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of America and to the republic for which
it stands. One nation under God,

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indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. All right. Thank you. Tonight,

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our invocation will be given by Miss
Carol Edwards and she is with the

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Dilling County Fellowship of Christian
Athletes. Miss Carol, thank you so much

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for being here tonight. Thank you for
having me. Let's pray. Gracious heavenly

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father, Lord, we thank you for the city
of Dylan. And we thank you, Lord, for

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the men and women who you have called,
Lord, to serve this city uh to serve

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you. Uh Lord, we just pray right now
that your wisdom would be in this room

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tonight. Lord, that the unseen guests in
this room, but very present guests would

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be your Holy Spirit. Heavenly Father, we
pray for the city of Dylan. We thank you

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Lord for the past success of the city of
Dylan but Lord we look forward to the

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future and what you have planned God for
our city. So Lord I just pray right now

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that you would have your way in this
place. Heavenly Father I pray that you

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would help us Lord to love one another
and to serve one another in this room

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tonight and help us Lord to face one
another with the face of Christ. We ask

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you God to bless our city, protect those
who serve our city, and we ask these

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things in the mighty name of Jesus.
Amen. Amen. Miss Carol, thank you very

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much. And in case you don't know, she
works with all the schools in the

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county, and she does a super job with
the kids. Thank you for everything.

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Thank you.
All right. First thing is the approval

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of the agenda. Do we have a motion to
approve the agenda? Do we have a second?

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Second.
discussion. All in favor? All

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opposed? Approval of the minutes regular
council meeting April the 14th, 2025. Do

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we have a motion? Motion.
Discussion. All in favor?

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Opposed? All right, moving right into
the mayor's report. Want to welcome

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everyone tonight. Little rainy weather
out there. appreciate everybody braving

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braving the rain and coming out to join
us. Uh it's been a really really busy

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month in April and the first part of
May. There's been a lot happening around

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around the city of Dylan since our last
meeting. Of course, the most notable

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thing was to celebrate Maine and and
Lisa, I think every year it gets bigger

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and bigger and and I think you actually
had to turn some people away this year.

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Wait till next year is all I have to
say. wait till next year. But it it was

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a great day. We started out that morning
with the Huntington bike ride and fun

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run and then of course u Councilwoman
Smith and I were out there at the stage

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and she led us in the pledge of
allegiance and we got started and uh

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Pastor Johnny Corbett started us out in
a nice little prayer and and it was a

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great day and and I asked Lisa about how
many people came. I guess you you you

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estimated by somehow 3,000 or something
did that. But I think what's important

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too is to realize how many people
actually took to put that on. Exactly.

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I've never calculated it before and I
estimate around 775 people to to just

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put it on with the vendors and their
help and everybody else. So we might

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have had 3,000. We had 775 just out
there working it. It was it was an

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incredible day. There was a lot of good
food, a lot of a lot of good

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entertainment and and people stayed
late. The police department, they worked

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all day. They were vigilant. Public
works, they were up and down the streets

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picking up stuff. The recreation
department, they were out there with

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bingo at the theater. Douglas, uh, you
know, everything went great. The fire

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department was out there all day. They
got put down there by the train tracks.

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Kind of loud down there. A lot of kids
down on that end. And of course, the

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Methodist men cooked there that
afternoon. and we really appreciate

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that. But it like like Lisa said, it was
it was a great day. It took a lot of

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effort and a lot of people participated
and and it it is a very classy event and

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it shows well for the city of Dylan and
and I really appreciate how everyone

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everyone was involved and and Burke,
please please tell all the guys how much

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we do appreciate it and acknowledge
their efforts. They they got up early.

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They must have gotten there at five or
six o'clock that morning and I guess

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some of them were still there at 12:00
that night. So, thank you very much.

