[0:00] no I iil

[0:30] is this

[0:37] your ladies and gentlemen just to remind you this is a public hearing so whether

[0:42] you're going to speak or not we need you to sign the sign in sheet for the public

[0:47] record so if you forgotten to do that please do so

[1:01] ladies and gentlemen I'd like to welcome you

[1:03] to this public hearing for the fiscal year 2013 2014 budget the time is

[1:11] 650 p.m. date April 22nd

[1:17] 2013 herea here here suan here here wood here Rose here Conley here we have

[1:27] everyone in attendance you can stand and recite the budg Al with

[1:37] me of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation

[1:44] under God indivisible andice for

[1:58] all the purpose this hearing is to receive public comments on the fiscal

[2:02] year 2013 2014 budget Harvey zida you're up

[2:09] first thank you mayor uh page 16 of the

[2:20] budget oh yeah PR L it uh page 16 of the budget uh field

[2:27] groomer uh on this year we paid $10,500 for that groomer but I think we

[2:33] had uh about $7 8,000 That was supposed to be paid on next year's

[2:42] budget and I see we have a lot of Zer z z for

[2:47] that I'm wondering where that money's coming from or where we're going to get

[2:51] that money it may be coming out of equipment

[2:56] Parks and Recreation $1,750

[3:02] but I I think it should I don't really think you should uh show it that way I

[3:07] think it should show that you're paying the rest of that money off on next

[3:12] year's budget next year you're going to look at

[3:15] Park of recation on equipment you're going to see

[3:18] $1,750 and you're going to want to spend that again thank

[3:24] you thank you

[3:36] next we have um at our uh budget meeting down at

[3:42] the library I asked a lot of questions and was told that uh the administrator

[3:49] would get back to me and I never heard from them and when I asked for the

[3:53] answers he said oh you have to email them to me

[3:58] well uh I thought he was taking notes to answer the questions I had but I sent a

[4:04] whole sheet of questions today and never heard back from him either I heard from

[4:10] ever which was amazing because he's not even working for the city yet

[4:17] um and I sent it all one at a time to each of the olderman to see if they had

[4:22] any questions similar mine

[4:27] um I wasn't aware that we had had uh any projects for Meadow Brook Drive Road

[4:34] Project or Scenic Road Project I'd like to know more on these before we vote um

[4:40] not sure if the 120,000 will be enough for French Creek Park ex

[4:45] extension um I'm not sure the length of that um marking Market Street parking

[4:52] lot receive 25% of that amount so is those changes made in our

[4:58] budget and what are the completion dates on any of these

[5:03] projects um is there any way we can find a way to pay for Street lighting other

[5:07] than from our M field packs and is this for our entire city or just for main

[5:17] stre Parks and Recreation I see we have 8,750 for utilities are we going to look

[5:24] at alternative ways to save money on this maybe uh close the par during the

[5:29] off or change the plumbing system and the

[5:32] constant pressure system so that we can shut it off and or maybe even get an

[5:37] estimate with that cost and um maintenance service for the ground um we

[5:42] were told this would drop since Bal DS were maturing but it went

[5:48] up and I don't know how our expenditures dropped from 397 207 5,000 down to 21,

[5:57] 350 for Park and streets we have engineering for

[6:04] $10,000 if we're doing several projects is that

[6:08] enough and the community room maintenance is a th000 um we need to

[6:15] address the break situation that it's located in the library portion of the

[6:19] building so when the library is Coos and someone runs the building no

[6:26] access and their utility tax is only 65,000 last year it looked like proposed

[6:32] was $

[6:35] 29,6 don't know what the difference is there and miscellaneous income of

[6:43] $325,000 I'd like to know what's going in there because our uh Auditors

[6:48] recommend that any income or expense over a th should have its own line item

[6:53] for the budget for better

[6:57] clarification and salary aggregation is all Department salaries

[7:05] total on that or is it separate I'm not sure how that

[7:11] work and revenues are up

[7:16] 587 225,000 and expenses are up

[7:23] 44488 where do these figures come from and were some the expenses including a

