Today's meeting of the Budget Advisory Committee. Order. We have a roll call, please. Chair. Chair. Chair. Vice chair. Hall. Here. Miss Hales. Here. Miss McKinney. Here. And Mr. Marcus
is absent today. Okay, we'll go into new business. Item number one. I think that's you, Ron.
Yes. Well, I've got both. Item one and two are on the same PowerPoint. Sorry for the confusion with the. I just thought I'd make it easier that way, but yeah, we're just we're
trying to give you an update on the fiscal year 2026 proposed budget, where we are on that and the schedule. And then last week, last month, you asked about getting an update on the
finances for the current year, fiscal year 2025. I've got it through the end of May, and I don't have 40 slides. I was gave
direction to keep it short, so which is okay. I'm not offended. I'm joking. The budget as it
sits right now, it's still a work in progress. It's increasing 1,733,002 27 over the one you received in the middle of May. The main increases or
the are the increases for that. The 1.7 million is the pay study and position adjustments that is still tentative, that are in the budget now 1.1 million 45,000
for department team building. Additional CRA master plan capital 40,001 82. Economic development for the sponge docks 100,000. Pay for performance
175,000. This is the pay for performance. The city manager wants to institute on everybody's anniversary. You'll get evaluated and get a pay
increase based on some scale. But it's still it's still a work in progress on that. Is it a pay increase or is it a bonus? It's a pay increase based on based on
your performance. I think maybe when I started 30 some years ago, our pay I think was like that. You got your pay increases on your anniversary. And then at some point we went to just
October 1st for your pay increases. So this will be in addition to the annual October 1st. Yes. The October 1st one is like a cost of living increase.
And the pay study, it's a minimum 3% with the pay study currently and some pay adjustments. The balance of
264,000. That is basically fund balance, reserve or for any projects that come up after we get into the we got the property taxes in there, but there was some extra money in the budget,
so I just stuck it in a it's called my non-operating line item and general fund non-departmental. Could you go back just a couple questions. So
the 1.1 right. I'm just curious because the last time I don't think the pay study was back yet, was there a lot of like deltas or was there a lot of
suggestions there in terms of where the pay was or what they're suggesting, or was it pretty in line? Well, they got pay in line with like what was the findings of the pay study, I
guess. Well, I guess really I don't know if it's sort of we weren't too far off. I don't know what the previous city manager, we were trying to increase the lower salary. So I mean, compared to other cities
pay studies they've had done, this one came to about overall for all funds, about 5.35%. So we usually fund 5% across the
board for pay increases. So came about 5.355.4 was with salaries, benefits and the general funds. About 5.2% is what it came to and not a significant amount of
adjustments like there's some adjustments for some of the positions but not many. Yeah, some are some larger adjustments, you know, based on the study and comparing to other cities. But most of them, you
know, like say, the minimums of 3% for the cost of living. Okay, cool. And then so everybody would get 3% minimum 3%. And but then based on the pay study they
might get more depending on what their position. Correct. Yeah. The pay study there's I think they're still working out the how that's going to work. There were some factors in the pay study that they looked at. They
looked at compression market where you work is the ranges all moved in this pay study. So if you're below the pay range, the pay range that get you up to the minimum, and they looked at time
and position compressions, things like that. So there was a bunch of factors with different people. So some people got bigger raises based on where they were. Some were okay. So we were still giving them a minimum
of 3%. There's a it's all around. But like Ron said, it was around 5%, a little over 5% overall, which we've been doing already every year year to year. So okay, so no major news from
that pay study. Basically it showed that believe that the city was about 6% below market okay. So we're better than we actually thought we were going to be. So okay. So going forward
I mean this is get out your crystal ball in the future, these October ones then I would think are just going to become cost of living adjustments. And the pay for performance will be
pay study or correct. It could be it just be the 3% cost of living living across the board for everybody. That that difference between the Cola and pay, instead of all hitting one
time at the beginning of the year, that that part will be spread now. Correct. That's an anniversary date. Yeah. And that's what the 175,000 is a 3%
increase, say the average is 3%. So we're trying to fund 3% for the pay for pay for performance cycle, 3% for the general fund is 350,000. I go whether or not
everybody's got different dates. Mine's in August, so I'll have to wait a while. Right. So that's why I took half of that and then plugged in 175,000 for that. But like I say, it's still
a work in progress there, I guess trying to explain the other ones, you know, city manager wanted some department team building. So we put 45,000 in. That's new right? Yes. Yeah. That seems like it would, it
would be a value add. What does that involve? Team building. Or is this like I think he wants to have some funding for departments to be able to just
team building activities within your within your departments. The 40,000 for the CRA master plan. That is basically because
the property tax increase, that was the increase there. So it's just that money's being shifted, that increase in the property tax. We budgeted 0% taxable value increase for the CRA. So that's the additional 40,000
going for the master plan. Economic development for sponge docks. There was there was a need that they wanted to put in something to help, maybe try to help the sponge docks industry
and sort of maybe try to help revitalize it, is what I've understood. I think that's that's all those categories are. I have one more question. I'm sorry. And maybe you're planning
on answering it. The increase in the budget for the coming year is 1,000,733. Right. Well, that's the increase from the budget I provided. We provide.
