 --> 01:22:11,370
Next slide, please.

919
01:22:14,580 --> 01:22:23,760
Road Repair, you know, Michelle, Mother Sharp, Professor, thank you Michelle, we have reduced

920
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,240
what we're looking to do in road work this year.

921
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:33,960
Then when we're saying road work, we mean curves, gutters, anything associated with the

922
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:39,360
roadway that needs to be done in the professional opinion of staff and contractors at the time

923
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:47,120
done, these funds are dedicated funds that come from the state, and the portion of the

924
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:52,080
tap to Z. You collect, there is a percentage of them that goes toward the road work. So

925
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:57,680
that as a source of these funds, we are not looking to for this particular enhancement

926
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:04,460
to cut into any of the reserves that you have in place for this type of infrastructure work.

927
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:09,460
It's a little less than we've done this year, but I would say it's really important

928
01:23:09,460 --> 01:23:15,280
to keep up with that process because before you got behind, you got behind and then you

929
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:21,540
ended up looking at bonds in the past and, you know, if you've done a little every year

930
01:23:21,540 --> 01:23:25,140
and keep up with it, especially if you know you have a problem in one place, it's probably

931
01:23:25,140 --> 01:23:26,480
the best way to manage this.

932
01:23:26,480 --> 01:23:36,120
The list of streets here is not completely finalized because, honestly, I don't know that we would be able to do all of these.

933
01:23:36,300 --> 01:23:42,560
The list of streets is the size that it was before we dialed this budget back in the last couple of days.

934
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:49,880
There are also a couple of ones and two things around town that will get done out of this

935
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:57,240
and by out of a little bit of a budget that is in the budget or top of work operation itself.

936
01:24:02,170 --> 01:24:08,230
This $30,000 is not coming from general funds.

937
01:24:08,230 --> 01:24:13,950
So this is coming from the Infrastructure Fund that you have set aside to do work of this

938
01:24:13,950 --> 01:24:14,310
nature.

939
01:24:15,130 --> 01:24:26,170
So this is a proposal for $30,000 to look at carrying out some of the initiatives that

940
01:24:26,170 --> 01:24:29,750
are included in the walkable type-by-pool task force.

941
01:24:31,450 --> 01:24:36,890
staff was set up to have a meeting all together to start going through all those

942
01:24:38,310 --> 01:24:42,930
recommendations individually, but then the virus came. And we ended up turning that

943
01:24:42,930 --> 01:24:47,830
meeting into the meeting for how we're going to respond to this. So we will get

944
01:24:47,830 --> 01:24:57,170
back at that, but it probably will be a few weeks. You know we have some concerns

945
01:24:57,170 --> 01:25:04,610
about actual speed close that were included in the proposal but so I will say that

946
01:25:04,610 --> 01:25:16,010
this proposal is not for anything specific other than poor items that are listed in that task force

947
01:25:16,010 --> 01:25:31,070
report that are low hanging troops and that may be lost. I'd love it. Yes, it is. Yes, that's what I'll turn it up to the name. All right. Thank you so much.

948
01:25:31,150 --> 01:25:36,170
Thank you, brother. I'll open for discussion at this time. We'll start with Mayor Bertam Papinicholas.

949
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:45,520
Can I hear you, Jason?

950
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:48,100
Mayor Richem, can you unmute yourself, please?

951
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:48,520
Thank you.

952
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:50,480
It helps the client meet.

953
01:25:50,780 --> 01:25:51,020
Okay.

954
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:55,140
The quick question for you, on the leaf backing,

955
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:58,380
is that it is a very expensive piece of equipment

956
01:25:58,380 --> 01:26:01,620
and appears to be very manpower intensive.

957
01:26:03,660 --> 01:26:05,900
I wish we could have been able to ask this on the survey,

958
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:09,520
but we will have to get it, I think.

959
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:12,420
But can we start actually finding out

960
01:26:12,420 --> 01:26:14,580
How much value residents put in it?

961
01:26:15,260 --> 01:26:19,000
Because I know at least for those of us who live on Edmundston,

962
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:22,900
there's very hard for that leaf back in the pick up anything.

963
01:26:23,260 --> 01:26:24,860
And I'm wondering if there's other streets in town.

964
01:26:25,780 --> 01:26:31,560
That might be a similar situation where you just don't get value for it.

965
01:26:32,340 --> 01:26:33,460
We'd be happy to.

966
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:40,100
As you know, I mean changes to always programs in actually 16 towns

967
01:26:40,100 --> 01:26:50,820
of the time. One of the ones that I worked on was in Rockville, and another one in NAMPLUS,

968
01:26:51,060 --> 01:26:56,500
and we moved from the back of Maine to people bagging their leaves and that sort of thing.

969
01:26:57,640 --> 01:27:04,820
That's the thing that I understand is that's the alternative. But we would be happy to, particularly

970
01:27:04,820 --> 01:27:09,820
when we're getting into, you know, actual each season of fall, collect some data for you,

971
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:18,440
so we can give you some anecdotal information, at least about who's banging on, and who

972
01:27:18,440 --> 01:27:21,680
is relying on us to vacuum them up.

973
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:28,880
Um, and then just a couple of quick comments, um, it seems like we've done a lot of work

974
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:33,880
on that level of work's yard. I'm awfully concerned, I'm glad we're focusing on it now, but I'm

975
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:35,500
not fully concerned that we've overlooked

976
01:27:36,020 --> 01:27:38,320
of course building improvements,

977
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:41,740
and I mean that's because it's out of the way

978
01:27:41,740 --> 01:27:42,920
and nobody notices it,

979
01:27:43,140 --> 01:27:44,760
but I'm glad to see if we focused on it

980
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:45,600
the last couple of years.

981
01:27:47,100 --> 01:27:49,300
Hopefully, do you think that this is the end of that,

982
01:27:49,500 --> 01:27:50,820
or do you think there's a little bit more

983
01:27:50,820 --> 01:27:51,880
that we have to do next year?

984
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:54,120
I think there's probably a little bit more

985
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:55,240
you have to do next year.

986
01:27:57,340 --> 01:27:59,180
I think we've been facing ourselves

987
01:27:59,180 --> 01:28:01,380
and doing the worst of it first.

988
01:28:05,140 --> 01:28:14,340
Many times I've had some of my offices were departments and I can tell you that because they're not open to the public,

989
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:19,100
those folks end up sort of being the stepchildren, it's their part of the funding goes.

990
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:33,100
There's some decisions that were made over time doing some things down there that have turned out to be more costly in the end.

991
01:28:33,100 --> 01:28:42,400
You know, the softens were not petted, so we just filled them in with plywood, there's some of those decisions that we need to catch up with.

992
01:28:43,180 --> 01:28:48,860
Right now, you know, I'm focusing on the building envelope and those properties.

993
01:28:49,620 --> 01:28:59,060
So, you know, what keeps the inside and the outside out, but trying not to do anything terribly costly all the time.

994
01:29:01,110 --> 01:29:07,130
And then finally, I'll admit I was a little skeptical of the composting idea, but I've really

995
01:29:07,130 --> 01:29:07,630
come around.

996
01:29:07,810 --> 01:29:09,890
I think it's a, this company has great model.

997
01:29:10,110 --> 01:29:15,710
I love the fact that they're local, I can go 10 minutes away and get it and a college

998
01:29:15,710 --> 01:29:18,410
park has implemented it, so I've got a need for the visit.

999
01:29:20,570 --> 01:29:21,450
I agree.

1000
01:29:21,750 --> 01:29:25,850
I think, well, residents might be a little concerned with this other program.

1001
01:29:25,850 --> 01:29:28,350
I think it'll pay for itself in tipping fees alone.

1002
01:29:30,450 --> 01:29:33,550
Okay, I'm very happy to see that with that.

1003
01:29:33,730 --> 01:29:34,770
I will yield my time back.

1004
01:29:36,070 --> 01:29:38,910
Okay, thank you so much, Council Member Sweet.

1005
01:29:42,840 --> 01:29:45,740
Yeah, thank you for doing that.

1006
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:50,800
I'm glad to see about the insulation even though

1007
01:30:00,500 --> 01:30:09,380
So for the shipping container that is replacing the shed, is that just one container?

1008
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:35,760
We'll keep the wind in the rain out a little better than what we've got going on down there.

1009
01:30:35,780 --> 01:30:41,240
Yeah, and it also looks like it can be locked additionally as well.

1010
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:42,280
Absolutely.

1011
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:45,720
Right now, there's no lock on the tent.

1012
01:30:46,660 --> 01:30:47,160
Right, yeah.

1013
01:30:47,300 --> 01:30:52,560
I mean, unless you can somehow get past the like tart that's just straight over the entrance

1014
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:53,940
of it.

1015
01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:54,220
Yeah.

1016
01:30:55,700 --> 01:31:10,460
But yeah, other than that, I understand what based on this kind of saying about the

1017
01:31:10,460 --> 01:31:16,140
leaf collection, but I know it's not, I'd be interested in seeing some of the data that

1018
01:31:16,140 --> 01:31:22,180
we collect in the fall as opposed to how many people are using it, and that sort of thing,

1019
01:31:22,180 --> 01:31:26,400
but I know and I can echo what Murray was saying that when it was down I was getting a lot of

1020
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:31,940
calls and emails of people like asking when it was going to be fixed where it was so it was

1021
01:31:31,940 --> 01:31:38,620
deaf and for people that I normally don't hear from so I think it's I think it's

1022
01:31:39,140 --> 01:31:45,180
life enough and it's a service that's popular in our town where I think we would have to keep

1023
01:31:45,180 --> 01:31:52,080
doing it or I would be in support of continuing it even though the maintenance of those can get

1024
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:59,340
pretty spendy. Yes, sir. But what boils down to is, you know, we put the leaves on the

1025
01:31:59,340 --> 01:32:04,980
container or the residents put the leaves on the container and it's a really popular

1026
01:32:04,980 --> 01:32:13,500
service. It would be difficult to change it right now. Yeah. But that's it for me. All

1027
01:32:13,500 --> 01:32:22,380
you and Claire. Thank you so much council member Dealy. Yes thank you. A couple of my questions

1028
01:32:22,380 --> 01:32:28,440
were answered sort of thinking through the big picture of the public works facilities and stuff.

1029
01:32:28,780 --> 01:32:34,140
I think overall for me it boils down to if we've got expensive equipment it doesn't do any good to

1030
01:32:34,140 --> 01:32:40,160
not take care of it and keep it safe and present it from the elements so you know I appreciate

1031
01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:45,000
the work to make sure that we're taking care of our stuff so it lasts so that

1032
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:50,680
all makes a lot of sense to me. The other thing I'll add on to is on just as

1033
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:54,200
everyone knows I'm excited about the compost program. I've heard some good

1034
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:58,580
comments, some positive comments from folks I've spoken to about that and one

1035
01:32:58,580 --> 01:33:04,400
thing I really appreciated about compost crews, model and presentation was

1036
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:09,580
they're sort of intentional steps program right like this idea that we're

1037
01:33:09,580 --> 01:33:11,660
going to start with a central location,

1038
01:33:12,180 --> 01:33:15,220
and they weren't advocating for us to immediately go

1039
01:33:15,220 --> 01:33:19,020
to some giant complex residential pickup thing.

1040
01:33:19,260 --> 01:33:21,800
So starting out really simple with the education,

1041
01:33:22,020 --> 01:33:24,980
and I think you're right, it's paying for itself

1042
01:33:24,980 --> 01:33:28,020
potentially in tipping fees once we get this up and going.

1043
01:33:28,480 --> 01:33:31,720
And from our neighbors in college, it happened really quickly

1044
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:34,100
as the participation increased there.

1045
01:33:34,360 --> 01:33:36,120
So I'm excited about that, and I want

1046
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:38,180
to thank Tom Manager for giving that research

1047
01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:45,160
And I will say Council member doing it, but my attention is to sort of keep an eye on how

1048
01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:45,720
it goes.

1049
01:33:46,100 --> 01:33:46,420
Yeah.

1050
01:33:46,860 --> 01:33:56,260
If it's the case that it does ramp up faster than we expected, so more than what you're

1051
01:33:56,260 --> 01:34:00,500
but before right now, I will bring something back to you

1052
01:34:00,500 --> 01:34:05,860
to offset some of the to pay for expansion

1053
01:34:05,860 --> 01:34:06,920
or second look page.

1054
01:34:08,060 --> 01:34:08,580
Awesome.

1055
01:34:09,060 --> 01:34:11,400
Yeah, and just that reminds me that again,

1056
01:34:11,540 --> 01:34:13,840
we talked about this and if folks didn't tune

1057
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:15,560
into that meeting in College Park,

1058
01:34:15,860 --> 01:34:18,300
it was something like six to eight months

1059
01:34:18,980 --> 01:34:21,640
where they had really increased the number of bins

1060
01:34:21,640 --> 01:34:23,300
that they had because people were excited

1061
01:34:23,300 --> 01:34:24,440
and people were participating.

1062
01:34:24,440 --> 01:34:29,540
And when we talk about tipping fees, the bottom line is that when we take our trash to

1063
01:34:29,540 --> 01:34:35,860
where it goes, it costs more per pound of trash that we throw away than it costs to do

1064
01:34:35,860 --> 01:34:36,420
other things.

1065
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:41,400
So when we see how much trash in our trash trucks, we can think a little bit more.

1066
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:42,040
Anyway.

1067
01:34:42,320 --> 01:34:42,540
Thank you.

1068
01:34:43,220 --> 01:34:44,240
It's an avoided cost.

1069
01:34:46,870 --> 01:34:47,090
All right.

1070
01:34:47,170 --> 01:34:47,710
Thank you so much.

1071
01:34:47,810 --> 01:34:48,550
Council Member Osmond.

1072
01:34:50,250 --> 01:34:55,490
Back to what my fellow council members have said in the proposals that are presented

1073
01:34:55,490 --> 01:34:56,030
to us.

1074
01:34:56,370 --> 01:35:02,690
I think for me, the movement toward a more sustainable economy and for the environment

1075
01:35:02,690 --> 01:35:07,210
and for ourselves, I think the compost is in that direction of being more sustainable

1076
01:35:07,210 --> 01:35:13,270
and the idea of reducing tipping fees is great, which brings me to the sustainable question

1077
01:35:13,270 --> 01:35:17,990
for the least and whether it's vacuum or bagged, I have some simple questions.

1078
01:35:19,670 --> 01:35:26,550
Where are the leads, what happens to the leaves after they're vacuumed or bagged, is there

1079
01:35:26,550 --> 01:35:32,170
a cost that dispose of them or do we have a yard or work off of them, is my one question

1080
01:35:32,170 --> 01:35:40,350
because I think as we move toward a more sustainable way of being, I think the cost of the vacuum

1081
01:35:40,350 --> 01:35:42,130
it's using false fuels, et cetera.

1082
01:35:42,830 --> 01:35:45,570
You know, it's not a sustainable solution.

1083
01:35:45,710 --> 01:35:46,890
It's maybe some others may be.

1084
01:35:47,530 --> 01:35:49,270
And then the other question about what happens

1085
01:35:49,270 --> 01:35:53,130
to the liauses, could the bags be something

1086
01:35:53,130 --> 01:35:55,710
that would be delivered to residents upon request?

1087
01:35:56,370 --> 01:35:59,310
And would that cost less than operating and maintaining

1088
01:35:59,310 --> 01:36:00,590
a meat vacuum?

1089
01:36:01,630 --> 01:36:02,750
I have an answer to that.

1090
01:36:03,230 --> 01:36:05,490
I'll answer your last one first.

1091
01:36:06,130 --> 01:36:09,170
For the town that provide bags to people,

1092
01:36:09,170 --> 01:36:14,410
probably cost more than this machine. Most of the bags are made by stone

1093
01:36:14,410 --> 01:36:21,450
container and the craft paper, they're pretty expensive. So, now again, you just

1094
01:36:21,450 --> 01:36:25,930
can move in the cost of one type of container being a back-and-trip to a

1095
01:36:25,930 --> 01:36:31,470
different kind of container being the bag. So, that's sort of the balance. We

1096
01:36:31,470 --> 01:36:37,770
take our leaves and our yard waste to accounting, to simply, and they are

1097
01:36:37,770 --> 01:36:44,050
windrowing them and turning them at the silliest managed by a Maryland Environmental Service,

1098
01:36:44,530 --> 01:36:54,010
which is a quasi-state organization, and all that material is bed and bagged and sold

1099
01:36:54,010 --> 01:36:54,670
as leaf girl.

1100
01:36:56,130 --> 01:36:59,770
So, when you buy leaf row, which is great stuff, by the way, anybody's going around there.

