[0:07] motion. I'll second

[0:10] second. Any discussion or questions? All in favor?

[0:17] Oh,

[0:30] new business. Well, the old business. Did you ever

[0:34] work?

[0:39] That's all. I thought we' already had one since we done the transaction.

[0:45] Do you have any

[1:00] right now?

[1:16] They cut it off and it's got a big go back.

[1:20] Uh, we talk about it. We talk about it.

[1:29] You said I talked to Mr.

[1:46] And he said he did what he was told.

[2:01] What are you talking about? At her room.

[2:08] No, we're not going to do any rumors or say anything

[2:12] legal or anything like that. Not rumors.

[2:15] Not going to do anything. I I talked to him

[2:18] personally. He did and he said he did what he was told and

[2:21] I said, "Well, he said he did." I said, "Okay, you did what you were told that

[2:25] you come to the council and tell the counsel." And he said he would. So,

[2:31] tell what he did.

[2:38] I told him he said I said yeah

[2:46] anything else

[2:50] and uh you got I think took care one of the holes right

[2:56] there street where the manhole is talked about it and your

[3:04] relic. Y'all ordering one. Did y'all order one for August?

[3:09] We did. They were wrong size. We have to send them back.

[3:13] Okay. But y'all did order something, right?

[3:17] Yes. Okay. Thank y'all for putting it

[3:20] sign up

[3:24] stand up there for people to see in right now.

[3:31] Did you know that was up there? Sign.

[3:34] You don't know nothing about

[3:40] maybe maybe it's got a city on top stand on top of the whole manhole. It's got

[3:48] the little reflective green like your shirt.

[3:53] You didn't know nothing about that, but it's up there. But y'all did some

[3:59] Yes. on that uh

[4:02] on the water running Mike from the street down there on

[4:09] coming by the church right here. Coming down that hill.

[4:13] Oh South D.

[4:17] Okay. We had talked about that a while back.

[4:20] It's a ditch starting there right there by the old uh

[4:26] by the extension office where the water running off.

[4:30] And when they get down there to the bottom, I remember when the uh we had a

[4:34] pipe down there, a pipe is under the road, but down the pipe where the

[4:40] water's going off in there. I think it's where that is right there. Stay down

[4:45] there. But anyway, the water is running down there. It's flooding people down

[4:49] there. We need to do something. It's city water coming out the city street

[4:54] from uptown and it's not out

[4:59] there. You know where the large is here. It's not hurting. It's hurting those

[5:04] people down there.

[5:09] Whatever it looks bad

[5:17] and the uh the road right there by by

[5:23] coming down. Do we have any money to pay that

[5:29] come down right in front of the uh

[5:35] that's bad?

[5:55] Mitch, what about the ordinance for the zoning and also the ordinance for the

[5:58] bake shop? Have we made any progress on those?

[6:03] Which which ordinance for the zoning? I know we were going to put an ordinance

[6:06] together where the council appoints the zoning

[6:10] pass. What you you've already got the

[6:12] ordinance together? That that passed.

[6:16] I know we voted on doing the ordinance last meeting. I just wondered if you've

[6:19] gotten it together. Oh, yeah. It's already Yeah. is already

[6:22] done and it's already been passed. Yeah, I think I think it already did.

[6:26] You already run in the paper, didn't you? It

[6:27] did. I mean, everything's done on that. And what about the vape shot one? I know

[6:33] we talked about that last meeting. We did. I have not had a chance to do

[6:37] anything. Okay.

[6:40] That's the one we said we're going to try to avoid anything.

[6:46] That's right. Of that nature.

[6:50] That's That's right.

[6:53] That set us.

[7:10] Did we get Don added to the check center?

[7:14] No, not yet. I'm sorry. I've been knee deep.

[7:17] I know.

[7:22] You want to say that

[7:33] I ask about

[7:48] before Let me speak. Let me say this. Whatever the agenda is here.

[7:51] Yeah. The story is that a couple of you

[7:56] sitting here started the rumor that I have delayed the audit after the

[8:00] election.

[8:03] Came from came from a person's mouth that heard somebody up here saying that

[8:07] I wanted I have no control over. Not only is this unprofessional and

[8:12] unethical, but it's a lie. And Don Don Don is a professional. His

[8:19] reputation is at stake when you say something like that. If anybody said

[8:23] that I did an apology, he gets to apology and you should resign.

[8:28] Who said it? Who said bottom line? Who said it?

[8:31] I think I think who said it knows who said it.

[8:35] So here's what Let me clarify. Let me clarify the air on what was there.

[8:40] Nothing been said to that nature. I haven't been in town to start a rumor. M

[8:44] the rumor is going through the community and I don't know what

[8:49] No, it's nothing to do with the council. The rumors start to What's the rumor?

[8:54] The rumor delaying the rumor. The rumor. The rumor.

[8:57] You realize that I don't have any control over the

[8:59] But let me clarify. Nobody up here said that. It's out in the streets.

[9:04] Nobody up here said that. Nobody.

[9:06] You go get me a Bible. I'll put my hand on it right now.

[9:09] You bet. You don't. But I'm saying that the story is that somebody on this

[9:14] council started it. I don't think I had heard I hadn't heard that.

[9:19] I've heard I've heard I'm saying it. I've heard it in the street.

[9:22] If it's in the streets, somebody started that.

[9:25] I've heard in the street. It's unprofessional. And that not only

[9:27] does it put me and I'll tell you something. I worked my ass off since

[9:31] 1992 to make this town better. Chamber of Commerce, teachers fundraising,

[9:37] school board for 23 years. I have been to every single meeting.

[9:41] Have you heard? Have you heard that that's gone?

[9:44] I understand. We're talking about city council now. We're not talking about

[9:46] school board or anything else. This is city council.

[9:49] Nothing to do with school board. We're not worried about reputation.

[9:52] We're not worried about make a reputation and make this place

[9:55] better. I will not allow it to be smeared by anybody.

[9:58] Who is who is smearing? I'm saying anybody ask the question.

[10:03] Answer the question. You answered.

[10:07] I'm asking. I said anybody's doing that.

[10:10] Nobody up here has started a room that I'm aware of. I know that. Well, that

[10:13] you're aware that I'm aware of. Nobody's starting to

[10:14] rise. Let's move on.

[10:15] No, let's move to this. It's also been said that you said the city council was

[10:20] responsible. That's unethical, too. And that's not

[10:24] true. That's a lie. I would not say why.

[10:28] That's what people are telling us. That's the same.

[10:30] That's what people are telling us. Why would they say that the city council

[10:34] is responsible? That's the money.