When you're the first one you saw in May 15th. Okay. And but the increase in the tax, the increase of the income is only 601,000. So where are we getting the rest of that money. Some of
that is from well the different funds some, some of that. And another part of the pay increase is coming from we're using some money from what's called the perpetual exclusive easement. We've had some reserve money
there, about 600,000. We're using that also in addition to the property tax increase. That's a good question. Thank
you. The property tax, as you know, the city portion, it came in at 4.12%. That's a taxable value increase we budgeted be on
the safe side zero. So it ended up being 4.12%. So that equates to a height of $601,000 of property tax for the general
fund, the CRA. We also budgeted 0%, but it ended up being 3.16%. So the city portion of the city revenue is going up 23,003 22.
The county also pays into the into the CRA, so their portion of the increase is a 20,376. But the CRA money is designated for certain. It can't be used for
anything else. No, it's in a separate fund. And when it was created, there's certain allowable expenditures within there. Yes. And that CRA area.
Let's see. Going back to I'm trying to show the five largest fund. And in the top left there you see the total city budget is 102,000. Approved last year was
86, 102 million. Last year was 86 million, 18% increase. The general fund is going up 4.3% or 1.5 million. A lot of these
didn't change too much. The water and sewer fund is going up to 6.7 million. Sanitation fund 322,000 penny fund. We're still we're still working on the on the capital projects. But that
was going down a little bit. But that will be changing. CRA fund going up 2.4 million, stormwater fund 100,000 and the golf course four and 4.3 million. And then
off to the side in that little light purple lavender color, you see the explanations for the increases in the general fund being the police and fire, union wage and pension increase, and also the pay study water and
sewer is doing has some big capital expenditures for electrical, water, well improvements and water meter installations. They want to try to get more of the newer model meters installed throughout the
city. Sanitation fund. That's a contract increase with waste management a 3%. And the penny fund is still we're still like I said, we're still working on the capital for the penny fund. The
CRA fund is mostly the capital, Orange Street. About one point. We're hearing about 1.1 million for the Orange Street reconstruction of that. And this part and the CRA master plan.
