Finance committee meeting 8-24-26

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[0:01] Hey, good evening everybody and thank you for coming to our monthly finance
[0:06] meeting committee meeting and uh hope you all are informed on what how the
[0:13] city is spending your money. Uh in attendance is our chairperson
[0:18] Rogers.
[0:21] » Call chairman Smith.
[0:27] » And we'll call this meeting to order at 604.
[0:36] M Lewis, uh if you look at under department one2 human resources,
[0:43] » which one? Um we're doing um August we've already done
[0:52] » under uh department 112 human resources there are two line items professional
[0:56] services for synergy cruise in the amount of
[1:04] $9,750. Okay. Um, as you know, the mayor, uh,
[1:10] Lisa Will is a former human resource director.
[1:14] » Yes. >> She resigned.
[1:17] And that company is the new HR consultant, Leslie.
[1:22] She want to be paid through her family holding company. So that's who that
[1:28] company is. >> Synergy Foods. That's a family holding
[1:30] company. >> Yes.
[1:31] » Okay. And
[1:34] » but the mayor don't need to hiring someone at that level as a full-time
[1:38] employee knowing that this term her office is what 9 months
[1:43] » and this is for monthly invoice. >> Yeah, she builds every two weeks is
[1:48] obviously.
[1:52] » Okay. Thank you, sir.
[2:52] Yeah.
[2:57] Mult any particular questions you'd like to ask
[3:01] us? Um,
[3:20] » with regards to the public works, I don't see,
[3:24] you know, the extra clean up they did due to the storm. Was that on this bill
[3:29] or was it all just >> No. And that's really showed up
[3:33] basically in over time >> all the time. Okay. Just more so,
[3:39] right? Uh and also what happened was the county basically a lot of the tree limbs
[3:45] and we certainly not finished picking them up. The county basically took all
[3:50] that stuff for picked that stuff up for us. We've hired because again we don't
[3:55] have the trucks to send our trucks do a lot of clean up but we just outsource
[4:01] that way. I mean so much I mean certainly not to say we get like home
[4:07] man still had quite a bit of tree debris.
[4:12] » So the county took most of the tree >> most of the tree.
[4:17] » What about items that was in the basement of the home? got stuff that's
[4:22] going to be fixed up by the city or is included in the additional refuge, the
[4:28] dumpling cost you'll see go up some and that's a Republican the way you'll see
[4:35] the bill being larger. >> Okay, that's under the refus.
[4:41] Okay,
[4:44] » Mr. I have another question in regards to department 105 legal department.
[4:50] There's uh five Let me make sure. 1 2 3 4 five six
[4:57] seven. Yeah. Under the dusk and scoop. Um
[5:03] there's several invoices accumulating over $50,000.
[5:09] Were these invoices um when these litigations due to labor?
[5:16] Most of that's labor. Yeah. They involved into they're playing catchup.
[5:19] As you know, Montana Welch uh was replaced by that. So, it's a fair amount
[5:25] of catchup. >> Iran is in the driver's seat. Iran has
[5:28] the initiative to get Iran for negotiations that will start the law.
[5:33] » Okay. You need labor.
[5:36] » Yes. All the contracts are expired. Aspie, sergeants, the fire.
[5:47] All four contracts are expired. >> Expired as of
[5:53] July, August. >> Well, most of them expired at April
[5:56] 30th.
[6:03] » M. This was under the department 11 I'm sorry, department uh 116 communications
[6:11] uh Infinity Technologies. They have an invoice for $2,100.
[6:18] » That's website maintenance. >> That's monthly.
[6:22] » Yes.
[6:54] Um, now we typically have a plane
[6:59] right before spring and fall, >> right?
[7:02] » When it's time to clean the drainage in the city, is that a machine that we have
[7:07] to have rental for that? >> We have a sewer vacuum.
[7:11] » We have a sewer vacuum. >> Yes.
[7:12] » Do we know what condition that's in this?
[7:15] » I understand. It's a broken door. >> Is that broken water?
[7:19] » Yes. >> Okay, good.
[7:29] There are department 102 administrative services
[7:34] under equipment purchases. Um I'm just curious what equipment did we purchase?
[7:41] » Who's the benefit? >> Um C CDW government those were a couple
[7:48] of laptops and computers that had to be replaced.
[7:54] try to replace the computers on a rolling basis so we don't have to go out
[7:58] buy 50 computers at one time, you know.
[8:03] » Gotcha.
[8:09] And remember computers are almost >> Yeah. Yeah. I agree.
[8:19] » All right. Pretty much tied up. I want to make sure
[8:26] Sorry, my dad.
[8:54] this uh under uh fund 80 for grants grants and capital projects. There was
[9:01] um professional service anchor heavy civil LLC water meter water meter
[9:07] replacement uh that was $112 $112,000
[9:13] $698.50 50 cents. This is money that was
[9:19] received. >> That's money we're paying out to them.
[9:22] That's a grant. >> It was grant money. That's my question.
[9:25] Okay. >> From the state of Oklahoma.
[9:28] » Gotcha. >> Is that for the new meters that they're
[9:31] installing? >> The new meters that they're installing.
[9:34] Anchor's also involved in um meters. They were also early involved in the uh
[9:41] fire hydro placement. So you'll see that name quite often.
[9:48] And the next big project is one who address pipe replacement. That contract
[9:56] is still in negotiations. That's actually a $10 million contract to go in
[10:01] 3 years. >> I think they're in the midst of u
[10:05] scheduling >> to put around the people's house.
[10:08] » They're surveying the houses now. >> Yeah.
[10:10] » They want the the county. That's kind of a county federal program where they
[10:16] wanted us to identify the lay lines.
[10:21] So they would have some idea how many they have to replace.
[10:25] » Okay. >> We know anything that was built hard
[10:28] before 1960 probably >> pretty much. Yeah.
[10:32] » Yeah. Well, um, madam co, do you have any
[10:37] further questions? >> No. The chair makes recommendation to
[10:41] accept the August bill is to bring before the entire committee, the entire
[10:48] council for
[10:53] make sure I got the date right. >> August 24th. Yeah.
[10:59] All in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
[11:01] » All oppose. There are none. And that will conclude the business portion of
[11:09] our finance meeting.
[11:15] We are scheduled to have a finance of the whole to discuss
[11:22] appropriation of the whole. Yes. >> At 6:15.
[11:26] » So it looks like we're right about on time.
[11:29] » Yes. >> I'd like to make a motion to adjourn the
[11:31] finance meeting. >> Second. All in favor signify by saying
[11:35] I. I. All >> oppose.
[11:38] » Thank you all for coming.