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Following that, we followed up with
another little bit of entertainment down

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at the fountain for our first first
Friday event. And and with that, we had

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a local artist, Terry Powers and Pepper
Creek. And and you know, they did a

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great job and it was a huge crowd. The
weather was great. and Lisa, thank you

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for for both of those events and heading
those up. This month, we also had a

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groundbreaking and we broke ground at
the long anticipated market pavilion

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over on the buffet lot or behind the
visitor center behind the police

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station. And I'm so excited about that,
Bert. It looks like it's going to be a a

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great venue. And as we try to revitalize
downtown and we look to bring foot

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traffic, this this is going to bring
foot traffic down there. So, we had a

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nice groundbreaking, of course, uh,
Representative Hayes was there and said

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a few words, and I think Stephanie with
DCA, she was there, said a few words,

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and you know, it just it it takes a lot
of people to bring the funds together to

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make these projects work. And I really
want to thank you, Burke, for all that

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you're doing with this. that hopefully
this project will be finished by

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Thanksgiving. That's that's what they're
saying. We were also able to dedicate

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our fifth and final mural of the season
or of this series, I must say, I might

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say this series. And of course, that is
the train mural over there on the

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Madison lot. I think um right in front
of Kings and and that is one of the the

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nicest
historic murals. and and if you get a

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minute, just go by there and stop and
take a look at it because it is really

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nice and we had a great crowd came out
for the dedication. I was really

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surprised to see all those people and uh
you know we we talked a little bit about

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murals and then Councilman David
actually got up and gave us the history

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of that mural and and it comes from a
picture in Councilman David's office and

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many
of those those the pe knows the names of

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all the people in that picture and many
of their descendants still live in

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Dylan. Of course, it had Mr. Dylan and
your grandfather in that picture as

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well, right?
Ta Dylan T JW him and his father. Him

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and his son. But anyway, it was great a
great day and of course um great time.

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If you don't want to know that history,
please please ask Councilman David. But

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but thank you for that. This month we
also had a couple scholarship gaylas or

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events. The Hara Manning scholarship
over at Bry's, the Rosa D. King

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scholarship over at the wellness center
and council woman there was about 300

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people in
there. It was it was a big event.

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This month was also nurses month. So,
you know, we got to go over to the

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hospital and and
celebrate the nurses and and of course,

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we appreciate everything that Mloud
Dylan does for this community and the

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city of Dylan and they couldn't do what
they do without the dedication of of

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those nurses in the hospital there. They
it really really great to have that that

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facility here and all those nurses. So,
I did want to take a minute to thank

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them. Also, I was able to represent the
city of Dylan at the PD Denim Day over

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in Marian. And if you don't know what
Denim Day is, that's that's uh I guess

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it kind of commemorates domestic
violence and kind of brings it to the

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forefront. And there was a big crowd
over there for that. So, that was that

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was also a really good good event to to
attend. And also speaking of Marian, we

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were also able to go over to the airport
for the Marian airport open house. And

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everybody always says, "Why you go to
the Marion airport open house?" Well,

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that is the airport that we're supposed
to use. You know, we're not supposed to.

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We do use that airport a lot when
someone comes to town and visits and

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flies. That probably is the closest
airport for them to come into. And um so

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we do we do push them over there if they
ask. So, um, that was that was a great

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event. And lastly, we had the National
Day of Prayer across the street over

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here, and it was a really good attended
event. There were lots of lots of people

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came out, lots of good prayers for the
community. And I do want to thank all

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the ministers in our community. They do
a lot of job, a lot of work, praying,

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not only for the city of Dylan, but the
surrounding community. And I do want to

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thank them for their faithfulness
faithfulness to our community and to our

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citizens. And with that, that's all I
have. Mr. Rogers. Okay. Thank you,

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Mayor. Uh, first thing I have tonight is
I want to introduce y'all to someone. I

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promoted one of our workers to be the
public works supervisor. His name is

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James Jacobs. I'm going get up. Speak
speak about James for a minute. This is

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James. Um, most of you know James, some
of you do not, but James has been a

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dedicated employee of the city of Dylan
for 20 years. He's worked in each

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department in public, public works. He's
worked in sanitation and storm water,

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streets. Uh, I'm very confident and
proud of James. I think he's going to do

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a great job. I think he'll, you know,
fit right in where I left off. He and I

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coordinate a lot together. I'm going to
help him any kind of way that I can, but

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I think he's an asset to the city of
Dylan and he's going to be, you know,

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very good for what we need him to do.
But this is James Jackets. If y'all need

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anything, get the man to call.
Thank you, James.

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Congratulations.

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We can get you his number.

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But he he'll be a good one. You might
want to go stop

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Next thing I want to discuss tonight is
the budget. If all of you can get your

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packet out, this is proposed budget for
2025 to

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2026. I don't know if any of you's had a
chance to look at it. Uh I gave you a

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few brief highlights in the the last
council meeting.