The increase in stormwater fund is an annual pipe lining and utility truck. And then the golf course fund, the clubhouse for 4.2 million. It's under design right now. They're thinking the
design should be done. I think probably this fall they'll go out for bid and then hopefully the construction starts, maybe February, March of 2026. Now the
penny fund decrease. Pardon me. You've got you've got a decrease on the penny fund. Yeah. That's just basically the projects that we've got allocated there. But I can tell you it's changing with
the city manager. We've been ongoing working on, on the CIP projects for the last couple of months. We're going to meet with the board members individually again after, I don't know,
Tuesday night they approved to be able to go out for financing. They want to get a list of the projects that we're going to be financing. So that's still a work in progress. That's probably still the original CIP
we had back in from back in May. Okay. This is the revenues by category. Total city taxes going
up 725,000. That's mostly the property taxes. The larger the larger increase is intergovernmental 2.2 million. That's mostly we've got a $2 million grant for the electrical
work and the water and sewer fund charges for services going up 1.5 million, almost 1.6 million. That is mostly charges for services. Are your charges
for the water and sewer is categorized as water and sewer. Storm water and sanitation increases are all classified as charges for services. Interest
earnings going down a little bit. Last year earning maybe five and a quarter 5.5%. Now we're seeing maybe more, down around 4.5% for rate of return
on investment on interest earnings, miscellaneous going up 3 million. And that's a the 3 million is a fast money I forget what that stands for. But water
and sewer related it's that Tom is being able to get with the settlement with that he's using that to improve some water wells. And that's the revenues
and charges for services. In the graph below, showing the charges for services are almost 40% of the total city budget. Going to
expenditures for the total city personnel services going up 2.3 million. Capital outlay going up 11.8 million. And as you can see down below in the graph, the largest increase is in the
personnel, which is a 38.5%, followed by operating and then capital. And then hitting the general fund. We've got the
taxes going up 601,000. That is with the 4.12%, I think nothing else really changed in the general fund. Besides, besides
the besides the property taxes. And general fund expenditures, the biggest increase being the 1.8 million in the personnel services, mostly due to the
police and fire union increases and pension contributions, and the pay study. And as you can see, the personnel services are in the bottom graph are 74% of
the general fund budget. And I thought I'd go into the I guess
this agenda item number two. The finances at May 31st
revenues general fund ad valorem taxes up 1.1. Almost 1.2 million, mostly due to the taxable value increase this year of 9.06%. And then we got
permits and fees up 226,000, mostly due to the permit fees related to Anclote Harbors. The only category going down. One of them is intergovernmental. And that's where we saw the sales
taxes going down the first part of this year for the half cent and revenue sharing, but we're starting to see that pick back up now. Charges for services. That's the increase in EMS fees
and plan checking fees were receiving, and some Anclote Harbor fees. And then the interest earnings increase of $78,000 in the general fund. And
then miscellaneous. We've got an increase. And that's due to library donations from the Friends of Library. I was trying to look at, when I look at
analyze the general fund and trying to see what am I going to project, the unassigned is going to be it's sort of tough right now, but especially with the hurricanes. But I'm not where we left off. But we ended up last
year at 9.1 million. I'm hoping we don't see a big decrease with the hurricanes. If we get the FEMA money, I'm thinking we might still be hopefully able to hold still to 9.1 million. When
do you expect to hear on that? The FEMA money? We meet with them every week. We're really pushing. We're we got a consultant now and I'm getting, getting with him saying, you know, we need to get we want to
get this category B money as soon as possible. That's a lot of the general fund money with the overtime police and fire and other departments. But he's saying, you know, we should have
something by September 30th. Reimbursement for category B, category A is out of the debris. Removal is out of the sanitation fund. We got initially 2.5 million in the expedited when we
filed. We're looking for the other half of that five. They paid 50% of our original estimate of 5 million. So we got 2.5 million. So we're waiting on that. They're working on the
other 2.5 million of the 5 million. But the thing is, I found out we still have another 2.5, 2.7 million of invoices we haven't received yet. That's why
I'm getting with our debris removal. People said, well, when are we going to get this? And they say, well, it's Tetra Tech, our debris monitor, which is good. They're checking all the all the all the work that Crowder Gulf did, our debris
removal company to make sure everything is going to be compliant with FEMA. So we've still got another 2.5 million of invoices out there to pay to pay or to submit to FEMA to pay and
submit to FEMA. I haven't received the invoices yet. We received they haven't even sent it to you yet. We received the five. We received five. I'm sorry, I probably didn't wasn't. No, no I'm not I'm we received
$5 million worth of invoices. We paid that right away. But we're going to have another 2.5, 2.7 million of invoices. Okay. So you're talking 7.7 million total of reimbursed 2.5. And they're