[10:36] City city cafe, you know, here's the deal. Here's the deal. I mean

[10:41] that works both ways. We got money. The general fund is one

[10:45] bucket. We've got seven other buckets that it comes into. Let me explain this

[10:49] to you real quick. Don, well, we're going to go through all the

[10:52] audits. We're going to reiterate this. But after

[10:54] that last meeting, people took social media. The city's broke. People losing

[10:58] their jobs. Nobody's getting a paycheck. Everybody got a paycheck. Nobody lost

[11:02] their jobs. It's Chicken Little and the boy who cried war is what the problem

[11:07] is. And I'm telling you that we need to This is a professional job, y'all. City

[11:12] council mayor is an absolutely professional job

[11:15] both ways, Mike. It and it and it's and it's being

[11:19] answering to the voters and doing all you can to be the best person you can

[11:23] be. And this this goes back to training. This goes back to keeping things in

[11:28] house that need to be in house and working together for the betterment of

[11:31] the city. Did Did you say that, Mike? Or have you

[11:33] started that room? I wouldn't say that

[11:35] because that's the city council. How's the city council responsible for?

[11:40] That's what we want to know. We said we we

[11:44] financials. I didn't see

[11:46] we didn't have financials at all. People can't verify.

[11:49] The city council has not been provided proper financials to make any financial

[11:53] decisions. I'll say this, y'all have check

[11:56] registers. You have balances in it. Yes, you box down right here. Check

[12:01] registers. You have balances of every bucket in the account. And y'all have

[12:06] had this for a long time. And the very What? financials.

[12:10] Don told us one day that what we were getting were not financials. Isn't that

[12:15] correct, Don? Financial statements.

[12:18] Okay, that's our state is financials. Y'all

[12:20] need the state of the money in the city. Y'all got that? Y'all got that?

[12:25] We didn't get every

[12:31] pull it out and show it to show it to the people. Show it to the citizens. You

[12:34] can't produce it. It's not there. I'm not going to take time to look

[12:36] through there. You're spinning it. You put all the PR you want to on it, Mike.

[12:41] But but it's not there. We can produce it.

[12:43] It's not there. No, you can't. Not unless you gonna go in there and print

[12:45] it up because it didn't it didn't come across this table.

[12:48] We can produce it. We've kept every document that we've

[12:50] gotten and we hadn't gotten those documents every meeting.

[12:53] You had check register. Okay. Sure. Show them.

[12:59] I kept asking for that. I kept asking for that.

[13:02] I'll get Hold on a minute. I kept asking for a

[13:05] financial statement from last year this month to this year this month so that we

[13:10] can make sure we are we can adjust our our budget in case we have to just we

[13:15] never got that I promise I even talk to you about we get

[13:19] don't get it to us get it to the people since you're claiming we got it showing

[13:22] pro

[13:32] you

[13:37] He's looking. Is it my turn or what? I mean, I'm here.

[13:42] The proof's in the pudding. We're going to talk about the proof here in just a

[13:44] minute.

[13:49] Oh, I'm fine. I see you looking at

[13:56] you want to pass that down. I got them at home and I don't have

[14:01] financial. That's not going to be financial. Put it

[14:03] in there yourself. I've gotten I've kept asking for them. I

[14:06] think I asked you twice. It said it, but that ain't

[14:12] It said it, but that's not what it could be something you put in that

[14:15] book. We didn't get it. We didn't get it. We hadn't got it,

[14:19] Mike. I'm not going to sit up until said that we got it. We did not get

[14:26] the public seems to think what we just stated.

[14:30] that we are the reason that the audit is taking so long.

[14:34] Yeah, we got used to that too. We have we have been thrown under the

[14:37] bus, run over back and forth and drug down the street when all we have been

[14:42] trying to get is the answers to questions and Mike has told us more than

[14:46] one time we are not micromanaging him. Trying to find out where the taxpayers

[14:51] money went is not micromanaging.

[14:55] So, is it our fault if the cities? I'm not sure. I'm not going to counsel.

[15:04] I can tell you what. I mean, I can tell you stuff that I found and I will have

[15:07] the full audit report completed. Tracy's here. We got all the final general fund

[15:12] entries made today. It's taking a while. I will tell you this.

[15:18] All this discussion aside, I do audits from Mobile Florence. So,

[15:24] like all of you, but nobody's that important to us.

[15:30] So, I was just say this, any discussion about anything being

[15:34] delayed until after the election has never been made to me, never been asked.

[15:38] I have no interest in in that at all on that. I have no interest in delaying it

[15:44] more than it's absolutely necessary. We have probably dug in and spent a little

[15:48] bit of extra time based on our meeting, I guess, three months ago

[15:53] probably something like that maybe four and it's taken a while and I'll be

[15:57] honest with you part of the reason it's taken a while and many of you in here

[16:01] had we've had this conversation in one form or another is uh you know we do

[16:06] audits for a lot of people and I got people that they're expecting their

[16:10] audits to be done and when things are right and you get it done you go and you

[16:14] get the work and they deserve that and then you know for aundary reasons this

[16:21] one even And it's been a it's been a fight. It's

[16:25] been a push. It's been a tough audit. It's been a very tough audit. And

[16:28] there's some reasons for it. And we share. Don't ask. I'll be glad.

[16:40] Did go

[16:46] anyway. He's doing a deep dive.

[16:51] And that's why it's taking longer. He's digging.

[16:53] Is that why it's taking longer, Don? What's your reasoning for taking longer?

[16:57] We are doing what we would do to try to get anybody's financial statements in

[17:02] the reportable condition we hope they're supposed to be in. They should be send

[17:08] the state gets a copy of every audit that's done. require state law that goes

[17:12] in whether I've got a clean opinion on it or whether I have to issue a

[17:16] disclaimer of opinion at center or anywhere else that I've had to do that

[17:20] before the state gets it and they see some of the findings and things that may

[17:26] be reported in there and then they may take it further. They may not they may

[17:30] not do it any time there's no findings and stuff and hopefully that's the way

[17:33] it always is. That's not going to be completely the case this time.

[17:37] discuss some of the items regarding taxes and penalties

[17:42] payments fuel companies and things like a lot of

[17:47] different things that were laid. You know, we talked about some probably

[17:53] we went back and looked. We have gone back and looked three years. That's a

[17:57] full three year period on on the city side. We're not put finished on the

[18:00] water side to do it.

[18:07] It's not extensive for them, but they got their own I got their own set of

[18:10] audit stuff to deal with them. But there's been over the last three and a

[18:17] half years about if you count those periods about $35,000 in penalties and

[18:22] interest you paid to the I know you're up to date, but you had to pay a lot of

[18:26] that. So in regards to probably 60% of that

[18:30] councilman has been Brad has been in the last this last cycle.

