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Thank you for being patient with us. I will call this meeting to order. Leading us off will be Councilman Snowden with the invocation followed by Councilwoman Power with the Pledge of Allegiance. Let us pray to Heaven and Father, we thank you for this day, Lord. And we thank you for this opportunity to see a new month. Father, we just ask for your guidance and your wisdom as we go about conducting the city's business, Lord. And Father, we thank you for this city that we live in.

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we thank you for the people that operate it and keep it safe and Father we just

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thank you for all your many blessings those that we're aware of and those

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blessings that we're not aware of we just want to say thank you this evening and

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Father these are not the blessings that we'll ask in your Son Jesus name amen

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Thank

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you, Mr. City Clerk. Please make a record of attendance.

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So no, Mr. President, you do have a quorum, sir.

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Thank you, sir. First item on the agenda is the consent agenda that consists of the approval of the September 8, 2026 City Council agenda, approval of the August 17, 2026 regular Council meeting minutes, Resolution 2026, 090801 through 0606.

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The full text of the agenda minutes and ordinances and resolutions are available at Pellam City Hall and online at Pellamalabema.gov.

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I'll entertain the motion to approve the consent agenda.

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Motion to approve.

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Second.

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We have a motion and a second.

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There is no debate or discussion. Mr. City Clerk, please make a roll call vote.

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Council President Leiborot.

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Yes.

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Council Member Power.

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Yes.

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Council Member Towns.

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Council Member Snowden.

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Yeah, customer Harris. Yes, consent agenda passes unanimously that leads us into the mayor's report

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No report tonight

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Council President, but it do have a couple of proclamations

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Our Lisa and Sarah here a chance

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Lisa and Sarah for yeah, come on up

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have you send that to the mayor. I'm going to read this proclamation real quick

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Proclamation whereas nearly 37 million Americans suffer from kidney disease and every year many citizens including children adults older individuals are

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diagnosed with kidney disease, and whereas the death and breath of the nephrology nursing

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profession meet the different and emerging kidney disease and other healthcare needs

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of the population.

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And whereas the American Nephrology Nurses Association is working to advance quality

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care to citizens with kidney disease before they suffer complete organ failure, increase

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awareness in local communities, positively influence patient outcomes, and keep nephrology

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nurses abreast of the latest treatments and kidney-related research, and whereas nephrology

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nurses function as educators, direct caregivers, and coordinators to help patients manage

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their lives while effectively dealing with their health issues.

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And whereas the number of new patients dying nose with kidney disease has doubled in each

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of the last two decades, the demand for nephrology nurses will persist to expand as this trend

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is expected to continue.

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And whereas more qualified nephrology nurses will be needed in the future to meet the increasingly

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complex needs of patients who are experiencing or at risk for kidney disease. And whereas

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along the American Nephrology Nurses Association, the Hazel Taylor chapter of the American

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Nephrology Nurses Association has declared the week of September 13th through 19th at

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2026 as an nephrology nurse's week to celebrate and honor the unselfish work and nephrology

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nurses perform each day to maintain the health of thousands of individuals with kidney disease.

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therefore, I rickwashed by virtue of the authority vested in me as the mayor of the City of Pellum, Shelby County, Alabama to hereby proclaim September the 13th through the 19th,

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2026 as nephrology nurses week in Pellum, Alabama and encourage all residents to join me in honoring the nephrology nurses who care for patients with kidney disease and celebrate nephrology nurses efforts through advanced patient care

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and reduce the incident of kidney disease and show our appreciation for nephrology

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nurses not just during this week but every opportunity that we have throughout

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the year. Given under my hand the city of Pellamalabama this eighth day of

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September 2026.

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Thank you. We get a picture with the council

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place here.

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All right, Ms. Neville, come on up.

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All right, proclamation, whereas September 17th, 26th, marks the 200th and 39th anniversary

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of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America by the delegates

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to the Constitutional Convention, and whereas it is fitting a proper to concur with official

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recognition to this magnificent document and its memorable anniversary and to the patriotic

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celebrations, which will commemorate the occasion. And whereas the United States Congress adopted

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public law 915 was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 2, 1956, which guarantees

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the issuing of a proclamation each year by the president of the United States designated September 17th

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through 23rd as Constitution Week.

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It's always a pleasure to get to do this. We have Ms. Neville here

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every year. Now therefore I rick washed by virtue of the authority vested in me as the mayor of

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the city of Pelham Shelby County Alabama to hereby proclaim September the 17th through the 23rd

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2026 as Constitution week in Pelham, Alabama. Therefore I ask all citizens to reaffirm the idea of

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the farmers of the Constitution had in 1787 by vigilantly proactively protecting the freedoms guaranteed

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to us through this guardian of our liberties.

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Remembering that all loss of rights are never again

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realized, given under my hand, the city of Pelham,

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Alabama, this 8th day of September, 2026, Ms. Neville.

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This is the new era.

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Mayor Waters and I had done this a little back and forth

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for, I'm not sure how many years,

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but this is the first time Mayor Wash and I have gotten to participate in this

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proclamation of Constitution Week and I do appreciate you continuing with

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that tradition. The daughters of the American Revolution actually got this

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going long before I was born actually, but we do it each year sometime during the

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month of September that corresponds with the 17th through the 23rd to honor the writers

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of this wonderful document.

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I won't go into all the things that we all know about the document and all the things

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we don't know.

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What we do encourage you is if you have small children, if you are even an older person

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and don't know much about the Constitution. Learn it. It is what guarantees our

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liberties, our freedoms, and our rights. It is really our country in words and

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pieces of paper. I think back when I was reading, when they were meeting to decide

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whether or not to rebel, fight, right. They were trying to keep everything secret.

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If you can imagine an August or a year like we've had weather-wise with the heat,

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with windows closed, doors closed so people couldn't hear them talk. They were hot.

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not only hot-headed, but hot weather-wise, so it made for tense situations.

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This proclamation for Constitution Week is important that we continue at each year and

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I do appreciate the city once more doing it.

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I have a couple of, the D.A.R., Eisenhower was mentioned, the D.A.R. ladies were the ones

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who shoved him, pushed a little bit nudge, and got him to sign that order and make it

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a law that we would do this.

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And on the 17th at 4 p.m., Eastern time, 3 p.m., our time, you may hear bells ringing.

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It's not in your head, it's D-A-R members across the nation who may be standing somewhere

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ringing bells in honor of this wonderful document that we call our Constitution.

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And I will say I wrote down this just so I wouldn't forget.

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Daughters of the America Revolution, that's D-A-R.

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We are Historic Preservation, D-A-R, is Education, D-A-R, is Patriotism.

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What better way to promote to these goals than to protect and defend this Constitution.

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Thank you, Mayor Wash, and my God.

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Continue to bless America.

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If you can get those on the phone, bill is in the order.

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I think I'll get a picture of you up there with my account with the council.

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thank you mayor for those proclamations that leads us into the report by the city manager.

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Thank you council president and as Jamie Wagner our finance director is making her way up here

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I'd just like to say that it's been a pleasure working on the budget this year as it is every year and

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And this is one of my favorite meetings, second only to the year in review.

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So we, this was our first year with this council and this mayor to prepare the budget.

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And it was, I thought it was a great process, really appreciate all the input,

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but the questions, clarification and listening that I know is a lot of hours and really appreciate

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that.

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So, the budget presentation, Jamie and I are going to go into, we're going to try to keep

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it high level, but it is a big budget and it does have a lot of content.

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So, we are going to try to make it interesting as well.

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So, here we are.

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I want to start off by saying, I want to thank Jamie Wagner, who has been with us five

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Yes, almost five years because I just signed a certificate, your five years certificate

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with us.

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And she has been very driven to improve, improve, improve and would like to take the budget

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it and apply for the Budget Award from the Government Finance Officers Association.

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It's something that we both have in our former cities where we worked and it signifies

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that you're doing budgeting best practices in your budgeting.

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And so she has been diligent in keeping us on track and recommending ways that we can improve

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and putting an awful lot of work this truly in many, many ways reflects the largest amount

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of work done on this budget which is by Jamie, so really appreciate that. So we

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start out with our vision mission and values because that's where in

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organization our vision engaged and powered valued and talking about

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individuals. Through vibrant spaces bold progress and unwavering connection to

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my talk a little more about some of the things the mayor is going to be doing in

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this budget coming up which really reflects unwavering connection in our community and we strive to

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Our mission is about exceptional services and that means continuous improvement because if you're working towards exceptional, you're always going to be working to get better. Thriving community and unparalleled opportunities for our residents.

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These guide at the highest level are decisions, our values are integrity, sustainability, engagement, and excellence. We narrowed it down to four. One of the ways that we have engagement for the budget process is we have council workshops this year.

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we met 20 total hours staff participation and we use our citizen surveys which we'll be doing

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our third citizen survey at the end of this calendar year that's covered in the fiscal year

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budget. We also have seven pillars of excellence and one of the things that you will see in the

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budget this year is that every department goals have measurements and they all link to one or

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more of the seven pillars.

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So there's a real connection in each item, the items in the budget, the overall goals,

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for the department and the seven pillars for the entire city.

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Now, primer on city budgeting, primer real quick.

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So the city manager is responsible for proposing a balanced budget to the city council.

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Now what does that mean?

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The Government Finance Officers Association, our GFOA, defines a balanced budget as recurring

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expenses that are reasonably expected to continue year-to-year, and the same thing for your

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revenue.

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So those need to balance.

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Now Jamie's going to talk a lot more about governmental funds and a little bit about how that works.

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We have other monies that we set aside to purchase things because we have a lot of plans in Pellum.

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We have five-year plans for capital, vehicle purchases, there for paving.

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So we, for parks and recreation, we have a city-wide plan.

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And so we are really operating off a lot of plans with a strategy not not a lot of just want to go get this now.

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So that's important for the sustainability.

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The city council and mayor here from each department head, the finance director and the city manager during our budget workshops and dialogue with staff, ask questions.