1101
01:37:00,430 --> 01:37:06,070
When you buy leaf row, you get back the stuff that you put in, and so that's what happens

1102
01:37:06,070 --> 01:37:10,970
So it's a pretty close-loop sustainable operation.

1103
01:37:12,810 --> 01:37:15,210
If you were to look to do it yourself,

1104
01:37:15,930 --> 01:37:18,270
it is very hard to permit.

1105
01:37:19,990 --> 01:37:24,270
It's very hard to get a permit to do composting yourself,

1106
01:37:24,670 --> 01:37:28,710
but we'd be particularly hard here because of our watershed

1107
01:37:29,430 --> 01:37:31,450
and because of all the setback in requirements

1108
01:37:31,450 --> 01:37:33,990
and stormwater drainage issues,

1109
01:37:34,690 --> 01:37:38,870
I don't bet that we even have a place in town on a qualifying.

1110
01:37:40,030 --> 01:37:47,070
Ideally, your food waste and your yard waste would be composted together.

1111
01:37:47,390 --> 01:37:50,410
That's the future. That is the future.

1112
01:37:50,910 --> 01:37:54,710
Despite what the salespeople for the compost crimson said,

1113
01:37:54,910 --> 01:37:59,410
that is the future. And anybody who sites an operation

1114
01:37:59,410 --> 01:38:01,430
that's only going to do yard waste right now

1115
01:38:01,430 --> 01:38:08,110
and now you are going to stand to these gaps and lose the sight of what their options are.

1116
01:38:08,310 --> 01:38:10,570
So it would be really hard for us to do ourselves.

1117
01:38:11,310 --> 01:38:15,370
We do get compost back because we use it.

1118
01:38:16,190 --> 01:38:21,370
When the folks are going to do the throughout collection,

1119
01:38:22,390 --> 01:38:26,470
I will work with them to negotiate and get some of that material back

1120
01:38:26,470 --> 01:38:28,210
so we can use it for our own town.

1121
01:38:32,570 --> 01:38:39,190
So it sounds like there's a closed-loop system that's managed in the leads and I like that.

1122
01:38:39,670 --> 01:38:46,370
And we get some form of discount on the rebind and the stuff back from them or we just get

1123
01:38:46,370 --> 01:38:48,070
it prepared because we gave them the leads.

1124
01:38:48,710 --> 01:38:49,190
How does that exchange?

1125
01:38:50,510 --> 01:38:52,790
We give it to them.

1126
01:38:53,130 --> 01:38:56,510
We pay a minimum amount for it.

1127
01:38:56,510 --> 01:39:02,670
It's, you know, we get truckloads of it that we meet for the folks with the vegetable garden.

1128
01:39:05,250 --> 01:39:07,110
What we pay is nominal.

1129
01:39:07,750 --> 01:39:12,390
It's less than paying for tipping fees at the winds of the garbage.

1130
01:39:12,930 --> 01:39:16,610
No, it's less than paying for bags and stuff that you're going to buy the same materials from home.

1131
01:39:17,050 --> 01:39:18,750
Oh, okay, I was misunderstanding.

1132
01:39:18,750 --> 01:39:28,910
So the stuff that we buy at, the ready-made bags of ever grown or whatever it's called, they buy the truck hood.

1133
01:39:29,610 --> 01:39:30,030
Okay.

1134
01:39:30,550 --> 01:39:31,490
We'll get a dump truck shop.

1135
01:39:32,130 --> 01:39:32,410
Okay.

1136
01:39:32,730 --> 01:39:32,870
All right.

1137
01:39:33,010 --> 01:39:33,290
Thank you.

1138
01:39:33,630 --> 01:39:34,630
No further questions.

1139
01:39:34,830 --> 01:39:35,030
I'll tell you.

1140
01:39:35,610 --> 01:39:36,090
Thank you.

1141
01:39:36,530 --> 01:39:37,390
Thank you so much.

1142
01:39:38,890 --> 01:39:41,450
You know, I'm just going to add to my council members.

1143
01:39:41,590 --> 01:39:46,850
I think, again, everything is very reasonable, just like Mayor Bertrand Papinecola said.

1144
01:39:46,850 --> 01:39:51,090
I was a little concerned about the compost piece,

1145
01:39:51,430 --> 01:39:53,490
but as I thought about it further

1146
01:39:54,070 --> 01:39:58,130
and saw really what College Park was doing

1147
01:39:58,130 --> 01:40:01,470
and how effective it was in College Park,

1148
01:40:01,590 --> 01:40:04,870
I was very, I'm really excited at this point

1149
01:40:04,870 --> 01:40:06,870
to see how that works with our town.

1150
01:40:07,850 --> 01:40:10,490
So I'm really in favor of that as well.

1151
01:40:11,590 --> 01:40:15,630
You know, again, really working to get public works

1152
01:40:16,850 --> 01:40:23,730
facilities and you know really up to date I think is very extremely important as

1153
01:40:23,730 --> 01:40:31,810
well and I really appreciate the walkable biteable recommendation that was

1154
01:40:31,810 --> 01:40:35,750
added into this presentation I think that's it's very reasonable but I think

1155
01:40:35,750 --> 01:40:43,270
it's I think it's very important as well with it so with that I have no no

1156
01:40:43,270 --> 01:40:49,350
concerns about it at all at this point. I'm going to open up the Florida discussion one last

1157
01:40:49,350 --> 01:40:53,150
time before we check emails or phone calls.

1158
01:40:56,920 --> 01:40:59,960
Okay, here you're in none. The phone number is

1159
01:40:59,960 --> 01:41:09,860
going to be 3014749570 while you're making your call if you have any. Councilmember Dewey are there

1160
01:41:09,860 --> 01:41:17,120
any emails. Yes, thank you. There is one email comment again from Jody Copa

1161
01:41:17,120 --> 01:41:21,660
Eddie on Ruitan Street and it was a comment on a question just segment a lot

1162
01:41:21,660 --> 01:41:26,720
of people rely on the leaf vacuum including seniors that can't bag them or

1163
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:30,840
afford to hire someone to do it. So it was just a comment about the question on the

1164
01:41:30,840 --> 01:41:37,260
police. Thank you so much. 3-0-1-474-9570.

1165
01:41:39,480 --> 01:41:41,140
I really feel like we need to come to

1166
01:41:41,140 --> 01:41:44,160
a pretty good. I just treasure Rodriguez.

1167
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:58,920
And at this point we will move on to the

1168
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:04,660
last budget presentation that we have, and that is the police department. Before

1169
01:42:04,660 --> 01:42:11,400
we begin, Chief Anselick, I just want to just say thank you to your department and

1170
01:42:11,400 --> 01:42:17,520
to you for everything that you are doing to keep our town and our residents safe and

1171
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:22,860
all the updates that you have for us. I think it's, you know, times like this are really

1172
01:42:23,880 --> 01:42:30,600
stressful to a lot of people and what your department is doing, we couldn't be any more proud

1173
01:42:30,600 --> 01:42:35,220
of you and your department for what you're doing to keep our town safe. So we thank you for that.

1174
01:42:35,840 --> 01:42:40,520
Thank you, Mayor. And then again, like you said, we're in this together. So we'll get through

1175
01:42:46,870 --> 01:42:50,890
Okay, I think we are ready for the Police Department's presentation.

1176
01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:55,000
Lieutenant Onger,

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01:42:58,580 --> 01:42:59,120
hello.

1178
01:42:59,460 --> 01:43:00,420
Everybody can hear me?

1179
01:43:01,820 --> 01:43:02,500
Yeah.

1180
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:03,500
Good morning.

1181
01:43:05,080 --> 01:43:08,320
So we'll just start off with our mission statement as you can see here.

1182
01:43:09,120 --> 01:43:15,260
The Burrow Heights Police Department is dedicated to providing a law enforcement service established

1183
01:43:15,260 --> 01:43:20,500
by the Municipal Charter town ordinance in the Maryland law.

1184
01:43:20,500 --> 01:43:26,640
All the services are provided professionally with the best possible value for tax dollars spent.

1185
01:43:27,420 --> 01:43:34,260
The driving force of the BHPD stems from a firm commitment to be professional, innovative,

1186
01:43:34,860 --> 01:43:43,920
self-evaluate, responsive, motivated by dedication to duty to the residents, merchants and visitors of Burma Heights.

1187
01:43:43,920 --> 01:43:45,300
next

1188
01:43:47,380 --> 01:43:53,320
slide just shows our staff and current chain of command kind in a linear

1189
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:59,580
fashion obviously chief of police at the top directly under him is administrative

1190
01:43:59,580 --> 01:44:05,860
his administrative assistant mercy around also our clerk next is me obviously

1191
01:44:05,860 --> 01:44:12,380
second command under me is currently corporal crowds detective recent

1192
01:44:12,380 --> 01:44:13,740
promoted to detective.

1193
01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:19,300
Troll commander Sergeant Rooney followed by all the officers

1194
01:44:19,300 --> 01:44:21,160
on that fall under him.

1195
01:44:22,100 --> 01:44:26,360
In addition to that, we also have public safety aid program

1196
01:44:26,830 --> 01:44:32,140
and intern programs that are headed by Clark Morales

1197
01:44:32,140 --> 01:44:34,520
and Corporal Crafts.

1198
01:44:38,350 --> 01:44:40,750
We all just like to talk briefly about some

1199
01:44:40,750 --> 01:44:44,730
of the major programs and events that we dedicate

1200
01:44:44,730 --> 01:44:49,430
to our citizens and business owners of the town, most of you are familiar with

1201
01:44:49,430 --> 01:44:51,650
National Night Out, how that we do.

1202
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:05,240
We've done cocoa with the pogo, senior citizen appreciation lunch ins.

1203
01:45:07,380 --> 01:45:28,700
We also offer training to some of our local merchants and businesses, i.e. active shooter trainings. We've conducted a couple of those for folks in the past. We also work on public service announcement videos. We just recently finished one with off server Fino.

1204
01:45:28,700 --> 01:45:33,680
in regards to April being women's month.

1205
01:45:35,220 --> 01:45:37,840
We've also held multi-cultural events,

1206
01:45:38,380 --> 01:45:41,740
like I said previously about our PSA program

1207
01:45:42,260 --> 01:45:43,560
in our intern programs.

1208
01:45:44,220 --> 01:45:46,160
Like I said, these are just a few that we create

1209
01:45:46,780 --> 01:45:49,800
and we certainly dedicated management for,

1210
01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:52,180
like I said, our residents and business owners of it.

1211
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:56,820
Moving on, we're just going to roll right into

1212
01:45:56,820 --> 01:46:04,080
our enhancements for 2021. First one being the new Ford hybrid police

1213
01:46:04,080 --> 01:46:08,520
interceptor. I think you're going to start seeing more of these being utilized

1214
01:46:08,520 --> 01:46:14,040
by police departments. You're going to slowly see them trickling out. It is a

1215
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:20,600
hybrid. So what that means is it uses both gas and electric power. Now where it

1216
01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:29,660
really is beneficial to us in the town is at slow speeds when it's idling is

1217
01:46:30,140 --> 01:46:35,400
personally using the fuel so it's hard to see on the slide but you can see it

1218
01:46:35,400 --> 01:46:39,500
it's available online as well if you go to Ford's website you can see the

1219
01:46:39,500 --> 01:46:46,140
breakdown versus regular fuel versus a hybrid and you can see roughly the big

1220
01:46:46,140 --> 01:46:51,020
number is it'll save you about 930 gallons of fuel a year as to make it.

1221
01:46:53,760 --> 01:46:54,020
So the

1222
01:46:54,020 --> 01:47:00,060
total cost for that is $50,800. That would be fully equipped, marked, light,

1223
01:47:00,440 --> 01:47:03,700
siren, all the stuff that's that we need.

1224
01:47:06,500 --> 01:47:07,900
We can move on to the next one.

1225
01:47:10,480 --> 01:47:14,600
Something we think is important for the police department. This is something

1226
01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:19,240
we're asking. It's a new enhancements, a new, it would be a new budget-prime item.

1227
01:47:19,240 --> 01:47:25,420
And that is second language pay or Spanish language pay benefit.

1228
01:47:27,020 --> 01:47:33,140
The work that went into prior to is, and I don't know if everyone has it, but Clark

1229
01:47:33,140 --> 01:47:40,940
Rallis contacted other police departments in the area and we compiled a spreadsheet

1230
01:47:40,940 --> 01:47:45,640
to just compare and look at what other agencies are doing.

1231
01:47:45,640 --> 01:47:53,460
We think it's beneficial to us, we think it's a great hiring tool, and we also think it's

1232
01:47:53,460 --> 01:47:56,320
going to help us, you know, as far as retention.

1233
01:47:58,740 --> 01:48:07,100
More and more, right now we have two employees, obviously, that we have Verfino, who speaks

1234
01:48:07,100 --> 01:48:12,480
two languages that we have, sort of Morales, who speaks Spanish, and I can tell you, we

1235
01:48:12,480 --> 01:48:13,780
their services a lot.

1236
01:48:16,040 --> 01:48:20,000
It's I think as far as Spanish-speaking folks I think it's

1237
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:25,700
more and more moving into Burbank Heights and I just think it's something that's

1238
01:48:25,700 --> 01:48:26,860
necessary in need.

1239
01:48:35,510 --> 01:48:42,470
Asking for replacement body arm obviously you know these

1240
01:48:42,470 --> 01:48:46,830
best-state lives they can certainly prevent fatal injuries due to firearms and

1241
01:48:46,830 --> 01:48:55,990
or knives and these are replacement vests. If you didn't know the vests do expire they

1242
01:48:55,990 --> 01:49:04,230
have an expiration date mainly because the just due to break down the Kevlar wears out

1243
01:49:04,230 --> 01:49:12,150
over time just because of sweat, just the elements it just breaks down the capability

1244
01:49:12,150 --> 01:49:19,110
of the Kevlar. In the picture you can kind of see two different styles. Those of

1245
01:49:19,110 --> 01:49:24,150
these are worn by our officer. The one on the left is typically worn under the

1246
01:49:24,150 --> 01:49:28,650
uniform shirt and the one on the right is typically worn over top of the

1247
01:49:28,650 --> 01:49:33,430
shirt and the one on the right, obviously you can attach items that are

1248
01:49:33,430 --> 01:49:39,170
necessary so it alleviates some of the weight when one officer's hips. So it's

1249
01:49:39,170 --> 01:49:42,870
It's just really reference for our officers how they would like to wear them.

1250
01:49:43,450 --> 01:49:48,550
But roughly they are about $1,000 a piece, so we're looking to replace, like I said, two

1251
01:49:48,550 --> 01:49:48,870
of those.

1252
01:49:50,510 --> 01:49:51,230
So we can move them.

1253
01:49:55,290 --> 01:49:59,710
The next enhancement would be one time purchase of kind of in order here.

1254
01:50:00,830 --> 01:50:05,150
Portable radios, what we use in the left, that's what officers wear on their hips.

1255
01:50:06,590 --> 01:50:14,290
The Saturn picture is a new radio for the new vehicle that is the radio that goes inside

1256
01:50:14,290 --> 01:50:20,690
the car and then also for the far right you can see an MBT mobile data terminal.

1257
01:50:21,470 --> 01:50:28,570
Obviously we all know the vehicle is the officer's office and that computer is important

1258
01:50:28,570 --> 01:50:31,570
to be able to do their job when they're out on the road.

1259
01:50:31,570 --> 01:50:40,290
And obviously the radius we know is that vital tool that's our line of communication that's our safety for our officers.

1260
01:50:41,330 --> 01:50:45,850
That is a cost of $12,000 combined, you know, for all three.

1261
01:50:53,420 --> 01:51:00,520
Locality pay, if you didn't know, we already offer that to officers who reside within five miles of the town.

1262
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,580
It's an existing line item.

1263
01:51:03,580 --> 01:51:05,580
we're just asking for an increase.

1264
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:10,740
Our newest officer, if you didn't know, he lives within

1265
01:51:10,740 --> 01:51:16,480
five miles, so he is privy to that benefit. So that's where we have to just raise that

1266
01:51:16,480 --> 01:51:23,080
line. By $2,400, so you can receive the locality pack. And obviously that's a big benefit

1267
01:51:23,080 --> 01:51:27,880
having folks that live close to Birmingham Heights. And that's just great, a lot of times

1268
01:51:27,880 --> 01:51:30,220
need, etc.

1269
01:51:34,560 --> 01:51:40,900
I don't want to align with that. Our newest officer typically all our officers typically

1270
01:51:40,900 --> 01:51:49,480
do a year of probation and after that year of successful probation is an automatic promotion from

1271
01:51:49,480 --> 01:51:58,840
private to PFC and that's at a cost of $1,300 for our newest officer upon the complete successful

1272
01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:00,420
probationary period.

