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Meeting on Friday, December 20th, 2024 at 2.59 p.m. at Millersville City Hall. If you will

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please stand for the invocation and the pledge.

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An

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honor and privilege. Once again, be here, Heavenly Father, as we come seeking your wisdom

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and your understanding to lead God and direct us as the commissioners of this city. In the

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Lord that you will be done, we ask for your help and guidance. In the Lord as we walk

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for your sight and leaning up on your understanding and God bless our city, our nation, and keep

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Israel in peace. We love you and we bless your name and praise your name. In Christ's

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name, amen. Amen.

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Mayor, I would like to make an, oh I am so sorry I'm out of order.

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And to the republic, one nation under God, indivisible.

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Mayor, I would like to make an amendment to the agenda to add an item right now

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to accept the resignation of Bryant Crowell and I make the motion that we accept the resignation of Bryant Crowell as the city attorney.

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I said okay.

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But we

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will build on it.

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Okay.

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I have a motion to amend the agenda inserting or replacing item number four with accepting the resignation of the city attorney.

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Brian Kroll. I

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have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?

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I rescinded that. I tendered my resignation. It's for the city manager to accept.

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He didn't accept it. I rescinded it.

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I would like to go ahead and say that the city attorney is considered a department head,

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and according to the ordinance, it establishes the Millersville personnel policy.

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It is up to the city commission to discharge department heads by vote.

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I don't understand the

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committee.

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I'll vote.

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Go ahead.

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There's

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no further discussion.

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I will call for a vote.

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Commissioner Powell.

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Aye.

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Vice Mayor Darnell.

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Aye.

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Commissioner Gregory.

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I vote no.

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Motion passes.

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Okay.

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New item number five.

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Discussion of resolution 24-R-03 a resolution to amend ordinance 24-805.

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The annual budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2024 and ending June 30th, 2025.

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Vice Mayor Darnall, I know you put a lot of work into this and have some thoughts.

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Yes, so after our meeting Tuesday, so Wednesday morning, I reached out to Steve Osborn to let him know the situation.

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And then we spoke on the phone and he followed up with an email and I'll just read it.

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But he said he's free today. He'll try to call during those times.

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TCA section 9-21-108 allows for the budget to be amended by resolution when directed by the Comptroller, as with the previous budget letter.

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It's okay to take another meeting to amend the budget.

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We will continue to work closely with the city to control spending.

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If you don't mind, we would like the chance to look over the amendment you are considering.

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And I did send that to him so he has what we're going to discuss.

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And then he put a screenshot of the budget manual page eight, and this is administrative law.

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But if you recall, our budget was conditionally approved by the controller's office.

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So this is that section of the budget manual.

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So it says conditionally approved as defined as,

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conditional approval results when there is some required action by your governing body

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that must be fulfilled before the budget can be approved.

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An example, conditional approval includes when our office requires a budget amendment

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to legally appropriate principal and interest payments

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that were inadvertently omitted from the budget ordinance or resolution.

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Your local government will have 45 days after our letter is issued to meet the condition

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if the condition for approval is met within that timeframe the budget will not be approved.

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And then it goes on to say four cities pursuant to TCA 9-21-108, amendments required by the

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controller's office as a condition for budget approval may be passed by a resolution

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instead of an ordinance.

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That is the authority to do what was proposed on Tuesday and what's again going to be proposed today.

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And just while I have the floor, I sent you guys an email that I feel is appropriate to read into the record to assist in this discussion.

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But I sent it December 18th, 2024 at 841 a.m.

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And I said all, and this went to all the commissioners and city manager, city recorder and finance director.

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It says to comply with open meetings requirement. I intend to read this email into the record at the special meeting

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Additional information was shared with me from the controller's office that we need to discuss in public

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Mr. Kroll submitted an invoice. I believe for September work for around 30,000 last week $30,000 last week

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Based on this, I want to add an agenda item to discuss payments to Mr. Kroll and what is yet to be paid

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This discussion needs to happen prior to the budget amendment because this means we likely cannot

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unappropriate as much money from the legal services line item. We need a good

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understanding of what we have paid this fiscal year and what we still have to pay.

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Brian Morris that is please seek additional places where we can cut

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appropriations from the budget. I think if we end up paying Mr. Crowell $100,000

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this fiscal year we cannot cut $55,000 I proposed last night. In addition to

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the other $50,000 cut you mentioned we can't make to contractual services.