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And then the city council are super responsible for the budget approval.

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The money comes from our revenues from taxes, licenses, permits, service charges, and then any intergovernmental revenues and other sources.

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And they're accounted for within either with governmental funds or proprietary funds, proprietary funds are those funds,

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Barney's, Walentree, Water and Suerre, Pelem Rocket Club, and this is a complex and

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ic Arena that are designed to sustain themselves from the monies that they

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collect from fees. In Pelem, we do supplement that and that's something

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a council decided years ago. And we are moving towards more sustainability also,

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those bring in people, visitors to our city, and we know that is continuing to grow.

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So there's an economic impact for these proprietary funds.

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The money goes to support city operation services, capital investments and our debt obligations.

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So let's look at our goals for the budget this year.

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No use of unencumbered funds, so that's kind of like your reserves that are not attached to

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anything.

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Financially prepared for cash flow needed for grant matches.

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We, as a city, as city our size, it's remarkable, Andre and I said around talking about we cannot believe the amount of grant money that this city has gotten per capita, I guess, if you take per resident.

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It's well over just since the time Andre's been here, well over $100 million.

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So we have a lot of that, especially our federal railroad administration grant to eliminate

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the two at-grade crossings, as that work is starting, and on the clock, like we are, we've

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got to ensure that we have cash flows for grant matches, because we may get reimbursed

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for things from other entities like the county or the state or the federal government that we

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have to come up with the money. So that's very important. That's a big one of our budget goals

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is something that was very important to the council. I'm ensure a competitive total employee

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compensation, maintain service levels and uncertain economic times, continue this council's commitment

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to increase road maintenance and traffic safety and maintain and expand recreational facilities

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do increase usage. I believe the civic complex year over year for three years is up 17%. Our parks are

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up just since last year usage 6%. So we continue to grow and and that usage means we've we've got

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more maintenance. We've got more expansion and we've got more needs and then protect the city's

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credit rating. And basically, when we look at a budget, we are not asking about what

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do we need this year. I think the most important question in a budget is do the decisions

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in this year's budget leave Pellern prepared for 5 years from now, 10 years from now, 15

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years from now, because that's the way that we have to look at our city if we're going

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to be successful.

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So, the budget priorities really center around listening to our residents

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It's protecting the services residents value, quality of life, responsible and sustainable

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budget investing in people, and then planning beyond 2027 for what's coming.

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And I'm going to have million slides for these, I just want to go over these.

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First of all, just listening to our residents, one of the things that, and also quality of

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life, residents want more opportunities together.

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that is something that we see repeatedly in whenever we go into economic development,

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whenever we survey our residents, that and we ask for impact, be it for a park plan,

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a comprehensive plan.

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I know the school also does some surveying and that's consistent and

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or if we're doing something like reamp where we're asking what do you want this major

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piece of property to be, what do you want it to bring?

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And so, in this budget for 2027 does reflect a commitment to community.

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And particularly in Mayor Wash's budget, there are lots of activities that are going to bring the community together.

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Various groups in the community, also the community as a whole.

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We also have in our budget to start our first Citizens Academy.

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This is something that the last council asked me to research and we spent about a year looking at what best practices from around the country and are excited about having that citizens academy.

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One of the things that when I went to national conference and the people who had citizens academies for years just well established never had to go out and recruit people for their boards because they were all coming from their citizens academy.

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me, and so that was so nice to hear. There's a lot of other benefits, but definitely it was great to hear that.

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Flow of traffic and congestions and management has in both of our citizens surveys been a top priority.

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We've invested and will continue to invest in no traffic. We utilize no traffic at 22 intersections on Highway 31, Highway 119, and County Road 52.

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and we'll continue to do that throughout FY 2027

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with the goal of having 60% of traffic arriving

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at those intersections on green

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and reducing wait times on red.

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So when we started this with phase one,

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so if you can picture, when you start doing this,

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it's not gonna be, it's like a domino.

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So I change waiting on a light here,

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it's gonna affect these lights here.

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So it really and truly is a it's a work in progress.

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You can't just flip switches and everything work.

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You've got to flip switches and analyze all that traffic movement.

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And then that's going to change on the day, right?

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It's going to change on the time.

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So the ones that we've got to really work the most on our U.S.

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31 at Cabo Valley, which is 119.

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Right now it's at 48% arriving on green.

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and we also have CR-52 at I-65 North ramp.

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We've gotten that up to 62% and then 64% at the latest measurement.

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And CR-52 at I-65 Southbound is not quite as good.

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We're at 58% there, so you can see these are some measurements

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that Andre and his group are going to be looking at.

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These are things that we have to improve upon.

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Now, when we flip a switch to improve it,

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But we have to answer watch what happens down the way and it's continuous.

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So that's part of what we are happy to report that CR-52 at Huntley Parkway, Huntley Parkway

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and a Rocket Club Parkway is at 76%.

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If you drive that every day like I do, you will notice the difference.

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So that is an example of, you know, there obviously aren't as many traffic lights impacting

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Using that as there are on 31 and 119-261 area, so but we will continue to do that.

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The average approach delay shows minimal increases or decreases and right now what we're trying

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to get to is maintaining that staple traffic flow.

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But just know that it is a priority in this budget as it has been in our past two budgets

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and we'll continue to do that.

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The lighting upgrades in the 31 corridor are substantially complete and should be operational

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in the fall of 2026.

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So we're excited about that.

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The brightness that that's going to bring, I know people have gone to the Civic Complex

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and seen the new lights in the ice arena and gone wow, well you're about to see that on

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31 as well.

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So the first project also we completed this past year on neighborhood traffic calming

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program that is designed to, that was the Creek View neighborhood on Valley View Drive, traffic

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calming is a term that she used in traffic engineering. It's so funny. Once you know this,

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you'll go pointing it out everywhere. I was driving my daughter in Tuscaloosa to her new apartment,

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and they have these little things in the middle of the street in their plants. You know, there's just

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a planner and you've got to kind of go slow around that and I was like, yeah, that's a traffic calming

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measure, you know, in all the 21-year-olds in the car are going, what and who cares? But I thought

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that was really cool. So we do have a program now and it will continue and if you're ever interested,

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you can go and look at if you want to fill out an application for traffic calming in your neighborhood

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that that is there. The work towards the commencement of the Highway 261

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widening project, the biggest thing that happened this year for us is that we

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got Al. Andre got Al. To and Hoover to separate the Hoover portion of the

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project. So we were going to have to wait for Hoover to acquire all of its

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property before we could commence the work on 261 on the Pellum side.

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now do it independently of Hoover because Hoover didn't appear that they were going to be getting to

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that anytime soon. So our goal is of course meet 100 percent of all dot smile stones. They're

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current. I hate to say this but it's what it is right now. The current construction schedule

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shows them beginning construction in FY 2027.

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So we're hopeful.

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We're also going to have a traffic light

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at Greyhook subdivision or Highway 11.

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That's currently in the design phase.

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We know we've been measuring that for traffic

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for a long time.

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And so that's just another example

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of dealing with keeping on top of the traffic.

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And the next one is economic development.

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We, I think everyone knows about rehab, so that's going to be a focus for us.

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I know as Councilman Snowden says, the X is what that's going to cost.

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So when we say that our budget is making sure that it's responsible and sustainable and

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that we're planning beyond FY27, that's what we mean, too, is we need to make sure we

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can support we are going to know what's involved in supporting the biggest development and probably

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the history of the city. So the City Council is also committing funds and this is exciting and

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new for the city and later on I'll have a slide I'll show you, but the development of a trailhead

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restroom, pavilion and trails on Blueberry Hill which will serve as another attractive

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of amenity to encourage development in the Hauntley Parkway area, but also, I don't

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know if everyone knows this, but Oak Mountain State Park is kind of a hub for mountain bike

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racing. And so this is going to be an opportunity for us to take a piece of land that I think

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when I got here nine years ago, they had just closed on. And I remember the City Council

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President at the time taking me around and showing me this. And we had several developers come

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in and look at developing it. It's quite costly to do. Shelby County hired a trail builder

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a few years ago, and that's his job. He builds trails. So we're very excited to utilize

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and thank you to the Council for getting excited and.

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Funding that and asking us to do that. We also, in FY26, we always want to be business friendly. The city extended statutory tax abatements to several

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Social Pellum businesses, including research solutions,

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Edgar's Bakery, Kusa Composites, and our total investment by these businesses is ever is $21.8 million into the city of Pellum.

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And so being able to do that, which we are the only city in Shelby County that does the maximum amount of those abatements for

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the companies that are renovating, are adding to and meet those qualifications.

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We are also going to continue support the work of the CDA.

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They recently entered into agreement to sell the property located at 2786 Pellam Parkway

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to a developer who's going to be bringing at least two QSR concepts to the site.

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So we're looking forward to hearing from the CDA next week in our work session.

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And one of the things too is we are starting a facade improvement program to support our smaller businesses.

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We have, I think, we've just $45,000 committed to that.

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So we're going to hear more about that program coming.

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And what we can do with matches from some, they'll be an application process

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so that smaller businesses who are interested in doing some facade improvements

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We'll be able to get some money from the city to be able to do that.

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It'll be a competitive application process and this council as well as the last council is made a huge commitment to street resurfacing.

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So they had asked the city to do our pavement conditioning index and bring to them the all the city, all the streets,

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There are one's and two's and how are we going to get them the unacceptable streets will say and how are we going to get them to acceptable level so we brought the council an eight year paving plan and because of some additional

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monies that are available this year they're going to be doing some additional paving for this year and then the council asked us to put an additional 250,000

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$50,000 into the paving budget for the 2027 budget.

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These two actions will take that eight year plan down to a six year plan.

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So really, really appreciative to see that continue.

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The quality of our school system is, we need to mention this in here because while we are independent from the city,

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we really are inextricably joined with them.

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If you, when you go and you look at a place to live,

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you're looking at the quality of the school system.