[18:34] Let me ask you this. in regards to that. So, so we paid we paid penalties and

[18:38] interest on previous years. So, that was never disclosed to the council. So, so

[18:45] with with that being said, you know, you got you got X number of payroll, whether

[18:50] it be five, 600, $700,000 for city employees,

[18:54] you look at that number and you know you got to pay X percentage of income tax

[19:00] off of off of that number. All right. So, if we go back to a 2023 IRS audit

[19:06] where they look at our taxes and say, "Y'all didn't y'all didn't pay your

[19:08] taxes on this." Why were we not alerted as a council back in 2023 at that audit

[19:15] time? Or were we? Did is that something I'm just being pointed. Is that

[19:18] something is that something you missed as as an accountant or was it something

[19:22] that was told to the administration, to the mayor or whoever that it never got

[19:27] worded back to the council? Right. We reported that to

[19:29] administration. We did. We've discussed all those things at different levels

[19:33] with mayor and clerk staff that's responsible for making those papers.

[19:37] Should he not have told us that's that's the RS that y'all got and

[19:42] said I'm glad we got these. I'm not talking about a month ago, Mike.

[19:47] I'm talking

[19:50] years ago. That's reason. You got you got way to

[19:54] audit weeds, but you get into the whole concept of the entity as a whole and

[19:58] different things you're focusing on. We may go through there and see two, three

[20:02] quarters that are laid. And I know one quarter in particular when you had some

[20:05] fraud issues going on for a time or two in the past, the bank there. A lot of

[20:09] people had to deal with and there were some penalties and stuff charged there

[20:13] and for whatever reason to me that would have been one you could have gotten

[20:17] penalties waved on. There's no record, you know, that that ever happened. I

[20:20] would have certainly encouraged that, you know, that kind of stuff. So then

[20:23] you kind of get into we've had a whole lot of software changes

[20:29] issues. We reported about trying to get pavements separated and allocated so you

[20:33] can clearly see all the different things that were done and that is all part of

[20:38] that and that's just unfortunately with one we're in now. It's just got worse.

[20:43] Before before we get into the numbers I have some preliminary stuff.

[20:49] I'll show you I mean it's all

[20:52] let me ask you this before we start walking through the numbers. So, and I'm

[20:55] not going to How long have you been an accountant?

[20:59] Oh, gosh. 37 years. In your in your 37y year history, um,

[21:05] where does this audit rank? Is it as worst as being worst? A Is it top 10,

[21:10] top five? Is it the worst? Where we at? It's It's in the most It's in the It's

[21:15] in the top few, unfortunately. Top three,

[21:19] five or so. Yeah, it's up there. It's top 10, unfortunately. I would say

[21:23] that. Um, you know, I've had I've had some for

[21:27] various reasons that I would put in category. It's just part of it. I do

[21:32] think I think clearly staff was overwhelmed with some of this.

[21:40] And so there's you could say in some respect staff just said, "Hey, I got

[21:49] and I need I need kind of help can get me out of this. and that you know didn't

[21:55] happen and we're all prone to want to fix it on our own.

[22:00] So, you know, we got I think I think that's honestly that's my from over

[22:03] here. I think that's part of it. That doesn't excuse any of those. Um yeah, no

[22:09] excuse for sure. But, uh you know, we voted on doing a forensic audit and

[22:14] we've been kind of waiting on on your feedback, some feedback from you.

[22:18] What What is your personal opinion? You know, you got two audits there. Just so

[22:23] far as to what you've gotten into, you've gotten into the water. You're

[22:25] pretty much done with water. You gotten pretty deep in the city. What have you

[22:29] seen so far? I mean, do you feel like we've got justification for for a

[22:33] forensic audit on the city water portion or the city uh city portion in general

[22:37] or I mean, what have you found? Before you get into numbers, ask.

[22:41] Well, first I would say firstly on your the water side, which you'll address

[22:47] with the water board more directly, but you obviously have

[22:51] billing and collections and there's just a whole lot of different factors that we

[22:55] do on customer. So the extent that if there was an issue there obviously

[23:00] that's somewhere that gets more involved

[23:07] how that transpires when we finish this we'll go there that's not our call at

[23:11] that point anyway the city side honestly council I would say probably at this

[23:17] point no we beat it pretty hard and you got to figure out if if there was enough

[23:23] there that's unknown that could be found a forensic audit would come in and say,

[23:29] "Hey, here's stuff that's, you know, it's not job performance related. It's

[23:34] not, you know, just being late. It's not been whatever." something that they

[23:38] could actually at this point I haven't seen that

[23:45] cost a lot of money back to the mayor's point I think agreed

[23:50] earlier the state gets a copy of this there would be no control

[23:57] if I send a disclaimer which right now I would say it's quite possible because of

[24:01] all that stuff to change software's

[24:07] There's a limit where we can go and issue a regular. We you know the state

[24:13] gets that they could decide to send a couple of examiners over here and stay

[24:18] over here for a month or two and make life miserable

[24:21] probably two or three more employees won't stay here unfortunately but you

[24:27] know and I don't know they would do that they would have to look and that

[24:29] typically they would consult with us once those things are released and as

[24:35] you know what they would do

[24:39] items that we may have found or whatever, they would act accordingly.

[24:47] Let's just put this way. If you spend on if they were to decide to do something

[24:51] like that, you wouldn't want to spend,

[24:54] right? Right. Well, I guess to put it that way, I know

[24:58] I read the minutes and I see that stuff, so you know, I would take it off the

[25:03] table. It's been voted on already. Yeah. Right. Take it off the table, but

[25:09] you know, I wouldn't get ahead of it necessarily.

[25:12] Waiting on this one. Anyway, talking about the the general fund

[25:16] numbers, Don, what is what is typically what typical amount for a city should be

[25:21] held in general fund at any given time should be two and a half months worth of

[25:25] worth of revenue. You okay?

[25:28] Yeah, this goes right actually goes to your question

[25:32] here. This is

[25:35] It's not 100%

[25:40] probably by and large

[25:47] generally good rule of thumb three months is probably a good rule of thumb

[25:52] and uh if you look at this is September okay and the bank accounts were

[25:57] reconciled so you know that that part of an audit went well you know bank

[26:01] accounts reconciled that's half the battle

[26:06] But if you look at your two main accounts in general fund, you only got

[26:08] $84,000

[26:12] $84,000 $84,000 general fund.

[26:15] And what did we owe in in uh income taxes?