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Uh what you see in front of you is a
balanced budget for water and sewer and

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the general
fund. So let's see are the reported

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numbers here year to date for 2025 is
that is that through 10 months? That's

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through 10 months. So if I look at that
and I um extrapolate that out to 12

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months, right? It looks like we're
uh a significant amount over budget. Is

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that correct?
Yeah, because we didn't budget 100% of

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our revenues. You talking about for last
year? I'm talking about where we at now,

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year to date, you know, where we are and
um you know, if I if I read this

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correctly,
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our the 2.2 2 million6. Which page you
looking at? I'm one one of eight. One of

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eight. Okay. All right. And is that
37,000?

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Huh? Yeah. It shows like you got 26,000
left in this budget year. So you're

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looking at revenue, huh? You're looking
at the revenue.

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Okay. Revenue side. Okay. My bad. Yes, I
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Um because the Okay, so we're in good
shape there. So we're 10% over budget in

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revenue now. Okay. Um and you're
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anticipating Okay, good. So you're
anticipating that to be with the under

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your recommendation that
we So that's really kind of an

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underestimation of what we're going to
do this year. Okay. All right. All

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right. We don't budget 100%. We try to
at least page. Yeah. But you know when

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when I translated this,
we're pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. So,

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I didn't even look at, you know, be able
to get a balanced budget and do what

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we're trying to propose in in the
general fund is a 3 mill tax increase

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that's involved in this budget, right?
And a 5% sanitation

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increase. And
that will offset a 12% insurance premium

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increase and also which
is the 70 80,000. Yes, sir. But the good

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thing about it is we only have to budget
half of that money for this year because

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it'll start in January. So we'll finish
out the rest of this budget with our

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current rate. When January starts, we'll
pick up the new premium rate.

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So it ended up being about 35 or 40,000
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for. So the next thing is is this budget
also includes a $1,200 pay increase for

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every
employee. And for most employees, hourly

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employees, that's like a 3% raise. Some
of them a little more than 3%, some

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maybe a tad bit less, but for the
average employee that's a 3% raise

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across the board. Basically CPI.
Basically CPI. And the good thing about

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this, there's no um money taken out of
depreciation to balance this budget. You

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know, we're still funding the
depreciation. So, we were able to

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balance it with no loans or, you know,
depreciation money used.

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So, but there is no capital expenditures
in the general fund, which you know, we

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all talked the department heads and
myself and everybody, we in pretty good

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shape with capital expenditures in the
general fund. And a lot of that's due

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the state earmarks we've received in the
past as far as buying equipment and

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police guards and and equipment at
public works. So, we felt like we could,

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you know, go another year without having
to, you know, budget anything. But, we

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do have some capital coming in. We have
a new fire truck that will arrive in the

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next few weeks. Am I right, Keith? Yes.
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have it. So, we do have a new fire truck
coming. We did purchase a new police car

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last month with some money, you know,
state money. And we also have a new

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street sweeper that's, you know, $300
off this $300,000 piece of equipment

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will be coming in in the next couple
months also. So, we're going to, you

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know, stay pretty decent shape equipment
wise and vehicle wise and all that in

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the general
fund. But that's my recommendation as

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far as general fund is concerned. Unless
you guys see anything different, you

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know, a 3 mill tax increase is generate
$66,000, which I, you know, told you

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guys about in the last meeting. And for
your information and I know you know

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people you represent and all will ask
and from our standpoint nobody wants to

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raise taxes. I understand that but we're
in a time now that you you got to do

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everything you can to generate revenue
and inflation is especially in project

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wise and things like that. We had a bid
opening for wastewater treatment plant

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upgrades this past Thursday. I'm just
telling you how much inflation is that

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we were projecting it to be $8 million.
When the bid came in, it's $17

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million. And that's that's what we're
facing on our end trying to figure out

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how to fund these things. And there's
only a little bit of money we can raise

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and a 3 mil tax increase is, you know,
we we don't want to have to raise taxes,

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but we have to do what's best for the
city. Keep you lose that opportunity

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every year. Keep us in good. Like you
can catch up. You got to do what we can

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to give us a good operating.
And what I was going to tell you is like

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a $100,000 home,
it's a $12 increase in taxes. $200,000

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home be
$24 more. So that's that's a basis of,