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So we have this acknowledged in the budget

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and I know that they have plans to expand,

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not really, I think they might still be looking

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at some deadlines for that or their timeline,

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but we wanna make sure that we promote

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a vibrant engaged school system as well.

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Stormwater runoff and management,

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I'm a geek for this stuff so, you know, when I first came here, there's a lot of flooding and it's just there's flooding, right?

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But there was not a lot of maintenance in our storm water system.

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So, I'm going to ask the audience here, who knows what a back truck is?

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Anybody know what a back truck is?

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all right check does yeah you know what a vac truck is so it comes in and it and it what what's it vacuuming it's vacuuming out your storm sewers right so I've never worked at a place that didn't have a vac truck but we didn't have one in poem well now we have to and not only do we have to thanks to council the council the city council of poems not make that may to be this may to be this council but it's been our leadership all along and

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And then also, I'm going to brag on Andre again, but he put together a team, when we

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stop reading meters by hand, we took those individuals and Andre put them on a stormwater

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maintenance crew.

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So now, the maintenance that we do, not only with the vac trucks, but in the 2020-27 budget,

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you'll see that the goal is to inspect every year, 25% of our storm sewers.

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So there's a regular inspection, there's a regular cleaning, and if you have not noticed that that has resulted in less flooding, now this does not mean what, you know, that in October of 2021, was it 2021?

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Yes, that you can clean out your storm sewers all you want, you're still going to have flooding, but for the most part, under all normal weather conditions, we've seen flooding.

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really really be reduced so you'll see that in here protecting the services

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residents value public safety remains one of the top priorities of our city not

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only from our residents but also from our businesses and we know that we can

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not ignore public safety is one thing to say we're a safe community we can we can

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get to those who need our help, be it through fire services,

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M.S. and I think everybody knows we went into the ambulance business

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a couple years ago, and are taking on more and more that we can do for our

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residents to make sure that they're safe and that we can save as many lives as

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possible. And that continues to be because we don't have any major, major,

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major expenses in the budget committed to that, we are maintaining and we are increasing

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especially technology.

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So quality of life is also part of our infrastructure, financial accountability matters, I'm just

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going to give you an example.

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The Pelomeric Club is projecting a 10.5% increase in revenue from charges for services to

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who are approximately $1 million, the city's operating transfer to the facility is budgeted to decline by approximately 25% from $798,000 to $597,000.

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So, where's Cheney, Kudos to her and her team.

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We continue to hear about how our proprietary businesses are continuing to fill up, to look at utilization rates,

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It's to continue to expand offerings, which is exactly what our residents want, which brings us better quality of life.

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Responsible and sustainable budget, again, budget is to make sure the commitments we make today remain affordable.

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I'm not going to go over the specific numbers because Jamie is going to go over those.

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And she'll can talk a little bit about how we come up with the revenues as well.

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So I don't want to do that twice, but investing in the people who deliver city services, the council asked to hear from our committee.

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We have a fantastic committee, it's made up of employees from every department, and they come in and they prioritize and they look at a lot of data.

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This is not a committee of employees who sit around and talk about what they feel.

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This is a committee of employees who look at data, who see what's being taken advantage of,

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where are the holes, and they presented to the council for their recommendations for the 2027 budget.

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And the council asked me to put all of those in the budget this year.

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So the city is agreeing to take on 25% of the cost for

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for long-term disability premiums for participating employees.

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We are far in the state, far under many other states, as far as long-term disability.

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And as we saw from a police officer who was seriously hit in the line of duty,

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we, and we know there's nothing for her available.

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So we've been working on legislation at the state level for

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that, but also to be able to help our employees afford some type of long-term disability insurance

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to help prevent things like that from happening.

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Changing vacation approval thresholds to include increases at five and 15 years before

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there was just one change, which is not competitive at all if any of you have worked in the private

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sector.

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Eliminating the cap for the city's contribution on retiree health insurance, and that was

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something that retirees had asked for,

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and updating the retiree health insurance call share

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from 60, 40 to 65, 35 for the retirees.

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So planning beyond FY 2027, again,

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I already talked about the long-range forecast

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that we multi-year capital improvement programs,

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debt policies, infrastructure planning,

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and the performance measures that now connect everything.

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Reserve requirements, all of these things

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is are incorporated into our budget.

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Discipline is very, very important as we consider projects of the scale of re-amp, the discipline, and how we fund them.

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And the discipline is especially important as we move forward.

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And again, not saying, can we just afford the budget this year?

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And this is something that this council has encouraged us to continue to look at.

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But can we afford it for a long term?

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And how are we maintaining things?

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So that's the standard that we continue to work towards.

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So that's just some highlights of the budget priorities.

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The financial points in here, a 2% increase in total general revenues over 2026, 65.6 million.

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That's in your general fund.

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Sales and property tax revenues project is slightly below 2026.

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Licenses and permits increasing by about 21%.

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and EMS Collections Grant Revenue and Interfund Transfers also are contributing to our revenue growth.

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A 6% increase in total general fund operations over 2026, 554.9 million, so revenues are 65.6 million,

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expenses for operations are 54.9 million, and that includes the things that I just talked about.

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significant decrease in new capital projects and when you see the capital projects list of projects that are still ongoing are still in our bucket, we're still working on them.

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We continue to take on a lot of capital projects for especially for a city our size major investment support street infrastructure facilities and quality of life.

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So I'm going to turn it over to Jamie from here.

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Thank you, though.

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Okay. Good evening, Council.

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I'll walk through the financial portion of the budget, starting with the city as a whole.

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The primary goal is to develop a structurally balanced budget, as Gretchen said,

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which means our revenues, reoccurring revenues should support reoccurring operations.

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This is demonstrated on the line classified as operating surplus.

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I also want to make an important distinction about fund balance because you'll see changes in fund balance throughout the slides.

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Net changes in fund balance shows the overall increase or decrease in funds resources during the year.

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Fund balance is classified as either non-spindable, restricted, committed, assigned, or unassigned based on how available the resources are and whether they have been set aside for specific purposes.

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So when, as we're moving through this, when you see a negative change in fund balance that does not mean that we are using unencumbered reserves to fund operations, we are intentionally spending accumulated resources on capital projects or using committed reserves for the exact purpose for which they were established that distinction isn't important as we move through the individual funds.

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This slide here gives you a picture of where our revenues come from.

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00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,580
On the governmental side, we are heavily dependent on taxes.

424
00:43:04,460 --> 00:43:08,520
Sales and other taxes make up almost 65% of governmental revenue

425
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,940
and property taxes account for another 15%.

426
00:43:12,940 --> 00:43:18,260
License impairments makes up about 10% with service charges

427
00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:21,160
and other sources making up the remainder.

428
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:29,460
That concentration in cell stacks is one reason we monitor the economy and consumer spending

429
00:43:29,460 --> 00:43:35,920
so closely when developing a revenue projections. Our proprietary funds are very different because

430
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:43,500
they are primarily supported by user charges or charges for services. Water and sewer is the largest

431
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:47,120
is representing 53% of proprietary fund revenue

432
00:43:47,910 --> 00:43:49,660
followed by the civic complex,

433
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,200
voluntary trash, and then the racket club.

434
00:43:55,830 --> 00:43:58,090
Looking at expenditures, you can see that

435
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,890
where our resources are concentrated.

436
00:44:01,490 --> 00:44:04,190
For governmental funds, public safety represents

437
00:44:04,190 --> 00:44:07,290
approximately 53% of expenditures,

438
00:44:07,710 --> 00:44:10,310
which is not surprising because police and fire

439
00:44:10,310 --> 00:44:12,490
are both personnel intensive operations

440
00:44:12,490 --> 00:44:15,250
and represent two of the largest city departments.

441
00:44:16,250 --> 00:44:25,570
General administration represents about 28% followed by developmental services and recreation and culture which is part of the library.

442
00:44:26,790 --> 00:44:31,890
On the proprietary side, water and sewer represent the largest portion of expenditures.

443
00:44:32,570 --> 00:44:38,270
The remaining calls are distributed among the civic complex, voluntary trash and the racket club.

444
00:44:38,270 --> 00:44:43,410
These charts provide a high-level picture before we go into the individual funds.

445
00:44:46,150 --> 00:44:54,270
This next section breaks that citywide picture and looks at the governmental and proprietary

446
00:44:54,270 --> 00:44:55,210
funds separately.

447
00:44:56,030 --> 00:44:59,970
I'll start with a quick explanation of the city fund structure and then

448
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,920
All key through the general fund and our proprietary fund operations.

449
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,220
Municipality, account or municipal

450
00:45:09,220 --> 00:45:16,160
accounting can be very complicated. So this slide is intended to simplify how our funds are organized,

451
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:25,940
which is according to the general or GFOA's best practices as well. And so the general fund supports

452
00:45:25,940 --> 00:45:28,040
supports most day-to-day CityX services.

453
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:35,600
The Capital Project Fund accounts for major infrastructure and construction and

454
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:41,440
the special revenue funds account for resources restricted for special specific purposes.

455
00:45:41,860 --> 00:45:46,840
Those three types of funds make up our, what is considered, governmental funds.

456
00:45:47,420 --> 00:45:51,650
And then our proprietary funds account for the business type activities such as

457
00:45:51,650 --> 00:45:53,850
sewer, the civic complex, rocket cloud,

458
00:45:54,470 --> 00:45:55,070
voluntary and trash.

459
00:45:56,430 --> 00:45:59,470
Keeping these activities separate, allow us to track how

460
00:45:59,470 --> 00:46:01,410
resources are generated and used.

461
00:46:06,010 --> 00:46:08,890
This slide summarizes the general or the governmental

462
00:46:08,890 --> 00:46:11,270
fund proposed budgets.

463
00:46:12,290 --> 00:46:15,450
This is another place where fund balance can sometimes

464
00:46:15,450 --> 00:46:16,150
be misleading.

465
00:46:16,890 --> 00:46:21,570
If you look at the bottom line, a fund may intentionally

466
00:46:21,570 --> 00:46:24,810
accumulate resources in one year and spend them

467
00:46:24,810 --> 00:46:27,690
on an authorized project in another year.