[7:28] building inspect and where is that coming

[7:33] from and I kind of would like to have seen uh ending or beginning balance how

[7:38] be wor it I thought we were going to get that for the general fund at least but

[7:46] projected ending balance for this year or the beginning balance for this year

[7:50] would be it depending on how you're looking at it

[8:00] next is Nancy

[8:13] Anderson Well I spent a great deal of time the last few days looking at his

[8:18] budget and I've taught school for 43 years much but another education

[8:22] advanced math and I call this best thing as

[8:26] example of a shell game and that you can follow through and

[8:31] anything um and my reest basically is this I look at the beginning page one

[8:36] and two and trying to understand this

[8:39] because this is so important to everybody the motor fuel tax for a

[8:44] revenue for this year was 11 15,28 for

[8:49] 1213 anticipated it will go to 432,000 plus from 115,000 plus to

[8:56] $432,000 plus revenue is quite a jump then you go to the expend

[9:02] expenditures for the motor fuel tax and for 1213 for expenditures

[9:11] 145,000 for year 14 13 14 projections 640,000

[9:17] plus those are huge numbers different when you go back to

[9:22] the beginning of the of the dialogue was here from years 2005 and six I looked at

[9:27] all the numbers across the board you have this big jump at 9 10 and then you

[9:30] come to this year 12 13 to 14 big jumps a lot of times I wonder what happened

[9:35] then you go to the page referring to the community our community room again this

[9:39] is put into the um a general fund one of our general fund

[9:44] expenses and the point was it used to make $122,000 a

[9:48] year now we're making $4,500 a year the reason why is that a room that was added

[9:55] on to the library given to the citizens because it's theirs and we've gone

[9:59] backwards in Revenue why because we're not using it why because it's in poor

[10:04] repair why because that's the way the budget was set

[10:08] up then you go to the part about Parks and Recreation you try to follow through

[10:11] that I keep looking for sports complex and the fact that in March it had

[10:16] $186,000 deficit March it had $177,000 deficit trying to figure that

[10:22] out I can't find it anywhere or understand it I would ask our new mayor

[10:27] that's coming on board shortly Mr and the new Council and for those who

[10:31] are going to be retained to please try to develop a format for the next budget

[10:37] but you start very early and work with a budget that you can read and understand

[10:42] this is really crucial to everybody they're always hard they're always

[10:46] complicated but you need to have everybody understand it not just the

[10:50] person who writes it not just the city administrator it

[10:54] needs to be by all eight of you and the mayor and everybody involved in this

[10:58] policy so I my recommendation is please take your

[11:03] time don't just vote on it because you you're down to a deadline give yourself

[11:07] time next time and try to make it so it's feasible to

[11:17] understand thank you

[11:34] sir you were the late attendee did you want to offer any comments or

[11:40] not yes I have no comment okay thank

[11:52] you okay now we move on to written statements has anybody received any

[11:58] written statements regarding budget any council members any

[12:11] staff okay we've received verbal statements so we had no written

[12:15] statements that I'm aware of so we will close this public hearing

[12:21] at this time

[12:31] we'll be moving on to our regular reading now

[12:35] so if you'd like to offer comments during the regular meeting please sign

[12:40] the new sheet for the uh council

[12:48] meeting if you're just attending the council meeting it doesn't have the same

[12:53] uh criteria is a public hearing so you don't have to sign if you're simply

[12:57] attending but if if you would like to make comments please sign in we'll wait

[13:02] till 7:05 in case we get a late attendee for the meeting

[13:54] you

[14:18] for

[14:39] ladies and gentlemen clock says 705 so I'd like to welcome you to our Monday

[14:44] April 22nd 2013 regularly scheduled council

[14:49] meeting roll call Lane here th here suvan here here

[14:57] wood yes Rose

[15:01] okay and I'd like to invite you to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance

[15:04] prior to this meeting as

[15:11] well to the FL of the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands

[15:19] one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all

[15:33] Brian do we have anybody signed in okay we have no one signed in for public

[15:39] comments we'll move on to board and commission reports you'll find a copy of