[26:20] Taxes payable and acred. Some of that's acred because it's, you know, based on

[26:25] IRS notices and stuff about $67

[26:31] plus retirement payments. What if you had retirement?

[26:34] How much? 38,000.

[26:35] So 60 68 you said 105,000 between.

[26:39] So 105,000 we owed in between retirement income tax.

[26:42] You owe more than you had cash in the bank. The retirement I think all that

[26:46] retirement maybe say one or two periods was all paid shortly in October. Most of

[26:51] it was paid in October. All the retirements in

[26:56] some of that later

[27:04] we've recruited it all since then and I think it's all been paid sort of

[27:10] maybe something that got waved I know one period they waved some penalties but

[27:15] the law says if it's past three years they don't refund it to

[27:21] I haven't really you look at those transcripts

[27:26] and their how they do it versus how I don't

[27:31] know for sure I couldn't tell I couldn't tell you specifically whether any of

[27:35] that track forward but that happened later so I haven't seen a refund check

[27:42] that's what speaking of penalties that's what you know we've been told that we

[27:46] didn't pay any penalties for the IRS And you told me the other day in the

[27:50] office we paid $25,000 you knew of and then you asked Mike

[27:55] had he got a reimbursement that you didn't know about. So we did pay at

[27:58] least $25,000 in penalties according to you last Friday.

[28:02] The city paid Yes, the city paid penalties.

[28:04] We were told we didn't pay. We were clear.

[28:06] Well, we were on the phone with the IRS officer and she said, "Y'all weigh the

[28:11] penalties. Y'all are clear." But how did we pay $20,000?

[28:14] That's what she told us. I mean, we were we had her on the phone. Tracy and I we

[28:19] were celebrating. Well, they haven't they haven't sent a

[28:21] check yet. I haven't seen

[28:25] Yeah, I haven't seen a notice. But but what happens is your EFTBS payments made

[28:29] by the clerk on the payroll run. They should be made weekly or at the

[28:35] time payroll utility tax payments with tax payments

[28:41] by certain day of each month.

[28:54] I haven't seen any refunds.

[29:01] So, if you look at that, what you're saying is, you know,

[29:05] I know I've been down here and been talking about it. Mayor talks about it.

[29:09] It's tough. It's tight. It's tight. You go through the end of September and then

[29:15] you try to catch up on everything. What you end up doing I know where you used

[29:20] to work you get all this money comes in in January and February and what's

[29:24] happened is the city had to use a lot of it

[29:27] to backtrack with instead of having it to have as well going forward. So

[29:32] that abnormal for city long as I've been here

[29:35] no the money coming in by that point is not abnormal. That's just you were you

[29:39] were having to use some of that money to peel some back and get behind. It's just

[29:45] got that's just going to tighter between now and November. It's just going to be

[29:48] tight. It's going to be tight because I

[29:50] remember whole time I've been we've always borrowed money in November and

[29:55] December through December

[30:00] September. Get us through those months. Then when

[30:03] the tax uh come in in January, February, we catch up and pay that loan back to

[30:09] the bank. But we never been this tight in this middle of the month. Okay. As

[30:14] long as I've been here, but since we did the one cent sales tax,

[30:17] we were doing that when I did my first term. This last term, once we did the

[30:22] one cent sales tax, we came out of we got all that. We came back. So, I

[30:29] just didn't know where where that tide turned at

[30:32] after we got the one that saved us. We didn't have to borrow that money.

[30:36] We didn't. And so I don't know why we typed that but you just say it while we

[30:43] Yes. other things that was a huge mistake

[30:48] financially speaking another reason this is taken because I know that question

[30:52] has been out there everywhere taking why is it taking

[30:58] well it's like Mike said Mike said when I got to speak Mike said we're not going

[31:02] to go through this hearing and then he come back back with hearay. So really

[31:06] all of it just hearsay. Okay. It really should be okay.

[31:09] I'm just order

[31:16] a no better than mine. You know

[31:17] it's just hearsay. But u

[31:19] you don't go on that d came up in the meeting. Mine's here. His hearay should

[31:24] have never came up. Is no better than mine.

[31:26] Just just a quick couple of you might understand where I'm going with this. I

[31:30] just want you to understand it a little bit. Okay. Just

[31:33] Okay. If you get the second page of that says income statement and you you look

[31:37] down about halfway the bold numbers say 2.3

[31:41] 2 mill362,000 okay three month reserve that is about

[31:45] $600,000 so you well short of that you know some

[31:51] of it's the stuff we're talking about some of it the city probably got into

[31:55] before some of y'all are really fully responsible for it based on different

[31:59] things I hear that the city pays for versus you know y'all don't have a

[32:04] right funding your revenue. So, you know, is everything being paid like it

[32:10] should between entities? I don't know. But that I just hear

[32:14] my mental math starts going off going that's hurting the city center

[32:19] doing a good thing.

[32:24] Oh, but that you know that's that's budget issues to work out for sure. But

[32:28] but that puts you well short of where you want to be. And you had been

[32:34] two years. But you look I want say just real quick. You look right down below

[32:38] that about four lines. You see some big numbers for salaries and taxes.

[32:46] So city paid all this money for the

[32:50] software but the software is not even breaking down salaries and the taxes

[32:55] properly by department. just kind of it just kind of pulled all this stuff in

[32:58] from old system and dumped it and it's trying to break some of it down now. But

[33:04] the old system should have had it broken down by I'm pretty sure it did.

[33:11] So when they started pulling all this over, I hate to say it's like every one

[33:15] of them I ever go behind it like, "Oh, we're going to do this for you and it's

[33:18] going to convert like this and it's going to work like this." And so we just

[33:21] like pulling him off. It didn't work out that way. So consequently, you got just

[33:26] even just basic financial reporting issues that I'm having to wade through

[33:32] to try to let's just say worst case scenario. We discussed this

[33:38] if I had to do a disclaimer because of all this I can't put that's not a good

[33:44] thing.

[33:50] You still want your financials looking in proper order because you got to send

[33:56] this stuff to your financial people that hold your debt and all that.

[34:02] So as bad as that other is, you still want

[34:05] the numbers to look in at least the proper order. You may not be happy with

[34:09] them, but you want them to look like someone when they get it. At least

[34:16] they're not coming back at you about that because they'll certainly respond

[34:19] and What is the city doing to try to get this financial picture?

[34:24] So, we paid $86,000 for nothing.

[34:29] Well, Miss Tracy's learning to use it back there, but it's as we were talking

[34:34] about voted to do something else. We working on it.