468
00:46:28,550 --> 00:46:31,310
So we look at not only what the fund balance,

469
00:46:31,670 --> 00:46:33,630
whether it increases or decreases,

470
00:46:34,210 --> 00:46:35,730
but also why it changes.

471
00:46:36,330 --> 00:46:38,770
This year, accrued special revenue funds

472
00:46:38,770 --> 00:46:41,650
will be allocated to accelerate the multi-year

473
00:46:41,650 --> 00:46:43,810
straight resurfacing plan.

474
00:46:45,310 --> 00:46:49,210
And so you can see that draw down of $2002,000

475
00:46:49,210 --> 00:46:50,750
from those special revenue funds

476
00:46:50,750 --> 00:46:53,950
that we've accumulated to be able to assign

477
00:46:53,950 --> 00:47:00,470
to, you know, special projects that fit within the restricted guidelines that are almost funds

478
00:47:00,470 --> 00:47:03,490
from usually state restrictions.

479
00:47:07,330 --> 00:47:10,650
This side focuses specifically on the general fund

480
00:47:10,650 --> 00:47:16,550
and is a good example of fund balance distinction I mentioned earlier. Council has established

481
00:47:16,550 --> 00:47:22,930
committed reserves for needs such as vehicle replacements, technology, emergency response,

482
00:47:22,930 --> 00:47:24,710
plants, recreation, and infrastructure.

483
00:47:25,390 --> 00:47:27,990
The purpose of these reserves is to plan ahead.

484
00:47:28,390 --> 00:47:33,590
Rather than waiting until a major vehicle, technology, or facility need occurs,

485
00:47:34,530 --> 00:47:39,470
then trying to absorb the entire cost in one year, we intentionally set aside resources.

486
00:47:40,210 --> 00:47:47,590
For 2027, we are proposing to use 575,000 from committed vehicle replacement reserves

487
00:47:47,590 --> 00:47:52,890
to purchase templates' vehicles, which is in accordance with the vehicle replacement plan.

488
00:47:53,610 --> 00:48:02,770
This will reduce that particular committer reserve, but is exactly what the money was intended to be used for or set aside for.

489
00:48:03,630 --> 00:48:11,770
After accounting for this proposed activity, the unencumbered general fund balance is projected to increase by $1.4 million.

490
00:48:11,770 --> 00:48:19,910
dollars. So if you look, it says the net change in fund balance is almost $850,000. But when you

491
00:48:19,910 --> 00:48:26,390
take into account that we are going to use the 575 from committer reserves, we will actually be

492
00:48:26,390 --> 00:48:33,030
increasing our unencumbered fund balance by 1.4 million. And this is an important distinction

493
00:48:33,830 --> 00:48:39,310
because we have planned for the use of committer reserves while still strengthening our unencumbered

494
00:48:39,310 --> 00:48:40,250
financial position.

495
00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:50,000
Cell tax is our largest revenue source in the general fund.

496
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,980
So we take a conservative approach to forecasting it.

497
00:48:54,540 --> 00:48:58,400
We're recommending 2% growth based on actual collections,

498
00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:02,340
local activity, and broader economic forecasts.

499
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,120
The goal is to build a budget around revenue assumptions

500
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,620
that are reasonable and supportable.

501
00:49:08,620 --> 00:49:09,800
General

502
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:28,820
fund revenue is projected at approximately $65.6 million, sales and other taxes remain our largest source at about $43.5 million, followed by property tax at $10.3 million.

503
00:49:28,820 --> 00:49:45,520
The largest increase is in license impairments which are projected at approximately 6.8 million driven primarily by the changes we made in our business license ordinances over the past year and developmental activity.

504
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:51,240
Service charges also benefit from increased EMS service collections.

505
00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:52,540
On

506
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:01,960
the expenditure side, personnel and benefits continue to represent our largest recurring

507
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,260
commitment, particularly in police and fire.

508
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:12,000
The approximately 62 million shown here also includes capital and debt service.

509
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:18,880
So it is a broader look than the operating expenditure number we saw on the previous slides.

510
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:24,880
Overall, the budget maintains existing service levels while addressing increased personnel

511
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:29,060
benefit, insurance, utility maintenance, and contractual costs.

512
00:50:34,850 --> 00:50:39,490
Now we'll move over from off of the governmental funds to our proprietary funds.

513
00:50:39,930 --> 00:50:46,970
Property funds operate more like business activities, revenues are primarily generated

514
00:50:46,970 --> 00:50:52,450
through charges for services, ideally those revenues support the cost of providing

515
00:50:52,450 --> 00:50:58,930
the service. However, we also evaluate each operation based on its individual purpose.

516
00:50:59,650 --> 00:51:06,410
Water and sewer and trash, for example, are utility operations with a significant long-term

517
00:51:06,410 --> 00:51:15,310
infrastructure requirements. But the Civic Complex Rocket Club and Valentree also provide

518
00:51:15,310 --> 00:51:21,270
recreation and quality of life benefits to the community. So their financial performance needs

519
00:51:21,270 --> 00:51:27,050
to be considered along with the public service and economic benefit that they provide.

520
00:51:28,070 --> 00:51:33,590
The important thing is that we evaluate each of these operations individually and that we have

521
00:51:33,590 --> 00:51:39,970
a full understanding both of its operational performance as well as its long-term capital needs.

522
00:51:40,410 --> 00:51:45,690
So that's what Gretchen's talking about, planning ahead, having those plans, knowing what's coming

523
00:51:45,690 --> 00:51:51,790
and making sure that we're putting those, you know, that money aside for those future expenditures.

524
00:51:55,650 --> 00:52:00,190
This side summarizes all five proprietary funds together.

525
00:52:00,890 --> 00:52:06,330
Water and sewer is our largest proprietary operation followed by civic complex,

526
00:52:06,430 --> 00:52:11,270
voluntary trash, and then reclub. As we discussed with the governmental funds,

527
00:52:11,670 --> 00:52:15,010
the net change and fund balance does not tell the entire story by itself.

528
00:52:15,010 --> 00:52:21,070
Some of these funds have accumulated resources, over time, specifically to pay capital improvements.

529
00:52:21,710 --> 00:52:29,590
And it's so exciting that this year, voluntary and civic complex will be paying for a lot of their capital projects

530
00:52:29,590 --> 00:52:33,550
for the first time this year out of their reserve funds.

531
00:52:33,930 --> 00:52:35,170
So that is really exciting.

532
00:52:36,570 --> 00:52:40,510
When those resources are spent on an activity, capital projects,

533
00:52:40,510 --> 00:52:47,210
When those resources are spent on active capital projects, the fund may show a decrease in

534
00:52:47,210 --> 00:52:51,510
fund balance even though its ongoing operations remain financially sustainable.

535
00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:58,890
This is why we separate operation performance from capital activity when evaluating each

536
00:52:58,890 --> 00:52:59,350
fund.

537
00:53:03,990 --> 00:53:07,580
These charts show how individual proprietary funds generate their revenue.

538
00:53:07,580 --> 00:53:13,140
For water and sewer, more than 90% of revenue comes from service fees.

539
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:18,600
Fees provide a reoccurring revenue stream that supports operations as well

540
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,500
as long-term maintenance and replacement of utility infrastructure.

541
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,400
The Civic Complex has a much more diversified revenue structure.

542
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:35,000
Food and beverage represents about 31% lessons and activities, about 28% rentals,

543
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:42,020
about 20% in event income, about 16%. That diversity reflects the many different activities

544
00:53:42,020 --> 00:53:47,540
taking place at the facility from recreation and ice programming to events and rentals.

545
00:53:50,670 --> 00:53:55,570
Ballantry in the Racket Club also have diversified revenue streams. At Ballantry,

546
00:53:55,710 --> 00:54:00,770
revenue comes from guest fees, carpet fees, memberships, food and beverage, and other

547
00:54:00,770 --> 00:54:06,350
golf related activities. At the Racket Club, tennis lessons are the largest revenue source

548
00:54:06,350 --> 00:54:11,990
followed by tournament revenue and membership fees. These are important because we continue

549
00:54:11,990 --> 00:54:17,490
to look for opportunities to increase earned revenue and reduce the amount of support required

550
00:54:17,490 --> 00:54:24,070
from other city resources while maintaining the service levels and quality that residents expect

551
00:54:24,530 --> 00:54:25,450
from these facilities.

552
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,920
This table shows the expenditure side of those operations,

553
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:39,920
Total proprietary finite expenditures here are approximately 25.1 million including operating

554
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,220
calls, capital outlay and debt service.

555
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,760
Water and sewer is the largest operation at approximately 11 million.

556
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:54,660
The Civic Complex is approximately 4.6 million, Balantry, approximately 3.98, 3.9 million,

557
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:59,560
Trash, approximately 3.6 million, and Rocket, approximately 1.6 million.

558
00:55:00,260 --> 00:55:05,220
You can also see how different the call structures are for each of these funds.

559
00:55:05,860 --> 00:55:09,740
Water and sewer, balontry and racket have direct personnel calls,

560
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:16,400
while the civic complex and trash have greater concentration in operating or contractual expenses.

561
00:55:17,260 --> 00:55:21,440
Our goal is to understand the complete financial structure of each operation

562
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,420
and not simply whether one line goes up or down,

563
00:55:24,420 --> 00:55:35,420
You know, really looking at that holistic view and how they each one of the operations fits into the full package of city services and why people want to be residents here.

564
00:55:42,290 --> 00:55:57,650
Thank you, Jamie. So capital projects, I'm just going to go over this briefly. But if you take the cross creek trail, storm sewer rehab for $220,000 out of that, just just in your mind if you could just kind of move that over to under blueberry hill.

565
00:55:57,650 --> 00:55:58,570
Okay?