[15:43] the historic preservation commission minutes on pages one through

[15:46] two those are self-explanatory

[16:01] and I move on to the report of City

[16:05] officers as mayor I'd like to congratulate all those

[16:10] who well all those who ran for office um we had more interest this year than

[16:16] we've had in many years I'd like to con congratulate those who won the election

[16:22] and welcome them unofficially on board tonight in 3 weeks

[16:29] we'll welcome you

[16:32] officially and I would like to recognize Ernie Hing for service the city treasur

[16:37] he'll be leaving us at the end of the month so he won't be here at our next

[16:42] meeting and thank you for your service as treasure as well as your service

[16:47] through the years and other capacities are my

[16:53] pleasure move on to our city

[16:57] clerk City administrator nothing to report your honor City

[17:04] attorney in uh keeping with the mayor welcome to the newly elected council

[17:08] members those that are here that haven't previously served just for reminder you

[17:12] will need to go online and complete your uh open meetings and pre Information Act

[17:16] training um to become acquainted with those Provisions if you have any

[17:20] questions about it just let me know thank

[17:24] you City Treasurer I have

[17:33] thank you and now move on to the report of department heads

[17:38] Gary uh yeah your honor thank you I'd like to uh recognize the uh Department

[17:45] of Public Works for the job they did uh when they were asked to

[17:50] sandbay along with the uh fire department and we also had a couple EMTs

[17:56] or paramedics help out Police Department uh uh also later that night on a water

[18:03] main break on uh milon's Drive helped us out uh tremendously too get notices out

[18:10] to people and uh everybody really worked well together um and I just want to

[18:18] thank everybody thank

[18:20] you

[18:25] br thank you Mr May uh my report last week hopefully everybody got it unless

[18:32] have any

[18:36] questions thank you Nick do you have

[18:41] anything thank you now move on then to the incent

[18:48] agenda is there anything anybody has any questions

[18:52] or uh on the April 8th meeting

[18:59] page six number six I I told melie was a vote of

[19:19] six and on I had questions on the treasures report on page

[19:25] 15 um it was pointed out me that a res that sport complex go on

[19:39] that on yeah page 15 of the treasures report Parks and Recreation or Sports

[19:47] complexes left off of that

[19:53] well I can answer that what I sent you an email comping that the answer is

[19:59] you remember my answer you can we renamed that the sports complex

[20:05] no longer listed on the treasur report it's noted as a 2 million debt

[20:09] certificate this will match it up with the actual debt service within our

[20:13] budget as the $2 million

[20:21] go any other questions yes Mike um I talked to m

[20:52] Dave well when they adj the meeting you were here

[21:06] okay I'll thank you yeah you guys got home water learn I did

[21:15] that okay anything

[21:18] else okay I had a couple questions on T okay go ahead

[21:27] um um I didn't know that was one of them was the treasures report thing

[21:34] um they corrected one in um Arthur J Gallagher on page nine middle of the

[21:40] page that should have read The Parks and Recreation instead of parks in

[21:46] forestry um page nine betterman asphalt paving

[21:51] was for cold patch um constellation on page

[21:58] constellation Parks and Recreation for 964 was for electricity at the sports

[22:10] complex um I'm waiting for a Menard's billing uh

[22:18] I'm just thinking we're trying to promote buying within our city so if our

[22:23] own businesses can provide services rather

[22:39] and the wh side County Health Department uh for $50 was for the inspection of the

[22:46] Community Kitchen I had questions on those I

[22:49] didn't know if anyone else

[22:54] did any other questions

[23:02] okay I'll entertain a motion in a second to approve the consent agendas of

[23:08] presented second we have a motion and second roll

[23:14] call yes yesan yes wood yes

[23:21] corre Rose Conley yes motion carried has been given

[23:29] for the consent agenda presented now move on to items for

[23:34] consideration of impossible action on first being ordinance

[23:38] 13-10 approval of the fiscal year 2013 20104 budget copies on pages 23 through

[23:46] 58

[23:59] I'll entertain a motion and a second for approval of the budget if you so

[24:04] wish I think we need a little more

[24:08] inform corre are you

April 22, 2013 Morrison, IL City Council Meeting

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