talking to you about the rest, the other 2.5 in September. And the conversations are kind of moving along. Right. You don't have any concern that they're not going to do it in September or any type of delay. They're
we're meeting weekly with them or we meeting with FEMA. We're meeting with our FEMA consultant weekly. Just and just just trying to put I in fact, I called our consultant earlier this week, said, you know,
Bruce, I'm getting I'm getting pressure. I need to get this money. You know, fiscal year in September 30th. You know, we need to. So that's okay. Good. So Ron I'm sorry I'm new. So I
have a question. No that's okay. So we paid that 5 million and we only been reimbursed for half of it so far. When we get the other. Well, what did we pay
that out of like a reserve. And then the money we get reimbursed will go to repay the reserve or what? Yeah. Well, we paid all the debris removal comes out of the sanitation fund. Okay. So we
paid for it out of there. So they did without $5 million, correct? Yeah. But we've also got we've got an Interfund loan set up from another fund to
bring the sanitation fund to a positive balance. I've talked with our auditors and he actually recommended just keep it negative, Ron. Just hopefully we get the FEMA reimbursement on
time. If we do need to do the loan, we'll do that from the other fund. But they recommend just wait. Hopefully we get it by September. If not, if it's October, we can book it as a
receivable with the offsetting revenue at September 30th, September 30th end of our fiscal
year. Okay, I didn't go over this side. As you know, I always like to show the top ten revenues. Of course, this
current year property taxes are going up compared to last year, 1.1 million. And here's where like the half cent sales tax, the ones in sort of a light brownish peachy color is where
the revenues from sales taxes have been down to half cent, sales tax 26,000 and the revenue sharing 60,000. Most all the
revenues are on budget. Like I said, the only one is like the half cent sales tax, which I'm projecting might be short of budget, maybe about 50,000 this year, and the revenue sharing
might be short, maybe about 75,000 this year. But otherwise all the other line items of revenue in the general fund are it looks like we're going to meet that or exceed some of
them. Why is the why do you think the sales tax revenue is down? Well, everything sort of I think it was they had everybody after Covid. Everybody was trying going out, traveling, spending money. And it just sort
of it declined. It started about a I think about a year and a half ago we started seeing we compare we watch every month from say, June of this year to June of last year, and it was
decreasing from the previous year. And I'm not sure if there's like over a lot of people going out over I don't say over exuberance and spending money, but it sort of trailed back, started about a year and a
half ago, but we started to see a pickup about seven, eight months ago. The expenditures in
the general fund, personnel services, the largest amount was the 1.7 million, which is up 10.2%, but mostly due to salary and benefit increases and the
overtime for the hurricanes, operating up about 11.85% compared to the previous year, mostly due to the hurricanes and then capital outlay, a decrease, mostly because in 2024 we
purchased a high water vehicle and we bought a generator for the community center. Just wanted to show the budget
schedule coming up June 17th. We had the public hearing on the budget. I've got a handout for that. What we went through the first budget workshop with the
board is going to be July 15th. The second 1st July 29th. If there's a third one needed would be August 7th. And then the first public hearing on the budget would be September 3rd
and the second and final one on September 17th. And that's the end of our agenda. Item number two. Okay, last meeting, we passed a motion regarding
commission and mayor salary. I think it was stated for to be effective October 1st. When will that proposal be presented to the Board of Commissioners? And talking to the city manager, we're going to start working on
that with all the pay study stuff. And we're meeting individually with with the commissioners. I think the first week or two of July, meeting with them on the pay study and
meeting with them on the capital CIP project and talking with them, then, okay, since we discussed that, somebody brought to my attention that our charter
may say something about the current board can vote to increase, but it can't be effective until they cycle off the board or the next term or
whatever. So I don't need somebody to look into that. Just been hearsay. But that's what I heard on the street. I've
checked that out. In the CIP that you're meeting with the commissioners. Was that just covering the CIP or covering the financing of the CIP that we
were talking? That's all the CIP projects. Okay. And then what what the finance and then what financing would be. Right. The
project would be used for financing. Okay. On the. Anclote Harbor. What's that? Construction's finished. Do we have an estimate of how much
that's going to add to our property tax? Is it a significant amount, or. I hesitate to say, but I can try to get you that number. I'm
trying to remember, like when the apartments down here was it called I care that are now. I'm trying to remember what that was. I have to say if that was
we got significant amount, but if it ended up being like 150,000 a year property taxes or 200,000 in property taxes a
year. And the first part of June we sent out, with the help of planning department, the survey. It's required that we do a
budget survey by June 30th. So we sent out the survey with the with the two questions. And as
you can see, we have we have about 25 people responded. I can't read that. Or 19 is what I saw when I was. Yeah, 19. Is
that less than last year's response rate? It's about the same same people, same people.