566
00:56:01,050 --> 00:56:06,550
Now, what's left on this page is your annual paving, your ADA sidewalk, which we

567
00:56:06,550 --> 00:56:13,950
do every year notice the annual paving has gone from 1.25 to 1.5 million. Your fire

568
00:56:13,950 --> 00:56:19,950
station number four renovations, and that's so we can house a new ladder truck that we

569
00:56:19,950 --> 00:56:26,710
got coming. Police Department HVag improvement, so they can keep cool because we've got one

570
00:56:26,710 --> 00:56:31,330
one more unit that needs to be replaced there, city hall lobby renovations and that's mainly

571
00:56:31,330 --> 00:56:36,610
accessibility for the public to more than one person helping them at the front desk.

572
00:56:37,110 --> 00:56:42,430
Magistrate office and courtroom renovations does all about safety and fire station number

573
00:56:42,430 --> 00:56:47,650
five patio cover, which is about drainage and making sure we take care of that building.

574
00:56:48,950 --> 00:56:53,850
Then the rest of these balance rate driving range, balance rate T box renovations,

575
00:56:56,090 --> 00:56:56,230
whole

576
00:56:56,230 --> 00:57:01,830
coming out of Ballantraze Fund, right?

577
00:57:02,030 --> 00:57:02,830
The proprietary fund.

578
00:57:02,970 --> 00:57:04,190
Civic complex improvements.

579
00:57:05,050 --> 00:57:07,750
That's for the bathrooms for next year.

580
00:57:07,990 --> 00:57:09,390
And I think everybody knows that's

581
00:57:09,390 --> 00:57:11,190
the next project that needs to be tackled.

582
00:57:11,710 --> 00:57:14,030
Blueberry Hill, Property Trailhead,

583
00:57:14,390 --> 00:57:15,590
Restaurants and Trails.

584
00:57:15,870 --> 00:57:18,910
That is the other new project.

585
00:57:19,110 --> 00:57:21,310
Now, you'll see all of these others starting

586
00:57:21,310 --> 00:57:23,890
it because remember you moved in your mind, the Cross Creek.

587
00:57:23,890 --> 00:57:31,530
The county road 35 phase 2, Brantley Hill, City Park, and then go on to the next.

588
00:57:31,810 --> 00:57:36,210
All of this entire slide are all covered by water and sewer fees.

589
00:57:36,990 --> 00:57:46,410
That's your long term water and sewer maintenance plan, which is a fantastic plan.

590
00:57:46,650 --> 00:57:52,570
I think every chance I get, I stand up and want to say, hey, I was very fortunate

591
00:57:52,570 --> 00:57:56,450
it when I walked into this job that there was a great water and sewer plan in place

592
00:57:56,450 --> 00:57:59,110
and that those that infrastructure had been maintained.

593
00:58:01,330 --> 00:58:03,790
So anyway, that is all there.

594
00:58:04,550 --> 00:58:08,470
And then we've got the Blueberry Hill Trailhead Restrooms.

595
00:58:09,090 --> 00:58:17,050
This is just, for the budget, it's going to be online and it's in our new technology that

596
00:58:17,050 --> 00:58:21,150
we have and you're going to be able to go in and see so much more than you ever could

597
00:58:21,150 --> 00:58:27,470
it online. So the residents are going to be able to go and see, look more at each capital,

598
00:58:27,710 --> 00:58:33,850
new capital project, see how it's funded. You're going to be able to just go in and find

599
00:58:33,850 --> 00:58:40,230
explanations for just every part of the budget, including the expenses and your goals for each

600
00:58:40,230 --> 00:58:49,450
department. So that is, I will say, when we were talking about this, Jamie has a son who races,

601
00:58:50,270 --> 00:58:56,530
participates in this competition and that we'd be able to cater and get these kids in.

602
00:58:57,230 --> 00:59:03,030
And it's a significant number of kids who are competing in the sport.

603
00:59:03,530 --> 00:59:05,530
So we're very excited about that.

604
00:59:06,770 --> 00:59:11,730
But that is, and then I'm not going to go through the active capital projects.

605
00:59:11,730 --> 00:59:17,550
But we have 61, in addition to the 29 new, we have 61 active capital projects

606
00:59:18,250 --> 00:59:29,050
that we've been, I think at one point there were 107, so we've been getting them completed and we have 61 more that are in progress.

607
00:59:34,310 --> 00:59:37,410
There they are, they're all in there. Yeah, we'll just keep going.

608
00:59:44,070 --> 00:59:53,330
As of September 30th, 2026, the city is projected to have approximately 57.4 million in outstanding long term.

609
00:59:53,330 --> 00:59:59,830
term, um, principal, um, for 2027 principal and interest payments on obligation.

610
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:08,820
Questions shown here or will be approximately 5.97 million debt service is important to our

611
01:00:08,820 --> 01:00:15,240
long range planning because these are fixed commitments. Those these payments have to be considered

612
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:20,900
before we determine how much financial capacity is available for operations, capital projects

613
01:00:20,900 --> 01:00:27,720
or any future borrowing. As we evaluate future projects and initiatives, we will be looking

614
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:34,580
beyond the current budget year and considering the city's existing obligations and future debt capacity

615
01:00:34,580 --> 01:00:41,460
and that really goes back to Brettian about coming about maintaining our credit rating.

616
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:50,400
So I think Laura has a handout of this because I know you can't read it.

617
01:00:51,980 --> 01:00:56,120
But I'm just saying and I know I've covered a lot of numbers we have.

618
01:00:56,120 --> 01:01:12,520
So I want to finish with a larger financial picture the FY 2026 have been budget put the city's mission value vision values into action by aligning resources with our seven pillars of excellence in the priorities that guide how we serve our community.

619
01:01:12,820 --> 01:01:20,580
We have taken into consideration or conservative approach to revenue projections, particularly with our largest revenue sources.

620
01:01:20,580 --> 01:01:27,060
We have also worked to maintain a structurally balanced budget so that reoccurring operations

621
01:01:27,060 --> 01:01:28,800
are supported by reoccurring revenues.

622
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:36,600
We are using Committer Reserves for the Purpose Council established DIMPOR while still

623
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:40,860
increasing our unencumbered general fund balance by approximately $1.4 million.

624
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,720
We are continuing to plan beyond FY 2027.

625
01:01:45,180 --> 01:01:49,480
We know there are significant infrastructure and capital needs ahead, so preserving financial

626
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:56,220
flexibility today is an important part preparing for those future decisions so I would be happy

627
01:01:56,220 --> 01:02:04,480
to answer any questions. But I've highlighted some of the major lines that are important, that

628
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:12,520
operating surplus or deficit, then looking at where we are after we pay for those kind of

629
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:18,840
reoccurring more reoccurring capital expenditures, more like vehicle equipment, once we do our debt

630
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:24,500
service and then you know that lower line is really those outlying things that are you know

631
01:02:24,500 --> 01:02:29,800
either one-time revenues for interfund transfers or large capital projects.

632
01:02:39,420 --> 01:02:40,140
I don't have any

633
01:02:40,140 --> 01:02:41,660
questions council do you have any questions?

634
01:02:46,660 --> 01:02:48,960
I have no questions just a couple of comments that's

635
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:56,880
unbelievable information so thank you all I mean I know that takes a lot of hours and a lot of people

636
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:02,660
to put all that information together but thank you. That's a lot of information. It's unbelievable.

637
01:03:03,220 --> 01:03:06,600
I could not do it without the department heads. The information that they provide. I mean,

638
01:03:06,620 --> 01:03:10,620
I can't know everything about all of their operations. So the information they provide

639
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:16,880
is invaluable and then are the rest of the finance team. I mean, they all contribute to this

640
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:21,460
and work so hard on getting it done. Well, they all blame. They all say that that's all Jamie puts

641
01:03:21,460 --> 01:03:23,640
That's all that together, so thank you.

642
01:03:25,060 --> 01:03:27,180
Yeah, likewise, I want to thank you guys

643
01:03:27,660 --> 01:03:31,340
from Jamie and Gretchen down to the department heads.

644
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,060
The information that you guys share with us

645
01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:38,840
during the budget process was truly appreciated

646
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,460
and it gave us all opportunities to think more

647
01:03:42,460 --> 01:03:47,660
in more detail about what actually helps our city run.

648
01:03:47,660 --> 01:04:02,160
And so again, I just want to piggyback off Councilman Harris's comments that you guys reflect the quality of the personnel that we have here in our city from top to bottom.

649
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:05,760
And I think we're very fortunate to have each and every one of you.

650
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:17,280
All right, well, if you're watching online or you watch it later or you're here in the

651
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:21,660
public, just know that if you do business in the city of Pellum, you live in the city

652
01:04:21,660 --> 01:04:27,140
of Pellum. We are in a very, very strong financial position. I think we're still one of only

653
01:04:27,140 --> 01:04:32,140
three cities with a AAA credit rating. I don't know when another one will come in, but we're

654
01:04:32,140 --> 01:04:35,840
talking about shifting around some of our reserves later this year to make us even more

655
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:43,360
sound from a financial position, but I am also, I said this up the last meeting, proud of this council.

656
01:04:43,660 --> 01:04:49,740
You know, we could have done like prior councils and spent every penny that we had, but we set up side initially

657
01:04:50,700 --> 01:04:58,520
2 million and then we ended up having the Blueberry Hill opportunity and then increasing the paving, which is, which is money, well used, I think.

658
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:09,540
So kudos to this council for advancing those things, but we're still leaving about 1.25 million untouched, which hasn't happened while I've been on the council. We pretty much spent everything.

659
01:05:09,940 --> 01:05:21,400
So just thank you all for that and thank you council for being wise stewards knowing that we have the reant project coming up and that gives us some money towards that project if anything else.

660
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:22,740
Thank you.

661
01:05:28,430 --> 01:05:28,830
All

662
01:05:34,590 --> 01:05:36,630
right, Mr. City Attorney, do you have a report tonight?

663
01:05:38,450 --> 01:05:41,270
Thank you, sir, no public hearings and no approval.