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We need to find $105,000 additional dollars to cut to meet the

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the controller's demands before the special meeting.

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And I believe that gets us into compliance to get going.

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I sent out the budget resolution amendment

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and I incorporated all of the changes

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that I proposed at the Tuesday meeting.

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And in addition to it, line 268,

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which is minor equipment for the fire department.

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I had that reduced from 20,000 to zero.

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It was a typo.

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So I now have changed that 20,000 to 10,000 and that is the starting point for this discussion.

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Today the new fire chief reached out to me with concerns about the proposed cut to the

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fire department salaries and he has proposed an increase from where we are now at $145,000

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for salaries to 168 to accommodate current staffing and then turnout gear from 10,000

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to 20,000. He explained turnout gear is around $5,000 per person so that would accommodate

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the four expected firefighters. I believe both of those are appropriate and that loses us

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another 33,000. So I believe we need to find $138,000 to cut to get ourselves into compliance

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with where the controller's office wants us to be so that they will let us not be

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defined as the worst financial city in the entire state end quote and

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I said a

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lot I'm willing to open up the floor I haven't heard anything from you guys I

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can keep going or you guys can jump in but we've got a lot of work to do today

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under economic development and developmental services the 10 440

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salaries yep we don't have that position anymore do you have any plan

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for filling that thank you interim city manager Morris the other one if you go

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down the 10 440 22 14 that's 8,000 we don't need it can you sorry I'm just now

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catching up what was the other line item 10 440 22 14 okay that's the

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PIERRE contract line? Correct. Yeah and let's thank you Jesse we probably need to

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do a great job. This is extremely complex there's a lot of numbers a lot of lines

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for people that want to follow along just do a good site so they can keep up. We

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won't need that one. The 10, 440, 2212 it's at 90 but I don't think we're

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going to spend all of that. That is what we pay out to Neil Shaffer for engineering. Okay,

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so it's probably going to be more around 75,000. Okay. Do you think we're 75s where we'll

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actually pay and we need to put it at 80 flex a little bit? That would be fine.

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The health

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insurance line that's in there as well, the 10, 440, 1300 can go away. And I assume

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retirement and Social Security Medicare in

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our way.

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If you go up above that and

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look at building in codes, you'll see the building inspection from Fieri. 60,000, you

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can take it out. Completely. Yep.

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Has anybody been tallying as we've been

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going. I think we're well over 120,000 so far. Maybe 130. We're at 133.

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$35,000 for forensic audit, which we never did. We

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did. We actually budgeted 60 for that. And I think they have dropped it down to 25. Correct.

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Yeah, from

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Tuesday to date till today that change was made. Okay, good.

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How much are we missing?

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We're still missing 5k to make the 138,000 delta for it 133,000.

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But it will.

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We do

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have the new, what is her position? The new billing specialist has submitted a

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two-week notice so she's she's gonna leave if we don't fill that position it's

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a new newer position I mean she's only been here for what a month so that's

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going to save you probably 40 grand is that in admin for the rest of the year

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it'll probably save you 20 yeah is that out of the admin salaries yeah general

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What's the second order effect of not back billing that it puts a lot of work on Kelsey, the office manager down there to do all the sewer billing.

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That's what that position was supposed to alleviate was they come in on spreadsheets.

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So they have to manually be put in the system by hand in different zones, different days, different times.

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it's it's a lot for one person.

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Do you think we need that? I think we do. The

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last thing we want to do is overwork someone and now we have another opening

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that we have to fill. I think and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong but I

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I think we do need that spot.

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It was very strategically, carefully thought out,

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and planned.

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Chief Bryant has spreadsheets and gave us

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our documented evidence of the need for a billing specialist.

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Since he wants to end the year, it's gone much more

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swiftly up there, plus we had an extra person

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to fill in with some months absent.

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So my recommendation is we do need it.

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Yeah, let's keep that on hold for now.

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know, I think there might be some additional things we can do. And after the meeting, Brian,

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you and I talked, I'm sorry, I don't have a perfect recollection, but I think you mentioned

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there were some police positions that have not been filled the entirety of the fiscal

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year so far.