No. Yeah. It doesn't say yeah. This is a breakdown of the geographical area, but I don't have that. I know the planning had that where the people resided. But I think the next
slide sort of helps where the people lived in these subdivisions in Bayshore Drive, Rolling Oaks, Harbor Oaks, Athens Street, Harbor Watch, Sunset Ridge, West Wind Village,
West Winds, Sunset Hills, and Stonehenge on the Hill. This slide was showing which decade
were you born? And I noticed I fell into the blue color. So I'm in, I'm in I'm in the majority
there between 1950 and 1959 and 47%. But. And then the survey question was what questions
were. Please provide your ideas and priorities for the city of Tarpon Springs. Fiscal year 26 budget. And then I won't go through and read all these. There's a lot of detail there,
but it went through. I was at a conference last week. I had some time. Not that the speaker was boring, but but I saw that I think a lot. The majority was stormwater, flooding, infrastructure, infrastructure.
There might have been some streets and I think the other those were the top ones and I think connected connect. This one was another one. I know stormwater flooding and
infrastructure were the most mentioned. Yeah, I think there's definitely a lot a lot of detail here. But my rate, it looks like
that's kind of the focus to the infrastructure. And you don't have any specific like action items from from this or focus areas. It's just something you're still kind of reviewing. Right. Well, I think it's still
reviewing but also linking in with the CIP we're working on. Okay. Yeah that makes sense. And then the last slide is tell us your relationship to Tarpon and
Green was I live in tarpon. Yellow was I work in tarpon. Purple is I have own a business in tarpon in 17 I own property in tarpon. But the largest one
was the green 23. I live in Tarpon Springs. And that was the end of the budget public survey.
Any questions or comments on that? No. Maybe just high level. So the CIP I think covers most of these. The CIP right has the
infrastructure projects, has the stormwater right from my memory. Maybe just remind me it's kind of covers most of those major themes, right. The stormwater
the streets. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm sorry I didn't get this hand out to you. And they were trying to get this on here. But I worked on this this morning because city manager and myself
and Scott and Sherry met with the city manager yesterday going over the CIP. So I just put this together and like I said, they were trying to load it on here, but they were having problems.
So I just I put the handouts on your desk or just to try to just some interesting things on the capital improvement projects. Stormwater Action Plan project, as you say, is a big item in the public survey. Yep. So far we've
got 1.9 million in the fiscal year 26 budget for stormwater action plan projects. And over the five year budget, we've got $6 million worth. And if you compare it to the previous year,
the far right column, we were only able to spend about 400,000, might have been 500,000 a year from the stormwater fund was all we had because wasn't there a large project that was taking up most of the. We've had
the pink rose right over here that's ongoing and eaten up most of the okay, but that's should be done soonish, right. So then it'll yeah, I think they're
talking. I thought they thought it was going to be done this summer, but I'm not sure if it's pushing back this fall or winter. Okay. So just trying to show between stormwater what we're looking at now and
comparing it to previous year, you know and then street projects, we've got 664,000 in the 26 budget, about 2.2 million over the five years. But in
previous years, we had $150,000 a year budgeted for street projects. It usually wasn't enough because sometimes they go, we want to do more street, so I'd have to find money to dig up those $200,000 worth of
streets and sidewalk projects is now 400,000 for the five years. That's the 1.6 million. But we used to do 200,000. But that's mostly due to the charter revision, where we're able to
transfer 400,000 from the Sidewalk Improvement Fund to cover these projects. The Parks and Rec projects. We have some in here, a couple smaller ones. But what they're doing right now
is they're currently working on a park and recreation master plan with a consultant, and they want to come back with the projects. Then that would be a part of CIP and water and sewer
projects. We're still working on that. As part of the Revenue Sufficiency Study rate study that's going on. We have two rate studies going on. We have one for stormwater revenue
sufficiency rate study and also water and sewer study. And remind me the financing you're looking into was like a public
issuance or what were you what financing like what what financing structures were you looking at. Well, there's the two. You can either do a bond issue, which is a public offering, but they're leaning more towards the banknote. The
bank note okay, because it's a little bit cheaper or just it's cheaper. I mean, for a bank note, it might be $50,000 worth of issuance costs. You go you start going public offering offering with underwriters.