664
01:05:41,770 --> 01:05:44,590
I know a approved request to address City Council, no all business.

665
01:05:45,710 --> 01:05:51,390
We do have I think six individual resolutions to vote on real quick.

666
01:05:51,930 --> 01:05:54,230
I can talk fast, so bear with us, we're almost done.

667
01:05:55,470 --> 01:05:59,270
But the first one is resolution 2026-09-0807.

668
01:05:59,270 --> 01:06:05,390
and this is simply to update the developer agreement with Jen Reff. We found

669
01:06:05,390 --> 01:06:08,270
some administrative things. We were just updating to give clarity on what the

670
01:06:08,270 --> 01:06:11,670
city's doing versus what Jen Reff's doing. So that's all this is kind of an

671
01:06:11,670 --> 01:06:15,790
administrative vote. Remember the council like this resolution read in its

672
01:06:15,790 --> 01:06:20,510
entirety. I'll entertain a motion to approve this resolution. Motion to approve.

673
01:06:20,890 --> 01:06:25,730
Second. We have a motion in second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

674
01:06:26,530 --> 01:06:33,370
any opposed that resolution passage unanimous resolution 2026 090 808 for

675
01:06:33,370 --> 01:06:38,410
consideration to approve an ABC license application for especially retail or

676
01:06:38,410 --> 01:06:44,690
of consumable hemp products applicant is gallery smoke with any member of the

677
01:06:44,690 --> 01:06:49,770
council like this resolution read in its entirety I'll entertain a motion to

678
01:06:49,770 --> 01:06:54,990
approve or deny this resolution motion to approve second there's a motion and a

679
01:06:54,990 --> 01:07:02,310
second, any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Mr.

680
01:07:02,350 --> 01:07:07,130
C. D. Clerk, this passes 4-0 and I will abstain from that vote. Moves this to

681
01:07:07,130 --> 01:07:13,390
resolution 2026-09-0809 for consideration, authorize a memorandum of agreement

682
01:07:13,390 --> 01:07:17,930
with Newcastle development in the Camilla Ridge subdivision. This is to fix

683
01:07:17,930 --> 01:07:24,010
the sidewalks to make them ADA compliant and so that work is I think

684
01:07:24,010 --> 01:07:26,070
I think it's supposed to happen in four to six weeks

685
01:07:26,070 --> 01:07:27,250
or you're told in the work session.

686
01:07:28,070 --> 01:07:28,990
Would any member of the council

687
01:07:28,990 --> 01:07:30,630
like this resolution read it's entirety?

688
01:07:31,930 --> 01:07:33,370
I'll entertain a motion to approve.

689
01:07:33,790 --> 01:07:34,430
Motion to approve.

690
01:07:34,810 --> 01:07:35,150
Second.

691
01:07:35,570 --> 01:07:36,350
Motion to second.

692
01:07:36,550 --> 01:07:37,050
Any discussion?

693
01:07:38,430 --> 01:07:39,870
All those in favor say aye.

694
01:07:40,250 --> 01:07:40,630
Aye.

695
01:07:41,030 --> 01:07:41,210
Aye.

696
01:07:41,570 --> 01:07:42,010
Any opposed?

697
01:07:42,890 --> 01:07:44,630
That resolution passes unanimously.

698
01:07:45,730 --> 01:07:48,350
Resolution 2026-090-810.

699
01:07:49,350 --> 01:07:51,870
This is the authorization to change

700
01:07:51,870 --> 01:07:55,550
change the time of change order with messy asphalt paving.

701
01:07:56,430 --> 01:08:00,730
City manager spoke about this where we had some initial streets were able to add because

702
01:08:00,730 --> 01:08:06,110
the budget came in or the bid came in under our 1.25 million so we're adding streets that

703
01:08:06,110 --> 01:08:09,950
we're projected for the next fiscal year into this one.

704
01:08:10,430 --> 01:08:13,370
Would any member of the council like this resolution read in its entirety?

705
01:08:14,010 --> 01:08:14,090
No.

706
01:08:14,510 --> 01:08:17,150
I'll entertain a motion to approve or deny this resolution.

707
01:08:17,430 --> 01:08:18,290
Motion to approve.

708
01:08:18,730 --> 01:08:19,150
Second.

709
01:08:19,150 --> 01:08:26,550
motion and second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.

710
01:08:26,870 --> 01:08:34,550
Any opposed? This resolution passes unanimously. We got two left. Resolution 2026-0908-11.

711
01:08:35,290 --> 01:08:42,950
This is to affirm the mayor's emergency purchase authorization for a brand new school passenger bus for the Pellum Senior Center.

712
01:08:42,950 --> 01:08:47,210
the other one sort of died on us and so we had to make an emergency

713
01:08:47,210 --> 01:08:51,890
spin so the council's affirming his decision to expense that for the bus. What

714
01:08:51,890 --> 01:08:56,050
any member of the council like this resolution read in its entirety? I'll

715
01:08:56,050 --> 01:09:00,270
entertain a motion to approve or deny this resolution. Motion to approve. Second we

716
01:09:00,270 --> 01:09:05,950
have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

717
01:09:06,410 --> 01:09:11,850
Aye. Any opposed? That resolution passes unanimously. Final one. Resolution

718
01:09:20,050 --> 01:09:35,430
this is being purchased out of their excess revenues that they had as city manager spoke about earlier, they came in the black. So they're purchasing a new floor to go over the ice for events that will make it more expeditious and require one person to do a versus two.

719
01:09:35,430 --> 01:09:38,470
would any member of the council like this resolution to read in this entirety.

720
01:09:40,110 --> 01:09:43,030
I'll entertain a motion to approve or not resolution.

721
01:09:43,950 --> 01:09:44,310
Second.

722
01:09:45,510 --> 01:09:46,490
Ready to get out of here.

723
01:09:47,390 --> 01:09:48,110
Any discussion?

724
01:09:49,790 --> 01:09:51,070
All those in favor say aye.

725
01:09:51,570 --> 01:09:52,890
Aye. Any opposed?

726
01:09:53,510 --> 01:09:55,390
And that resolution passes unanimously.

727
01:09:55,770 --> 01:09:56,730
It leads to public comments.

728
01:09:56,910 --> 01:09:58,750
Would any member of the public like to make a comment tonight?

729
01:09:58,890 --> 01:10:00,410
Please raise your hand. All right.

730
01:10:00,850 --> 01:10:03,410
If you could come to the podium while I read this statement real quick.

731
01:10:03,410 --> 01:10:07,670
Public comments are limited to three minutes per speaker, individuals wishing to address

732
01:10:07,670 --> 01:10:12,090
the council may after being recognized, approached the podium and state their name and physical

733
01:10:12,090 --> 01:10:15,250
address prior to making their comments in a respectful manner.

734
01:10:15,770 --> 01:10:18,550
Please note the public comment period is intended for comments only.

735
01:10:19,190 --> 01:10:24,010
It is not a public hearing nor is it a time for dialogue, debate or questions to the City Council.

736
01:10:24,610 --> 01:10:29,730
Any questions or requests for additional information will be noted and may be addressed by the appropriate

737
01:10:29,730 --> 01:10:34,290
city staff or officials at a later time if you would please state your name and address before

738
01:10:34,290 --> 01:10:40,870
making comments. Hey, I'm Megan Meshard, 107 MetaVee Circle in Pellum and I appreciate your time

739
01:10:40,870 --> 01:10:47,330
tonight. I'm here because there's a home in our neighborhood, 106 MetaVee Circle, that is completely

740
01:10:47,330 --> 01:10:53,670
overgrown. The weeds are in some places more than five feet tall. The back fence is completely

741
01:10:53,670 --> 01:10:59,350
fallen down. The weeds have completely taken over the backyard. That's important because it's

742
01:10:59,350 --> 01:11:05,130
visible from Highway 52. Not only that, we've got rodents that are now coming

743
01:11:05,130 --> 01:11:10,230
out of the yard. We've got snakes. We've got bugs. We've got, it's a nuisance.

744
01:11:10,430 --> 01:11:15,430
It's not just an eye sore. I dare say it's bringing down our property values.

745
01:11:15,650 --> 01:11:18,810
People can see it. But we've got plenty of children that play.

746
01:11:19,350 --> 01:11:23,350
Plenty of children that are at risk here. And it's very frustrating because we

747
01:11:23,350 --> 01:11:28,910
have made numerous, numerous 3-1-1 reports. And now the answer is, well the

748
01:11:28,910 --> 01:11:30,630
the Pellum Police Department has taken over.

749
01:11:31,070 --> 01:11:33,270
And I understand that and I appreciate that.

750
01:11:33,490 --> 01:11:36,070
The problem is she doesn't come to court.

751
01:11:36,410 --> 01:11:37,690
We were subpoenaed to come testify.

752
01:11:38,190 --> 01:11:40,030
She got an FTA because she didn't come.

753
01:11:40,770 --> 01:11:42,270
They're not going to do it.

754
01:11:42,270 --> 01:11:44,150
You can't make somebody cut their grass.

755
01:11:44,390 --> 01:11:47,390
But what Pellum can do because this is in violation

756
01:11:47,390 --> 01:11:52,230
of chapter eight article two, eight-20, 21, 22, 23 and 24.

757
01:11:52,790 --> 01:11:55,990
Eight-25 says Pellum can go in and do this,

758
01:11:55,990 --> 01:12:01,050
fix it, clean it up, put a lien against it if she doesn't pay and reimburse that amount.

