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[1:40] Okay. Okay. It is six o'clock, and we're going to call this meeting to order the Farmers
[1:46] Most Meeting Development Corporation. This meeting will be broadcast live through the city's
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[2:08] Looking on watch live streamer meetings, can we do a roll call please?
[2:15] Regina Friedman, hair, trade Crawford, Robin Edwards, Tony Falk, Carla Butler, Richard
[2:24] Red.
[2:25] You have a quorum.
[2:26] Perfect.
[2:27] Thank you so much.
[2:28] All right.
[2:29] Anyone wanting to speak is asked to speak at this time with an individual time limit of
[2:34] three minutes.
[2:35] This form of limited to a total of 30 minutes, if a speaker inquires about an item, the
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[2:43] of specific sexual information, recite and existing policy, or if a proposal that the item
[2:49] be placed on agenda in the future meeting. Do we have anyone? Nope. Okay. All right.
[2:56] Informational items. So we have a lot to cover tonight, but let's start with our active committees.
[3:04] Our website and social media committee is Tanya Richard and Trey.
[3:08] I realize Tony is not here, but you guys met this last week.
[3:12] Were you able to give an update?
[3:15] Graves is the meeting for M7.
[3:17] So more information.
[3:20] There was progress that was being made.
[3:23] They seem to have, like a skeleton or a lineup of tabs
[3:29] that are going to be used on the website.
[3:32] We went and kind of went through the pertinent information
[3:35] that we were looking for. The M7 group asked us for some information that we
[3:42] responded that we would try to get to them before the end of the week. We set
[3:47] up a tentative live opportunity around December 1st as a consideration. And
[3:55] that's pretty much where we left it at this time. Okay, very good. All right, our
[4:02] Our budget and payment tracker, Regina, once we finish tonight's budget, then we'll
[4:07] get a fresh tracker to start with.
[4:09] Thank you.
[4:09] I appreciate that.
[4:11] You're welcome.
[4:12] And Tony is not here for our signed committee.
[4:15] Does anyone know of any updates?
[4:17] Nope.
[4:18] Okay.
[4:18] Then we'll just move forward.
[4:20] All right.
[4:20] Item for discussion and possible action.
[4:23] Consider discuss and act upon approval of minutes for the SCVC meeting on July 13th of
[4:29] So if you all will review the meetings in your meeting minutes in your package, we'll go through that.
[5:55] Looks like everybody's just about wrapped up.
[5:57] I would entertain a motion.
[6:01] I'll make a motion to prove the minutes from the July 13th meeting.
[6:09] All right, can we get a hold of the board, please?
[6:11] Yes, ma'am.
[6:13] Regina, pardon me.
[6:15] Yes.
[6:15] Troy Crawford.
[6:16] Yes.
[6:16] Robin Edwards.
[6:17] Yes.
[6:17] Coral Butler? Yes. Richard Ruff. Yes. All right. And I want to take just a minute to take a step back because I feel to acknowledge that our city manager and the
[6:26] list myth was here. And also if you all have not met Gina yet she is our new minister of assistant. Thank you for being here. Welcome. All right. All
[6:39] right. So I'd be considered discuss and act upon approval of financial
[6:43] We do not have financial statements to cover this meeting, but this is a
[6:47] standing meeting agenda item. So we will review those as the following meetings.
[6:52] All right, item C, consider discussing act upon SEDC property disposition.
[6:58] I know we have finished and completed the activities on orange tree and we are in
[7:04] progress to get that turned back over to the city. So there will be further updates on that later on.
[7:12] and then we don't have any other updates.
[7:15] Item D, consider discussing act upon park board grant updates.
[7:21] Just have a thorough Angela, you don't want to have an update.
[7:24] I know there's two grants that were for Section 4 and for the Chevrolet Trail that we still
[7:31] have a little bit of money on that we're outstanding.
[7:33] I don't know where we are at in finishing that.