[34:37] We don't change. Keep working on it. But look,

[34:39] I know it's hard. You got you got to get this out of the

[34:42] way and done and save everything. And you got to data bank all the stuff from

[34:47] October to now. do the cut off

[34:52] and you know you're going to be you're already you're hitting third quarter

[34:57] you're going to be hardressed at this point not break the clean break October

[35:02] one and get to the end of that was water but still that's a lot of

[35:07] money to waste and for whatever reason they still

[35:12] owe them a much more money but that's that's another discussion

[35:19] But anyway, I mean that's just where we're at. I I would u

[35:24] I would fully I think Miss Dan told me September I mean July 15th next meeting.

[35:30] That'll be hard. The first meeting in August we'll have your report. It'll be

[35:34] Don based on what you've seen so far. Um to me it's obvious we've got more going

[35:42] out every month than we've got coming in. Um,

[35:46] we definitely need to to look at some things, I think. What's your

[35:50] professional opinion on that?

[35:56] I don't know, Mr. Brad. Um, obviously I thought I got to the season

[36:04] fairly tight situations for, you know, maybe other reasons, but similar a

[36:08] difficult financial position and, you know, can't be paying folks over

[36:14] You want to work hard to do

[36:25] start with things like that and you know people don't want to fire anybody I

[36:30] don't somebody leaves next month and go

[36:33] somewhere else you don't replace them you know you can't

[36:38] whatever other discretionary kind of spending you got I would honestly say

[36:42] between You know, November, you can't do a whole

[36:47] lot. You just can't. I mean, you you get 60%

[36:51] or more of your budget comes in by the end of February, and you got to get till

[36:56] the last week of October before even a property tax payment comes in

[37:01] significant enough to sneeze that and you know, that's just the first dec.

[37:10] Tracy, what was your Do you know your in and out for June?

[37:14] For June? No, I'm not even I'm sorry. It's just first.

[37:18] Yeah, just curious.

[37:22] I know where I know where we stood in May when we talked about it last

[37:25] meeting. I was just curious for June. Yeah, the bank statement just came

[37:28] today. So, it's going to take me a few days to get

[37:31] when are we going what meeting? going to be the first

[37:36] meeting of the month and the third meeting of the month that we may get a

[37:38] financial statement of where we stand with our budget with our year to date

[37:44] in our budget. Um

[37:47] hopefully by next meeting but I'm I'm like Don defin Yeah, it's

[37:53] coming definitely you know I feel like definitely by August but I I hope to

[37:58] have it next time. For the record, we didn't get one

[38:01] tonight.

[38:10] The clerk The

[38:19] She did tell me she would send me trial balance reports. I look at them.

[38:25] And that wasn't a knock on you. Just making it weird that we don't get

[38:29] them every time. All right, you run now. Got one like

[38:32] this in years. We looked at some of it today. It's It's

[38:37] difficult. I'm just going to be

[38:43] Yeah, sooner we can get out of it honestly better. But Tracy, we probably

[38:47] October 1 to release full plug. Yeah, I've I've been entering stuff from the

[38:53] old system to the new system, but you know, you got to get from

[38:58] October to now before you can go forward. And and so it's just time. It's

[39:03] just taking time.

[39:09] Yeah. You know, I had talked to you about the

[39:13] 93,000 that was back in early 20202. And you said you thought it was paid

[39:21] back in 23. Was it paid back?

[39:26] 23. You took that off. Okay.

[39:28] Did it go back into the seven gas? Where did it end up?

[39:36] Got all that money. I think it was seven. This was

[39:43] there was some stuff between the four and the capital.

[39:45] Okay. because the seven you had some fun but

[39:50] then y'all pulled some of it here recently.

[39:52] Yeah, we did help cover reimburse the city for street

[39:56] workers that was $63,000.

[40:04] It was I remember I know we talked

[40:11] that. Okay. And um another thing um you talked

[40:17] to us one time and told us that you were having a hard time trying to find

[40:22] receipts to match expenditures. Did you ever find all the receipts you needed

[40:27] and was file? That's that's some of the delay. Okay.

[40:36] So, some of the files may be hard to get into what you're looking for, right?

[40:42] Yeah. Following needed need to be much better.

[40:46] Okay. You started on this in February.

[40:51] First first bit of it I believe was in February.

[40:54] What's What's a good Believe me, I don't like it sitting on

[40:56] my desk. What's a good smooth out look like? How

[41:00] long does it usually take? Well, one you got a board, water board

[41:05] and stuff like that this size. So, you know,

[41:09] smooth in and out. This should take

[41:14] two weeks. Probably not even two weeks of full time in here.

[41:18] No, I got to go back and get the report, you know, that's another issue.

[41:24] You got stuff you got to get confirmed and you got to put stuff together and

[41:27] you got to get retirement all your typically a couple months turnound.

[41:31] getting reports back, you know, but I mean ideally we would

[41:36] have this to you at least. Well, I I'll say this.

[41:44] I'll say this. You've been handed mess. Thank you for

[41:49] what you're doing. Well, I know everybody's trying to get

[41:53] it's difficult and it's hard and it's frustrating.

[41:58] I think I talked to everybody there. I think everybody over there is frustrated

[42:02] with it. Everybody just wants

[42:06] in different ways and I I'm frustrated with it. I want to give you all the

[42:09] answers I can and I want to get it put together where I can show you and only

[42:12] get reports. It frustrates me when you can't do that.

[42:20] I will say this, we do have that and that gets me that that Tracy's got us

[42:25] well started. The only technically adjustments I have left to get the final

[42:30] order done is I have to go and take a few expenditures for I think you bought

[42:35] a grapple truck last year. You did some paving, you know,

[42:40] call it what you want. Well, you got you got some things that

[42:44] came out of one of the gas tax ones for some of that. I don't know about all

[42:47] this recent pay. Actually, most of that money was still in the bank at the end

[42:50] of September. A lot of last year couple got a few not a lot or two put on

[42:58] depreciation schedules and we have to update your

[43:02] schedule. That's not just you got to get through

[43:07] all the fun in the weird area of governmental accounting. You got to run

[43:11] all your budgets based on like cash flow.