759
01:12:02,010 --> 01:12:07,130
And we're asking that that happened because the police department can only find her, charger

760
01:12:07,130 --> 01:12:13,870
with a misdemeanor, can't go out there and force her to mow her yard, fix her broken down

761
01:12:13,870 --> 01:12:19,510
garage, fix the broken down fence, fix these problems that are, again, more than just an

762
01:12:19,510 --> 01:12:24,710
eye sore. And so we're just asking, I say we because many of our neighbors have made these

763
01:12:24,710 --> 01:12:31,910
complaints. And y'all has been going on since May of last year, over 16 months. This family

764
01:12:31,910 --> 01:12:37,150
has abandoned the house for more than 12 months at a time. So there's no power, there's

765
01:12:37,150 --> 01:12:43,210
no water, there's nobody there. She comes back and forth. But we're in a situation where

766
01:12:43,210 --> 01:12:49,810
we can't, I mean, it's ridiculous. And we're just begging the city to please use what these

767
01:12:49,810 --> 01:12:55,210
codes allow and get something done for the betterment of not just our neighborhood and our street

768
01:12:55,210 --> 01:13:00,930
but the city. So thank you for your time. Yes, ma'am. Thank you for your time. I will tell you,

769
01:13:00,970 --> 01:13:04,650
I've been on the council for a few years and I haven't had anybody quote and articles and things

770
01:13:04,650 --> 01:13:10,130
like that. So kudos on the research, but please give your information to the city clerk so that we'll

771
01:13:10,130 --> 01:13:14,910
have that. I already see some staff, you know, taking some notes about this. One of six Meadow

772
01:13:14,910 --> 01:13:19,310
Meadow view circle if we can take a look at that and then get back with her and

773
01:13:19,310 --> 01:13:23,770
Okay, thank you. Anybody else public comments?

774
01:13:24,470 --> 01:13:25,570
All right, Miss Neville.

775
01:13:28,500 --> 01:13:29,560
Do you forget something?

776
01:13:30,340 --> 01:13:43,540
Well, actually no. Okay. I did try. Well, Labor Day snicked up on me and you know things shut down and I was hoping to get this as an announcement on the

777
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:46,580
agenda and everything.

778
01:13:46,580 --> 01:13:55,180
This, I serve on the Board of Directors for the Pellum Arts Council, which denied to

779
01:13:55,180 --> 01:14:03,240
Gretchen for helping us get that started, the beat, beautification, entertainment, and

780
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:03,900
arts team.

781
01:14:04,780 --> 01:14:07,920
We do two dinner theaters a year.

782
01:14:08,540 --> 01:14:16,000
The Fall Dinner Theater is coming up October 2nd and 3rd, a Friday and Saturday.

783
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:23,920
evening. These are murder mysteries. Let me see if I can get this title right. It is the wedding

784
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:33,800
from hell. That is the title. Y'all know I wouldn't be talking like that in City. But it's all

785
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:39,100
in print on Facebook and stuff. But this is to serve as a reminder to please get your tickets.

786
01:14:39,740 --> 01:14:45,540
We think we're very important asset to the city. We make think we're more important than we really

787
01:14:45,540 --> 01:14:53,080
are, but we hope not. And we would like to have you attend. These are fun, entertaining.

788
01:14:53,380 --> 01:14:59,880
You get dinner, a nice dinner, and live entertainment because we partner with South City Theatre.

789
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:12,040
In poem, who is also an asset to the city. So just a reminder, look up, the beat, key on the

790
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:18,960
link, vent bright, great prices, great dinner, great fun, and you're bound to see somebody

791
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:25,720
you know, and it's going to be a hell of a wedding. It was now or the ticket still around $50.

792
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:29,580
dollars or do you know okay

793
01:15:31,950 --> 01:15:38,390
oh no no no we do it at we do it right except the not that they are

794
01:15:38,390 --> 01:15:46,170
having some issues their event space is very small we have access twice a year per the city to

795
01:15:46,170 --> 01:15:52,870
the civic center complex and ice arena so we're in you know one of the ballrooms it's a very nice

796
01:15:52,870 --> 01:16:01,870
You said it right. You're doing it right. Very nice venue, and I make my husband go and he enjoys it, so.

797
01:16:02,410 --> 01:16:11,450
Yep, so thank you, Neville. In a prior life, I served with Neville on the beat when we first started those dinner theaters and for $55.

798
01:16:11,630 --> 01:16:18,490
If that's the ticket price now, you get a full meal. They have an open bar if you choose to take in that.

799
01:16:21,250 --> 01:16:31,630
But it lasts about three hours, you get to participate sometimes in the dinner theaters and it's just a really good event that you can't be $55 a ticket for.

800
01:16:31,730 --> 01:16:33,090
We can't even go out to eat for $55.

801
01:16:33,610 --> 01:16:43,530
If you like to dress in costume, we encourage dressing according to that this is supposed to be a bombshell of a wedding, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

802
01:16:44,170 --> 01:16:46,050
Besides the murder involved.

803
01:16:46,050 --> 01:16:48,310
All right, so please come and join us.

804
01:16:48,350 --> 01:16:48,830
Thank you, Neville.

805
01:16:49,070 --> 01:16:51,710
Mr. Shelby County reporter, that might be a cool article

806
01:16:51,710 --> 01:16:52,530
to have on an interview.

807
01:16:52,690 --> 01:16:55,350
So any other public comments?

808
01:16:56,870 --> 01:16:58,210
Move to council comments.

809
01:16:58,290 --> 01:16:59,470
We'll start with Councilman Harris

810
01:16:59,470 --> 01:17:01,170
and we'll end with Councilman Snowden.

811
01:17:02,170 --> 01:17:04,090
All right, I'll use my time to promote.

812
01:17:04,250 --> 01:17:07,030
I told Coach Newton that I would promote Pelham football.

813
01:17:07,430 --> 01:17:09,650
So if anybody has a free Friday night,

814
01:17:10,150 --> 01:17:12,670
please come support Pelham football on the hill.

815
01:17:12,830 --> 01:17:13,930
They play homewood this week.

816
01:17:14,770 --> 01:17:16,990
It's going to be a great, great game.

817
01:17:18,010 --> 01:17:20,870
Kudos to the culture at Pelham High School now.

818
01:17:21,150 --> 01:17:22,890
It's magical, it's unbelievable.

819
01:17:23,270 --> 01:17:27,590
Huge crowds in the culture is way different than it was

820
01:17:27,590 --> 01:17:28,610
a few years ago.

821
01:17:28,830 --> 01:17:31,730
So come support Pelham football Friday night, 7 o'clock.

822
01:17:32,250 --> 01:17:33,110
Pelham versus Homewood.

823
01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:40,240
On a second note, if you watched the Hellaynut Pelham game,

824
01:17:40,260 --> 01:17:41,420
it was very intense.

825
01:17:41,740 --> 01:17:44,940
And I wish we had pulled it off.

826
01:17:44,940 --> 01:17:48,540
I should have said there will be different referees on this game, right?

827
01:17:48,660 --> 01:17:55,260
Is that what I should have said? Yeah, I was trying to be politically correct, but yeah, it was it was a tough it was a tough loss for sure

828
01:17:55,700 --> 01:18:02,240
I don't have a whole lot to say we've been here a long time, but I do want to say I'm super excited to see what Blueberry Hill is going to look like

829
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:09,800
I've been here all my life and that property is always going to be something so now it really is going to be something and I'm super excited about that

830
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:11,840
So thanks everyone for being here tonight.

831
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:17,280
Yes, thank you for saying for such a long meeting.

832
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:21,020
I'm super excited about Blueberry Hill as well.

833
01:18:21,460 --> 01:18:23,000
And I'm excited that it's going

834
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,100
not going to take very long to get it going.

835
01:18:25,500 --> 01:18:29,000
So what did end of spring next?

836
01:18:29,480 --> 01:18:34,520
Last week heard January, break ground, second quarter finish.

837
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:35,580
Maybe if we're lucky.

838
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:38,860
That's exciting because that will draw a lot of people

839
01:18:38,860 --> 01:18:45,200
to Palom and it's it's just going to be something amazing to do with something that the city's already

840
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:56,900
already owns. But I wanted to say Andre where did he go? Well it's passed his bedtime but

841
01:18:56,900 --> 01:19:02,860
I was just really excited that he pushed 261 to be independent of Hoover. That's amazing.

842
01:19:03,700 --> 01:19:08,720
And then of course, you know, the stormwater maintenance and everything he's done there.

843
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:14,740
I heard he also helps up a bank robbery and helps an elderly woman cross the road on 31.

844
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:16,480
So, you know, too bad he left.

845
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,140
I think he's going to go put on spandex and fight crime.

846
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:28,960
But the other, the facade improvement project is really, really fun.

847
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:35,680
And I know that we've always talked about Pellum just improving and looking better and that

848
01:19:36,300 --> 01:19:39,360
is exciting to me to see local businesses being promoted.

849
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:40,940
So good job on that.

850
01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:44,100
And again, Gretchen, you shine when it comes to the budget.

851
01:19:45,660 --> 01:19:49,680
The way you put it together, I know Jamie is just an integral part.

852
01:19:49,940 --> 01:19:52,880
You all come together and did such a great job on that.

853
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:59,640
good job in bringing a balanced budget. That's incredibly important and the fact

854
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:05,780
that Ballant Ray and the Civic Center and the Racket Club soon to join the

855
01:20:05,780 --> 01:20:13,460
other two are making more than what they they we spend on it is a dream come

856
01:20:13,460 --> 01:20:16,900
true at least for me and I've wished that for many years so that's exciting to be

857
01:20:16,900 --> 01:20:20,780
a part of that not that I'm a part of it but you know we're present and so

858
01:20:20,780 --> 01:20:21,420
that's an exciting.

859
01:20:23,620 --> 01:20:28,500
That's exciting that it's happening. The street pavement, again,

860
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:32,760
Andre out there fighting crime. I wanted to say, like, you know, great job to his team.

861
01:20:34,020 --> 01:20:41,700
Seth, Cheney, Cheney, how good job making money. That's great. Y'all pay for yourselves.

862
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:49,960
I mean, we're on the up and up and that's very impressive. And I guess that's it. But thank you.

863
01:20:51,460 --> 01:20:58,200
Councilman Snowden, you're going to have a time trying to come up with something taking the last council comments.

864
01:21:00,060 --> 01:21:03,980
I'll scratch off some of my, maybe you'll pick them up. I just have two really.