1273
01:52:09,820 --> 01:52:14,720
We are looking to replace the neighborhood bus trailer. If

1274
01:52:14,720 --> 01:52:22,160
you don't know, the current trailer is dilapidated. It's, you know, falling apart. It's

1275
01:52:22,700 --> 01:52:28,020
leaking, you know, it has roof leaks. Things that shut up in our opening things, that

1276
01:52:28,020 --> 01:52:32,540
clothes are really closing the way they should. So we're looking to replace that with just a

1277
01:52:32,540 --> 01:52:38,920
newer model of the picture you see is it's slightly shorter trailer. It's also

1278
01:52:38,920 --> 01:52:44,620
that it comes to a beam in the front. The replacement would be about five to about

1279
01:52:44,620 --> 01:52:52,040
six thousand dollars. In addition to that the new trailer would have lights on the

1280
01:52:52,040 --> 01:52:58,020
outside. I believe it has more options for electricity, spots for generators,

1281
01:52:58,020 --> 01:53:03,620
et cetera, something that I think would just be more useful when we need it.

1282
01:53:09,480 --> 01:53:14,960
And the last thing I'd like to talk about is the public safety taxing district.

1283
01:53:15,480 --> 01:53:16,440
What is it?

1284
01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:22,260
You can see here it's just a special public safety taxing district, it's an area within

1285
01:53:22,260 --> 01:53:28,880
the corporate limits of the town of Irving Heights, it's created by town ordinance, and it's

1286
01:53:28,880 --> 01:53:33,420
It's designed to enhance police fire protection and rescue services.

1287
01:53:33,800 --> 01:53:36,840
This isn't something new, this is already existing.

1288
01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:42,640
What we're asking to do is just take some of that money and put it in other areas

1289
01:53:43,180 --> 01:53:45,480
where we think it would be more beneficial.

1290
01:53:46,860 --> 01:53:53,580
If you move on to the next slide, you can just kind of see where we're looking to move some of that money.

1291
01:53:54,500 --> 01:54:01,720
Previously, I was kind of the officer in that, you know, assigned to that area, a political

1292
01:54:01,720 --> 01:54:07,900
press, like I said, has taken my position on that, or working on meetings and stuff with

1293
01:54:07,900 --> 01:54:14,980
the merchants and the business owners, who are directly affected by this tax, and where

1294
01:54:14,980 --> 01:54:20,700
we think it's useful, but obviously, do use a convention and training, we think it's essential

1295
01:54:20,700 --> 01:54:26,620
to get the technical grass trained up as a detective so we think that money can be really

1296
01:54:26,620 --> 01:54:34,380
beneficial in those areas, gas is oil, we don't know what gas prices are going to do right

1297
01:54:34,380 --> 01:54:39,500
now they're super low but we just like to be safe and anticipate you know many rise to that

1298
01:54:40,060 --> 01:54:40,500
area,

1299
01:54:42,730 --> 01:54:49,350
the remaining money going in capital outlet can be used for equipment different tools and

1300
01:54:49,350 --> 01:54:54,210
And then obviously, whatever's left is people were thrown into uniforms just to help

1301
01:54:54,210 --> 01:54:58,290
with costs in regards to uniforms and equipment.

1302
01:55:01,500 --> 01:55:09,140
That is the end of our slideshow or budget presentation and I yield my time to the floor.

1303
01:55:09,980 --> 01:55:11,080
Thank you so much.

1304
01:55:11,160 --> 01:55:11,880
We appreciate it.

1305
01:55:12,120 --> 01:55:15,720
We'll open a discussion starting with Mayor Bratana Poppanoeklos.

1306
01:55:16,980 --> 01:55:17,760
All right.

1307
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:24,450
What question did I don't remember, and this is either one for Chief Lieutenant

1308
01:55:24,450 --> 01:55:29,870
Onger, maybe Maria, how much more expensive is a hybrid versus a standard

1309
01:55:29,870 --> 01:55:30,730
transmission?

1310
01:55:35,370 --> 01:55:37,550
The data do I go and answer that there.

1311
01:55:39,910 --> 01:55:42,890
You know I don't I don't recall

1312
01:55:42,890 --> 01:55:48,710
I don't have anything in front of me, but it's it's I know looking back at last

1313
01:55:48,710 --> 01:55:53,150
last year's budget it was significant. Last year's budget we were looking at the Dodge

1314
01:55:53,750 --> 01:56:00,330
the ragas and I know compared to those it was maybe about $8,000 difference. I want to

1315
01:56:00,330 --> 01:56:08,010
set or is it going to be slightly more expensive but I'm sorry I don't have the number to

1316
01:56:08,010 --> 01:56:14,490
try me but I'm sure I can get that to you. I don't remember the exact number but I do

1317
01:56:14,490 --> 01:56:21,790
You know that the style of driving that's done in town, not necessarily

1318
01:56:21,790 --> 01:56:25,970
commuting, but in town, perfectly suited to the way a hybrid works.

1319
01:56:26,450 --> 01:56:30,150
You know, when you apply the brakes to recharge the battery, if you're doing

1320
01:56:30,150 --> 01:56:33,970
the top of no driving, this is what those are made for.

1321
01:56:34,470 --> 01:56:38,310
And I don't remember the exact price, but we'd be happy to get that for you.

1322
01:56:38,850 --> 01:56:43,970
I was nearly curious because as much as an underpoint out, we're going to

1323
01:56:43,970 --> 01:56:48,230
say money on the back end with gas, I was just wondering how quickly that price

1324
01:56:48,230 --> 01:56:54,670
difference would pay for itself. My guess is two to three years. That's probably

1325
01:56:54,670 --> 01:56:58,170
what I would guess is, but we'd be happy to do that research if you want.

1326
01:56:58,750 --> 01:57:04,090
Cool. It's just a thing that I was interested in, especially, but I agree that

1327
01:57:04,090 --> 01:57:09,190
hybrids are much more suited for the type of stuff we do in town. I know I've

1328
01:57:09,190 --> 01:57:12,930
heard both chief and the number I think in the past

1329
01:57:12,930 --> 01:57:17,270
complained that you have to drive the other cars on the

1330
01:57:17,270 --> 01:57:20,230
highway really not family change.

1331
01:57:21,330 --> 01:57:23,870
So I'm glad to hear we're going to Hyberts.

1332
01:57:24,110 --> 01:57:27,130
I am interested in getting a number eventually on how

1333
01:57:27,130 --> 01:57:27,830
quickly to pay.

1334
01:57:29,330 --> 01:57:32,850
Second language pay I know is increasingly becoming

1335
01:57:32,850 --> 01:57:38,170
important in the community. I'm glad to see that we are offering

1336
01:57:38,170 --> 01:57:44,510
benefit I think it makes it much more competitive with other towns and I would

1337
01:57:44,510 --> 01:57:48,730
finally just like to point out that even though it sounds like we're adding a

1338
01:57:48,730 --> 01:57:52,330
lot of stuff to the budget because we're not buying a second car I believe our

1339
01:57:52,330 --> 01:57:55,430
budget is lower this year. My understanding correct?

1340
01:57:56,990 --> 01:58:05,010
Tech of ES. Okay. Cool. I will yield my time back. Okay, thank you so much

1341
01:58:05,010 --> 01:58:05,690
count them up personally.

1342
01:58:10,290 --> 01:58:15,170
I would also like to express my gratitude for coming up with the

1343
01:58:15,170 --> 01:58:21,490
second language pay. I think that is a really great thing. I don't have, I think we got it at

1344
01:58:21,490 --> 01:58:28,930
a previous work session, like what other towns around us are offering their employees first

1345
01:58:28,930 --> 01:58:37,490
second language, but I don't have it. So this like $2,500 per person per year is about on like an average

1346
01:58:37,490 --> 01:58:46,450
really area. I can actually go to that council. However, as you know that some other agencies

1347
01:58:46,450 --> 01:58:51,470
or allied agencies are paying less than what we're recommending. However, their starting

1348
01:58:51,470 --> 01:58:57,270
pay is tremendously more than what we're starting on our clerk.

1349
01:58:59,970 --> 01:59:10,130
And then is there some sort of like fluency test or something like that to get the second

1350
01:59:10,130 --> 01:59:12,490
language pay or how is that to turn?

1351
01:59:13,770 --> 01:59:19,390
Yes, the town manager and myself will discuss that in regards to certain type of qualification.

1352
01:59:22,510 --> 01:59:26,870
And then I guess like this is probably an obvious question if I put one and two together,

1353
01:59:27,070 --> 01:59:29,110
but this is like her second language.

1354
01:59:29,390 --> 01:59:34,890
So someone was fluent in a language, like in a different language that maybe wasn't

1355
01:59:34,890 --> 01:59:35,350
Spanish.

1356
01:59:35,650 --> 01:59:40,290
Like friends who are Portuguese or something would that, they would then be eligible for the

1357
01:59:40,290 --> 01:59:41,530
second language as well.

1358
01:59:42,450 --> 01:59:47,330
That could be for a further discussion, but right now Spanish is the most criminal language

1359
01:59:47,330 --> 01:59:50,570
which we are utilizing our Florida police officer.

1360
02:00:00,960 --> 02:00:16,200
Also, if you don't speak Portuguese, say, resolution, Spanish. So, she's trilingual, or I like to call it polyglot. But that, but right now we're going to just be focusing on the Spanish abilities.

1361
02:00:16,740 --> 02:00:20,780
Oh my God, it's a really fun word. Thank you for the second.

1362
02:00:23,260 --> 02:00:27,200
But yeah, that's all I've

1363
02:00:27,200 --> 02:00:31,160
got on you. Thank you so much, Council Member Dewey.

1364
02:00:33,580 --> 02:00:39,500
Yes, thank you. I don't want to add much more on the items already discussed, but I think

1365
02:00:39,500 --> 02:00:45,400
almost all of these are sort of either in the category of basic stuff and basic equipment

1366
02:00:45,400 --> 02:00:49,080
that we need, or we need to be able to retain and

1367
02:00:49,080 --> 02:00:52,040
compensate people in a way that makes us competitive so

1368
02:00:52,040 --> 02:00:55,100
we can have our talent in compared to our community.

1369
02:00:55,860 --> 02:00:58,420
So I think that all makes sense to me, although these

1370
02:00:58,420 --> 02:00:59,300
questions are all good.

1371
02:00:59,920 --> 02:01:02,400
The thing that it sort of stands out to me that I was hoping

1372
02:01:02,400 --> 02:01:05,380
to give an update on was the trailer, because I know we had

1373
02:01:05,380 --> 02:01:08,060
a discussion at a work session about that.

1374
02:01:08,280 --> 02:01:10,080
I know lots has gone on since then.

1375
02:01:10,200 --> 02:01:11,060
That was unexpected.

1376
02:01:12,340 --> 02:01:18,920
But I think sort of at that meeting, at least my takeaway was, for the trailer to make

1377
02:01:18,920 --> 02:01:19,260
sense.

1378
02:01:19,400 --> 02:01:24,420
We also at the same time have to think through the neighborhood watch, and if that group

1379
02:01:24,420 --> 02:01:29,360
at this point is able to function so that right now it makes sense to be investing in something

1380
02:01:29,360 --> 02:01:30,300
like that or not.

1381
02:01:30,780 --> 02:01:35,080
So I just wonder if I could get an update and maybe the update is that there is no update.

1382
02:01:37,020 --> 02:01:39,380
I can answer that, hopefully.

1383
02:01:40,600 --> 02:01:48,080
The neighborhood watch, I constantly communicate with mygadic, a lot of the items inside the

1384
02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:54,260
trailer right now, we basically take it and make the personal potential equipment for

1385
02:01:54,260 --> 02:01:54,800
our officers.

1386
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:56,780
So when you listen to that a lot, we thank you.

1387
02:01:57,260 --> 02:02:02,940
They would watch the personnel for making sure that there are equipment there, that now

1388
02:02:02,940 --> 02:02:10,340
we are utilizing through this pandemic. But as far as moving on, that is something that we're

1389
02:02:10,340 --> 02:02:18,080
trying to have further conversation with the personnel from neighborhood watch as well as

1390
02:02:18,080 --> 02:02:25,080
off the crowds who is in charge of that force of the town manager. Right now, of course,

1391
02:02:25,080 --> 02:02:34,000
is very low percentage as far as membership, but I'm confident that as we move on later

1392
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:39,760
in the future, hopefully, that we will people be interested in that program.

1393
02:02:40,800 --> 02:02:49,980
Mr. Mayor, if I can add to that, the piece of equipment that was brought up the first

1394
02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:59,860
not the right size and not exactly the right thing to be used practically. Now even sort

1395
02:02:59,860 --> 02:03:03,780
of moving where it was easy to move it but it's too long to make it around the corners

1396
02:03:05,060 --> 02:03:11,760
and you know I think there is an interest on the police department's part to make this

1397
02:03:12,360 --> 02:03:19,480
new piece of equipment one that has a little bit more tactical application so that if there

1398
02:03:19,480 --> 02:03:25,200
or in a situation where they need some support from some equipment, whether it's the equipment

1399
02:03:25,200 --> 02:03:31,180
that exists in there now or some other, that they have a good way to transport it

1400
02:03:31,180 --> 02:03:34,260
and a good way to store things that keeps it out of the web.

1401
02:03:34,740 --> 02:03:39,520
You know, the move to look into something that has lights on it and

1402
02:03:41,060 --> 02:03:46,220
you know, set up more functionally with the way the generator works is smart idea.

1403
02:03:47,300 --> 02:03:53,120
From the budgetary standard point, you know, thank you to Court of Harvard for asking

1404
02:03:53,120 --> 02:03:58,320
to go back and find what piece of legislation the Council actually asked that said that

1405
02:03:58,320 --> 02:04:04,260
the money had to stay within the compliance of funding was trailer.

1406
02:04:04,900 --> 02:04:10,640
So there was never really a piece of legislation that went along with it if there was no kind

1407
02:04:10,640 --> 02:04:11,140
of funding.

1408
02:04:11,140 --> 02:04:21,640
So the, what has been happening is that money that was not spent during the fiscal year

1409
02:04:22,100 --> 02:04:27,980
by the neighborhood watch organization was being put into the only dedicated account

1410
02:04:27,980 --> 02:04:35,060
that you have for the role over to purchase a trailer.

1411
02:04:35,760 --> 02:04:39,000
That amount of funding for our exceeds at this point,

1412
02:04:39,000 --> 02:04:42,540
the cost of the trailer that the police department is proposing to buy.

1413
02:04:43,680 --> 02:04:51,600
What I have proposed to the council is taking this trailer and putting it in the vehicle

1414
02:04:51,600 --> 02:05:00,580
maintenance fund schedule so that it has a non-useful life or a projective useful life,

1415
02:05:00,600 --> 02:05:03,960
something that you're monitoring the way that we have it with the current trailer.

1416
02:05:03,960 --> 02:05:10,320
and that you buy the trailer as specced out by the police department and all

1417
02:05:10,320 --> 02:05:14,500
work folks say obviously whoever's left the neighborhood watch but the remainder

1418
02:05:14,500 --> 02:05:19,260
of the funding because it's almost double what you really need to go back into

1419
02:05:19,260 --> 02:05:25,140
the vehicle the place that fund to be used towards other vehicles in the future and

1420
02:05:25,140 --> 02:05:31,160
that that rollover of the funding from funding not used by neighborhood watch

1421
02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:51,580
will discontinue. So this trailer becomes a piece of more equipment just like every other piece of little board put in the town, that becomes part of the vehicle replacement fund and the certain amount of money to put in the budget each year towards its replacement once it's used to light this up.

1422
02:05:55,040 --> 02:06:01,240
And I would like to add real brief, I will say the new, we received one of the hybrid vehicles

1423
02:06:01,240 --> 02:06:05,800
from last year's buzzer, we're still waiting on the second one for, it's obviously way

1424
02:06:05,800 --> 02:06:10,020
behind in the production of those vehicles because of the demand, but I will say the new

1425
02:06:10,020 --> 02:06:17,040
vehicle is already equipped with a hitch, which will make us able to move that trailer, which

1426
02:06:17,040 --> 02:06:17,420
is good.

1427
02:06:17,680 --> 02:06:22,580
Obviously in the past we hadn't utilized public works to help us move that around, so that's

1428
02:06:22,580 --> 02:06:24,880
and obviously another event that I just wanted to mention.

1429
02:06:28,300 --> 02:06:31,020
Thank you for that contact, I appreciate it.

1430
02:06:33,900 --> 02:06:35,540
Thank you for the council member.

1431
02:06:36,020 --> 02:06:36,980
No, that's it.

1432
02:06:37,540 --> 02:06:39,820
All right, thank you, council member Osmond.