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Well, there's one that has not been, there are two that have been gone for quite some

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time that we haven't replaced yet. So our budget is going to be the way I figured it

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up today. Even if we had those three people here, we're still going to come in under the

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million dollars. Okay. $980,000 is where we're probably going to be. And that's if we had

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full staff. So we were missing 20 from the other and that's like 27 that you just

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mentioned without having an impact on staffing, just claiming back money that's not already

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been paid so what

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Again, things happen. I don't want to drop it to where we're having to reappropriate in the last few days of the year.

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What do you think will be appropriate to not have to do that line item again?

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For the salaries?

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Yeah.

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I would say 975 would be safe.

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Okay. I believe that gets it. And then some.

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We're aiming 150.

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Yeah, and we're at, if my math is right, 157, 263.

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That was easy.

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We got a lot of work on the next agenda item because we got to do the amendments and vote on them.

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I did have several more line items. Sorry, I'm working off two files here, one with a lot of edits.

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I think I am happy with this for now, but I will follow up with email, but there are a lot of line items.

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Sometimes I just need to better understand if we're using it what we're using it for.

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I've been doing this job for three days now, got a lot of learning to do, but I do think

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we need to get back to the legal services line item that's in admin about the email

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that I sent.

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Do we have any idea how much we have paid or invoiced and not yet paid plus what we're

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expected to be invoiced for the city attorney thus far in the fiscal year?

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I'm trying to find that line.

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I'm sorry.

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That is line 107, but on the printout it's 10-410-4014, listed as legal services.

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If

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work has happened, we owe that money.

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And we need to make sure we don't unappropriate too much money here.

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Do you have any idea how much we've got?

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Yes.

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was on the phone today with the Comptroller's office.

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We thought

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it was permission to go ahead and pay the 17,000.

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The invoice for September.

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We do not owe for August.

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it was only 17,000.

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He came out to get the check today. And he said he has a couple of smaller

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invoices. I don't know how much those are. He hasn't submitted those yet. Okay. So looking

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at the bank statements, I'm seeing four checks that cleared this fiscal year. It's unclear

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to me if those apply to this fiscal year or not but they were they cleared our

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bank account this fiscal year I'm seeing 50,694 including the 17,000 just

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mentioned. Talking with Steve that invoice was for September and we don't

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know for sure what October November and December look like but if the trend

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continues, he recommended, well he didn't recommend, but around $10,000 per month, so

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that's two and a half more months, which would put us around $75,000. Do you believe that

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reflects reality?

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Yes, September was big because there was the TBI raid and there was a lot of things

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going on, so I got, I'll have to tally these up. I didn't submit the other ones

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because I didn't know what was going to happen with the Comptroller or whatever,

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But it's I'll get you the exact numbers. I'll tally it up

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It's under 10 I think

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Whatever whatever

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Thoughts for mothers on changing that from a hundred that well it was at a hundred thousand

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It's now at 45 moving it back up to 75,000

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Oh and

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we need to get back. I think we solved my second amendment on Tuesday was

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on line 91 and that's 10 4 10 2300 that's not the right line 22 10 yeah

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line about cross-eyed contractual service agreements it was at 200,000 I

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moved it down to $150,000. Brian made a comment about SCECC, Sumner County Emergency Communications.

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I believe we agreed those are separate line items, aren't they?

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They are.

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Is there, okay, so now we still need to look at that contractual service. Is that dropping

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of $50,000 still appropriate?

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it.

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It's I think so I know in the past we had had OHM advisors in there as a

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contractual service but they're no longer with us and that at one time that

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was anywhere from 48,000 to 172,000 just for that one contract so I think we'll

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be fine. I know there's a remodeling in addition that we had in there the

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year before for 30,000s not there anymore. There's some things that we can tell we should

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be fine. Okay.

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I think that's the end of all of my comments. But I threw a lot of amendments

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in between last our changes between the last meeting and this one. If anybody wants to

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discuss any of those, I'm happy to go over the thoughts behind them.

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While we are discussing,

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we have a number of amendments that need to be made. Is it your preference to go

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one at a time vote to approve the amendment or read them all off

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and group and approve. Group and approve then we'll have to go back if it fails. Yeah.

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So have there been anything that you guys have seen in the proposals that

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doesn't seem like it will work for the city?