[7:36] I do not, but I can get the board an update and submit to you.
[7:39] Very good.
[7:40] Okay.
[7:40] Thank you.
[7:41] All right. So that's actually also item E. Consider action discussed upon the
[7:47] Chevrolet Rail update. So we'll just move forward with that. Consider discussing
[7:51] act-upon group in seven website updates and try was able to speak to the
[7:56] meeting so we've already gotten that update there so so we are rolling through
[8:00] this. Item G. Consider discussing act-upon this September 14th, 2026
[8:07] board meeting. So if you all will please look at your calendars and let me know if
[8:11] there are any conflicts for your attendance on September the 14th and it's not
[8:17] then we will schedule it for that night to
[8:29] follow on there but I'll be here
[8:31] okay I
[8:37] should be here right good yes all right well then we will schedule it
[8:42] for September 14th please all right item H consider discussing act upon the
[8:50] the 2025-26 budget, which we are about to close.
[8:55] So there are some items that are in there, not for this coming year, for this last year.
[9:02] There are a couple items, which take it still out standing that we'll be finishing up
[9:06] here before the end of September, okay.
[9:11] All right, and then item I, what everybody's here for.
[9:14] consider, discuss, and act upon the 4B fiscal year 26 through 27 budget and special
[9:20] project grant applications. So you
[9:27] all have your spreadsheet and we'll go
[9:30] through this.
[9:34] Thank you, Pat, for making it large. All right, and I have it on my
[9:39] computer so I can update any changes that we need to make. So if you'll look at our
[9:50] So we're at 610,571 and our interest we should still be the same at 35,000.
[9:59] So I guess it's a total revenue of $645,571 for our budget year.
[10:06] So there's nothing to, there's nothing currently on the total for Main Street program since
[10:11] we don't currently have something like that.
[10:13] So we're just leaving it there as a placeholder in case we ever put it back into the system.
[10:18] For Parks and RAC, the Shapiro Trail upgrade from mile number 5.1 to mile number 11.2 was
[10:26] already completed, so that will not be on this next year's budget.
[10:30] The trail improvements for section 4, so there's still $75,000 that's in our budget, it's
[10:35] already in the bank, so this was something that could potentially be completed by the end
[10:40] of this fiscal year, but it may roll over into next year, so that's why you're seeing
[10:44] that on there.
[10:45] And then the trail improvements from Merit Celeste, the original grant was 349,000.
[10:51] We have a carry 4 to 49,000, so that's what's showing up in the 2627.
[10:57] And again, that could be completed by the end of the fiscal year, it may not.
[11:01] So we're going to carry it over in the event that it's not.
[11:05] So the kayak watch was completed in 25 and 26, so there's nothing further for that.
[11:10] Real estate.
[11:12] So last year we had to satisfy $275,000 for the purchase of real property, but we did not use that.
[11:20] It's still in the bank. We're not rolling it over, but I've only allotted $265 for this calendar year.
[11:27] Just based on the discussions that we have had.
[11:33] That could be adjusted just so you know, but we'll look at that.
[11:36] J.W. Spain bleached replacement. That is a grant request that we talked about at the last
[11:42] meeting. So their request was for $8,000. From the last meeting, there were no objections,
[11:49] but it was more or less let's walk through the budget. So, preemptively, it was approved,
[11:55] however, the budget has not been approved.
[11:58] Then we don't have anything.
[12:04] No. We haven't
[12:05] any updates for them.
[12:12] I don't think you. I don't think you. I don't think you're my son.
[12:27] The word was hoping if there was a potential to double that and do two sets of bleachers.
[12:33] They just had their meeting last Thursday night. So there was some discussion just as a heads
[12:41] up for you. I think someone was supposed to reach out to you in this group but I'm not sure
[12:44] who, if there was the availability to do two sets at 8,000 a piece instead of just one
[12:52] if that is an option.
[12:54] Okay.
