[0:09] [clears throat] called the um regularly scheduled Wednesday, August 26th uh

[0:15] budget meeting to order. Um we will take public comment, but I wanted to get the

[0:20] feel from everybody that's kind of here so we get a little bit of a game plan.

[0:26] um just so it doesn't come up quick cuz September comes up quick, October comes

[0:30] up quick, November we have to vote on something and December we have to

[0:33] approve it. >> Um

[0:35] you know, I always say, you know, what do we want to be known for? Um and and

[0:40] with Parkside, we have some some opportunities as far as things, but with

[0:46] everything it all costs a little bit of money. So, thank you, Chief, for

[0:50] bringing this in. It's actually a lot nicer than I thought it would be.

[0:55] um as a 2025, right? >> It is.

[1:01] » So, there's a lot of them out there, >> yeah,

[1:04] » there's more than that's a retask,

[1:09] » which is what we need for the grant. >> So, the actual engine, transmission,

[1:14] drive line, and all that is 2025 >> is 2025.

[1:17] » And then they >> the box is probably 2020,

[1:21] » but it's been rehabbed and re repurposed.

[1:24] Look at the other pictures. You can see it's all

[1:27] » it's all nice. Is this something you guys take a look at or

[1:31] » Yes. >> There we have

[1:33] » the ambulance. So there are many out there between 160 to

[1:40] 185. >> Uh a striker uh stretcher system runs

[1:45] anywhere between 30 and 50,000. Um everybody I talked to so far said it

[1:50] would take hours like that would be like $32,000.

[1:53] So that's well in the whole budget of the grant and lettering. So that were

[1:58] the three things that were in the grant. The purchase of the ambulance, the

[2:03] stretcher system. The stretcher system is to say it's a save backs.

[2:07] » Okay. >> I mean, if you don't have that in there,

[2:10] I mean, then the workman's comp is going to just keep the claims are just going

[2:14] to keep going. >> Yeah.

[2:15] » I mean, I don't know if you know this or anything, but the the patients are

[2:18] getting bigger today.

[2:26] I'm glad you came up. Half of this is to make sure we're well well positioned to

[2:33] support firehouse. >> Yeah.

[2:37] » Plus, this gives us an idea of the type of ambulance cuz I'm learning too with

[2:42] being there. Um, you know, the smaller ones that I have seen in our area, you

[2:48] can barely fit. um you got the patient and then maybe enough for what one

[2:54] person >> to go in the back

[2:56] » sometimes maybe two but then if you're can you're doing CPR I mean it's nice to

[3:02] have another second set of hands in there

[3:05] » they they hate that ambulance >> if not you know

[3:09] » Doug remember the van they have the van type he'll tell you doing CPR in the

[3:14] back any room in the back of an ambulance you're doing CPR it's to be

[3:18] crammed in that little they hate the MSC hate. They're getting actually they're

[3:21] getting new ones in December. >> Okay.

[3:24] » They're going to the box. >> That's good

[3:26] » because we we did three trips to the hospital doing CPR. In fact, there was

[3:31] three of us and all we did was fight over each other and getting room.

[3:36] » Yeah. >> So, we're practically laying on top of

[3:37] the patient at one point. >> So, the box truck gives more room.

[3:40] » We have more room. You can have >> you can have somebody on the one there's

[3:43] a chair on the one side that you can sit in like this little cubby they and you

[3:48] have the other side you have a bench seat so it just more room.

[3:52] » Okay. >> Nobody wants nobody wants the vans

[3:54] anymore. It was a good concept if you're doing transport but when you're doing

[3:59] [clears throat] everything else it's not. Well,

[4:06] you got anything for us? Um I don't I know um at [clears throat] the last uh

[4:14] workshop I gave Chief and Kieran uh some homework. I if you if council didn't see

[4:20] he did send an email out kind of going over how

[4:24] a fourth officer would um affect the budget based on last

[4:30] year's calculations. >> Yeah, I think I read over some of that.