You're looking at maybe depends on the dollar amount might be 400,000. That's right, that's right, that's right. And it takes longer to get the money. And if you're starting to go over ten years you got to go out
to the voters. So you'd have to go out to the voters. In March of 2026, our financial advisor says about six months from now, you might not see the money until September of 2026 if we
try to do a bond issue. Yeah. So they're looking towards keeping back to the bank note at ten years. Yeah. And on the next, on the next slide, the project
we're talking about is the fire station 70 construction, 6 million Craig Park seawall construction, 1.6 million stormwater action plan projects,
3.5 million. Golf course clubhouse 4.2 million. And Beckett Bridge Utilities is still hanging out there. Latest we heard is that the county might start would start
construction about a year from now. June of 2026. But talking to Bob, we might probably we've got to do our utility work before they can do their construction. We've got to move our water and sewer lines. So
we're talking about we're thinking, well, we should have the money in place by January or February of 2026 to have the money ready so they can if they don't get the grant, which they've struck out twice
already, the county has that that we the third time, they might not get the money. So we're being ready to go ahead and have the funding ready, go out to bid, get the contractor,
move the water and sewer lines. And does it take. Yeah, that's a lot of coordination. That's a lot of coordination. That's great. That's great. That's a big project. But and I try to
explain below I put little letters there next to the dollar. Amounts of the projects are like letter A means for the general government funds mostly the penny fund. By financing
those two projects, it's freeing up money in the penny fund so we can do more stormwater projects, more street projects, or anything else that comes up. There's also a couple other projects hovering out there,
like the bayou dredging, which they've estimated between three, five, $7 million. They're still not sure. There's also Craig Park phase two construction, phase one. We've gotten the
budget, but phase two is going. If you're going down to the right side where all the I think homeowners have their docks and stuff. So we're not sure how much that cost of that would be
coming to. So that's a by doing the fire station Craig Park financing, it's helping to free up some money in the penny fund. I used to say in the penny fund, I sort of lived on edge every
year because we only had like a couple hundred thousand left. We only did projects we could do and everything just got pushed out, which sometimes isn't the best because you push out these projects, they're going to cost more to do in the long run. But
yeah, the stormwater action plan, as I mentioned, we're working on stormwater revenue sufficiency study. But in working at looking at it, if we're able to finance some of these projects at 3.5 million
instead of the what it comes to when you do these revenue sufficiency rate studies that they they give them all our finances. We give them all our CIP projects for the next ten
years. They project everything out. And basically it comes back down to say, what rates do you need to be able to accomplish all this, all these projects? So if we do financing of the 3.5
million for stormwater, we're looking at probably a $2 per month increase to the residents. If we don't have the financing, the rate increase could be $4 to
be able to cover those 3.5 million of capital projects. We're still working on it, though. It's still a work in progress for this for both rate
studies and the golf course clubhouse. It's still really solid financially. It's just amazing to me that the fund balance goes up about 600,000
each year, five 600,000. I'm projecting at the end of this fiscal year, the balance will be 1.4 million. So knock on wood, it's there's still just last
year I think the revenues is about 2.3 million expenses 1.7 million. So there's like I say about 600,000 between 5 and
600,000 a year that it's increased. It was back in 2021. The fund balance was 1.1 million negative. So it's just
$1,600,000 increase each year. So there doing a good job out there. And then the utility Beckett Bridge. The last one is just the Beckett Bridge utility
line relocation. And then I had one more slide on page on here. But I just wanted to mention it. We went before the board Tuesday
night about approving a vac contracts. But what we're doing is we're getting to set up a master lease for equipment, and vac on trucks will be the first one. It sets up Bank of America
as our lender. We went to them. We've got a rate for five years at 3.47% for the VAC contracts, and also on Tuesday night I was talking to CIP and financing.