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Commissioner Darnell's

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proposals? Yes. I haven't. When I looked over them, I thought they were reasonable, honestly,

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for the most part, except for my training and education budget. But that's well, fight

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about that. No, no. This is the time to fight about that. I'm just teasing. No, no. So

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the background to what I was trying to do, I'm trying my best to not touch people's

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employment or pay. So I looked at what doesn't affect that. If there is training that you

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need, if it's reasonable, I think we have some flex here if we need to put some more

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back in there. Do y'all agree with that?

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So the thing is, the reason it was so large, it did go up from that first year, is because

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so many of us needed training. With Tyler, everything is online. There are some courses

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that Judy and I need to take in general ledger and accounts payable and there

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roughly about 725 of course each. So some of them are 425. See the 425 or 725

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there might be a couple that are 250 and then I wanted to get Kelsey some

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additional training too in utilities. There's just so much that I didn't get

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any training nothing. Yeah so that yeah that was it 15 and went to five do

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you have a proposal on?

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So because if we do five, I'm probably

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going to go over a little bit if I start training.

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Right now, Judy and I are also getting our training

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for I'm doing CMFO and city recorder,

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and she's doing city recorder.

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That's two conferences a year.

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CMFO is every month.

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That's one 10 a month.

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The conferences are travel.

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So it's hotel stay.

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It's all those kind of things, too, for us.

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And that was coming out of that administrative training budget.

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So we might be able to do $10,000.

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I'm going to go over $5,000.

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So you guys are going to be frowning, yeah?

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Well, what I want to avoid is a squabble over $5,000,

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where we have to come back.

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And I mean, I don't want to go.

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We have that chance right now to do this one and done

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resolution.

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And then next year we can work on it sooner.

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And I would hate to have to come back and do

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the two readings of an ordinance if we could just.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Can we have 10?

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No problem with it.

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We accounted.

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We had a little bit extra that we cut out and that would be enough.

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That's 10 reasons.

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I'll try not to use it all, but I'm pretty sure that we will.

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We have two conferences coming up this spring.

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Did you want to have a discussion about contractual services?

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Yeah, so it was going to be discussion if we needed additional money to cut.

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But I think we've got that covered, but just for the benefit of the new commission in terms

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of educating us on these budgetary line items, there are a lot of line items listed in this

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budget that are contractual service agreements that are broken down by the various departments.

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Help us understand what kind of contracts we have broken down amongst these departments

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and how much money has actually been committed or appropriated amongst these contracts that are listed here.

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So for most of them, if you get into like the police department for contractual service agreements,

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that would be like our storage for our body cameras.

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It would be the body cameras themselves.

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Anything that we have on a contract, a yearly paper year basis is going to be figured into that.

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for the front office people it's gonna be a lot of that's probably gonna be

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software like Tyler is a contractual service the phone system pretty much

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anything that we have you know like at your household if you have electric

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bill cable bill stuff like that same same thing applies here if you look at

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just in the general account these are the contractual services that we have

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through that that one department. Which is exterminating the security service for

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the building. The Canon copier that we have to pay every year. Champion data

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systems. Civic Plus which does our codification. County record service we

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have to pay for. E-government. Inetco which is our internet security people.

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night horse, the shredding service that we use,

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Corson that does our fire extinguisher certifications,

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the cleaning, OHM, which has gone away now,

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but it's a lot of, and that's just the one,

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just this one. Yeah, that's just the one admin.

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Correct, but if you look at every department, anytime you see that,

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that's what it's going to be, and most of the time that we have put those in there,

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It's stuff that we're going to have to pay every year.

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Yeah.

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So I guess what I would ask is, in terms of when

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we see monthly financial reports, if we could see the breakdown

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of these contracts and how these are actually broken down

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so we could better understand what these line items are

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made up of and what services the city is being charged for.

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because this is going to help us when we come around to actually setting the

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budget for next year if we can find some efficiencies elsewhere maybe there are

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services we don't need and we can better help fund come up with

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recommendations on what we can cut or maybe there's some redundancies here

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things like that things that are covering multiple things at the same

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at the same time that we can only pay one of those versus pay three of them.

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And maybe there's one department here that's paying for one contracted service

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that's exactly the same as what another department's paying for,

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that may be covered under the same contract.

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And it may just be that people don't know that that's what those contracts are doing.