[4:35] I didn't print it out and bring it. I have a copy and you need to read it or

[4:40] » you did have a copy. >> Maybe you want to summarize a little bit

[4:44] of it for us and thank you for coming out. It's the first time seeing it so

[4:48] sure. [laughter] Um

[4:54] » we'll give you a chance to read. >> Yeah, if you don't mind. I'm sorry. I'm

[4:58] happy. It's fine. >> We'll we'll go we'll go to jump to Theo

[5:01] because I know you had some stuff that you were looking at. The the biggest

[5:05] thing we got is we need a roof for this building, but they don't have to. The

[5:10] the job they did to patch the leak was pretty

[5:14] good. So, it may have bored us a couple years. Maybe that's be depend on how

[5:19] friendly a vendor we have. But maybe we should probably start planning to put

[5:24] some money away. Even if we break it down over two or three years, just put

[5:29] estimate right now about 32 33k for a roof.

[5:34] So maybe we we can try to put together put put away 10 15 a year and maybe get

[5:40] it done in two years. Maybe >> I don't think we need to I don't think

[5:43] we need to get next year cuz they did a I seen the photos and I saw this then

[5:48] the work they did unless unless we have a bad I think we should I think we

[5:52] probably should do it too. >> And that's fantastic cuz I think your

[5:55] average roof like 25 year shingles or something like that. I could be a little

[5:59] bit wrong but I I think that's what they expect. So

[6:02] » that's the put us right at 25 years. Um, >> okay.

[6:07] » That's the biggest thing I got. I mean, others just work around here, but we

[6:10] have a a grant that's pending. So, we won't know the results of that for

[6:15] another month or so. So, depending on what Lisa gets back, if we're able to

[6:20] get something, then I'm for the most part cool. But now, I still like to get

[6:25] that work done. Okay. Um, and then other than that, I mean, I want to put some a

[6:31] lot of other work I can get done using the liquid fuse budget, but other only

[6:38] thing that's not covered. I do want to get some welcome to park science signs

[6:41] hung up around town. Like, we're pretty much non-existent to anyone who's not

[6:47] familiar with park science. I would like to do that, which shouldn't be

[6:50] expensive. Signs probably two grand. So, so I don't know that we just fit that

[6:55] within the normal budget or do we even have to It's not a big ticket item.

[6:58] » No, it should fit what we had. >> But that Yeah, everything else I can get

[7:04] liquid fuse. >> I would imagine since we don't have any

[7:08] giant celebrations coming up, I would imagine uh recreation's probably like

[7:14] probably relatively consistent. >> I would assume so. I mean, it really

[7:18] hasn't changed too much over the years. just gradual basic cost of materials

[7:24] going up type thing. >> Okay.

[7:28] » And the good thing is we do have a very um caring community that does a good job

[7:32] of donating when we do ask. >> There was discussion about replacing a

[7:38] couple of the police vehicles. Yeah, >> that's still in its interim um

[7:43] discussion, but I think that kind of falls within what we typically, you

[7:49] know, years ago, we were we kind of sort of agreed that we would have a

[7:53] three-year lease or a three-year purchase and then we would replace every

[7:58] three years to kind of stay on, you know, oh, we know for a fact this cost

[8:02] this, this cost that. Um the grant helped us out two years ago. Was it two

[8:08] years ago now? I guess everything was >> Yeah, probably right around two.

[8:14] » So, and those cars seem to be doing okay.

[8:17] » Um, >> yeah, they're doing all right. I mean,

[8:19] they're they're a newer model, so you know, we're getting the the little the

[8:23] little recalls, but there's nothing like not engines. It's oh, this light might

[8:28] go off, so we got to send it and get the light off. It's all warranty stuff.

[8:32] So, I think that the two vehicles that that the chief brought up

[8:38] would be um to replace his current vehicle be

[8:43] that Tahoe, the white Tahoe, and then to replace the white unmarked that we have

[8:49] that was the code enforcement vehicle at the time.