[12:55] Okay.
[12:55] I asked you a question on that one.
[12:56] You can't.
[12:57] Did they say where those bleachers were going to go?
[12:59] Because I was just out there last weekend.
[13:03] We can't afford it.
[13:04] And they looked.
[13:05] Right now they look great.
[13:07] There's bleachers on them.
[13:07] It's every field.
[13:09] I mean, I didn't look at it.
[13:10] I don't think it was an addition.
[13:12] It wasn't an addition.
[13:12] It was to replace one.
[13:13] But I hear what you're saying, but there was one that wasn't up to code, and I do not
[13:21] know the answer to that.
[13:22] Again, that was my first meeting with them, so I was just trying to kind of navigate
[13:26] that.
[13:26] But if they did it, I'm just just a heads up that that may come, they may ask that question.
[13:32] And I don't know if they were replacing or if I knew they didn't clarify that in the meeting,
[13:36] so.
[13:36] Okay. All right. No request this year for the J.W.B. Svane restaurant,
[13:44] for restaurant, sorry, restroom remodel, totally different thing, but in the back
[13:50] stops and netting were completed for last year as well. So for total for
[13:54] parks and recreation, we're looking at $397,000, which includes the trail and the
[14:01] real estate that we're looking at. So the Heritage Museum did not ask for anything
[14:05] this year, so that total is at zero. Well, for a school day, they did put in a grant request.
[14:10] We initially talked in reference to that about looking at roughly 20,000 for the year,
[14:17] just based on previous history and where we're at, so we'll continue to look through all
[14:21] these. I WF Cemetery Road Replacement, she replaced one of the roads there in the cemetery
[14:28] with the debris removal with 16,000. And then Charles Wright and Moral Library, the summer
[14:34] a reading program with $4,000 was a request.
[14:37] Farmers will outreach a line,
[14:39] pet requests for $6,900,
[15:00] Chamber of Commerce events. Request was at $10,000, which would give us a total for civic organizations of $62,000, $315. Moving forward, special events, Centennial Oldtime Saturday was at $8,200. Nothing for sparks of freedom or the Truvador series at this time.
[15:30] It's boutique mural on the side with $22,500.
[15:33] And Chevrolet Road Open Day event was 500,
[15:36] which gives us a total for special events of $46,719.
[15:42] And then the SCVC project, I did have a conversation
[15:48] with Angie about a digital sign.
[15:52] And so I just put a place marker of $20,000
[15:55] for a new city, a city sign for farmers
[15:58] that would also correlate with the chamber, so it would kind of be in between.
[16:01] Is this the only thing in place of this manual sign that's right up here in front of the bill?
[16:06] Is that what we're talking about?
[16:08] I'm going to defer to Angie.
[16:11] That is what we're exploring yet, so I have reached out to a vendor to get,
[16:16] I apologize, I don't have prices, this kind of got sprung on me a little late,
[16:20] but I reached out to them.
[16:22] It would potentially be a digital sign in place of the one out front
[16:26] that has the little block letters that they put up announcing meetings and such.
[16:30] It would be a digital sign from a company that we could do a number of different things.
[16:36] I should have the prices tomorrow. I hope that I would have them today.
[16:39] email got caught in spam so I should have them tomorrow.
[16:42] But that's rather than I kind of talked about that being kind of a placeholder.
[16:47] If we see that it comes in more than that, we can also always split that cost between CDC and the EDC as well.
[16:54] So,
[16:57] and that's just a rough number, there's nothing to it, so correct, just a placeholder.
[17:03] So, our industry property, we've completed that along with the demolition, so there's
[17:07] nothing in there.
[17:08] Property maintenance over at the Spain Complex, that's for mowing $4,950, and then the
[17:14] Spain Complex debris in the Burm removal was $12,000 to get that where it needed to be.
[17:21] No funding for property maintenance of Orange Street, again that's already been taken care of, and our 112 college street, the 1200 was for mowing as well.