1433
02:06:42,320 --> 02:06:46,020
Yes, thank you Chief, okay, no, you're on a big believer

1434
02:06:46,020 --> 02:06:47,440
in support of local policing.

1435
02:06:47,920 --> 02:06:50,080
The close to the police are, the community is better.

1436
02:06:50,600 --> 02:06:53,280
And so I appreciate your work in putting together

1437
02:06:53,280 --> 02:06:58,860
the advancements for the budget and support all of them. I do have a couple of

1438
02:06:58,860 --> 02:07:08,160
thoughts. The trailer for emergency preparedness, I've never quite understood when

1439
02:07:08,160 --> 02:07:13,540
the town first got that, why we had it and what's in it, but I believe in

1440
02:07:13,540 --> 02:07:17,980
emergency preparedness. So chiefly you said you're using equipment from that trailer

1441
02:07:17,980 --> 02:07:23,160
now. May I ask what specific equipment are you using from the trailer? There

1442
02:07:23,160 --> 02:07:28,380
There were several bloods, Tyvex soup, blankets, goggles.

1443
02:07:29,460 --> 02:07:35,180
We were able to put together equipment that a lot of police department was actually

1444
02:07:35,180 --> 02:07:40,100
waiting for Prince George's County to come up and replace or help them out.

1445
02:07:40,420 --> 02:07:46,500
So before we were waiting for the Prince George's County to supply us with some masks, we were

1446
02:07:46,500 --> 02:07:51,500
ever put together a package for all broadcasters for our co-personnel and

1447
02:07:51,500 --> 02:07:58,020
Burden Heights and some for the time manager and her personnel as well as some

1448
02:07:58,020 --> 02:08:04,580
other ally agency. As you know there's a lot of equipment in there that we can

1449
02:08:04,580 --> 02:08:11,780
use such as stretchers blankets first aid equipment so there was a lot of

1450
02:08:11,780 --> 02:08:16,140
useful equipment that we have taken from the trailer.

1451
02:08:17,600 --> 02:08:22,320
All right, that's good to know. Thank you, Chief. And so the replacement of that equipment

1452
02:08:22,320 --> 02:08:24,380
is that included in a bunch of announcements?

1453
02:08:26,780 --> 02:08:33,780
Actually, that would be with the neighborhood watch budget in itself that they're not

1454
02:08:33,780 --> 02:08:39,040
asking for any additional. But of course, they could use that budget that's there now

1455
02:08:39,040 --> 02:08:41,260
to replace what's been taken.

1456
02:08:42,360 --> 02:08:45,100
All right, and I think the idea of having it more tactical

1457
02:08:45,100 --> 02:08:47,760
small than with the lights to the generator as explained

1458
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:51,400
to us during the work session was very positive.

1459
02:08:51,720 --> 02:08:54,980
So thank you again for your budget.

1460
02:08:55,540 --> 02:08:56,780
I have nothing further.

1461
02:08:57,140 --> 02:08:58,120
I support it.

1462
02:08:59,200 --> 02:08:59,880
I yield.

1463
02:09:01,320 --> 02:09:02,280
Thank you so much.

1464
02:09:03,360 --> 02:09:06,560
And you know, I really have no additional comments.

1465
02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:19,660
I think Councilmember Duane kind of hit everything that I was going to say and ask, you know, just that I'm in full support of all of it, you know, including the trailer itself.

1466
02:09:19,980 --> 02:09:25,340
So at this point, I'm going to open up one final discussion before we go to email and phone.

1467
02:09:25,920 --> 02:09:30,800
Are there any additional discussion items or discussion from the council?

1468
02:09:34,090 --> 02:09:46,290
Seeing none, again, the phone number is 30147495703014749570, while people are dialing

1469
02:09:46,290 --> 02:09:49,430
if there are any, how's the member, do we, are there any emails?

1470
02:09:50,810 --> 02:09:52,270
Yes, we do have an email.

1471
02:09:52,790 --> 02:09:58,170
This is three questions from Jody Kulpa, Eddie Onrootans Street, so I'll just read all

1472
02:09:58,170 --> 02:10:01,650
three, so that way, whoever wants to take them, can take in whatever order.

1473
02:10:01,650 --> 02:10:07,210
The first question is just clarifying if the language pay is one time or an

1474
02:10:07,210 --> 02:10:13,990
increase annually. That personal salary. Second question is, the last time best

1475
02:10:13,990 --> 02:10:17,490
were purchased, she thought they were through a grant. She wanted to know if

1476
02:10:17,490 --> 02:10:22,190
that was still possible. And finally, that trailer replacement will come from the

1477
02:10:22,190 --> 02:10:27,030
reserve fund, correct. So just confirming that. So if anyone could take those.

1478
02:10:30,190 --> 02:10:37,730
I could take the language you could take the other, the language would be an add-on, not just a one-time deal.

1479
02:10:39,690 --> 02:10:47,570
It's a benefit. I think that would be something of grateful use to retention and approval.

1480
02:10:51,940 --> 02:11:00,400
As far as the escot, I can tell you undoubtedly that at the police department we look and we try to utilize any

1481
02:11:00,400 --> 02:11:07,560
in all grants that are available out there. Just recently I was able to obtain it

1482
02:11:07,560 --> 02:11:13,340
but ran through the jet recently for additional body cameras so we do look at

1483
02:11:13,340 --> 02:11:18,880
that unfortunately we do not as far as this purchase for the best we do not have

1484
02:11:18,880 --> 02:11:23,400
a grant right now that's not to say that something's not you know won't be

1485
02:11:23,400 --> 02:11:27,860
available in the future but unfortunately right now as far as I know there's no

1486
02:11:27,860 --> 02:11:34,540
so grants available at the moment from Vess in the trailer replacement.

1487
02:11:35,040 --> 02:11:37,080
I don't believe that was already answered.

1488
02:11:37,500 --> 02:11:43,320
I think that was paid for or will be paid for by funds that were already there.

1489
02:11:45,580 --> 02:11:53,400
When there's a valic grants out there, definitely we would go out there and try to utilize that.

1490
02:11:53,400 --> 02:12:04,960
I mean, you've got a grant to train Australophena in the academy, we've got grants for the body cameras, and what else have we got in grants for?

1491
02:12:06,440 --> 02:12:12,820
We have the Secret Service grant that we get yearly, we will be on the task force.

1492
02:12:12,820 --> 02:12:16,600
So we drive this to see any type of grants.

1493
02:12:18,960 --> 02:12:21,520
Right now, let's see if we can see.

1494
02:12:22,520 --> 02:12:23,140
Thank

1495
02:12:28,840 --> 02:12:29,320
you so much.

1496
02:12:29,640 --> 02:12:31,480
At this point, we will open the phone lines.

1497
02:12:33,920 --> 02:12:35,160
301474-9570.

1498
02:12:47,720 --> 02:12:48,960
301474-9570.

1499
02:12:55,660 --> 02:12:55,700
Okay.

1500
02:12:56,260 --> 02:13:02,560
Hearing none, at this point, we have finished with our budget presentations

1501
02:13:02,560 --> 02:13:06,600
And at this time, we will be taking a 10 minute break.

1502
02:13:06,800 --> 02:13:10,760
Right now, it is 11.14, or we're going to break about 11.15.

1503
02:13:12,360 --> 02:13:15,300
Let's come back at 11.25 during this time.

1504
02:13:15,500 --> 02:13:19,280
If you could mute yourself as well as turn off your video

1505
02:13:19,280 --> 02:13:23,180
at this time, but we will return at 11.25.

1506
02:24:06,320 --> 02:24:14,080
I'm just going to do a quick check-in to make sure everyone is present of Mayor Pro-10,

1507
02:24:14,200 --> 02:24:19,020
Papa Nicholas. We'll do a sound check real quick. Mayor Pro-10, can you hear me?

1508
02:24:22,550 --> 02:24:22,910
Council

1509
02:24:22,910 --> 02:24:29,650
members, sweet. Looks like he's. I'm here. Wonderful. Thank you. Council Member Dewey.

1510
02:24:32,200 --> 02:24:37,760
Council Member Osmond. Here. Okay. And then we have the town manager brought that.

1511
02:24:40,260 --> 02:24:45,160
All right, and everyone else, welcome back. Thank you so much for being prompt with us.

1512
02:24:46,040 --> 02:24:54,980
Next up, we are at our budget summary. So right now, we're on the FY21 budget spreadsheet

1513
02:24:54,980 --> 02:24:59,740
as well as the proposed budget and the PowerPoint itself.

1514
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:05,380
So I'm going to turn this over to Town Manager Bruffett, who will give us additional information.

1515
02:25:06,020 --> 02:25:06,760
Thank you.

1516
02:25:07,100 --> 02:25:09,720
Clerk Harper, if you could put up the PowerPoint presentation.

1517
02:25:17,920 --> 02:25:18,160
Okay.

1518
02:25:18,600 --> 02:25:21,060
And this time, I want to make sure that

1519
02:25:21,880 --> 02:25:24,560
Treasure Rodriguez is with us.

1520
02:25:27,130 --> 02:25:27,770
He's in here.

1521
02:25:28,450 --> 02:25:28,730
Alrighty.

1522
02:25:29,630 --> 02:25:30,030
Okay.

1523
02:25:34,270 --> 02:25:35,530
A little bit of

1524
02:25:38,180 --> 02:25:42,720
recap of my experience here

1525
02:25:42,720 --> 02:25:52,610
the last year and a half or so when I started, you know, Michelle

1526
02:25:52,610 --> 02:25:55,510
I wasn't really working on building the budget.

1527
02:25:56,010 --> 02:25:59,190
It wasn't expected of her.

1528
02:26:00,470 --> 02:26:03,830
And I really want to acknowledge the heavy lifting

1529
02:26:03,830 --> 02:26:08,170
that Michelle has done not only just

1530
02:26:08,170 --> 02:26:11,770
to learn this process to put up with me,

1531
02:26:12,990 --> 02:26:19,430
but also to really make it so that these slides are

1532
02:26:19,430 --> 02:26:22,510
or something that everybody can see.

1533
02:26:23,170 --> 02:26:25,530
And we've got comparisons from one year, the other,

1534
02:26:25,710 --> 02:26:28,150
and some history and some sort of background.

1535
02:26:28,710 --> 02:26:30,530
I mean, there are a lot of things in sort of the purchasing

1536
02:26:30,530 --> 02:26:31,010
world.

1537
02:26:31,770 --> 02:26:33,390
We would kind of do it organically.

1538
02:26:34,710 --> 02:26:37,690
Now we had much more of a connection

1539
02:26:37,690 --> 02:26:40,730
between how people are spending money

1540
02:26:40,730 --> 02:26:42,350
and the budget that was approved.

1541
02:26:43,210 --> 02:26:45,030
We have more work to do on the front.

1542
02:26:45,030 --> 02:26:55,030
And you can work on your fiscal policies and processes for your entire life and never have

1543
02:26:55,030 --> 02:26:56,350
them be just what you want.

1544
02:26:56,850 --> 02:27:02,870
So there's always a lot of work to do, but we've, you know, a little bit of tweaks here

1545
02:27:02,870 --> 02:27:03,090
now.

1546
02:27:03,090 --> 02:27:04,230
We've had clean audits.

1547
02:27:04,770 --> 02:27:06,750
But I really want to say thank you, Michelle.

1548
02:27:07,630 --> 02:27:14,310
She and I were sent stuff back towards each other as late as 9 o'clock or 9'30 last

1549
02:27:14,310 --> 02:27:22,490
so we built a budget and then we toured part and we built it over again when all

1550
02:27:22,490 --> 02:27:28,650
those virus business started coming along. With that said, I'm going to go

1551
02:27:28,650 --> 02:27:37,470
through these slides and talk to you a little bit about our fall process and I'm

1552
02:27:37,470 --> 02:27:42,570
gonna ask that Michelle if you have something that you want to comment on or

1553
02:27:42,570 --> 02:27:49,530
something that we discussed and I just missed it, you know, jump in. So start with the first

1554
02:27:49,530 --> 02:28:00,770
slide, first of 13 here, just to give you a visual of the change in the revenue. Our

1555
02:28:01,090 --> 02:28:09,150
revenue for the general funds is going up by $60,000. Some of that is the increased property

1556
02:28:09,150 --> 02:28:19,890
evaluation, we do a constant yield budget here, so no real changes there, the increase.

1557
02:28:21,650 --> 02:28:28,330
And also, we'll say the smaller your town is, and the smaller your budget is, the more

1558
02:28:28,330 --> 02:28:30,290
any change makes a huge difference.

1559
02:28:31,070 --> 02:28:36,730
Whether it be a staff, if I'd only have one of somebody that does something really special,

1560
02:28:36,730 --> 02:28:40,010
So, if I work in a much bigger community, I might have five of those.

1561
02:28:41,010 --> 02:28:43,910
And I might be able to spare one and only have four.

1562
02:28:44,430 --> 02:28:47,550
Here, if you've only got one, you know, everything that everybody does,

1563
02:28:48,030 --> 02:28:53,570
and everything that we put in this budget, we look at it from zero-based,

1564
02:28:54,250 --> 02:28:58,830
meaning we look at it from starting from zero dollars.

1565
02:28:59,250 --> 02:29:03,450
What does it cost to provide the service that you,

1566
02:29:03,450 --> 02:29:11,690
One, we have to provide, one you want to provide, and one, you know, we'd love to if you could.

1567
02:29:12,190 --> 02:29:15,710
So we start from zero, and that's how we go with this budget.

1568
02:29:16,390 --> 02:29:28,170
And then we went back again over the last week and got really pussy and really prudent, and we reduced it more than you're,

1569
02:29:29,070 --> 02:29:30,810
than what you're seeing for the first time.

1570
02:29:31,470 --> 02:29:32,250
All right, next slide, please.

1571
02:29:36,510 --> 02:29:41,150
Okay, so here is your, the highlights for the spending.

1572
02:29:42,530 --> 02:29:49,510
We have kept it, you know, as close as we could.

1573
02:29:50,150 --> 02:29:55,290
So there's a $273,000 increase, and this is operating in capital.

1574
02:29:56,310 --> 02:29:58,490
Change of increases 7%.

1575
02:29:59,230 --> 02:29:59,630
Okay.

1576
02:29:59,630 --> 02:29:59,770
Okay.

1577
02:30:03,340 --> 02:30:30,340
This is a source of your funds. They don't change that much. We get some grants here and there, but the grants do not cover your operating expenses. During the course of this coming fiscal year, we will add a policy where anything that is comes in, we rent money.

1578
02:30:30,340 --> 02:30:37,040
actually have to be account for the budget and appropriate. Right now you've got grant funds

1579
02:30:37,040 --> 02:30:44,400
that come in and then you spend the grant funds to do the project but those funds should

1580
02:30:44,400 --> 02:30:52,080
follow through every part of your portfolio and your audit. So for example, we got $62,000

1581
02:30:52,080 --> 02:30:58,960
proof. There should be a process where you approve that as a member to your budget because

1582
02:30:58,960 --> 02:31:02,400
because you just increased your capital budget and your operating budget, which everyone

1583
02:31:02,400 --> 02:31:08,700
case may be, you need to improve that that is now part of your budget. So it's a,

1584
02:31:10,500 --> 02:31:16,180
most people just feel like a paperwork exercise, but it makes your audit a lot cleaner, because

1585
02:31:16,180 --> 02:31:21,480
the money's coming in and the money's going out, it should come through your operating

1586
02:31:21,480 --> 02:31:29,800
and capital. So that source of revenue is not listed here because that's not the way

1587
02:31:30,250 --> 02:31:36,440
your budget has been operating for the last 20 years. But you're going to start to see

1588
02:31:36,440 --> 02:31:42,520
us put some policies in place to get that one up to speak to. All right, next slide please.

1589
02:31:44,900 --> 02:31:50,380
All right, so here's your real estate taxes which is the lion share of the money that you're coming in.

1590
02:31:51,300 --> 02:31:58,880
You can see there is almost a $90,000 increase and that's a nice place to live, the

1591
02:31:58,880 --> 02:31:59,620
property is valuable.

1592
02:32:00,160 --> 02:32:00,560
There you go.

1593
02:32:01,380 --> 02:32:09,080
The percentage of what we get in through taxes is restricted specifically to road repairs,

1594
02:32:09,380 --> 02:32:14,800
road repairs include current better and whatever needs to be done associated with that road

1595
02:32:14,800 --> 02:32:21,860
So, when we go through and we look at funding, you know, part of, sort of, mental exercise

1596
02:32:21,860 --> 02:32:25,080
when we go through is the difference between restricted and unrestricted costs.

1597
02:32:25,740 --> 02:32:29,880
So, you have a certain part of your budget that, through taxes, it comes to you that it's

1598
02:32:29,880 --> 02:32:31,940
restricted to road rate repair.