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So it would help us if we understood what contracts we're actually paying for

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within these line items, and then how these contracts are

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So, I mean, we've got a lot of round numbers here and I understand that because this is just

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the budget, but when it comes to the financial statements monthly, but understanding, are we

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paying like annually one bulk payment? We're making monthly payments. We're paying every

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six months on certain ones of these contracts. How much are we paying? And in understanding

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what those payment plans are, so that gives us a better expectation when it comes to when

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see these monthly financial reports so we're not worried about if I see a zero

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there I'm not gonna be freaking out because I understand that I'm paying

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we're paying as a city on a six month contract so I'm not gonna be paying

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until six months from now on this one contract and so that way we better

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understand what that payment plan is yeah I think too we need to anything

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that we can we need to rebit again I think technically by our ordinance

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we're supposed to do that every year anyway if I'm not mistaken so every

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everything we have in those contractual service agreements should

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technically be rebid every year and I don't think that's been done in quite

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sometimes so that's probably something we should look at too I don't I don't

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know that that's going to save us any money because everything's going up but

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we need to do it. So while y'all are talking I ran the

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calculations. Our target appropriation was $4,410,063. We are now at $4,278,800. So we

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have beaten the goal by $131,000. That brings our ending fund balances a percent of total

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appropriations to 26.9 up from around 6 to 7 percent. So next fiscal year will be

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a little difficult, but I think by the end of it, we can make the

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controller's office happy.

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It is. All

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right. Is there any more

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discussion resolution 24-R-03?

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Sir? All of these ordinances and

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resolutions need to be approved by the city attorney, so we need to

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approve a C-H-O-I on those.

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Whether or not they can

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move an

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attorney, we could probably reach out to the city judge and

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have

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them do that.

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What's the Charter Citation?

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Mr. Crow will

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you be billing your time while you're here today?

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Does anybody have problems with adding a signature line for Mr. Kroll to sign since we will probably

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be paying him for his time here.

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I don't consider him really accepted as a resignation during his meetings and I don't.

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Do you want me to add that to a list of amendments?

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The language from the charter is approved as to form, so I will add a line that says

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approved as to form with below it a signature line and

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below that what do

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y'all suggest I put?

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All right everybody okay with that? So there would be another

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amendment on the resolution tab at the very bottom that will say approved as

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to form and have a blank for a signature line.

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I think I am ready to go to the

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next one when you guys are okay

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we will move to item number six approval of

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resolution 24-R-03 a resolution to amend ordinance 24-805 annual budget for the

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fiscal year beginning July 1st 2024 and ending June 30th 2025 I so move I

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have a

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motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Yes. Thank you. I will make a

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lengthy amendment. On the resolution tab, I will amend to add at the very bottom

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approved as to form colon and below it a signature line. On the GF tab, this is

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Line 68 under administration, 10, 410, 1100 salaries, changing the value from 300,000 to 310,000.

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On Line 79, which is 10, 410, 2002 education and training, change the value from 5,000 to 10,000.

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on line 107 that is 10 4 10 4 0 1 4 legal services change that line item from 45

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thousand to 75 thousand line 137 it is 10 4 11 2 2 1 4 contractual building

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Instruction, PIERRE, changing from 60,000 to zero.

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On line 150 it is 10,440,1100, Salaries Economic Development, changing that from 52,000 and

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$3 to zero.

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Line 153 it is 10,440,1200, Social Security and Medicare, changing that from 3,000

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Line 154, it is 10-440-1300 health insurance, changing that value from 10,000 to 0.

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On line 155, it is 10-440-1400 retirement, changing that value from 3,500 to 0.

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Line 167, it is 10, 440, 2212, contractual, commercial, planning, review, OHM, changing that value from 90,000 to 0.

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Line 168, it is 10, 440, 2214, contractual PNZ-Pierre, changing that line, that value from 8,000 to 0.

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This is in the police section. Line 206, it is 10, 421, 1105, Salaries Police, changing that from 1 million,

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7,760 to 975,000. In the fire section, line 243, it is 10, 422, 1100 for salaries, changing

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Changing that line item from 145,000 to 168,000, line 269, it is 10-422-2314 or turnout gear.

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Changing that line item from 10,000 or that value from 10,000 to 20,000 and that is it.