865
01:21:04,620 --> 01:21:17,580
My son asked me, he knows that I read a Bible verse at every council meeting and he said, he picked out first Peter 5 to be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care watching over them, not because you must,

866
01:21:17,580 --> 01:21:23,920
but because you are willing as God wants you to be not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve.

867
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:32,240
So there you go, little buddy. But Rick and I had the opportunity today to go to the YMCA here in

868
01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:37,260
Poland and they did tell us that they're going to be looking at investing a half a million dollars in

869
01:21:37,260 --> 01:21:44,440
that facility in the coming years. But it was really eye-opening for me. I don't know Rick if you thought

870
01:21:44,440 --> 01:21:48,540
the same but we had a member of Pelham Strong that was there and then Representative

871
01:21:48,540 --> 01:21:54,520
Kenneth Paschal was there and they were they really just wanted to see how they could get out in

872
01:21:54,520 --> 01:22:01,000
the community more and so we gave them some ideas but what I found was interesting was is they have

873
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:06,960
classes that folks that have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease can participate in over there

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01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:14,160
free of charge and so to help with their cognitive ability and try to slow the progression of

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01:22:14,660 --> 01:22:16,380
Parkinson's degree disease.

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01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:18,700
They also, while we were there,

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they were 60 to 70 Latino or Hispanic women there

878
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,020
that were participating in.

879
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:26,020
Once a week, they had the women from the community

880
01:22:26,020 --> 01:22:27,920
come in, they do crafts, they eat,

881
01:22:28,500 --> 01:22:30,900
but they have little small groups throughout the week.

882
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:32,980
But once a week, they do this one event.

883
01:22:33,620 --> 01:22:35,100
That was just really impressive.

884
01:22:35,460 --> 01:22:37,260
And we got to talk to most of them, very nice.

885
01:22:38,940 --> 01:22:40,980
So Mayor had some ideas, you know,

886
01:22:41,020 --> 01:22:42,880
how we could help that community.

887
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:46,980
they have child care there that they provide to their members but one of the big

888
01:22:46,980 --> 01:22:51,200
things that I know that my wife Melissa's been a proponent of is swimming and

889
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:56,560
drownings and teaching kids to swim and so when one bad thing happens

890
01:22:56,560 --> 01:23:00,360
something else you know sometimes comes in its place and Alibaster YMCA closed

891
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:04,620
and they had a really big swim program there that they ended up moving to

892
01:23:04,620 --> 01:23:08,800
Pellown that they still partner with the Alibaster City School system in.

893
01:23:12,340 --> 01:23:12,860
Can't

894
01:23:12,860 --> 01:23:15,840
but classes or something, but they've started partnering

895
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:16,940
with the city of Pellum too,

896
01:23:16,980 --> 01:23:18,680
because now they have that program in Pellum.

897
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,560
And so that's just happened this year,

898
01:23:21,780 --> 01:23:24,960
and they have something called like, it's red to green.

899
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:27,380
So if you haven't passed their swim test,

900
01:23:27,700 --> 01:23:30,300
you get a red bracelet and you have to have a light jacket on,

901
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:31,540
if you pass it, you get a green blouse.

902
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:33,680
So they're teaching them, I mean, there were kids

903
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,020
and they're three years old doing backstrokes,

904
01:23:36,460 --> 01:23:37,960
and they're teaching these kids.

905
01:23:38,660 --> 01:23:39,920
Bring them from the school system,

906
01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:41,640
they had their swim classes and they go back.

907
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:47,000
you know to the school so that being said I invited them to come in at some

908
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:50,080
point to present on things that they're doing if they want to whether in the

909
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:54,680
work session or council meeting and set us up to them to reach out and put

910
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:59,020
that on the agenda but it's right here in Pellum and I have a lot of services for

911
01:23:59,020 --> 01:24:03,680
the city of Pellum so I'd encourage you to check them out if you have any of

912
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:08,000
those needs so with that I'll pass it off to councilman Snowden. All right real

913
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quick. I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight as well as those who are

914
01:24:12,500 --> 01:24:17,660
viewing us on live stream. We thank you for taking the time to participate in

915
01:24:17,660 --> 01:24:24,820
this civic process. I first off I want to thank the mayor and our city manager

916
01:24:24,820 --> 01:24:31,400
and our parks and rec for quickly making a decision and executive decision and

917
01:24:31,940 --> 01:24:37,520
making sure our seniors are able to go on their plan trips because of our

918
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:44,300
our van going down, we had to look at purchasing another one in its place and

919
01:24:46,700 --> 01:24:53,140
sometimes you know decisions have to be made in lieu of us up here and we'll

920
01:24:53,140 --> 01:24:58,340
catch up to it and I just want to thank these individuals for doing what they

921
01:24:58,340 --> 01:25:04,660
had to do and then bringing it to our attention so we could ratify it. Also

922
01:25:04,660 --> 01:25:09,760
So I want to touch again on the budget, you know, where we tried to focus and emphasize

923
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:14,940
on a conservative and sustainable planning.

924
01:25:15,580 --> 01:25:18,960
I mean, I think that's been the key and every decision that we've tried to make.

925
01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:22,880
The street resurfacing is a very important component of that.

926
01:25:23,780 --> 01:25:27,500
We've discussed this kind of ad nauseam.

927
01:25:27,820 --> 01:25:33,820
The importance of trying to complete construction projects ahead of schedule.

928
01:25:33,820 --> 01:25:38,880
as well as on budget so that we can plan for future activities.

929
01:25:39,340 --> 01:25:44,940
We know there's things coming up in future fiscal years that we've got to gear ourselves

930
01:25:44,940 --> 01:25:51,520
up for, so we're trying to make decisions now that will help position ourselves to be able

931
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:54,660
to accommodate those needs when that time arises.

932
01:25:55,480 --> 01:26:01,120
So again, I mean, from across the board here, I think all these guys as well as these individuals

933
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:09,640
here for the teamwork, the teamwork mindset and the ideas that flow between us all in order to

934
01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:17,020
be able to try to make our city the best it can be. Last but not least I just again touching on

935
01:26:17,020 --> 01:26:25,960
the the proclamations both being very important one regarding health. I know a lot of you guys don't

936
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:32,100
followed WWL radio like I do, but when you're hardcore New Orleans Saints fan you have no

937
01:26:32,100 --> 01:26:40,260
choice otherwise you lose your card. But one of the radio head sports talk notable names

938
01:26:40,260 --> 01:26:46,840
on WWL radio passed over the weekend and it was with a very brief battle with pancreatic

939
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:54,360
cancer. So getting checked out, getting screened, going to the doctor. I mean I know we all

940
01:26:54,360 --> 01:27:01,060
yourself as tough people and can deal with pain and other issues, but my self

941
01:27:01,060 --> 01:27:07,700
included, and I've got somebody that will fuss at me otherwise. I won't point in

942
01:27:07,700 --> 01:27:14,240
any direction, but it's important to go to the doctor, get your screenings, and do

943
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:18,680
the right things health-wise. And again, that's the reason why you hear us

944
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:24,820
emphasize so much about outdoor activities because we want our citizens to get out and

945
01:27:24,820 --> 01:27:30,580
your quality of life while we have that opportunity to do it and we want to try to do everything

946
01:27:30,580 --> 01:27:36,980
we can to create as many avenues possible to motivate you to come out of the house and enjoy

947
01:27:36,980 --> 01:27:42,680
what our city has to offer. Again, thank you everybody for coming out. It's been a very productive

948
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:47,640
of night, been a very informative night, and I just thank everybody for your participation.

949
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:50,840
Okay, thank you, Council.

950
01:27:50,940 --> 01:27:52,020
We've got three public announcements.

951
01:27:52,020 --> 01:27:53,340
We're not going to read them verbatim.

952
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:57,800
You can pick up a sheet on your way out to get all the information, not announcement number one.

953
01:27:58,380 --> 01:28:01,600
We're accepting public library board placed one applications.

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01:28:01,620 --> 01:28:06,920
You can apply on the city of Pellham website through September 25th, 2026.

955
01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:22,160
on the park is September 20th, 2026 and we also have America's 250th on Sunday, September 27th, 2026 and that one is at the Bellam City Park music food trucks and everything else.

956
01:28:22,740 --> 01:28:25,160
I'll take a motion to adjourn the council meeting.

957
01:28:25,740 --> 01:28:26,860
Motion to adjourn.

958
01:28:27,260 --> 01:28:28,200
Is there a second?

959
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:28,580
Second.

960
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:30,420
All those in favor say aye.

961
01:28:30,860 --> 01:28:31,100
Aye.

962
01:28:31,540 --> 01:28:32,060
Any opposed?

963
01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:33,740
We are adjourned.

964
01:28:36,820 --> 01:28:38,820
So long, Everett.

965
01:28:51,780 --> 01:28:52,660
Good night, Amanda.

966
01:28:53,220 --> 01:28:53,520
Good night.

967
01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:55,580
You're good, you're not a bad guy.

968
01:28:57,200 --> 01:28:59,140
You're fine, you're not a bad guy.

969
01:28:59,440 --> 01:28:59,660
You're fine, you're not a bad guy.

970
01:28:59,660 --> 01:29:00,260
You're not a bad guy.

971
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:01,960
You're not a bad guy.

972
01:29:02,380 --> 01:29:03,220
I know, though.

973
01:29:03,700 --> 01:29:03,860
Yeah.

974
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:10,820
Thank you, Jonathan.

975
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:11,640
It's like Christmas.

976
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:15,120
I'm going to be in the house.

977
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:19,340
I'm going to be in the house.

978
01:29:19,340 --> 01:29:19,500
I know.

979
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:21,200
It's so funny and funny.

980
01:29:21,440 --> 01:29:23,300
I didn't understand how much it was.

981
01:29:23,480 --> 01:29:25,000
I was just a friend at the time.

982
01:29:25,700 --> 01:29:27,820
I just started over and over again.

983
01:29:27,980 --> 01:29:29,180
I have to get on base.