[8:56] So that would be >> said they've got at least a fair amount

[8:59] of residual value as well. >> Yeah. Did you I have a theme. Do you

[9:04] guys have that? But >> the uh bank

[9:07] » Yeah, Bangor. Then it looks like there was a letter from Brinker

[9:11] » that discuss both options. >> I can get that photo copy to you if you

[9:16] want. >> Council

[9:20] went to It went to council. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. So that I mean I

[9:24] I could argue for why I think we need cars. You the the money decision is a

[9:28] decision, >> but I if I if I recall I think the

[9:31] Chief's Tahoe has been having some issues.

[9:35] » Yeah. Those those it's the 2020 Taho. >> Yeah.

[9:38] » Um in particular um to the point that I know my wife's PD

[9:43] which actually that Tahoe Tom Murray swiped from was supposed to go to Marple

[9:48] » and he made a call and swiped it and it came to us. Um, but that round of Taho

[9:53] typically at a place like Marple, the police will use them and they'll give

[9:55] them to like the roads department or the [clears throat] building inspectors or

[9:59] whatever. >> Um, they're not even they didn't even do

[10:02] that with those. They got money was up, they got rid of them all

[10:05] together because just that that Tahoe is a problematic Tahoe had because it's a

[10:09] variable um variable displacement engine.

[10:14] So, I don't anticipate I believe the chief is is looking at getting a new

[10:17] Tahoe, but you're not having that problem with the new Taho. It's just

[10:22] it's that year was >> Yeah. 2020 just manufacturing.

[10:27] » Yeah. >> Across the board for those years was

[10:29] tough. >> And then the other vehicles just it's an

[10:31] Explorer. It's an unmarked version of what we have.

[10:34] » Yeah. >> All right. And I think some of the

[10:37] building stuff actually year before we budgeted almost 30 for the air

[10:42] conditioning. So, >> if that kind of stays, you can probably

[10:46] allocate a little bit more and say, "All right, well, 15 15 new roof. Everybody

[10:53] um everybody lives."

[10:56] » And when you're looking at the new roof, is that also looking at insulating

[11:00] because we know you brought it up before that there's no insulation really.

[11:04] » Yeah, I'm pretty sure. >> Or is that just shingle replacement?

[11:08] » That's a good question. I'll find out.

[11:16] Hi. >> Um, I wasn't really sure if you even

[11:19] needed me here, but I just wanted to make sure I was here to advocate for our

[11:23] police department and the the same things um as you talked about before,

[11:27] the um uh personnel issue and the um the vehicles. Um, one other thing, we were

[11:34] thinking of trying to raise the um, wages for the full-time crossing guards.

[11:41] » Thank you for bringing that up. >> Um, I believe they might be at

[11:46] 16 or 17 and we were looking to raise it to 27,

[11:53] which if I understand correctly, the school

[11:57] district still play pays half of that. pay $10 or half.

[12:03] » Is it a flat rate or is it >> I think it's half, but for some reason,

[12:07] my notes are at home for that, but for some reason when Pat and I spoke, I

[12:10] thought it was >> there was a cap on it or something.

[12:14] » Either that or they were for some reason $10 is standing out. I don't know. I'm

[12:19] trying to remember their pay rate. I want to say it's 1617, but we talked

[12:23] about we were looking at other places around us what they were going for.

[12:28] » A lot more. Yeah,

[12:34] » I don't know if it's 100% a budget thing, but obviously when we're doing

[12:37] workshops, um Ken Goldstein had me over to look at

[12:42] » Forest View and Tom Sweeney. >> I don't know what we can do before

[12:49] school's in session because that's like two weeks. Um but there is a little bit

[12:56] of a problem. I guess it was on the last day of school, Dave, that you guys had

[13:00] that accident and then everybody was going up and it was like crossing

[13:03] traffic. Um, I don't know if we need to budget to have uh couple hundred feet of

[13:10] sidewalk installed on that one section to keep the kids off the street or

[13:16] possibly make that one section one way during school hours so that it would

[13:22] just be you wouldn't have that cross traffic during school hours. So, I

[13:26] don't, you know, I'm just putting it out there.