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I recommend we group and approve all of those amendments.

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I

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have a motion to group those and approve as one unit.

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Do I have a second?

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Second.

415
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All right.

416
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I have a motion and a second.

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Is there any discussion?

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I do have one quick question.

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Yes.

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Ten, four, four, zero, twenty, two, twelve.

421
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That was ninety K.

422
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He said it went down to zero.

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Tell me that side again.

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10, 440, 2212, that was economic development as contractual commercial plan review, 0810.

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I thought that was needed to go to in

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discussion.

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212.

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10.

429
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Because we are still getting engineering review.

430
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212.

431
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Did I say 90,000 to 80,000?

432
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No, you said zero.

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Zero.

434
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You said zero.

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So an amendment to the amendment will be to change line 167, which is 104402212 contractual commercial plan review OHM from 90,000 to 80,000.

436
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What did I say for the line below it?

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Zero.

438
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That's correct.

439
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Okay.

440
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Okay. I have a motion to amend the amendment to change line 10, 440, 2212 to 80,000. Do I have a second?

441
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Okay. I have a motion and a second. Are there any comments?

442
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Thank you for finding the correction.

443
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Okay. Then we'll just vote all those in favor say aye.

444
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I was opposed that motion passes back to the original amendment which included all

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of this that we're voting on in one are there any additional comments

446
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if not all

447
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I'll call for a vote.

448
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All of those, oh, sorry.

449
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I think you guys need to be doing these by ordinance.

450
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I'm looking at the citation here

451
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from the DCA Section 9-21-108.

452
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This is about notes and bonds and stuff like that.

453
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I don't know, Mr. Jacobs has a opinion on this,

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but I'm pretty sure it has to be by ordinance.

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So I would follow this up,

456
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this resolution up for the full ordinance procedure

457
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would be my recommendation.

458
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Thank you.

459
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I believe we should continue on and then ordinance later.

460
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Are there any other comments?

461
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If not, I'll call for a vote.

462
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All those in favor say aye.

463
00:43:06,780 --> 00:43:07,140
Aye.

464
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:08,340
Those opposed?

465
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:10,780
Motion passes.

466
00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:19,520
Now we need to vote on the resolution itself, right?

467
00:43:21,830 --> 00:43:29,320
This is, I have a motion from Vice Mayor Darnell.

468
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:34,680
for resolution to pass 24-R-03.

469
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:35,960
Do I have a second?

470
00:43:36,900 --> 00:43:37,480
Second.

471
00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:40,700
Is there any discussion?

472
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:44,680
There's no discussion.

473
00:43:45,380 --> 00:43:47,140
All those in favor say aye.

474
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:47,880
Aye.

475
00:43:48,700 --> 00:43:49,360
Those opposed?

476
00:43:51,510 --> 00:43:52,710
Resolution passes.

477
00:43:57,030 --> 00:43:58,790
All right, item number seven.

478
00:43:59,550 --> 00:44:02,510
And please correct me if I can't do this.

479
00:44:02,710 --> 00:44:05,330
I forgot the city comments or citizen comments,

480
00:44:05,330 --> 00:44:11,050
which was at number three. So I'd like to ask for any citizen comments at this point.

481
00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:16,400
Alright, entering the city manager's comments.

482
00:44:21,730 --> 00:44:22,850
Alright, commissioner's comments.

483
00:44:23,550 --> 00:44:25,730
Commissioner Gregor, I don't have any either.

484
00:44:26,370 --> 00:44:27,510
Vice Mayor Darnell.

485
00:44:27,730 --> 00:44:29,470
It was a pleasure working with you all today.

486
00:44:29,890 --> 00:44:31,750
We can do hard things. Well done, guys.

487
00:44:32,270 --> 00:44:32,610
Thank you.

488
00:44:34,090 --> 00:44:34,910
Commissioner Powell.

489
00:44:35,570 --> 00:44:37,890
No, I'm just happy we were able to get this done.

490
00:44:39,910 --> 00:44:40,370
I concur.

491
00:44:43,780 --> 00:44:45,140
Number nine, adjournment.

492
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:46,780
motion to adjourn.

493
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:47,520
Second.

494
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:49,380
We are adjourned.

495
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:51,780
All right.

496
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,520
I'm going to make all these changes.