1599
02:32:32,400 --> 02:32:36,500
You cannot, for any reason, use that money for anything other than what it's that's paid

1600
02:32:36,500 --> 02:32:36,820
for.

1601
02:32:37,280 --> 02:32:43,420
As you do a cash flow, okay, well, you can, because it's in the same bank account, sort

1602
02:32:43,420 --> 02:32:50,380
But when it comes down to what your decision-making process is, you can't decide to use road

1603
02:32:50,380 --> 02:32:53,760
rate repair money to pay something's out.

1604
02:32:55,180 --> 02:33:04,080
So those are the changes, $89,000, which you know in our budget is, you know, a good piece

1605
02:33:04,080 --> 02:33:04,360
of money.

1606
02:33:04,880 --> 02:33:05,620
Next slide please.

1607
02:33:08,870 --> 02:33:17,170
First of all, property tax, both of the uses of that, the restricting and non-restricted,

1608
02:33:17,170 --> 02:33:18,430
there's no change.

1609
02:33:19,010 --> 02:33:26,570
There's no change in that $220,000, $12,300, $20, exactly the same as last year, next

1610
02:33:26,570 --> 02:33:27,110
slide please.

1611
02:33:31,500 --> 02:33:34,660
These two, also, no change.

1612
02:33:35,800 --> 02:33:41,940
So income tax and your refuse and recycling fee, as you recall, we increase the refuse and

1613
02:33:41,940 --> 02:33:49,640
cycling fee a little bit last year. It is still not to the point where it covers your whole

1614
02:33:49,640 --> 02:33:55,000
roughies operation. You know, and that's something in the future you may want to consider.

1615
02:33:55,700 --> 02:34:01,500
Know that, you know, however you decide to finance it, you'll always have those base costs, so

1616
02:34:02,900 --> 02:34:10,460
you know, it doesn't make it so that you can change a whole lot in terms of what an individual person

1617
02:34:10,460 --> 02:34:18,080
So, you know, you always have some UV options that are actually probably more fair, so that

1618
02:34:18,080 --> 02:34:25,120
people that recycle paper may less, and that sort of thing, but right now, I think you

1619
02:34:25,740 --> 02:34:31,880
got a little bit more realistic, but you're still really far off as refugees and recycling

1620
02:34:31,880 --> 02:34:36,680
doesn't come close to paying for what that operation costs.

1621
02:34:37,540 --> 02:34:38,700
So that's the next slide, please.

1622
02:34:41,700 --> 02:34:42,640
License of permits.

1623
02:34:44,040 --> 02:34:46,920
Thanks for the hard work of Hollis Center staff.

1624
02:34:47,600 --> 02:34:53,860
You have caught up with some rentals that were operating

1625
02:34:54,520 --> 02:34:55,700
without licenses before.

1626
02:34:56,920 --> 02:34:59,240
Changes in some things in your town.

1627
02:34:59,520 --> 02:35:02,440
You've got more rental licenses than you had before.

1628
02:35:02,440 --> 02:35:06,520
We've got 18 new licenses, so that increases out a little bit.

1629
02:35:08,120 --> 02:35:12,260
The disposal rebate fee that has changed.

1630
02:35:13,040 --> 02:35:16,320
So not all, a lot of change in revenue there.

1631
02:35:16,720 --> 02:35:17,540
Go ahead and next slide.

1632
02:35:20,490 --> 02:35:21,250
Peace and fines.

1633
02:35:23,030 --> 02:35:27,170
The interesting thing about the fines going down is,

1634
02:35:27,290 --> 02:35:31,570
it's really just another one of those reality checks with the budget.

1635
02:35:31,570 --> 02:35:38,410
It certainly was no one's intention, but, you know, good work,

1636
02:35:39,210 --> 02:35:44,030
done by Michelle and auditors and figured out that $20,000

1637
02:35:44,030 --> 02:35:48,690
was actually being, that from the speed camera was actually being put

1638
02:35:48,690 --> 02:35:50,530
in as revenue twice in the past.

1639
02:35:51,270 --> 02:35:54,830
So part of it, if your budget changed this year, $20,000

1640
02:35:55,090 --> 02:35:58,650
was fixing that, was fixing that.

1641
02:35:58,650 --> 02:36:03,610
So somewhere along the line, it was being put in as revenue in two places.

1642
02:36:04,510 --> 02:36:08,430
So this is just tighten that screw and get on the poster.

1643
02:36:08,430 --> 02:36:09,490
It was realistic.

1644
02:36:10,170 --> 02:36:10,690
Is that right, Michelle?

1645
02:36:10,850 --> 02:36:11,330
Does that make sense?

1646
02:36:12,470 --> 02:36:12,770
Thank you.

1647
02:36:14,210 --> 02:36:15,970
It's just doing it all on you.

1648
02:36:16,110 --> 02:36:16,370
Good view.

1649
02:36:16,950 --> 02:36:17,130
All right.

1650
02:36:18,830 --> 02:36:19,630
Miscellaneous stuff.

1651
02:36:20,050 --> 02:36:20,570
Miscellaneous, correct.

1652
02:36:21,750 --> 02:36:22,210
Thank you.

1653
02:36:22,630 --> 02:36:26,670
So in miscellaneous, we actually went down a little bit.

1654
02:36:26,670 --> 02:36:35,650
the last payment that comes to the town for the town's impact fee as you were

1655
02:36:35,650 --> 02:36:43,110
or the Cranball Station projects that has already come in so that shows to you

1656
02:36:43,110 --> 02:36:49,130
on the revenue side as $23,000 less than a prior year. Next slide.

1657
02:36:54,250 --> 02:36:55,990
Please aid that

1658
02:36:55,990 --> 02:37:04,450
That number doesn't come in in time for us to have the most up-to-faite number as far

1659
02:37:04,450 --> 02:37:12,070
as your budget goes, so we have opted to just leave that as they say, and we'll just accordingly.

1660
02:37:13,050 --> 02:37:21,410
Highway user revenue, you know, I got a little bit more change from that this year, it was $7,300

1661
02:37:21,410 --> 02:37:27,990
$100 and a paid and program might buy a manhole cover, but you know we'll take it so highway

1662
02:37:27,990 --> 02:37:35,350
easier fees. We dedicate those funds towards your road work including the current

1663
02:37:35,350 --> 02:37:39,470
gutter and everything associated with repair that road. Next slide.

1664
02:37:43,710 --> 02:37:51,350
Here are your budget enhancements that your staff just went over with you. Just put them

1665
02:37:51,350 --> 02:37:57,390
All down on paper, so you can have a look, understand that this is a total list.

1666
02:37:57,570 --> 02:38:05,850
Some of this money's already there because it's restricted funds, collected for a specific

1667
02:38:05,850 --> 02:38:10,570
purpose, vehicle replacement, being a big one.

1668
02:38:11,890 --> 02:38:13,450
Go ahead, next slide.

1669
02:38:17,560 --> 02:38:19,240
Public safety tax in district.

1670
02:38:19,980 --> 02:38:21,800
No huge changes there.

1671
02:38:22,480 --> 02:38:30,400
those are restricted funds, you know, we always have a discussion of how we put certain things

1672
02:38:30,400 --> 02:38:38,540
under that program but it's set up as a specific fund or a specific purpose, $2,000 change in

1673
02:38:38,540 --> 02:38:42,620
that program is not a big deal. Okay, next slide.

1674
02:38:46,360 --> 02:38:49,140
All right, so that sort of takes you through all the

1675
02:38:49,140 --> 02:39:08,460
The budget changes and well the enhancement service staff, you kind of went over a little bit of what the health insurance changes and how good part of that is going to be absorbed by some offsets that are going to come from staff.

1676
02:39:10,080 --> 02:39:19,000
You know one of the biggest sort of stock prices that the staff is taking is going from a 2% merit increase.

1677
02:39:19,000 --> 02:39:30,100
to 1% and it was a hard decision but that was probably the best way to offset that.

1678
02:39:31,200 --> 02:39:43,180
I don't know that we did a slide for it but I want to point out to you that one of the biggest things that we had talked about

1679
02:39:43,180 --> 02:39:48,880
We've got the course of the work sessions and over the course of last year with the use of fund balance

1680
02:39:49,940 --> 02:39:54,600
Fund balance and sometimes it's called free cash and the amount of money that you have left over

1681
02:39:54,600 --> 02:40:00,060
From one fiscal year and put it in the bank and you keep it there

1682
02:40:01,060 --> 02:40:09,620
To be used for rainy days water balance, you know as you've been doing here and balance the budget from the previous year

1683
02:40:10,980 --> 02:40:12,280
This year we

1684
02:40:13,180 --> 02:40:20,600
reduce the amount of money that you're using to balance the budget by almost 30%

1685
02:40:20,600 --> 02:40:29,120
it's the total is 57,977 people individually want to go look at the spreadsheet that was

1686
02:40:29,120 --> 02:40:34,340
implanted to be up to the spreadsheet as far as the presentation but we reduced it from

1687
02:40:34,340 --> 02:40:43,080
you know last year we spent $277,000 out of fund balance this year we reduced that

1688
02:40:43,080 --> 02:40:51,240
a $149 that. So we significantly reduced the amount of money that you're using to balance

1689
02:40:51,240 --> 02:40:59,940
the budget because you made a, well, twofold. One, you know, we kept the cost down to

1690
02:40:59,940 --> 02:41:07,180
bare minimum. And the other is that you did a reality check with the budget last year and

1691
02:41:07,180 --> 02:41:13,320
And you really looked at how we were actually spending the money that was in your budget.

1692
02:41:14,060 --> 02:41:15,640
We'll continue to do that.

1693
02:41:16,300 --> 02:41:20,000
There have been some cases where we've come back to you and said, okay, well, we have some

1694
02:41:20,000 --> 02:41:27,920
slack and salaries, and we'd like to use that to get the building made and stuff done.

1695
02:41:28,720 --> 02:41:34,900
We have made some changes around in the pro forma, the spreadsheet that you're going to see

1696
02:41:36,140 --> 02:41:44,980
more for tracking purposes. We have made a separate line item for the elevator just so that you could

1697
02:41:44,980 --> 02:41:51,520
specifically see how much money is going to enter the repairs and cost for that elevator.

1698
02:41:52,360 --> 02:42:03,020
It's a ticking time bomb that will need to be dealt with at some point. We may want to, you know,

1699
02:42:03,020 --> 02:42:06,680
We tried to look at it, see, maybe a Honda would work,

1700
02:42:06,820 --> 02:42:07,900
but obviously that didn't happen.

1701
02:42:08,700 --> 02:42:14,760
But you may want to look at it, and this isn't the year

1702
02:42:14,760 --> 02:42:15,920
start of a lot of new stuff.

1703
02:42:16,100 --> 02:42:17,940
But you may want to look at it next year,

1704
02:42:19,720 --> 02:42:24,260
and maybe you may either look at some other financing

1705
02:42:24,260 --> 02:42:27,320
or pay for it over time, but we weren't going to have

1706
02:42:27,320 --> 02:42:29,980
to do that out later one way or the other.

1707
02:42:29,980 --> 02:42:37,300
So, we have given the elevator, almost like we need to do that elevator name or something.

1708
02:42:38,000 --> 02:42:42,860
We've given that elevator its own separate line on them so that you can follow.

1709
02:42:43,520 --> 02:42:53,460
The other thing that you're going to find is that we propose you to start a vehicle replacement fund for police vehicles.

1710
02:42:53,460 --> 02:42:58,600
and what we've done and it's included in this budget is we've taken the

1711
02:42:58,600 --> 02:43:03,760
vehicles that you bought in this current fiscal year, this year 20 and just

1712
02:43:03,760 --> 02:43:11,160
the year 21 and started it from there. So figure out how many years those, I'm

1713
02:43:11,160 --> 02:43:19,140
giving you seven, seven, seven years, so each year, starting, you know, your

1714
02:43:19,140 --> 02:43:34,940
proposed year, as you add new police vehicles, you know, some money will be, it'll take you a while to catch up, but at least you're doing it without, you know, really significant expense.

1715
02:43:35,980 --> 02:43:45,950
So, that sort of where we are with the budget, I do have one more really short PowerPoint

1716
02:43:45,950 --> 02:43:49,830
show, but I wanted to talk a little bit about the schedule first.

1717
02:43:50,530 --> 02:43:55,890
As you know, you normally publish your budget in the April bulletin.

1718
02:43:57,790 --> 02:44:06,230
It was my decision, but I didn't think with everything that was going on that we were ready

1719
02:44:06,230 --> 02:44:16,010
so it is not in people's hold and as they normally have expected it, the code is not required to be published there, it requires it to be published.

1720
02:44:16,910 --> 02:44:25,590
So it is not in April, because we just weren't ready, this budget, Michelle's been not ahead with it.

1721
02:44:25,950 --> 02:44:30,330
This budget looked a lot different two weeks ago than it looks today.

1722
02:44:31,310 --> 02:44:34,990
It's not a behavioral one, but it will be, isn't it?

1723
02:44:35,330 --> 02:44:40,690
Yeah, it will be in future years when we get back to whatever the new normal is.

1724
02:44:41,210 --> 02:44:43,590
But we are planning to put it in the main one.

1725
02:44:44,030 --> 02:44:51,390
If we've gone ahead and published it, at the time that it needed to go, it wasn't wrong.

1726
02:44:51,850 --> 02:44:53,470
It wouldn't have been more you looking at today.

1727
02:44:53,470 --> 02:44:59,970
So, I made that decision to pull a plug on that until Michelle and I were...

1728
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:29,460
Comfortable with what we're giving you. You have, as you normally have, you have two budget hearings coming up. One, at introduction. And one of your, your adoption date will make 13. We will be pretty good at this Zoom thing by then, because that's how it's going to be. There definitely no public meetings of more than 10 people.

1729
02:45:29,460 --> 02:45:37,240
before May 15th and, you know, don't hold me back and see how long that's going to last.

1730
02:45:38,040 --> 02:45:40,380
But the schedule is up there for you to see.

1731
02:45:41,060 --> 02:45:43,380
The mayor is holding the record open.

1732
02:45:43,840 --> 02:45:51,860
So between now and May 13th, residents have the option to contact their council members,

1733
02:45:52,180 --> 02:45:57,360
either, you know, through their emails or through the town

1734
02:45:58,120 --> 02:46:04,060
to give us your opinion and let us know what they think.

1735
02:46:04,820 --> 02:46:11,400
And as we go along, again, I and Michelle put this budget together,

1736
02:46:11,580 --> 02:46:13,920
so it's really proposed as a town manager's budget.

1737
02:46:14,420 --> 02:46:18,920
But it is the policy of the council,

1738
02:46:19,300 --> 02:46:22,680
and it is the council's option to direct changes

1739
02:46:23,360 --> 02:46:25,160
and won't do what we're told.

1740
02:46:25,940 --> 02:46:30,340
However, a lot of things that just can't be cut, I'm going to let you know.

1741
02:46:31,320 --> 02:46:37,760
I want to, with that, we had put together three slides that talked a little bit about

1742
02:46:37,760 --> 02:46:42,960
our budget and savings position and person if you can switch to that one.

1743
02:46:44,240 --> 02:46:44,620
I'm not.

1744
02:46:51,300 --> 02:46:52,280
It's not really a thing.

1745
02:46:53,020 --> 02:46:53,480
Right.

1746
02:46:54,000 --> 02:47:00,880
I was unable to put that up with all the preparations this morning, so we do not have that

1747
02:47:00,880 --> 02:47:06,640
I can try to get it up in five minutes, and we can maybe take a break if you want to discuss it.

1748
02:47:06,700 --> 02:47:09,500
No, that's fine. Let me just discuss it.

1749
02:47:13,700 --> 02:47:18,140
After the tax, so that people can go back and look at it,

1750
02:47:18,620 --> 02:47:23,880
we'll go ahead and email it to, I should show you, go ahead and email it to the council.

1751
02:47:25,180 --> 02:47:34,680
So, as I've done in the past, what I wanted to just sort of do for you is tell you where

1752
02:47:34,680 --> 02:47:42,620
we are in terms of our fund balance and the money in the account and where I think

1753
02:47:42,620 --> 02:47:51,880
our position is, as far as going forward, Michelle, one of the most of our payments come

1754
02:47:51,880 --> 02:47:54,300
and follow to the county for taxes.

1755
02:47:55,680 --> 02:48:04,440
From real estate taxes or the biggest portion of the money comes around September but

1756
02:48:04,440 --> 02:48:05,340
more in October.

1757
02:48:06,140 --> 02:48:17,880
So if we're a federal budget and to my mind we need to be prepared to make it through

1758
02:48:17,880 --> 02:48:26,140
to September or October to make sure that the money that we anticipate coming in actually

1759
02:48:26,140 --> 02:48:31,340
comes in, then we need to know that we have enough money in the bank to get there.