[13:29] » Yeah. I I mean, my my whole thing with the one way I'm just thinking

[13:34] either make I would say either make it one way all the time

[13:38] rather than like trying to do one way certain hours because somebody's going

[13:43] to be like they didn't know.

[13:46] » No, I I I agree with you, but I I see a lot Springfield's notorious for it and I

[13:51] guess it works for me because they have all the different schools. Mhm.

[13:54] » It just said, you know, do not enter during these couple hours.

[13:58] » Okay. How's that, >> too?

[14:00] » You know, so I don't know where the law falls on that, but it also

[14:04] » and then I was just thinking possibly even if we had to just pick up 15 road

[14:10] cones and just say, "Hey, three foot off the road." That way if the kids are

[14:14] inside them cones, but I'll take anybody's advice on it. But I went there

[14:19] kind of on a non-school day with him at like five o'clock and there I stood, you

[14:26] know, just off the curb and I was like, "Oh, this is Dancing with the Devil."

[14:30] » Um because there's no sidewalk >> if you're at like Il Island

[14:34] » and then you go towards Forest View. So the kids don't go down to so the

[14:38] students don't don't go down to Edgemont and cross or or kind of go up the

[14:42] street. And that might actually get a little bit worse when the the

[14:48] stores are put in there because now you're gonna have people turning in

[14:50] there and going up the street. And uh I'm I'm sure it's not going to be an

[14:54] endless flow of traffic, but it's certainly something to to uh bring up to

[15:00] as many people as possible kind of as soon as possible.

[15:05] » Is that the bus stop you're talking about?

[15:08] » No, it's the kids. So, um Ben, I forget his last name. to him.

[15:13] » Yeah. Yeah. So, he crosses at like Main Street, I guess, and then Ken is at uh

[15:19] basically like Circle and then they kind of send them up to Forest View,

[15:26] but there's no sidewalks that that that kind of get them there. So, they're in

[15:31] the street >> during that. And it it was a a

[15:36] legitimate pain point because like on the last day of school, somebody hit

[15:39] some telephone poles and then they went kind of both ways. And and I I'm not

[15:44] trying to make rules based on outliers, but just being there at like 5:00

[15:51] standing just off the sidewalk, I was like, "Eh, this is this is sketchy." you

[15:57] know, and it wasn't, you know, it was just there's not enough room between

[16:01] parking and two lanes of traffic for people to pass and for pedestrians to be

[16:07] on the road. So, um, >> putting a sidewalk there would also

[16:13] » it would be a burden to the homeowner for sure.

[16:15] » Yeah. But the other thing is too once you you're coming over into the street

[16:20] where it's going to be it's tight as it is because of cars parked right there

[16:24] because I go down that way sometimes go to the firehouse and if there's cars

[16:28] parked there like today there was one sticking out because they were doing

[16:32] work on our street at a neighbor's house and um it was hard to see around that

[16:38] corner but even if they don't park near the end of the corner it's still like I

[16:44] can't go down there the same time another car is coming up, especially

[16:47] depending on how big the vehicle is. Then you got a sidewalk now going to go

[16:51] there, which would be great for the kids cuz I remember walking there with Luke

[16:55] going to school and it was tough. I was always in the street,

[16:58] » you know, going there. But um >> I mean the sidewalk wouldn't necessarily

[17:02] come to the street. >> No, no, no. It would just take up a

[17:06] little bit more cuz the property owner's house has like, if I remember correctly,

[17:11] » pretty good slope. >> It's a pretty good slope. So you what

[17:15] would you do? Dig into that property owner? You know what I mean? It's where

[17:19] would you put that sidewalk is what I'm thinking.

[17:23] » How much of an impact would a Peter just make that section no parking?

[17:27] » It's there. Nobody parks on that side. You mean on that one side on the right

[17:31] side? >> That portion of this the section that

[17:33] you're discussing? >> No.

[17:35] » No parking. >> There's no parking on that section that

[17:37] I'm discussing. >> There's none.