The board approved the city to go for the financing so we could go out to bid for the bank note. We got to go out for bid. So they approved us. The city go out for financing for the CIP
projects mentioned on the previous page. How much in total are you going for the full 19
three? Yes. Okay. Some would be back by the general governmental funds. The other stormwater be back by that fund. Golf course
fund would be funded by the golf course fund and the water and sewer fund, of course. Come out of the water and sewer fund. So with that, I think I don't know
if there's any other questions on CIP or financing or questions or comments. Go ahead. Remember
the other one. Oh, so I apologize that I'm new and I don't know this stuff, but like so. Like what? What does this
board. Are you going to present something to the at the workshop about what we have to say or. I don't know how that works. Well,
usually usually somebody from the board that time has been there at the first budget, the first budget workshops. May I'm sorry, June, July 15th. Sometimes it might be somebody
to go to that. Pardon me. Are people allowed to go to that. Oh yeah. Oh I didn't know that in the past. No comment. Yeah. No no comment. But you can listen.
Well yes I might call them down there to say okay, if you want to mention say you maybe, maybe say we support keeping the millage rate at 5.37 or something like that. Usually we do that. The millage rate will
usually make a recommendation to increase, decrease, stay the same or whatever. Or in the past, I think last year or two years ago, there was a lot of positions that were up for consideration, and we gave our
recommendations on approve these, don't approve those. And also increasing the of the reserve. Yeah. Yeah. What the
reserve balance. Yeah. Set aside a line item set aside to increase. Set aside money to go into reserve every year. So those kind of recommendations. Yeah. Yeah. Because you act as
an advisory board you know, for the board of commissioners. So that's what you're looking to you all for. I was just wondering how our message gets to them. Yeah. Should somebody
be there they would call you up or I can't remember if she's not here anymore. She was at the last meeting last year, Christy Howard, because I was I was out of town at the time, so I couldn't be. So she came down
and there was a couple items that she presented to the, to the we have anything that we need formally present at that budget meeting. Unless you would want to concur that, you know, keeping the millage rate the
same at the 5.37, they will be voting on that in June. In July, which it's got to go to the state. We tell the state in July, we're required to say our proposed millage is going to be
5.37. Once we state that we cannot go any higher than that per state statutes. Yeah, we historically have done that. So I think if they're voting on that in July, we should probably go ahead and do that. It's
either that I don't know if, you know, there's other things that are pay study financing, CIP projects, whatever your thoughts are still works in progress. Yeah, we're still going to be meeting individually with the
board members. There's nothing concrete for us to put our stamp of approval on at this stage. So yes, I think we should make that motion on maintaining the. So I
make a motion that we advise the Board of Commissioners to keep the millage rate at the current
rate. Any discussion roll call please. Yes, yes, yes yes.
So on that item you brought up about the commission salary, the mayor, Sally Irene, I texted Irene. She didn't see anything in the charter. So that is that can be one of the
recommendations that you bring forth. Yeah. To because you did make that motion. Yeah. We made that motion at the last meeting. Yeah. Did we make the motion that it waits till the next year
or just the October 1st, October, October, October 1st is effective October 1st. Oh. What's that four months from now. Okay. But the board would still vote on that, right? Oh, yeah. Okay. That's just a
they're all saying they they don't necessarily want it for themselves. They wanted it to encourage people to run for those positions. We were we were sort of asked to look at it. And that's our recommendation. I
will type those up for your review. And then if you have any more before the next that first budget meetings before our next meeting would be here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get those typed up
and I'll go to the first budget meeting, which is what, July, what July do we know when and where? It's always in City Hall chambers downstairs and City
Hall at like 630 or something. Yeah. Six 3006 30. Tuesday.
Always on Tuesday. Anything under anything else? Under new business, any public comments?
Board and staff comments? Have none. Next meeting date I have technically July 17th. It is, but I'll be out of town at a
conference. Okay. So do we. Any thoughts on when we should? We should we? Is there going to be a need to meet before the August
date? If you need? I just want to. What the August date be better? As far as we have, the more wrapped up I would I would think that would be more appropriate. Yeah. I mean, I'll
go I'll go to the first budget meeting on the 15th and then we'll have our regular August meeting. Okay. That's August 21st. Okay. Okay. If any, if you
hear of anything or anything comes up, we can also, you know, call a special meeting at any time and make sure we have a
quorum, okay. Any future agenda items, specific future agenda
items. Seeing none, we will adjourn at 242.