[43:14] Like I'm got business and here's my cash in and my cash out. We're paying taxes

[43:18] at our business. That's all we pay taxes on. We don't want to pay taxes on money

[43:22] that somebody owes us but hadn't paid yet, right? So, you run your budgets

[43:26] essentially that way. Not exactly in government, but it's kind of closer to

[43:30] that. And then we have to come in and do some in stuff on the governmental

[43:34] general fund side to come in and essentially

[43:38] convert it over to where you got balance sheets at the end that look more like it

[43:43] was running a business. The water a little different simpler approach in

[43:47] that regard. It's all treated like a business from very beginning. It's all

[43:52] adjusted and organized and set up that way. And then you throw yours in there

[43:56] and you got two different entities with two different federal ID numbers and the

[43:59] state of Alabama retirement system has all your stuff merged into one

[44:03] retirement account which is a little bit mindblowing to me because I don't know I

[44:08] don't know how that how they managed to do that. That's how they got it. So that

[44:12] makes you bounce between the

[44:16] with your retirement actuarial but in the past we

[44:20] there is no fund we barred from one to the other and for

[44:23] the niche now we're two entities and that should have never happened either

[44:28] well I think what's part of what happens and I've got this and we we're working

[44:32] on some stuff today trying to actually help with cleaning up some balances and

[44:36] get some things paid supposed to be paid because Miss Rebecca doesn't she's still

[44:40] learning she doesn't know everything supposed to be

[44:43] so you know there's a balance on the books from two years ago. Some of the

[44:47] stuff owes between the two. Well, utility owes the general fund some

[44:52] money, right? So, we're kind of figuring out working on Tracy's working on the

[44:56] exact numbers. It'll be a perfect opportunity to wipe out that money. So,

[45:01] back between the two, it allow you to do that. Clean your books up a little bit

[45:04] more, which that needs to be done. The simp

[45:15] I did go back. By the way, you asked, one of you asked a question about

[45:20] a couple times. I talked to the state exam.

[45:28] She said contemplates that at all. Although, Miss Trace, there is a state

[45:35] law about submitting the retirement plans.

[45:39] So, just make sure that you sent in on a regular basis. Okay. Um, I'm sure it

[45:44] will. It won't be a problem. But I mean, there's it goes in effect October 1st.

[45:48] They got some tighter rules from the state level.

[45:52] They paid it all in. It's not It's not that it's not been paid in, but

[45:57] they're they're raising the scrutiny on whether you're getting that money sent

[46:01] into the RSA. That's a statewide deal. Not everyone.

[46:08] Okay. Heaven forbid something they shouldn't have here. Somebody taking

[46:12] some money on something they really shouldn't

[46:20] somebody you know.

[46:25] Yes ma'am. In my opinion

[46:29] getting the rescue money the money was terrible.

[46:34] We were doing better when we raised the 1% and then the city started living

[46:39] above their means. So that's where we are now. Isn't that right? You have got

[46:44] to it's no more rescue money. I bet money is gone.

[46:51] On a bigger picture exactly right. I bet I bet you one out I bet you one out of

[46:55] three or four I'm working with are either some level of hey I got to

[47:00] tighten up or they're actually in a really pretty right now.

[47:05] money. Yeah, that's right. That's what we said

[47:07] last time. We're living beyond our means.

[47:13] You know what that means? You go spend money on this project or that project,

[47:18] pay an engineer, you got side costs. It's always any grants you got, you got

[47:22] out of pocket cost. So, there's always something you're having to pay.

[47:28] and and the sales tax and licenses this past year.

[47:33] I've seen several that were down a lot

[47:39] and supplies gas and that

[47:47] you add all that on top of everything else.

[47:55] We'll get through it. We'll get through it.

[47:59] So in our next

[48:03] in our audience, I mean something about just took note.

[48:10] We have bonding company that we have to report to how much money we got in our

[48:16] savings. Right. If we don't have that money, I know we

[48:20] have to report to them, but when do we have to report to

[48:24] you're already the water board's already behind on they know about it. They

[48:29] notify us and we typically respond back, tell them it's in the process and tell

[48:33] them where we're at and you know as long as you communicate there work with you

[48:37] pretty good but our financial statement is already you

[48:42] know need to be done as I work through the statements over

[48:47] the next month I mean the water department we it rolls into we do roll

[48:51] in there it's kind of a joint deal so at the end of the report when they get the

[48:56] report they kind of say got a separate statement feed into that

[49:01] is just for the water. Bank of New York.

[49:09] Which one's the cities? You have whatever. So, whoever's holding

[49:14] city, they get it. They're looking at what their financials are. Utility

[49:19] side's always most difficult because they have to meet debt service limits

[49:23] and if they don't meet them, they would have certain percentage.

[49:26] Yeah. have a certain percent of income available to pay for debt. And if they

[49:30] don't have it, they follow up. They'll tell you to increase your rates.

[49:38] They'll be pretty quick about responding to that.

[49:42] Well, we got water. We got your fans. Yeah, we'll get we'll get to the water.

[49:49] We'll get there.

[49:55] We got The council here is not a day-to-day operation. They don't sign

[49:59] checks. They don't write checks. Let know that this council has been one

[50:06] of the best council I've been on by things. And just a lot of things been

[50:10] blocked with micromanagement and some council get quit saying the same some

[50:16] but they're I keep telling them they got to do their job. They're responsible for

[50:21] the taxpayers money in their district. That is what they're here for. And they

[50:26] have done a fantastic job. They don't have what they have, but they get and I

[50:32] kept telling what I told you. We're not getting what we're supposed to get to

[50:36] balance our budget just in case we get over our budget. We need to

[50:42] adjust and we get I know it. I know what it's supposed to look like. I've seen it

[50:48] too many times. So they have they are not responsible for any of this. They

[50:53] fantastic job of digging and I'm so glad they and I tell them don't stop digging.

[50:58] Keep digging because you are responsible for your constituents in your district.

[51:03] That's why they put you here to watch over the money to make sure that it is

[51:08] running right and make sure that they don't that their money is spent

[51:12] especially for the citizen not being blow kind of like

[51:18] if it's not done right let's stop it right now. Let's adjust this budget.

[51:22] This is just that budget to make sure that the city is running right.

[51:25] Well, the city I'm say this in the city's defense.

[51:34] You'd like to have a balance sheet P&L coming out that software

[51:43] that largely hasn't been possible to give you an

[51:51] appropriate looking financial statement like that

[51:57] you check registers or or bank balances or whatever. I mean that's something,

[52:03] but you need monthly. In other words, your clerk should reconcile the banks

[52:08] every month and you print a balance sheet and a budget income statement and

[52:14] it it's there. It should be there and well, if you've got things that

[52:21] I'm kind of st I say I'm kind of stunned at how some of this stuff is more

[52:25] difficult than it should be where I'm going back and I'm seeing her entering

[52:29] transactions. I got to upload them. I got to all this stupid stuff. And then I

[52:33] got to go over here and I got to go post it and I got to go run a posting journal

[52:36] before it ever uploads the ledger and all that kind of stuff. And I'm just

[52:39] sitting there thinking, "Okay, this is like 1995 all over again."