[17:40] » Yeah, there's just parking. You're talking about from from between Garrison

[17:43] to >> there's two sides

[17:46] » between Garrison on Garrison and West Street, right?

[17:48] » So there's two sides in between. They park on the right side of

[17:51] » say make no parking. >> Yeah. It's still not It's

[17:56] still not a lot of room. It's still I mean try to get

[18:00] » No, I agree with you. I get what you're saying had a great deal of problems that

[18:04] I'm aware of. I mean you had a wreck but we have wrecks everywhere.

[18:08] But once school starts, you're going to send all the traffic down in that area,

[18:12] too. According to the map, >> according to the map

[18:15] » that Pat put out, you're sending everybody up Garrison and then up to

[18:19] Forest View >> and up Chelton and over and then

[18:22] everybody's you're you're having all the traffic come around this way.

[18:25] » So now the crossing guard's going to be overwhelmed over here

[18:28] [clears throat and cough] >> and you have no crossing guard at

[18:31] Chelton and Tom Sweeney.

[18:39] No, >> you mean Elon and Tom Sweeney. Tom

[18:43] Sweeney doesn't >> Yeah, Elon I mean Elban and Tom Sweeney.

[18:47] » So they're going to be coming down Elbine turning onto Tom Sweeney to

[18:51] Forest View and coming out Sally Hazard coming out to Edge Avenue and then all

[18:56] the traffic will cross over Edge Avenue. According to the map they've taken.

[19:01] They're coming up Edge Avenue going past the entrance to the school making a left

[19:05] across Edge Avenue onto Garrison down Garrison making a left on Tom Sweeney up

[19:11] to Forest View and another left on Forest View out to the school

[19:14] » straight out. >> What What is that from?

[19:17] » He it was on Facebook. He put it out from the police department.

[19:21] » Well, I think that that was more of a just beware the school's out. We're not

[19:24] directing traffic in any way of >> No, no. I'm just saying that he was

[19:27] saying that's he was sending it to the school to tell him the people dropping

[19:31] their kids off. That's how he wanted them to drop their kids off.

[19:33] » It was a suggestion. >> It was a right. It was suggestion.

[19:36] That's why Facebook. >> He put on Facebook. It's

[19:38] » under the Parkside Police. >> Parkside Police Facebook, not any

[19:43] neighbor putting it out. It came out from Parkside Police.

[19:46] » Yeah, it came out from Parkside Police. >> Well, it's definitely going to put more

[19:48] traffic. >> Let Let me look into that cuz I I don't

[19:51] think that that's the intention. >> No, I I haven't had a chance to see

[19:55] that. That was what I asked. >> It's a suggestion. I think

[19:59] » I think it was just a matter of reminding people the school zones are

[20:01] there and the arrows ended up being there. I don't believe cuz I'm the one

[20:05] running the school detail for the first two weeks. We have no intention of

[20:09] telling people or suggesting to people how they park or how they drive

[20:12] » other than other than slow down. >> Right. I was under the same impression

[20:17] though until I saw that on Facebook and I thought wow Pat I haven't seen Pat. I

[20:23] was going to ask him, was this something that you're actually looking at doing or

[20:29] because now you're sending all the traffic, especially up that one section

[20:34] between Garrison and Forest View that the kids will be walking up to

[20:40] Crossover.

[20:45] I know it's not budget related, but I appreciate the conversation because it

[20:49] was something that was weighing on me and now there does seem to be other

[20:53] factors. So, [laughter]

[20:57] um, >> and it's just

[20:58] » always welcome. Anytime you come, it's always a help. It's always nice to see

[21:02] you. I'm just saying I have bur residents who said I said they asked me

[21:06] about it and I said I don't think that's [laughter]

[21:08] I said that might be a suggestion but I said I haven't had a chance to talk

[21:12] » it's none of those >> I said I haven't had a chance to talk

[21:15] » Yeah I can assure you it's none of those >> it's none of those we're not there's

[21:18] that was actually not even Pat that was put out by Lex

[21:23] Lex puts Lex handles our Facebook and and social media so okay

[21:27] » so that wasn't even actually >> to me I don't I don't put

[21:31] » that's fine it It was a reminder. It was a reminder of

[21:34] » the school zone and kids being out to be careful.