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you know, probably the average home
prices in dealing with people home. It's

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a 12 12 to $25 increase. Of course, the
more your house costs go up a little

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bit.
sanitation at 3%. What's a 5% sanitation

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increase? So that's going to take the
roll cart to

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$3749 something like that. Yeah. And it

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was how much? It's going from 3568 to
37.4 is that one. So it's like a $1.7

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79 increase.
So we tried to, you know, we did do a

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10% sanitation rate last year. So we
tried to, you know, we realized that,

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you know, things are tough for everybody
and we're trying to, you know, keep it

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at a minimal increase for
everybody. I think the budget looks

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good from that stand. Any got any
questions you'd like to ask on the

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general
front? I know that's fast and

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still got time to look at it till next
month. We'll try to do first

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reading this month and and do the second
reading next month. Unless you guys have

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any questions or any changes or anything
you think you see

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different water and sewer. Yeah, I'm
going to water and sewer now.

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So what
we're ordering

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store going back to general fund right
quick. So with that budget that'll be a

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budget of general general fund of

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7,532,588. Water and sewer total budget
proposed is $4,78,774.

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general
fund. The two capital expenditures were

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requested in general fund. One's a
vehicle, one general fund. I mean, I'm

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sorry. I'm sorry. My fault. Water and
sewer is a 3% increase on sales. Going

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back to what you said, last year we did
a five. I tried to cut it back to a

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three. I think that the profit margin in
general fund is where we like it to be

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around 20% 15 to 20%. So, we still got
financially sound there, but we still

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got to maintain that that margin for
projects like I

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was matching grants. The projects are
millions of dollars. You got to keep

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this money here to keep it viable and
able to match these grants and, you

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know, and do repairs and all we need to
do. But it's

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a talking about water and sewer. Yeah,
water and sewer.

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The base cost Janet can tell you what
the base cost rates will be. Okay. The

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base cost right now is

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is $561 cent for water in town. It's
going to go to 5.78 which is 17. Um per

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gallon it's going up to 7 cents per
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and 19 cent per thousand. And um that's
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5,000 which is an average of 5,000 um
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$8741 it'll go to
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that's water store and
sanitation with the 3%.

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That answer question

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garbage. Yeah.
What about storm drains? That's not in

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that. No, that's another I didn't do
anything with storm water fees at this

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time. You
know, I wanted to have that discussion.

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If you we pay it's $4 now for a
resident, $5 for business. We haven't

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been up since we implemented the storm
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You know, if we go up a dollar, it
generates 30 some more thousand miles a

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year. I think I figured it maybe 32,000
a year. If we go up a dollar on

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residential and dollar on commercial, I
didn't really put that in because I

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hadn't discussed with you guys about
that. I didn't know how you felt about

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it.
If we can balance it without it, I would

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try to read that off.

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Now the the these rates you're talking
about they're prime this is all

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residential or residential and no it's
all it's residential and commercial now

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the produce rate will go up also
did you have that number? Yes, it it'll

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go up. It'll go up the same percentage
rate up everybody. Yeah,

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it'll go up to 479. 479.
That'll be an increase.

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That's 3%.

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They're our biggest store users, so
they'll generally play more.

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I think it's a, you know, for way
inflation is I think we're being

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responsible for the city and, you know,
doing what we have to do to keep us

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moving

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forward. Going back to storm water, you
know, that's your guys opinion. Storm

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water operates on its own account. You
know, we have a fund balance of 330 some

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thousand in storm water. Now, we do use
that money for matches and for equipment

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repairs and and two employees. Um, I I
think we'll be fine if we remain where

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we are.
And if you had some

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granted, you know, we have matching
money general fund. We don't have to

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accumulate money there in order. It's
not like sewage has to be separated. So

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I you know I don't I didn't put it in
there but I I don't want to sit here and

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nickel and dime you know as
citizens but you know something to

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entertain but if you guys are
comfortable with leaving it as is I am

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also
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but like I say that influence that funds
two employees and you know equipment

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repairs and sometimes we have to do
training work things

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We leave that as is. That's what y'all
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the what's it called? The big truck. The
backer truck. Backer truck. Yes, sir.

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So, where are you in that? How old is
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discussion for too much longer. It's a
2012, but remember, we bought it used,

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right? But that's a $500,000 piece of
equipment.