1760
02:48:31,940 --> 02:48:37,460
And we have to do that on a normal basis, but this year, looking at it, I mean, people

1761
02:48:37,460 --> 02:48:44,940
are, you know, especially small business people, you know, I have a lot of people in that category

1762
02:48:44,940 --> 02:48:52,280
that mean a lot to me and they're really hurt right now you know we're all hurt for them if they

1763
02:48:52,280 --> 02:49:01,140
can't pay their taxes we don't have that revenue so that's why we really didn't propose up a

1764
02:49:01,140 --> 02:49:08,320
lot to you that's new this year but we we wouldn't be in a better position to know in October whether

1765
02:49:08,930 --> 02:49:14,360
some of the things that are sort of tangible items that we can give to us enhancements should

1766
02:49:14,360 --> 02:49:20,320
realistic we go forward or not because you know you're going to prove a budget but the money just

1767
02:49:20,320 --> 02:49:30,540
doesn't come in the money's not in the back. So we look at having monthly expenses about $225,000

1768
02:49:30,540 --> 02:49:39,900
So with that, you know, to get through, um, is this two months of temporary have here?

1769
02:49:40,180 --> 02:49:40,360
Yes.

1770
02:49:40,600 --> 02:49:44,880
To the end of September?

1771
02:49:45,360 --> 02:49:45,640
Yes.

1772
02:49:46,180 --> 02:49:46,320
Yes.

1773
02:49:46,540 --> 02:49:49,700
So to the end of September, it's about $1.5 million.

1774
02:49:52,360 --> 02:49:54,080
Um, am I saying that right?

1775
02:49:55,260 --> 02:49:55,820
Sure.

1776
02:49:56,760 --> 02:49:56,900
Okay.

1777
02:49:59,100 --> 02:50:05,960
So then you know we have to make sure that or we have that much that we need and then

1778
02:50:05,960 --> 02:50:14,560
if we took that out of what we have and we've got 2.3 million right now in the back.

1779
02:50:15,480 --> 02:50:22,020
So after we take into account what we need to get through the month of September we've

1780
02:50:22,020 --> 02:50:26,200
about $800,000 uncommitted.

1781
02:50:26,720 --> 02:50:31,720
So you're actually in a pretty good fiscal situation,

1782
02:50:32,320 --> 02:50:36,020
provided the air clears sometimes in October.

1783
02:50:37,440 --> 02:50:52,000
You're only taking from that $800,000 that isn't committed

1784
02:50:52,960 --> 02:50:57,740
to balance the budget using a free cash or fund balance.

1785
02:50:58,380 --> 02:51:01,260
So that's sort of how our decision-making process was.

1786
02:51:01,860 --> 02:51:04,780
You know, we know we need to get through the month of October,

1787
02:51:05,740 --> 02:51:10,460
but we're holding our breath on some of the expenses

1788
02:51:10,460 --> 02:51:15,360
to see that people could do what they need to do.

1789
02:51:15,660 --> 02:51:21,780
I think it moves us to sort of keep our eyes on

1790
02:51:21,780 --> 02:51:30,900
how things go. We give you a monthly status of the finances every month and pay attention to

1791
02:51:30,900 --> 02:51:36,180
where those numbers are, because trust me, you know, we've loosely go over stuff like this,

1792
02:51:36,440 --> 02:51:41,700
and you know, what you got an eye on. Especially this week. Especially this week. Yes, we've also

1793
02:51:44,360 --> 02:51:48,560
Any questions for me, anything that you think I've done the same thing, Michelle?

1794
02:51:49,780 --> 02:51:51,100
No, I think you're doing great.

1795
02:51:52,080 --> 02:51:56,580
I just want to comment, even though there are several projects that are on this project,

1796
02:51:57,120 --> 02:51:59,180
none of this is really all happening to lie one.

1797
02:52:00,440 --> 02:52:05,080
So, uncertainty is there of what's going to go on and lift this virus and everything going on.

1798
02:52:05,480 --> 02:52:06,680
You know, when are we going to be getting taxes?

1799
02:52:07,100 --> 02:52:09,820
Of course, income taxes are coming late because we have a later duty.

1800
02:52:09,820 --> 02:52:12,720
But not necessarily everything's happened throughout the one.

1801
02:52:13,220 --> 02:52:16,180
So as many of the costs in the projects that we have,

1802
02:52:16,380 --> 02:52:18,580
that we can refer to having late arm in here,

1803
02:52:18,900 --> 02:52:20,080
we're definitely going to be doing that.

1804
02:52:21,440 --> 02:52:23,880
And I think we've been doing that for the long run.

1805
02:52:24,180 --> 02:52:25,840
Not only this year because we have the pandemic,

1806
02:52:26,360 --> 02:52:28,020
but even during fiscal 20.

1807
02:52:28,480 --> 02:52:31,180
We've been monitoring the projects, checking to see if it's okay.

1808
02:52:31,800 --> 02:52:33,360
I remember the beginning of this fiscal year,

1809
02:52:33,420 --> 02:52:34,080
Director Hall.

1810
02:52:34,300 --> 02:52:35,980
He said, Michelle, can it start from a straight project?

1811
02:52:36,300 --> 02:52:36,840
No, you can't.

1812
02:52:36,840 --> 02:52:41,980
Ten is the money coming. No, it hasn't. And when they've started on the came in, I said, okay, we got the money

1813
02:52:41,980 --> 02:52:48,180
You could do your project. He's like, all right, I'll do it. You know, it's something that we are always constantly monitoring our project

1814
02:52:49,040 --> 02:52:52,580
Yeah, you're a proof of the budget doesn't doesn't grow money on trees

1815
02:52:53,620 --> 02:52:54,940
We we approved

1816
02:52:55,620 --> 02:52:58,340
Project to be paid for about out of the road fund

1817
02:52:59,100 --> 02:53:01,320
And the money that comes from highway user

1818
02:53:01,860 --> 02:53:06,760
I don't pull the trigger on that project and lay some of that contract until the money's in the back.

1819
02:53:07,880 --> 02:53:09,120
Because who knows?

1820
02:53:11,020 --> 02:53:14,740
My personal opinion is that government movement is doing a fantastic job.

1821
02:53:15,320 --> 02:53:19,140
The general assembly could go back and say, oh my god, we need to look at some of them differently

1822
02:53:19,140 --> 02:53:26,020
and change their mind on some of the money that they put forward and approved.

1823
02:53:26,020 --> 02:53:30,460
because they're wanting their approval that exists so that one isn't in their

1824
02:53:30,460 --> 02:53:37,020
bank so I think we're all sort of all kids in Needles to see what's that

1825
02:53:37,020 --> 02:53:43,620
happening. So thank you man. Thank you so much and before we open the

1826
02:53:43,620 --> 02:53:50,500
discussion I just want to echo town manager broadvents thank you to Michelle I

1827
02:53:50,500 --> 02:53:57,600
I know, you know, this is, you know, a budget is a working document, but whenever something

1828
02:53:57,600 --> 02:54:02,240
like this, the pandemic that we never thought was really going to get as bad as it did, and

1829
02:54:02,240 --> 02:54:07,500
the fact that you're spending countless hours with Town Manager Broadvin as well to get

1830
02:54:07,500 --> 02:54:13,880
this done, you know, we can't say anything more than kudos and thank you both to you and

1831
02:54:13,880 --> 02:54:19,540
Town Manager Broadvin, because I know you guys are really, really, really working countless

1832
02:54:19,540 --> 02:54:25,280
hours to get something to us that made sense, while even really focused in

1833
02:54:25,280 --> 02:54:29,720
considering the residents and the employees of the town. So thank you so much

1834
02:54:29,720 --> 02:54:34,420
to both of you for all of your hard work with this as well. Thank you Mr. Mayor.

1835
02:54:34,700 --> 02:54:37,180
I will add that Michelle was supposed to be on the cruise.

1836
02:54:39,550 --> 02:54:40,670
I got canceled last

1837
02:54:40,670 --> 02:54:46,050
minute. I was supposed to be enjoying the sun but there's been having so

1838
02:54:47,350 --> 02:54:49,950
Well, don't worry, we have Sun coming up one Sunday.

1839
02:54:51,980 --> 02:54:52,680
Thank you, man.

1840
02:54:53,120 --> 02:54:53,480
Thank you.

1841
02:54:53,980 --> 02:54:57,260
So with that, I'm going to open up the discussion to the council.

1842
02:54:57,260 --> 02:54:59,020
We'll start with Mayor Progett, Bob and Nicholas.

1843
02:55:00,980 --> 02:55:01,540
All right.

1844
02:55:04,400 --> 02:55:05,720
That was a good, good overview.

1845
02:55:07,600 --> 02:55:08,780
I really enjoyed it.

1846
02:55:09,460 --> 02:55:14,460
I'll be honest, the thing that keeps me up at night will be losing something like the highway user revenue,

1847
02:55:14,460 --> 02:55:21,740
which I know our general assembly tends to read like a little income bank, which would

1848
02:55:21,740 --> 02:55:30,770
obviously impact some of our road projects, but we have enough reserve there in case that

1849
02:55:30,770 --> 02:55:31,210
happens.

1850
02:55:31,210 --> 02:55:36,390
Would you say you want to, do you want to recall how much money is in that account?

1851
02:55:37,790 --> 02:55:39,930
In the infrastructure reserve account?

1852
02:55:40,410 --> 02:55:42,410
The one specific for road work.

1853
02:55:45,290 --> 02:55:46,690
I can't, but it's over 500.

1854
02:55:47,410 --> 02:55:49,750
Okay, so the answer is yes.

1855
02:55:50,590 --> 02:55:50,890
Okay.

1856
02:55:51,190 --> 02:55:52,350
We certainly could.

1857
02:55:52,950 --> 02:55:54,290
But that's not our preference obviously.

1858
02:55:54,950 --> 02:56:04,030
Yeah, and if we decided to do that, we will be calling back to you

1859
02:56:04,030 --> 02:56:10,970
because you not only improve the amount of funding, but you know, appropriation.

1860
02:56:11,450 --> 02:56:11,810
Right, right.

1861
02:56:11,970 --> 02:56:16,950
The tax you never had in appropriation was never part of your approval.

1862
02:56:17,190 --> 02:56:19,650
Board appropriation was never in your budget ordinance.

1863
02:56:20,550 --> 02:56:20,750
No.

1864
02:56:21,450 --> 02:56:21,690
Yeah.

1865
02:56:22,270 --> 02:56:26,070
So the source of funds is as important as how much.

1866
02:56:26,670 --> 02:56:26,910
All right.

1867
02:56:28,110 --> 02:56:29,850
Couple of quick questions.

1868
02:56:30,770 --> 02:56:37,530
Just doing back-to-the-on-world math as we have, after we take out what we use to balance

1869
02:56:37,530 --> 02:56:42,810
operating, the operating money that we took to balance the budget and the fund balance.

1870
02:56:43,290 --> 02:56:48,910
I think it'll be like $6.60. That's called $2.5 months. Can we foresee getting in the way

1871
02:56:48,910 --> 02:56:49,670
that long?

1872
02:56:54,290 --> 02:57:03,050
I don't think that was the right answer, I have a different child right now, no one knows

1873
02:57:03,050 --> 02:57:03,550
that answer.

1874
02:57:04,830 --> 02:57:12,510
I will tell you, for what it's worth, I am the Secretary for Maryland International

1875
02:57:12,510 --> 02:57:18,130
City County Management Association and those of us who are on that board are a constant

1876
02:57:18,130 --> 02:57:23,170
of communication, and those of us that are the town managers for North American

1877
02:57:23,170 --> 02:57:29,650
Georgia's County, we are in multiple times a day conversation about what

1878
02:57:29,650 --> 02:57:37,470
each of us are doing and decision-making process and that sort of thing. So we're

1879
02:57:37,470 --> 02:57:43,710
we're all working together to figure this out, you know, I've always been for

1880
02:57:43,710 --> 02:57:53,250
working with this, but yeah if I knew that answer, you'd know it already. Okay. So a couple

1881
02:57:53,250 --> 02:58:00,590
of other questions that I had, I was looking over the spreadsheet and I noticed, and I know

1882
02:58:00,590 --> 02:58:05,350
this question comes up and will come up so more I can anticipate it better off, I think.

1883
02:58:07,530 --> 02:58:14,150
Why does our income tax number never go up? I know the state uses the number, but we bring in

1884
02:58:14,150 --> 02:58:16,950
I mean, quite a bit more than we anticipate every year.

1885
02:58:17,930 --> 02:58:19,050
I mean, I happen this year.

1886
02:58:19,130 --> 02:58:21,950
I'm just curious why that number has never moved in three years.

1887
02:58:22,390 --> 02:58:22,710
I don't know.

1888
02:58:22,810 --> 02:58:24,210
Maybe it was that number, I don't know why.

1889
02:58:24,790 --> 02:58:25,170
Okay.

1890
02:58:25,970 --> 02:58:27,990
Yeah, we know that's not a number of weeks in, right?

1891
02:58:28,310 --> 02:58:28,530
Right.

1892
02:58:28,690 --> 02:58:30,990
There's another mistake it gives us, right?

1893
02:58:31,610 --> 02:58:31,890
Yes.

1894
02:58:32,070 --> 02:58:33,590
Come straight from the Alchemist's office.

1895
02:58:34,190 --> 02:58:34,330
Okay.

1896
02:58:35,210 --> 02:58:36,170
And go ask the comfortable.

1897
02:58:37,930 --> 02:58:39,810
They might keep something with sales.

1898
02:58:41,070 --> 02:58:41,510
Problem.

1899
02:58:42,550 --> 02:58:47,670
I'm pretty sure from that remember the funds come in, it trickles the answer, it can go

1900
02:58:47,670 --> 02:58:52,650
state, then the proportion that goes to county, and this is what's our little share of.

1901
02:58:53,830 --> 02:58:54,170
Okay.

1902
02:58:55,130 --> 02:59:03,370
I also noticed that there's only six months of spend on respiration, when do we close out

1903
02:59:03,370 --> 02:59:04,030
two, three?

1904
02:59:06,500 --> 02:59:07,160
What about what?

1905
02:59:07,580 --> 02:59:08,040
What about what?

1906
02:59:08,280 --> 02:59:08,480
I'm sorry.

1907
02:59:08,480 --> 02:59:16,500
When do we close out this quarter ending March 31st, so that we can add back to the spreadsheet?

1908
02:59:20,360 --> 02:59:25,600
This spreadsheet only has six months of data for this unit's budget.

1909
02:59:26,900 --> 02:59:35,120
Well, it's a lot easier for people to map it by half than it is anything else, but that's the reason why it's a normal practice.

1910
02:59:35,120 --> 02:59:37,160
So you just have to be a budget.

1911
02:59:38,360 --> 02:59:42,220
Whenever we pay all the bills for March,

1912
02:59:42,720 --> 02:59:47,000
so the numbers probably be in the vehicle.

1913
02:59:47,760 --> 02:59:47,940
OK.

1914
02:59:48,660 --> 02:59:48,760
OK.

1915
02:59:49,300 --> 02:59:51,020
I was just curious to you on my part.

1916
02:59:53,350 --> 02:59:53,610
All right.

1917
02:59:56,130 --> 02:59:56,690
I'm good.

1918
02:59:58,110 --> 02:59:58,790
Thank you.

1919
02:59:58,790 --> 02:59:59,630
I just got some numbers.

1920
03:00:01,680 --> 03:00:08,780
Thank you. Michelle, on the PowerPoint, you sent to our e-mail. I don't know if it's just

1921
03:00:08,780 --> 03:00:16,800
leave, but I don't. There's no information in it. It just has title slides. You have to

1922
03:00:16,800 --> 03:00:23,080
hit the open PowerPoint. That's what I had to do. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's working now.

1923
03:00:28,000 --> 03:00:34,840
We went through this last night and if you don't open it as a PowerPoint, they don't show up that way.

1924
03:00:35,060 --> 03:00:36,980
It just shows you like a preview file.

1925
03:00:37,680 --> 03:00:40,240
It just shows rectangles.

1926
03:00:41,000 --> 03:00:42,440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1927
03:00:44,200 --> 03:00:50,040
I don't really have anything like burning questions that I have.

1928
03:00:50,040 --> 03:00:56,680
So, I'll yield my time and speak up if I have anything that I think are all looking at this red sheet.

1929
03:00:58,480 --> 03:01:00,520
Okay, thank you so much, Council Member Dewey.

1930
03:01:01,520 --> 03:01:06,180
Sure. I think, I think we've had a good question.

1931
03:01:06,400 --> 03:01:10,880
I don't have anything specific because there's so many unknowns.