[52:43] Yeah. If you got $100,000,00

[52:46] you got $100,000 of bills that hadn't been paid that that should have been

[52:50] paid. And it's hard it's hard to know what you got to spend to go out here and

[52:53] say we're gonna we're gonna add on the police station. We're we're going to buy

[52:56] a dump truck. We're going to do this that. So that's, you know, if we don't

[53:00] get the the data, the correct data, updated data, it's

[53:04] hard for us to sit up here as a council and vote and say, "Let's go do this.

[53:07] Let's improve the city by doing this because you don't know what you got to

[53:11] spend."

[53:15] I don't think any of you got that.

[53:19] You just didn't get it. talk about all nauseium about

[53:25] what happened and what we did.

[53:35] All right. Good. All right. I'll be When's the

[53:39] first meeting in August, Miss Trace? First Tuesday. Okay.

[53:47] The 5th. August the 5th. 5th. Okay.

[53:55] think about

[54:00] water.

[54:04] It's first Monday.

[54:16] July

[54:19] second, not

[54:26] the day before. It's the day before the next council

[54:29] meeting.

[54:33] All

[54:36] right. Main Street.

[54:53] Hey. Hello.

[54:59] I've been looking forward to it all week.

[55:03] Just put a stack right here in case nobody else wants some.

[55:12] All right. So, as you know, part of my um as a part of being a designated

[55:19] matrix city, we have to keep track of um several reinvestment statistics through

[55:25] or data throughout the the year. Um those include job jobs that in our main

[55:32] street district, new and closed businesses, volunteer hours, public

[55:37] improvements, public investment, and private investments. And um I just like

[55:41] to give it to you guys just so you guys know what we're doing. I know you guys

[55:45] are going to give a little update every

[56:00] private investment 68,87

[56:04] that was um our grants that private investments that people put in for

[56:11] grants this past quarter and I'm happy to say that grant has finished out um

[56:18] and I'll get a little bit more about that in a minute but for that quarter

[56:21] that 68,000 is how much property owners invest into their

[56:25] businesses to improve their businesses for for the area public investment is

[56:31] private or public money on private property. So that 18,400 is just the

[56:36] rest of the facade grants that were paid out this quarter um to those applicants

[56:42] that we had. That's not money that you know was in our account. It was just

[56:45] money that got paid back to reimburse them for the grants. Everybody had a

[56:50] chance to get up 2500. And then I put public improvements on

[56:54] here this year or this this quarter just to show because there's a couple grants

[56:59] and they're like That's public money on public property.

[57:02] I work with the county and the city and you know Larry and Pete to get

[57:06] information every quarter about how much money you know the police station

[57:10] improvements are on here that 135 number just goes to show it shows Main Street

[57:16] Alabama and Main Street America that you know the community is still putting in

[57:21] money to their buildings in our district to improve it. Whether or not, you know,

[57:25] the police station getting fixed up doesn't really affect this, but we can,

[57:29] you know, shows that you guys are interested in fixing up the properties

[57:32] for for people that may come here. Yeah. And then so in the back I'll just

[57:38] give a little update here. I'm excited to announce that our first grant or just

[57:43] our first grant in general, our grant first program finished this quarter and

[57:48] a grant that started out with $25,000 compounded into $109,000 worth of

[57:54] investment into 10 properties up here. Those properties are listed down below.

[57:59] Really exciting stuff. Just you say 109,000.

[58:02] Yeah. 109 541.

[58:08] is broken up into four committees that you have to have significre

[58:35] as well. I know Janice has as well just people noticing it to stop

[58:40] by. Um as youall know this quarter we got um we achieved Main Street America

[58:46] accreditation which is a huge deal. It's a big visibility boost booster for our

[58:50] city and for our main community. Um that will help us with more grant

[58:55] opportunities and stuff. That's actually something I've been working on this past

[58:58] week is looking at all the grant opportunities they've been sending us

[59:01] now that we're eligible for those just ones that they may send out

[59:08] to people that are credited to showing that we have a little bit more stuff

[59:12] under our belt and more willingness to be able to implement these grants. They

[59:17] were really impressed with our grant and our um business that I'll get to in a

[59:23] second. Um and then this as well we got sent to two conferences and that's a

[59:28] part of our main street as well our main street designation we have to go to

[59:32] conferences keep up these numbers that's why we do that we're still working on

[59:37] the zoning hopefully that'll be in front of y'all next time we meet to get that

[59:41] officially approved so that'll help to encourage businesses people opening

[59:48] up here and then as you know we had the river

[59:52] this year the grant that we closed out this past week was our broad ideas pitch

[59:58] competition grant. That one was um funded through Main Street America or

[1:00:03] Main Street Alabama and the Small Business Administration. That's the

[1:00:06] business pitch competition that we had that distributed $10,000 total $10,000

[1:00:12] to I think it's five or six different businesses for marketing, new inventory,

[1:00:17] equipment, computers, and software upgrades. and

[1:00:21] they're listed down here below. JS was able to get inventory for their

[1:00:28] pharmacy area was able to get a new computer. They've

[1:00:31] seen a lot more customers here lately. Their business is growing and we were

[1:00:36] able to help them out with new software upgrades and a new computer for their

[1:00:39] business. City Cafe was able to to benefit by getting a registered software

[1:00:44] upgrades. Law office was able to get some signage which I think is the for

[1:00:51] all their facade work that they just put in and topline equipment and flowers and

[1:00:55] gifts got signage. So that was another $10,000.

[1:00:59] That looks good. Yes.

[1:01:03] into the area to help support our small businesses here and hopefully increase

[1:01:08] our tax base. And then we were able to welcome Chiropractic. They hopefully

[1:01:13] will be open their doors in the next couple weeks and we'll have a

[1:01:19] Monday. July 7th. One day,

[1:01:22] possibly July 7th. We'll send out some information about that. We want to

[1:01:26] celebrate that. They've really put in a lot of work to not just get the building

[1:01:31] ready, but take care of it. They restored the original door knob that's

[1:01:35] on the door and woodworking. They're really taking their time to make sure

[1:01:41] it's historically accurate and taken care of for generations, which I think

[1:01:46] is very important. We've been working closely with them. Let me know if you

[1:01:49] have any questions about this, but this is just an overview of some of the

[1:01:53] things that we've done this last quarter.

[1:01:57] I got a question. Tracy, I know we made a commitment to Main Street to pay pay

[1:02:01] our donation every quarter. Have we have we been able to pay that donation to

[1:02:06] Main Street? I think she's up to date right now.

[1:02:08] I haven't sent the invoice for July through September yet.