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So, we just got it at a shop. It's been
in shop for about two months. So, it's

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just it's specialized piece of
equipment. It's hard to get it worked on

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just anywhere. Then you have to wait in
line in the parts and but it's finally

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got it back. So, you know, it's it's
ageable. I mean, it's 10, 12 years old,

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13, whatever it is. But, I think as long
as we take care of it, it should last a

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few more years.

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Where are we going on the storm water
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Storm water project. Uh we have a
pre-construction meeting on June the

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10th. So once they we have
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meeting and it'll be a notice to proceed
and contractor should be starting

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closely by there. That's been another
challenge going on in my office with

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Janet also is obtaining 42 easements.
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a lot of easements and trying to get
folks to sign easements on their

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property and some of them live out of
town and, you know, this and that and

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it's, you know, it's pretty difficult,
you know, time consuming, a lot of

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talking and emailing and mailing letters
and trying to get people to understand.

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You decided how much of it we ought to
be able to get done.

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Well, the office of resilience is trying
to obtain us some more money before we

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can do the whole thing, but it's it's
it's an appropriation through Congress

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some kind of way that they're trying to
get this extra money. As of now, we're

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doing two two phases down by the city
shop and the Lucius Road, which is about

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I think it was somewhere around
$9 million or something like that that

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we're able to do now. So if we could get
the rest of the funding, it' be like a

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$12 million project. So we have a $9
million project. What kind of

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abbreviation of water is that going to
give us down? I can't answer that. They

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designed it
to hydraulic engineers and all, you

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know,

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satisfac where it comes out at the end.
Wasn't the first thing though? Was

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it Where is it that they had that pipe
that those larger pipes are going to a

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smaller pipe? Yeah, there's a couple of
those around town that have been

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identified. One's over here on Hampton
Street and there's another one. Uh think

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where the other one was.
Two phases or was that not a part of

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Hampton? I think that's in a different
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Now the one crossing of the railroad
track through Hampton, we're not

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changing that. Not that
on down where the shop is where let's

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let's get back to this budget then we'll
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that. But anyway, I think you know
budget is balanced for water and sewer

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and general fund. Um there is some
capital expenditures in the water and

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sewer department of a vehicle, a tractor
and cutter, spray field, a commercial

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moore, and a equipment shelter. Total of
$180,000 capital

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outlet. So everything's budgeted. Like I
said, it's in balance. Um think it looks

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good. unless you guys have any
questions. Anything you see that needs

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to be
changed, but you know, Janet and I,

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especially Janet's worked very hard on
getting this his number together and I

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think it's well put together and I'm
comfortable with it and Janet is

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also y'all have any more questions.
We'll have

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Yep. Like I said, you'll have this. You
can look at it when you have more time.

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We have another month before we do the
second reading if you got any questions

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then. If you have any questions between
then and now and the next meeting, give

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me a call. That way we can talk about it
because we'll have to we have to have a

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public hearing in our next meeting to uh
finalize the budget. But tonight we'll

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do a first reading on it and we can
still order it if we need

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to. That's all I have far as the budget
in case you guys have anything else. Now

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the money for the uh sewer for the
school. We got this fun. Yeah, that's

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our done.
That project it's closed

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out. Okay. The last thing I have real
quick is some of you guys went to the

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municipal association annual meeting
last year. Um this will be taking place

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again around the same time, July 16th
through the 20th at Hilton's Head.

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Uh, if you want to go, you need to get
with Tina and let her know our

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reservation times coming up. I think May
the 30th. We You need to know by May the

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30th, I think. Is that right? June.
June. June 30th. June. Okay. 1st of

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June. We'll get with Tina. If you would
like to go, let her know as soon as you

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can. I know some of you went last year.
If you new folks want to go, it may be

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beneficial to you guys to see how
government works.

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Yeah, I don't know. You guys that went
will it be beneficial for him to go if

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you want to go again? Tim says yes. So,
like I say, you got a few weeks to think

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about it and
uh give Miss Tina and

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she'll get y'all signed up. But other
than that, that's all I have and I'm

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going turn it over to finance director.
[Applause]

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Thank you.
General fund. Our total of all cash

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accounts

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4,96,892. We brought in
$32,463 more in 25 than we did in 24. We

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spent

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$139,261 more in 24 than we did in
25 there. And those grant funds are in

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that. And of course, I pay general fund
back