[17:31] So then you have a 10% carryover for marketing, which is a 10% of our total budget, $61 and $57, $61, $57 would give us a total of $99,207.
[17:46] Reembursement to the City of Accounting Services is at $1,000, legal services in our board training for the fiscal year is at 20.
[17:55] So we did have it just because we had some more things coming down the pipe that we need to be ready for.
[18:01] Laptops, tablets and our software we were looking at roughly $15,000.
[18:06] I know Angie was going to look into a few things and see if she couldn't get us a better deal.
[18:09] but that would cover the board, all the security that comes with it,
[18:13] and then eventually there may be other boards that would join in.
[18:18] And then nothing on the May taxes and professional services,
[18:22] we were at $30,000, which gives us a total of $66,000 there.
[18:28] Our carry forward expenses, that's your $5,000 from the tablets that we had
[18:32] satisfied last year, and the $49,000 on the previous page
[18:37] from the improvements for America to the last, so they're $54,000 that we're carrying forward
[18:41] from budget to budget. So our total expenses for the year are $671,241. So currently, as
[18:47] it says, we are $25,670 over budget. So we've pre-emptively looked at the grant request
[18:59] and said that we were good with what they were asking for. Now we may need to make a few adjustments.
[19:05] So my,
[19:08] I'm open to any discussion, but the first one I kind of want to look at is the
[19:13] real estate, because we didn't, we didn't do the 275,000 last year, I've already lowered
[19:20] it, but that's a sliding scale, we can always lower it again, and just go with a lower
[19:28] amount, we can go 250, we can go to 25, whatever that looks like, or we can leave the budget
[19:34] as is and take the additional $25,670 out of our reserves.
[19:41] I think the real estate can make a good point about the real estate for
[19:47] future investment
[19:50] and I think a
[20:03] new grant request from
[20:08] a new.
[20:12] Everything that's on here we talked about at the last meeting.
[20:16] So I mean we can lower it if you want to lower it down to $240 that makes us $670 over
[20:24] and we can figure out where to cut another $700.
[20:28] We can make it $224,000.
[20:31] I think that's the way to go.
[20:34] I mean, this might please chime in, I'm fine.
[20:37] But I'm just thinking that we don't have it.
[20:40] Everybody else, everything else that we have in here
[20:43] are things that we have funded over the last couple of years in the release.
[20:48] So it's kind of a mess.
[20:49] But it just means that we can't, we have to wait a year,
[20:55] possibly process the real estate.
[20:57] I think also based on the conversations that we've previously had about those that even
[21:03] 225, 220 would probably be enough for what we're looking for.
[21:07] I would think that it would be plenty, so I will entertain a motion to change that.
[21:12] I would, did we change the funding,
[21:21] I move that we lowered the amount that we have set aside for real estate purposes
[21:27] is by $25,000 to recover the amount that
[21:34] we need to make our budget whole.
[21:38] And would that make our budget whole if we add the $8,000 for additional bleachers?
[21:44] We need to take that consideration there.
[21:47] So if I lower the real estate to $225,000, $225,000,
[22:00] and then double the bleachers.
[22:02] So, $16,000 for two.
[22:05] We are then, not right,
[22:29] it was $26,000, it
[22:39] was
[22:43] $26,000, let me put this back in.
[22:49] 351 is 33, roughly, what's 232?
[23:08] Mouse, because I really don't like the mousepad on this computer.
[23:12] Sorry, guys.
[23:13] Let me just look at that.
[23:16] I can see a difference in our old time Saturday of what we had proposed
[23:20] with a 5,500 and then it's moved to 8,200.
[23:24] It has moved to 8,200.
[23:25] There is a very large committee and we are working through all that.
[23:31] But also, there's a cost increase on several of the things that we're looking at for all times out our day.
[23:37] Okay, security increase on that?