[1:02:16] But yeah, this is another reason why I wanted to just to thank you all for your

[1:02:20] continued support, but we have not received our our check for this quarter

[1:02:24] yet, but I also

[1:02:35] [Music] today and we've we've gotten about

[1:02:38] $80,000 worth of grant since I've been here. Um, and I think that's something

[1:02:42] to celebrate about. We've definitely seen the impact so far. We're just at

[1:02:46] the beginning and Um, we're going to continue to grow, continue to look out

[1:02:51] for new businesses to encourage them to open up and fix up the buildings up here

[1:02:55] so that we can have people from other places, but also people that live here.

[1:03:12] No, that's actually I think against our ordinances.

[1:03:18] Thank you, Jerry. Yeah, thank you. Thank you'all for all

[1:03:20] your support and let me talk about that. Um, and then here on the bottom, that's

[1:03:25] just since 2023. Um, some of the improvements that we've had just so you

[1:03:30] guys can see our our impact over the past three years now as well.

[1:03:34] Good deal. Hey, thank you.

[1:03:39] Thank you, We got a couple of other businesses on

[1:03:42] the line, too. just to be positive. Um, still talking to two that I know of.

[1:03:46] Trying to find a hole for them, a place. So, good things come. Got to stay

[1:03:52] positive. Absolutely.

[1:03:53] Keep moving forward. We just need places for them to go. So,

[1:03:56] that's why we're, you know, urging property owners that do have vacant

[1:03:59] buildings to to fix them up so that they we can get them in there because um I

[1:04:03] know I have people knocking on my door and calling me a couple times a week

[1:04:07] asking, "Hey, is this property available or I would love to open up this kind of

[1:04:10] business. How can I do that?" something that we're excited to have

[1:04:14] people actually interested in opening up businesses here.

[1:04:17] I talked to one this week about something on 82 that they're real

[1:04:20] positive in

[1:04:24] that

[1:04:28] you know barbecue opening up but you know that's not main or in our main

[1:04:31] street district but it's still in the area and I think growth for anywhere in

[1:04:36] the county or even just the city is grow for us as well that's a get them to

[1:04:43] give a pitch for herds. I've been eating herds for a long time. I've been driving

[1:04:47] to Maplesville for a long time to get hurts. That is a good meal.

[1:04:53] And good people, too.

[1:04:54] Yes. Yes.

[1:04:57] Roman is a super guy

[1:05:01] and commit and committed to being a good community service.

[1:05:04] Yes, he is. Thank you so much for your for your

[1:05:08] support for letting me

[1:05:14] Y police chiefs on vacation

[1:05:21] what we do about the gas.

[1:05:28] Hey, take a look at that picture I sent out. That's inside of where the old fire

[1:05:32] station

[1:05:36] got fix.

[1:05:40] with some stairs. That's the ceiling above the shower.

[1:05:44] Yeah, Larry. The picture,

[1:05:46] correct? Yeah, we got we got,

[1:05:55] you know, we talked about all going to do that.

[1:06:01] Just not trying to hold that up. I mean, that's obviously got to be

[1:06:07] your best date.

[1:06:15] next week. I guess people

[1:06:20] next week. Yeah,

[1:06:22] I got two days. We got We got bids on the roof of your

[1:06:27] place.

[1:06:34] Seven.

[1:06:40] Monday. Yeah. Walk off

[1:06:44] and hamburgers and hot dogs. Monday.

[1:06:59] 10:00.

[1:07:04] Mike, what about the uh I know we had some credit cards that were that were

[1:07:07] cut off, frozen. Are we still got those frozen because of the the budget crunch

[1:07:12] we're in and everything? Yeah, everybody's on moratorium extra

[1:07:16] stuff. Like I said, police have volunteered to uh flip their overtime.

[1:07:21] So,

[1:07:38] activities. Absolutely.

[1:07:40] No travel, you know.

[1:07:45] You can cash your checks now. Did you get your check?

[1:07:54] Yours on my desk.

[1:08:03] I'm picking at you. What you get for being

[1:08:07] Hey, I ain't holding another week. Mike says we had money.

[1:08:11] We got her. Tracy, didn't you tell me I I didn't

[1:08:16] have to cash it, but I still get $10.99. Yes.

[1:08:29] Main Street's looking for donations. There you go.

[1:08:32] That's a way to get a plug in

[1:08:40] our treasur.

[1:08:44] Has no money straight. You better ask for donations.

[1:08:47] We're working on it. That's something I didn't mention that I

[1:08:51] forgot. But we um have been working diligently to increase our partnerships

[1:08:56] with other local businesses and industries and both in this county and

[1:09:00] outside

[1:09:11] celebration on green on 12th. July 12th

[1:09:15] vendor spots available if anybody wants to

[1:09:18] campaign. Let's not let's not leave this message

[1:09:22] this meeting.

[1:09:29] Do we have we have to do the fireworks?

[1:09:33] Yes. We will. Yes.

[1:09:35] How much? Uh 3500.

[1:09:40] It's split four ways. We didn't have to make no motion or

[1:09:43] nothing.

[1:09:54] It's if it's in the budget, you won't have to because you've already

[1:10:03] pass. I know, but

[1:10:07] Oh, there's money in the budget. I mean, y'all saying

[1:10:13] I, you know, we could fix the fire station today, you know, stuff like

[1:10:18] that. We could pay.

[1:10:22] I think when we approved that budget, there was something in there about I

[1:10:28] honestly think there was something in there about

[1:10:33] it was in there, but I just wanted to voted on it. I mean,

[1:10:36] yeah.

[1:10:42] Yeah. When you when you when you authorize the budget, you better

[1:10:50] wish we was going to do it anyway. Good.

[1:10:53] Even though cuz I'll stand I'll stand on that one

[1:10:57] now. That's we ain't got enough.

[1:10:59] Y'all got me out of the library, but I'm gonna stand there for him.

[1:11:04] That's what we Thank you for that. Come out.

[1:11:18] I didn't know

[1:11:25] the fireworks.

[1:11:40] I it might I I'll squeeze it out of somewhere.

[1:11:45] Anybody else?

[1:11:52] Next meeting July 15th water board the night before.

[1:11:57] Motion motion second

[1:12:02] question. in favor. Thank you.

[1:12:17] So the 3500 is our fourth

[1:12:21] or is the 3500? No, that's our fourth.

[1:12:28] It's 14. We

[1:12:32] ma'am,00

[1:12:35] who pays the other um is split city of Bren us

[1:12:42] hospital and I'm not sure about the fourth one but there

[1:12:47] may I don't

Centreville City Council 7-1-2025

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