1932
03:01:11,360 --> 03:01:18,900
So, I'm really understanding that what we're going to have to do is just keep our eye on the ball every month or a long time.

1933
03:01:19,760 --> 03:01:24,320
And we can make our best guess and look into crystal walls and that's what we're doing trying to be conservative.

1934
03:01:25,540 --> 03:01:27,900
You know, that's why we're not getting all fancy with stuff.

1935
03:01:28,300 --> 03:01:33,860
That's why we're not, you know, keeping a conservative mindset especially now is important.

1936
03:01:34,580 --> 03:01:38,660
So I just appreciate and call for us all to be looking closely every month.

1937
03:01:38,860 --> 03:01:43,500
And we have no idea about how long this whole virus situation is going to impact so many things.

1938
03:01:43,500 --> 03:01:49,340
So, the more we can stand top of it, then I appreciate all the hard work, but I guess together twice.

1939
03:01:50,420 --> 03:01:51,160
Not pleasure.

1940
03:01:52,200 --> 03:01:52,880
It'll be fun.

1941
03:01:54,400 --> 03:01:55,500
All right, thank you so much.

1942
03:01:56,040 --> 03:01:56,980
Council Member Osmond.

1943
03:01:58,100 --> 03:01:59,680
This was a very good session.

1944
03:01:59,860 --> 03:02:00,720
It was well organized.

1945
03:02:01,840 --> 03:02:03,940
My first experience was last year.

1946
03:02:04,660 --> 03:02:07,480
As I said in our work in session, I missed having lunch with everybody,

1947
03:02:08,480 --> 03:02:10,020
but considering where we are,

1948
03:02:10,020 --> 03:02:12,780
in trying to stop this spread of a virus.

1949
03:02:13,360 --> 03:02:16,320
This technology is actually proven to be successful.

1950
03:02:16,880 --> 03:02:21,100
So congratulations to getting this format put together

1951
03:02:21,100 --> 03:02:22,940
and for hosting it in this manner.

1952
03:02:23,680 --> 03:02:24,700
The only...

1953
03:02:24,700 --> 03:02:25,600
That's Carson's work.

1954
03:02:26,280 --> 03:02:29,420
Thank you, Carson, for figuring this out.

1955
03:02:29,640 --> 03:02:31,400
Because I was about to run away

1956
03:02:31,400 --> 03:02:32,980
at about 11 o'clock on Wednesday.

1957
03:02:34,420 --> 03:02:37,740
Carson did the head of the synonymous and I appreciate it.

1958
03:02:38,500 --> 03:02:44,520
Great, and I would say that conservative thinking that's gone into putting this buzz together

1959
03:02:44,520 --> 03:02:47,880
of Echo Council Member Dewey is a prudent.

1960
03:02:48,520 --> 03:02:49,420
I like prudence.

1961
03:02:50,600 --> 03:02:56,400
I wanted to note, as we hear in the Federal Government, there's a big stimulus package

1962
03:02:56,400 --> 03:03:01,100
and I wanted to ask you to tell a matter of your broadband with all your excellent, extensive networks

1963
03:03:01,580 --> 03:03:05,340
and connections that you have from your years of public service.

1964
03:03:05,340 --> 03:03:09,420
as anything come out, either via MML or whatever,

1965
03:03:09,760 --> 03:03:14,340
as our analysis being done from the perspective

1966
03:03:14,340 --> 03:03:16,060
of local government of the stimulus

1967
03:03:16,060 --> 03:03:19,000
to see what changes may occur.

1968
03:03:19,360 --> 03:03:21,840
Like, obviously, the delay in the provision

1969
03:03:21,840 --> 03:03:25,820
to provide one's income tax right is one thing.

1970
03:03:26,120 --> 03:03:27,260
Do you know of any others,

1971
03:03:27,560 --> 03:03:29,400
and I'm sure you all are on top of it,

1972
03:03:29,500 --> 03:03:32,160
but if you could share anything about that stimulus,

1973
03:03:32,160 --> 03:03:33,200
I appreciate it.

1974
03:03:33,200 --> 03:03:42,040
I'd be happy to, as I get it, my focus next week is going to be on things of that nature

1975
03:03:43,160 --> 03:03:51,920
as well as some other timely issues that have been affected by, you know, just not being

1976
03:03:51,920 --> 03:03:53,220
able to operate normally.

1977
03:03:54,300 --> 03:04:00,840
So that is among my priorities for next year, you know, I've gone through processes where

1978
03:04:00,840 --> 03:04:09,020
we had to collect all kinds of information to get reverse of money back from FEMA, hurricanes

1979
03:04:09,020 --> 03:04:18,900
and blizzards. I suspect some of it may be similar to that. So, recuperation of cost

1980
03:04:18,900 --> 03:04:30,820
and chief hammer can I have talked, and I've talked to the books of fireworks about, you

1981
03:04:30,820 --> 03:04:33,800
comes out from the federal government, maybe from the state,

1982
03:04:33,980 --> 03:04:35,980
but the state's probably going to be a pass-through cost,

1983
03:04:37,120 --> 03:04:40,660
but we'll be digging deep to give as much of that as we can.

1984
03:04:42,120 --> 03:04:43,360
As I know, I think about it.

1985
03:04:43,940 --> 03:04:45,180
I'll keep you guys posted.

1986
03:04:46,020 --> 03:04:46,380
Excellent.

1987
03:04:46,600 --> 03:04:46,960
Thank you.

1988
03:04:47,140 --> 03:04:47,760
You're my time.

1989
03:04:49,360 --> 03:04:49,860
Thank you so much.

1990
03:04:50,160 --> 03:04:52,880
I really have nothing further to add on this.

1991
03:04:53,140 --> 03:04:55,520
I think everyone from the council has

1992
03:04:55,520 --> 03:04:57,200
really expressed their thoughts.

1993
03:04:57,200 --> 03:05:12,800
So at this point I'm going to open up the phone lines as well as the email 30147495703014749570 while the

1994
03:05:12,800 --> 03:05:18,820
phone is here and people are dialing. Councilmember Dewey, are there any email questions?

1995
03:05:20,200 --> 03:05:26,380
Yes, we have one question from Jody Colberti on Ruitans Street which was just clarifying that the

1996
03:05:26,380 --> 03:05:32,700
property tax rate will be kept the same and so the question word-for-word is will

1997
03:05:32,700 --> 03:05:37,700
the property tax rate be decreased to generate a constant yield or will it

1998
03:05:37,700 --> 03:05:40,740
be kept the same and result in an increase in property tax?

1999
03:05:41,860 --> 03:05:50,520
Have it answer that so there's no increase in property tax. We have absorbed

2000
03:05:50,520 --> 03:05:54,960
or internally, largely to be perfectly honest with you,

2001
03:05:55,120 --> 03:05:57,820
it was sort of the most of those increases your staff,

2002
03:05:58,440 --> 03:06:01,800
your staff, because you normally have been giving staff

2003
03:06:01,800 --> 03:06:08,560
a 2% merit increase, and we've reduced it to one this year.

2004
03:06:09,140 --> 03:06:11,680
Your health insurance costs have gone up,

2005
03:06:12,120 --> 03:06:16,840
and your staff has absorbed a good chunk of that cost.

2006
03:06:16,840 --> 03:06:25,760
two weeks ago we might have proposed that to you differently so no there is no

2007
03:06:25,760 --> 03:06:35,200
change in what we are asking the taxpayer to contribute but hopefully that

2008
03:06:35,200 --> 03:06:41,180
answers your question and thank you so much Ruby zero one four seven four nine five

2009
03:06:41,180 --> 03:06:43,220
seven zero and

2010
03:06:46,800 --> 03:06:49,800
Michelle are using injured people here

2011
03:06:52,430 --> 03:06:53,550
and he told me she would know.

2012
03:06:56,150 --> 03:07:03,310
It's for private sex and we're gonna be okay. It cannot be early, early, early enough for that

2013
03:07:03,310 --> 03:07:11,530
to happen for me. This isn't after this week. At this time, we are moving on to the fourth section.

2014
03:07:12,810 --> 03:07:23,030
I would recommend a five rather than a 10 minute break is that okay for everybody or would you prefer a 10 minute?

2015
03:07:26,990 --> 03:07:30,990
I'm seeing a five from council member Dewey.

2016
03:07:30,990 --> 03:07:32,810
So we'll take a five minute break.

2017
03:07:32,810 --> 03:07:41,190
Please mute and stop your video and we'll be back at 12-15.

2018
03:07:41,710 --> 03:07:42,450
Thank you.

2019
03:13:40,400 --> 03:13:41,720
just a reminder.

2020
03:13:45,260 --> 03:13:50,400
This time, this is the Council discussion, so while the record will be open for any

2021
03:13:51,220 --> 03:13:54,860
comments, questions, concerns, this would not be the time that we

2022
03:13:55,560 --> 03:14:01,680
recognize them at this meeting, but the record will be open until May 13th. So, any comments, any

2023
03:14:01,680 --> 03:14:07,420
questions that you have, please feel free to email or call any of the council members.

2024
03:14:08,580 --> 03:14:12,540
Our information is on the back of the bulletin as well as on the website, so

2025
03:14:12,540 --> 03:14:16,700
So, at this time, for council discussion, I will do the same thing.

2026
03:14:17,020 --> 03:14:22,700
It will be open to discussion, but I will start in the same order that we have done before.

2027
03:14:22,900 --> 03:14:25,240
So, I will start with Mayor Prattam, Papa Nicholas.

2028
03:14:26,580 --> 03:14:27,960
Where should you start with me, first?

2029
03:14:31,840 --> 03:14:34,060
What all do we think we need to discuss here?

2030
03:14:34,680 --> 03:14:37,280
I know we've had productive day of presentations.

2031
03:14:38,820 --> 03:14:43,100
I would discuss the budget enhancements for the last few months.

2032
03:14:43,100 --> 03:14:50,820
So I guess one of my questions that I have for this group is while we think we need to discuss at this point.

2033
03:14:54,190 --> 03:14:55,310
Maria, you're muted.

2034
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:29,760
What staff was hoping for was any, so this is a work session. You can't vote on anything or work session. However, work sessions are for us to educate you and you dedicate us. So if there's any, you know, guidance that you want to give us before we fine tune anything for its introduction on April 15th.

2035
03:15:29,760 --> 03:15:39,240
And now it's the time to sort of suggest what, you know, if you want to see option A, option B, that sort of thing, that's the best way to use this time.

2036
03:15:42,220 --> 03:15:46,580
Well, let's go to everyone else and we can come back to me if I have anything.

2037
03:15:47,660 --> 03:15:51,540
Okay, so I will go to council member suite with this route.

2038
03:15:53,640 --> 03:15:55,840
Jason just passing that on to me now.

2039
03:16:00,870 --> 03:16:09,150
I mean, I'm kind of in the same boat, I don't really have anything pressing to talk

2040
03:16:09,150 --> 03:16:09,410
about.

2041
03:16:09,550 --> 03:16:19,290
I kind of want to digest the spreadsheet a bit more now that we have it, just kind of

2042
03:16:19,290 --> 03:16:21,810
make sure that everything's going along well.

2043
03:16:21,810 --> 03:16:30,050
I think that, you know, in terms of what is being proposed in some of the presentations today,

2044
03:16:30,190 --> 03:16:38,980
there was nothing really that stuck out to me in terms of anything that, you know, was like,

2045
03:16:38,980 --> 03:16:44,380
well, I don't know if we really need that. I know that we have kind of discussed in a previous

2046
03:16:44,380 --> 03:16:50,800
work session, we have discussed like the chairs in the senior in the town center and the stove

2047
03:16:50,800 --> 03:16:55,780
over items like that but that sounds like it's kind of being taken here but my

2048
03:16:55,780 --> 03:17:00,260
off base on that or we just because we're just changing like a time table around

2049
03:17:00,260 --> 03:17:05,460
purchasing for that. That's that's the way I understood it was then we were

2050
03:17:05,460 --> 03:17:12,800
changing one of the recommendations was that we put a stove up a stove on the

2051
03:17:12,800 --> 03:17:25,120
year and the way the purchase of the chairs until the year and you know that's

2052
03:17:25,120 --> 03:17:32,220
fine but in the scheme of things in the size of your budget that's not gonna make

2053
03:17:32,220 --> 03:17:41,480
a difference yeah I have what happy to do yeah it's all good so yeah I mean it is

2054
03:17:41,480 --> 03:17:48,480
just some sort of clarification, so we had talked about the need to create like a police vehicle replacement fund.

2055
03:17:49,140 --> 03:17:56,400
And this project has been proposed to you, we have begun.

2056
03:17:58,140 --> 03:18:06,420
That spreadsheet, we've started to work on that spreadsheet and we'll get that to you in the next week or so.

2057
03:18:06,420 --> 03:18:12,940
or it's already done that's just didn't get online but we have begun to do

2058
03:18:12,940 --> 03:18:17,820
that. So every vehicle that you purchase beginning current fiscal year, fiscal year 20,

2059
03:18:18,940 --> 03:18:25,940
will go into a vehicle replacement program. So from vehicle that is proposed to

2060
03:18:25,940 --> 03:18:30,500
the purchase and this fiscal year that you're looking at, this fiscal year that

2061
03:18:30,500 --> 03:18:38,440
you're looking at includes one seven of the costs of that vehicle. So the spreadsheet that you use to

2062
03:18:38,440 --> 03:18:46,640
looking at has all of the other sea vehicles in it, it will be the same vehicle replacement

2063
03:18:46,640 --> 03:18:52,860
part. There is no separate, there will be no separate police vehicle replacement part that will be a

2064
03:18:52,860 --> 03:18:56,720
the town of Pearl finds a pretty good place for funds and the police

2065
03:18:56,720 --> 03:18:58,800
vehicles will be added to that fund.

2066
03:18:59,420 --> 03:19:01,080
Okay, I get it.

2067
03:19:01,500 --> 03:19:06,860
And that will be ready for us before this budget is approved or...

2068
03:19:07,400 --> 03:19:10,300
Well, the funding is already in this budget that you're looking at.

2069
03:19:10,660 --> 03:19:12,840
Right, put this friendship in the car.

2070
03:19:14,180 --> 03:19:14,300
Go.

2071
03:19:17,620 --> 03:19:20,760
It'll be a chart that has three vehicles in it.

2072
03:19:25,480 --> 03:19:27,520
Okay, I see that. Thank you, Michelle.

2073
03:19:31,060 --> 03:19:39,560
Okay. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's just speaking from, you know, what I've seen in everything.

2074
03:19:40,000 --> 03:19:48,680
I would encourage councils to really think hard and, you know, but forward money into updating the installation

2075
03:19:48,680 --> 03:19:51,500
and then some of the stuff in the public works yard,

2076
03:19:51,840 --> 03:19:56,220
I know Maria had said words that people

2077
03:19:56,220 --> 03:19:58,000
who work in government understand

2078
03:19:58,000 --> 03:20:00,100
which is that public works is not necessarily

2079
03:20:00,100 --> 03:20:04,160
publicly accessible or public facing yard.

2080
03:20:04,580 --> 03:20:07,780
So it typically kind of gets pushed down

2081
03:20:07,780 --> 03:20:09,980
because people are not interacting with it as much,

2082
03:20:10,100 --> 03:20:14,420
but the isolation has done issue ever since I've been

2083
03:20:14,420 --> 03:20:15,780
on council on this shed as well.

2084
03:20:15,920 --> 03:20:18,360
I mean, these are all things that have been pushed

2085
03:20:18,360 --> 03:20:23,460
for, and I think it's worth our time to invest in, you know, maintaining those facilities

2086
03:20:24,280 --> 03:20:29,720
so that our public works team can work more efficiently, and that their equipment is

2087
03:20:29,720 --> 03:20:33,400
not damaged by some sort of brick storm.

2088
03:20:35,820 --> 03:20:38,140
But other than that, I will yield my time.

2089
03:20:41,310 --> 03:20:42,990
All right, thank you so much, Council Member Dewey.

2090
03:20:44,130 --> 03:20:50,150
Sure, thank you. You know, comment on individual items, so I'll just sort of talk big picture.

2091
03:20:50,150 --> 03:20:56,870
First, I'll just quickly answer the last question that was asked by Jody about the rates

2092
03:20:56,870 --> 03:20:58,130
saying the same or changing.

2093
03:20:58,770 --> 03:21:00,810
She sent me an email, so I'm going to try to clarify.

2094
03:21:01,490 --> 03:21:03,350
We didn't quite answer it all the way.

2095
03:21:03,630 --> 03:21:04,370
I don't think so.

2096
03:21:04,450 --> 03:21:05,950
The rate is remaining the same.