[21:38] » That's what that is. >> Yeah. I wish they uh there was a little

[21:42] more car pooling cuz when I bring the kids in the building, it's always one

[21:46] car, one kid. One kid.

[21:56] » It does have a bunch of arrows and stuff on here. I think it's just confusion.

[22:00] You know what I mean? Residents. Yeah, it's there's arrows and everything on

[22:03] there, but I was trying to read the verb the verbiage that was at the top.

[22:07] » So, if that's what residents are saying, and I don't I think they're getting

[22:11] confused. >> Well, there

[22:15] I have nothing to do I have nothing to do with traffic saying that.

[22:18] » I have nothing to do with traffic. >> We should put another one right here.

[22:22] » X here.

[22:26] X >> looks like a good start to a tic tac t.

[22:33] » Do you want us to ask her and clarify? >> Yeah, cuz there have been questions and

[22:37] residents have stopped at the fire company with these questions as well.

[22:41] » Okay. >> So, um

[22:45] they might be getting confused with the arrows cuz you see blue arrows, you see

[22:50] red arrows. So, I mean, unless he's saying don't do the red the that

[22:56] direction or whoever, whoever. I'm just saying I'm just reading what's on here.

[23:01] » There's the blue. There's the red. And I think they're just confused. Um, so I

[23:06] mean, I get it cuz I've talked to Pat about different things, but traffic

[23:15] wise, I haven't. I've only talked to Ken. I don't want to I don't want to sat

[23:19] down everybody that comes to here and go to Barl Hall. Go to Bar Hall.

[23:24] Bob's going to be calling me going, "Stop sending people to Bar Hall.

[23:28] » He's [clears throat] going to lock the door on my not my calls no more.

[23:33] » Bob does a good job. >> He does a great job.

[23:37] » Let's not anger Bob." >> Yeah. [laughter]

[23:40] I try to take it as much as I can off of this.

[23:43] » Um, >> hey, if it's a brief meeting, I

[23:47] appreciate everybody from for for coming in, helping out. Some of these

[23:51] discussions definitely help. >> Um, we will definitely have a few

[23:57] executive sessions when we start getting into into September and a few things

[24:01] like that just to kind of keep things rolling. Mayor, if you can make it.

[24:05] » Yeah, absolutely. >> Invited. You're always invited.

[24:07] » Thank you. and thanks for starting this early in the year.

[24:12] » I think we've had enough. Hopefully, it's helping with you and then the

[24:15] conversations with Pranker Simpson and and a few things like that because there

[24:18] is some there's definitely things that are moving. The whole police department

[24:23] is being >> basically renovated after the flood and

[24:27] a little bit of things like that. Um everything so far is fitting into the

[24:32] budget. Um but that doesn't mean that we just start kind of

[24:38] throwing it out there. So, does anybody have anything?

[24:42] » I have that information that I was able to look at it.

[24:45] » Oh, yeah. Just give us a brief

[24:51] » I got I got to wear mine the whole time now.

[24:54] » Well, I'm wearing contacts [laughter]

[24:57] » behind you. Um, so I think I believe it was you were

[25:03] as you asked for information regarding if we were to have it for full-time

[25:09] officers and full-time investigator, what would that do with overtime and and

[25:12] things like that? >> And it appears the chief

[25:16] put together um

[25:20] based on past hours. So, what he's saying is, and I can I can speak to I

[25:24] what the intent of of an investigator would be, aside from investigating,

[25:29] um would be being able to fill the holes uh created by planned time off. Mhm.

[25:38] » Um so he's saying if you look at the

[25:41] overtime acred uh over the last year um I cost you the

[25:47] most. Um at 12,48248 uh Mark had a great ticket. He picked up

[25:55] a lot of shifts. Um Charlie was at 3,000 and surplus or Michelle was at 1,000

[26:04] um because she was uh non-Ivil service employee. Um

[26:10] so his saying is that the the savings in overtime would roughly be 27,733.