[23:41] Security is not included in that, but when you look at, you have 4 to 7,000 people coming to town for this.
[23:48] You know, you're going to need more hand washing systems and more toilets.
[23:53] Yes, so there are other things that come into play for that.
[23:57] so let me put this back up here. I
[24:08] think that's right actually we can put our
[24:11] real estate back up because now we're under because we took $40,000 away from
[24:16] real estate and only added eight back in so that's 32,000 so now we're under
[24:21] budget over $6,000.
[24:25] Yeah I like that. I'd rather have some sitting there. Well
[24:30] and this is just the budget we have to work with. We still have reserves in the
[24:33] bank that aren't included in the budget. This is just the budget we satisfied.
[24:38] I'd like to.
[24:39] We have a reserve for the original board of pool.
[24:42] Yes.
[24:44] So you
[24:47] say that one.
[24:52] At least once in a meeting I got to sneak that in.
[24:54] You do.
[24:55] You do.
[25:00] Well, then I will entertain a motion that we do say with my previous motion that we will
[25:06] not say we're even right.
[25:08] We are under budget by over $6,000.
[25:13] Doubling the bleachers from $8,000 to $16,000 and from taking the real estate from $2.65 to $2.25.
[25:30] That's the $40,000 that we took away from our real estate from $2.65 to $2.25.
[25:36] Okay, I moved that we brought the real estate investment to $225,000.
[25:44] We'll accept the budget as written with that amendment.
[25:49] Okay, and the bleachers.
[25:51] Thank you.
[25:52] And the bleachers.
[25:53] The bleachers cost would take to $16.
[25:56] Okay, do we have a second?
[25:58] I will second that.
[25:59] Can we pull the board please?
[26:03] Regina Freeman.
[26:05] Yes.
[26:06] Trey Crawford.
[26:06] Yes.
[26:07] Robin Edwards.
[26:08] Yes.
[26:08] Carla Butler.
[26:09] Yes.
[26:09] Richard Red.
[26:11] All right.
[26:13] So then we are adopting the budget as is.
[26:16] Okay.
[26:20] There are no public hearings at this time and executive session we have nothing to
[26:26] discuss for this meeting but that will stay as a standing item on our agenda.
[26:31] So at this time can we discuss anything that needs to be placed on future
[26:35] agendas?
[26:37] Outside of our normal. Outside of our normals that we do.
[26:42] I'd like to talk more about the block cameras and then we talked about it last month and
[26:46] I'm going to defer to Angie.
[26:48] We did.
[26:49] We thought and that's why I'm being
[26:50] rather great.
[26:52] Okay.
[26:53] So the city has made the decision.
[26:55] I have spoken to the chief and
[26:57] the assistant chief and at this time
[26:59] they're going to pull their request for
[27:01] flock cameras.
[27:02] So we will stay.
[27:05] I believe we have four currently.
[27:07] The city will stay with that.
[27:09] There are grants available.
[27:11] And we need to clarify what kinds of
[27:14] cameras where those cameras are going to go before we try to fund those. So if you
[27:21] notice they weren't in the budget and they're not because I reached out to
[27:25] Robin and asked her to please pull that list. I talked to the chief and the
[27:29] assistant chief on Friday. So there are grants available as well. So once we put
[27:34] together a full plan, we have a conversation with council related to where and
[27:41] And what types of cameras are available and where those cameras might go, then we will
[27:45] have some marching orders to go forward.
[27:49] So, we have pulled that request, the city has pulled that request.
[27:52] Any
[27:55] other items that y'all would like on the future agenda?
[28:04] Well, if there is nothing else, I'm not going to let y'all know this is record timing.
[28:07] I want you to look at the floor.
[28:10] We are adjourning this meeting at 6.27 p.m.
[28:15] I'm going to come.
[28:17] Excellent.
[28:17] Next work, everybody.
[28:18] This is going to be a smooth project.
[28:20] To the next.