2097
03:21:06,570 --> 03:21:11,730
So if property assessed property values increase, revenue is predicted to increase slightly and

2098
03:21:11,730 --> 03:21:13,190
that is on the power point.

2099
03:21:13,330 --> 03:21:18,170
The summary power point, age five, is where folks could see that, just to be clear.

2100
03:21:18,170 --> 03:21:23,470
So the rate is staying the same, so you see that page five in the summary column.

2101
03:21:24,550 --> 03:21:30,410
So for, you know, from my own perspective, I always go back to, this happened to me

2102
03:21:30,410 --> 03:21:36,570
last year too, the items that I see as, you know, ones that I maybe hold off on or skip

2103
03:21:36,570 --> 03:21:40,990
those tend to be the ones that come out of restricted funds, the things that I think we could

2104
03:21:40,990 --> 03:21:46,170
wait on a little bit longer, and so it makes it a little challenging, right, so things like

2105
03:21:46,170 --> 03:21:50,150
the cable, as much as I think that's a good thing, it could wait, but we also have restricted

2106
03:21:50,150 --> 03:21:56,330
funds for that. So there's stuff sort of in that category that I feel comfortable moving

2107
03:21:56,330 --> 03:22:01,470
forward with because of the source of funding. And then I've seen other things, what comes

2108
03:22:01,470 --> 03:22:06,770
to mind, we talked in a work session about the sort of police special, really it was called

2109
03:22:06,770 --> 03:22:11,570
a special escort vehicle basically, and I think that that's no longer being requested, so

2110
03:22:11,570 --> 03:22:17,330
sort of pared down the thing that I was most so thank you for mentioning that because I forgot to

2111
03:22:18,470 --> 03:22:23,310
but before we went to a couple days ago, there was a 60,000 dollars in worth of money.

2112
03:22:23,990 --> 03:22:30,130
Yeah and you know G-Fans were gonna talk about it, you know, the most important thing

2113
03:22:30,830 --> 03:22:37,250
to tell us right now in those police officers and you know you added an officer

2114
03:22:45,120 --> 03:22:51,000
So we didn't want to go out of that, so we took that vehicle out of it.

2115
03:22:51,800 --> 03:22:52,700
Yeah, that's great.

2116
03:22:52,900 --> 03:22:55,780
And so, you know, I saw that had sauce peering down.

2117
03:22:56,020 --> 03:23:00,740
I saw some things that come from a source of funding that make their situation a little different.

2118
03:23:01,120 --> 03:23:05,620
And other than that, from my perspective, the remaining things that I see are pretty basic things.

2119
03:23:05,620 --> 03:23:14,540
We're talking both first mess, we're talking keeping our buildings safe and our equipment maintained and that sort of stuff makes a lot of sense.

2120
03:23:14,940 --> 03:23:23,360
So other than, you know, what I mentioned before about us keeping our eye on the ball as things right now are a little flupy as I'm honestly.

2121
03:23:25,180 --> 03:23:28,000
I'm comfortable going forward as much as we can.

2122
03:23:28,000 --> 03:23:38,080
I think one of our goals to Council Member Dolly was to not sacrifice too much this year

2123
03:23:38,080 --> 03:23:39,300
to compromise next year.

2124
03:23:40,060 --> 03:23:47,640
So you know, if you discontinued funding and your vehicle replacement fund, or you didn't

2125
03:23:47,640 --> 03:23:53,600
fix the building that was leaking, then cost you more next time around.

2126
03:23:53,600 --> 03:23:59,780
So, um, you know, we took some of that off the table.

2127
03:24:02,400 --> 03:24:03,320
I appreciate that.

2128
03:24:03,920 --> 03:24:07,100
We got to think a big picture a little bit, but I thank you very much.

2129
03:24:07,280 --> 03:24:08,080
So I'll yield my time.

2130
03:24:09,680 --> 03:24:11,040
Thank you so much, Council Member Osmond.

2131
03:24:12,240 --> 03:24:13,140
Thank you, Mayor.

2132
03:24:14,220 --> 03:24:17,040
I just had three things I wanted to share,

2133
03:24:18,000 --> 03:24:21,980
not so much for discussion, but just to contemplate

2134
03:24:22,880 --> 03:24:27,360
In the military, we're trained on contingency planning, which means worst case scenario.

2135
03:24:28,580 --> 03:24:34,500
Not that it's ever fun to think like that, but I want to know that if there is a tremendous

2136
03:24:34,500 --> 03:24:40,400
unemployment for a long time, and incomes go down, income tax go down, we'll need to be

2137
03:24:40,400 --> 03:24:47,760
prepared to have our priorities for how we will adjust to budget threats that may be caused

2138
03:24:47,760 --> 03:24:52,060
by the pandemic and the economic aftermath.

2139
03:24:53,080 --> 03:24:55,540
So in terms of enhancement priorities,

2140
03:24:55,980 --> 03:25:00,680
in terms of operations in maintenance and services,

2141
03:25:01,000 --> 03:25:03,380
priorities, worst case scenario,

2142
03:25:03,680 --> 03:25:06,440
we may want to at some point have a conversation

2143
03:25:06,440 --> 03:25:10,360
about what is the most essential critical thing

2144
03:25:10,360 --> 03:25:12,000
that's happening with absolutely fund.

2145
03:25:12,820 --> 03:25:15,560
And then if we don't get funding, what will we not fund?

2146
03:25:15,560 --> 03:25:19,480
So that's just a thought to put in everyone's head, not a fun goal.

2147
03:25:20,960 --> 03:25:24,080
Now second, there's a thing in life we call it inflation.

2148
03:25:24,980 --> 03:25:32,200
And I noticed in this budget that the concave, the audit services and others are having a gradual increase in their price.

2149
03:25:32,840 --> 03:25:39,500
And there's many things that cause prices to go up for people who offer services for more money.

2150
03:25:40,940 --> 03:25:46,400
I don't know if one of the reasons for why those organizations are selling us services

2151
03:25:46,400 --> 03:25:52,520
at a higher rate, but one thing to consider is if they're going up at a rate that's higher

2152
03:25:52,520 --> 03:25:58,900
than the trending inflation rate, then that's caused for me to think about maybe looking

2153
03:25:58,900 --> 03:25:59,960
at other providers.

2154
03:26:01,120 --> 03:26:06,680
Of course, technically content is the right solution, and auditors you've been with with

2155
03:26:06,680 --> 03:26:09,840
a really long time that you don't like to change,

2156
03:26:10,080 --> 03:26:13,460
just to keep an eye on how the increase

2157
03:26:13,460 --> 03:26:16,160
is from organizations selling this thing to go up.

2158
03:26:16,520 --> 03:26:19,160
And if that's very far above the inflation rate,

2159
03:26:19,420 --> 03:26:22,540
then that means the marketplace may need

2160
03:26:22,540 --> 03:26:24,180
to be spoken with again,

2161
03:26:24,340 --> 03:26:27,320
and in terms of finding other providers.

2162
03:26:31,020 --> 03:26:34,800
The third thing is I just wanted to thank everybody,

2163
03:26:35,140 --> 03:26:36,860
again, for all their hard work

2164
03:26:36,860 --> 03:26:43,120
in putting this box together, the late hours, the recognition of the circumstances we face

2165
03:26:43,120 --> 03:26:48,940
with this pandemic. And it's been quite a pleasure to work with you all in the second

2166
03:26:48,940 --> 03:26:55,320
budget season. And one day we'll have that lunch again together. Are you?

2167
03:26:56,580 --> 03:27:00,640
Thank you so much. I will come back to Mayor Breton Copp and Nichols.

2168
03:27:01,320 --> 03:27:02,560
All right. Thank you.

2169
03:27:05,010 --> 03:27:08,650
I probably look like a lot of the same things that have been said.

2170
03:27:09,070 --> 03:27:14,650
One thing I will note is that a lot of the stuff that we've talked about being able to do without

2171
03:27:16,490 --> 03:27:25,850
like new chairs and oven language pay has been mentioned not in this session but previously

2172
03:27:25,850 --> 03:27:28,250
and buy some residence in common between them.

2173
03:27:28,410 --> 03:27:32,870
All this stuff represents such minuscule amounts of the budget.

2174
03:27:35,250 --> 03:27:39,150
For instance, both things that I've talked about are about $5,000.

2175
03:27:39,270 --> 03:27:41,110
That's a tenth of a percent of our budget.

2176
03:27:43,950 --> 03:27:51,430
So I understand that some folks may think that they can do without, and that's fine, but we

2177
03:27:51,430 --> 03:28:00,770
You also need to think about in a year or 18 months down the road, whatever recession

2178
03:28:00,770 --> 03:28:03,270
is caused by what's going on is going to be over.

2179
03:28:04,010 --> 03:28:09,390
Everyone is predicting that this will be a fast recession going in and a faster recession

2180
03:28:09,390 --> 03:28:13,370
coming out because the cause is literally a violence.

2181
03:28:14,830 --> 03:28:19,030
And it's not some structural inefficiency like previous recessions.

2182
03:28:19,030 --> 03:28:28,030
So I think I need to consider that right now we are probably okay, we just need to keep

2183
03:28:28,030 --> 03:28:35,630
an eye on it as a council and as a staff and be prepared to at various points during

2184
03:28:35,630 --> 03:28:36,270
the year.

2185
03:28:36,410 --> 03:28:41,590
Might want to set up a mid-year check-in, have a check-in and say September, October time

2186
03:28:41,590 --> 03:28:48,350
frame, do more check-in points to make sure that we are on the path that we expect as

2187
03:28:48,350 --> 03:28:56,550
much today, and be prepared to make more adjustments during the year. As opposed to necessarily

2188
03:28:57,170 --> 03:29:03,630
trying to cut back things now when we, as Maria says, and as I think we all know, we honestly

2189
03:29:03,630 --> 03:29:07,650
have no idea where we're going to be next week, little alone, pretty much.

2190
03:29:10,190 --> 03:29:10,830
That's my

2191
03:29:10,830 --> 03:29:12,490
That's my thing. I'll yield my time.

2192
03:29:14,130 --> 03:29:16,590
Thank you so much, Council Member Osmond, you had your hand up?

2193
03:29:21,050 --> 03:29:24,710
Yes, I did. I appreciate what Mayor Votem has just said.

2194
03:29:24,810 --> 03:29:29,790
And I wanted to say there's a phrase that I once heard in life that I think is an important phrase to think about.

2195
03:29:31,430 --> 03:29:34,290
Penny wise pound foolish.

2196
03:29:35,310 --> 03:29:44,130
And the concept of that cliche is that if you're more concerned about little pennies here

2197
03:29:44,130 --> 03:29:51,450
in there, you might be missing the bigger things. So, I don't believe one ought to be penny-wise

2198
03:29:51,450 --> 03:29:58,390
and pound foolish, I think, recognizing the proportions of dollars as they relate to each other.

2199
03:30:04,000 --> 03:30:29,980
Thank you. Thank you so much. My, really, my only comment in listening to everyone through this specific budget. One of the things that I've really noticed, even more so now was that our town manager, our treasurer, everyone that has their hands in their hands.

2200
03:30:29,980 --> 03:30:34,220
in the budget are so detail focused and detail oriented

2201
03:30:34,600 --> 03:30:37,380
and really monitoring very closely

2202
03:30:37,800 --> 03:30:43,220
that I feel very safe and secure with what they're doing.

2203
03:30:43,480 --> 03:30:45,160
So while Mayor Pro Tem is saying,

2204
03:30:45,420 --> 03:30:47,160
do a check-in in September, October,

2205
03:30:47,580 --> 03:30:50,660
I do agree with a check-in,

2206
03:30:50,940 --> 03:30:53,920
but I also know and I could probably speak

2207
03:30:54,460 --> 03:30:58,680
for town manager Robin that anything that comes up,

2208
03:30:58,680 --> 03:31:07,420
any changes, any necessary things that occur, we will find out before a particular meeting

2209
03:31:08,000 --> 03:31:16,580
would occur. And one of the things that I really and comforted in is the fact that

2210
03:31:17,500 --> 03:31:25,520
town manager, broadband as well as Treasurer Rodriguez, took the time even last night up until 930

2211
03:31:25,520 --> 03:31:32,380
to really look at our budget and really have those conversations with everybody to really

2212
03:31:32,380 --> 03:31:39,360
say, look, this is a situation that we need to address, and we're on the front end of

2213
03:31:39,360 --> 03:31:46,100
it. We're not on the back end of it. And I feel very confident, I feel very secure with

2214
03:31:46,100 --> 03:31:53,140
this budget. I'm not stressed in the least. You know, everything that everyone has said,

2215
03:31:53,140 --> 03:32:01,700
and I think is valid, appropriate as well as, you know, I think urban heights, you know,

2216
03:32:02,060 --> 03:32:09,040
I think we're in a very good place at this point. We're not knowing what is to come. I think

2217
03:32:09,040 --> 03:32:14,780
we've really done our due diligence and I know that we will continue to do our due diligence

2218
03:32:14,780 --> 03:32:21,040
with everyone that's in their particular and specific departments understanding where

2219
03:32:21,040 --> 03:32:26,480
we're at at this point. So, um, with that, I mean, everything that we talked about today,

2220
03:32:27,020 --> 03:32:32,560
um, you know, I'm really not concerned at this point about it. It's, you know,

2221
03:32:33,740 --> 03:32:38,500
it will come when it comes and we will, we will address it and deal with it as we need to,

2222
03:32:38,680 --> 03:32:43,920
or we're doing the best that we can with, with what we have and the information that we have,

2223
03:32:44,480 --> 03:32:50,060
and just as a reminder, to even our residents, keep in mind that the budget is still a working

2224
03:32:50,600 --> 03:32:56,880
document. It is very fluid and we go back in and out and I know town manager Rod

2225
03:32:56,880 --> 03:33:01,200
Ben and Trezer or Rodriguez will get it very closely to ensure that we're

2226
03:33:01,200 --> 03:33:05,660
right where we need to be so that we're not really playing catch up at that

2227
03:33:05,660 --> 03:33:11,860
point. So with that I you know again I think I think both of you and everyone

2228
03:33:11,860 --> 03:33:17,900
that's involved in this for keeping us really where we need to be in this time

2229
03:33:21,230 --> 03:33:27,330
at this point any further comments from the council from town manager

2230
03:33:28,690 --> 03:33:30,410
Tracer Rodriguez, any departments?

2231
03:33:30,890 --> 03:33:39,610
Mr. Mayor, if I may, I was going to ask with the mayor of council and staffs down just for a second after the

2232
03:33:43,770 --> 03:34:09,530
and just to remind folks that the record is open, you know, email councilmembers can have any thoughts on the budget, but you're going to have two hearings, one on April 15th, one on May 13th, and final vote from the council on May 13th, but those are your opportunities to, you know,

2233
03:34:09,530 --> 03:34:10,250
a little deeper.

2234
03:34:11,150 --> 03:34:13,410
Staff is certainly here to answer any questions for you.

2235
03:34:14,850 --> 03:34:17,530
The easiest way to reach me, so give me some time

2236
03:34:17,530 --> 03:34:20,630
to research your answer is if you would email me

2237
03:34:20,630 --> 03:34:23,650
and brought that up at www.feroantide.gov if you've

2238
03:34:23,650 --> 03:34:25,830
got a structural budget question.

2239
03:34:28,210 --> 03:34:30,530
Please let me know, and I'll give you

2240
03:34:30,530 --> 03:34:31,730
an answer as fast as you can.

2241
03:34:33,430 --> 03:34:34,670
Thank you for everybody.

2242
03:34:41,070 --> 03:34:45,150
And with that, we've come to the end of our budget session.

2243
03:34:45,150 --> 03:34:46,490
Do I have a motion to adjourn?

2244
03:34:49,300 --> 03:34:51,760
I'll give you a motion to adjourn this budget session.

2245
03:34:52,100 --> 03:34:53,040
I will second.

2246
03:34:53,620 --> 03:34:53,900
Okay.

2247
03:34:54,060 --> 03:34:55,200
And further discussion on it.

2248
03:34:56,320 --> 03:34:57,240
All those in favor?

2249
03:34:58,140 --> 03:34:58,500
Aye.

2250
03:34:58,980 --> 03:34:59,080
Right.

2251
03:34:59,700 --> 03:34:59,960
Aye.

2252
03:34:59,960 --> 03:35:03,540
We've got 10.

2253
03:35:04,520 --> 03:35:04,720
And we've gone.

2254
03:35:04,720 --> 03:35:05,360
Can we get more guys?

2255
03:35:05,680 --> 03:35:05,780
12.

2256
03:35:05,880 --> 03:35:06,080
13.

2257
03:35:06,380 --> 03:35:07,200
16 and 15.

2258
03:35:07,620 --> 03:35:07,740
16.