[26:16] Um, and his numbers on that are generated by

[26:20] being able to say, so if Officer Young's taking, if Charlie's taking off a week

[26:25] in June, well, the detective can just shift his

[26:30] schedule and cover, you know, just not do detectively things or not do as many

[26:33] detective things and cover Charlie's shift for those weeks. Thereby, you're

[26:37] not having to pay OT. >> And that was that was it. So, I can give

[26:40] this to you because otherwise I can regurgitate it to you and read it if you

[26:43] like or I can hand you a copy and you can you can look at it. Um, but that

[26:47] that's essentially the gist of it. The the point being

[26:52] um to have four patrol officers at a detent

[26:57] is what what the the end goal would be and have those as full-time officers,

[27:02] civil service officers.

[27:08] » Fully staffed, I guess, is what they were saying the term was.

[27:10] » That would be fully staffed. So, what that would do is we work one patrol

[27:13] officer per shift and that officer works 12 hour shifts.

[27:18] That's the only way to cover 24/7 coverage with four people is 12-hour

[27:23] shifts. >> Mhm.

[27:24] » Um if you fitting spaghetti into a bowl, doesn't

[27:28] matter how you cut it up, you still got to cover 27 or 24hour shifts seven days

[27:32] a week. And then your detective would handle not only detecting

[27:40] um which we have a fair amount of, but there's a lot of other evidence

[27:44] training. Um because right now the way it works is

[27:52] um so like Monday

[27:56] Alexis is doing a background investigation and she has to drive to

[28:00] Kalen Township as part of that background investigation and she's

[28:04] scheduled to work. So now we either bring her in on Tuesday or we bring her

[28:07] on Wednesday and pay her overtime to do that. Or typically

[28:12] um if you have that investigator either he'd be doing it or she'd be doing it or

[28:15] they could cover the street that would allow that officer to to go do what they

[28:20] you know what they need to do that's not in town or that is not requiring them to

[28:25] be a slave to the radio. But the budget to obviously if you hire

[28:30] more people it cost you more money. I'm not going to try to tell, oh, you're

[28:34] saving money, but there would be a reduction in certain portions of the

[28:37] budget by hiring those people.

[28:44] Food for thought. That's why we're meeting in August, why we're meeting in

[28:47] September and October. Um, try to keep things moving. Obviously, we don't have

[28:52] to fill the cup all at one time, but got to keep it moving in the right

[28:56] direction. So,

[29:01] we have no public comment which is something hopefully we get in September.

[29:06] It's nice to have your feet to the fire a little bit like that. You have

[29:09] anything else? >> No, I'm good.

[29:11] » When's the September meeting again? >> September meeting would be

[29:18] should always be the fourth Wednesday, one week after the meeting

[29:26] » 23rd. The 16th is a council meeting. So, the

[29:31] 23rd >> be the 23rd. September 23rd at 7 p.m.

[29:37] » That'll be the first official budget. >> Yeah. We'll see if we can ask somebody

[29:41] from Brinker Simpsons in here. Um we certainly won't have the first reading

[29:46] or anything like that, but we certainly could have um as a template type sort of

[29:52] thing based

[29:56] heavily off of last year's numbers just to keep things

[29:59] » and just to remind everybody even when we had that um first official meeting

[30:03] everything is just a work in progress. Um there are no official documents

[30:08] because nothing is official at that point. So there's nothing that'll be

[30:12] posted on the website or anything like that until we have the first reading of

[30:16] the budget. >> Yeah. Sharing anything is just purely

[30:19] misinformation. Like obviously we're televising it but none of this is

[30:24] codified. >> This these are purely workshops

[30:29] discussion >> but if somebody watches it on TV and

[30:32] says hey [clears throat] I think I'd like to go to the September one because

[30:35] I have an idea then that's then we gave them something to talk about.

[30:40] So, thank you all for coming up. I appreciate everything. We'll consider

[30:44] this a journey.

Parkside Council Budget Workshop August 2026

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