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[1. Present, Discuss, and Consider Action on the Proposed Annual Budget for the Town of Addison for Fiscal Year 2022 (Beginning October 1, 2021 and Ending September 30, 2022), including but not limited to the General Fund, Utility Fund, Stormwater Fund, Airport Fund, Hotel Fund, Economic Development Fund, Information Technology Fund, Capital Replacement Fund, Infrastructure Investment Fund, and Long-Term Planning.]
SO IF WE DO FAST, NUMBER ONE, PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON THE PROPOSED ANNUAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2021, SEPTEMBER 30, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE GENERAL FUND INFORMATION STRUCTURED INVESTMENT LONG-TERM PLAN.
THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I'M GOING TO READ MY LONG LETTER.
UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION, EVEN IF IT'S PAYING ATTENTION TO MY LONG LETTER, UH, VERBALLY SAY BEFORE, UH, ONE OF THE COUNCIL'S MOST IMPORTANT JOBS IS TO ADOPT AN ANNUAL BUDGET THAT REFLECTS THE COMMUNITY VALUES AND PRIORITIES.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BUDGET WORKSHOP IS TO PUBLICLY PRESENT THE PROPOSED BUDGET, DISCUSSED THE INTENT ASSOCIATED WITH DECISIONS AND PROPOSALS.
ENSURE PROPOSALS ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH COUNCIL PRIORITIES CAN PROVIDE ANSWERS TO COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY QUESTIONS.
WE HAVE SCHEDULED TIME FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET.
AND THE AGENDA IS LAID OUT AS FOLLOWS, UH, WHAT WE GET ACCOMPLISHED TODAY.
WE GET ACCOMPLISHED TODAY AND WHAT WE GET ACCOMPLISHED TOMORROW.
IF WE HAVE TO DO WE GET ACCOMPLISHED TOMORROW, UH, BUT WE PLAN ON MOVING IT TO THE COUNCIL.
SO IF WE CAN ONLY GET YOU HALF OF THIS TODAY, AND THAT'S FINE, COME BACK TOMORROW.
BUT IF WE GET THROUGH EVERYTHING TODAY, THEN WE CAN DECIDE THE DESIRE OF THE COUNCIL, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO TOMORROW? SO NEXT SLIDE, THIS IS THE PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX RATE, THE BUDGET APPROVAL TIMELINE.
BY THE END OF OUR BUDGET WORK SESSIONS, I WILL SEEK DIRECTION RELATED TO THIS SCHEDULE, ESSENTIALLY.
ARE WE GOOD WITH THIS? UM, WE DO HAVE A CAVEAT THERE TYPICALLY IN THE PAST, WE WOULD ADOPT THE NOT TO EXCEED TAX RATE AS NO LONGER REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
AND IN, UH, THE COUNCIL IS NOT GOING TO ADOPT A TAX RATE THAT EXCEEDS THE NO NEW CBD VOTER APPROVAL RATE.
THEN THERE'S, THAT'S NOT REQUIRED AT ALL EITHER, BUT WE WANTED TO KIND OF KEEP IT IN THERE BECAUSE IT'S A RELIC OF THE PAST AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE'LL MOVE AWAY FROM THAT.
BUT KIND OF KEEP THAT IN MIND.
THIS IS THE, THIS IS OUR SCHEDULE AND THERE AREN'T ANY ISSUES WITH THIS FROM COUNSELING.
SO, UH, OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD, MAINTAIN TRUST, BECAUSE WITH TRUST, WE CAN DO A LOT OF STUFF IN THE BATHROOM.
WE BUILD MEANING THEY BUILD AND MAINTAIN TRUST BY DOING THE RIGHT THING, HELPING PEOPLE AND BEING EASY TO DO BUSINESS.
WE SERVE PEOPLE THE ADDISON WAY.
WE ALSO CONSTANTLY CONSUME OUR PURSUIT.
MY VISION FOR THE ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO ADDISON IS A BENCHMARK FOR ALL TEXAS CITIES PLACE, WHERE CITIES COME TO EMULATE BEST PRACTICES.
IF THEY HAD A QUESTION ABOUT HOW TO DO SOMETHING, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE PREPARING THIS BUDGET.
I UTILIZE THE FOLLOWING GUIDING FISCAL PRINCIPLES.
I THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRUDENT FIRST.
WE, UH, EXERCISE, UH, EXCUSE ME.
I THINK WE PERSIST IN FISCAL CONTROL BY PUTTING FIRST THINGS FIRST AND LIVING WITHIN OUR MEANS FOCUSED ON EXECUTING OUR CORE MISSION.
WE WANT TO DELIVER QUALITY SERVICE AND MUNICIPAL SERVICES WITH EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICES.
AND YOU ALSO NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE, THE DISCIPLINE, UH, TO KNOW WHEN TO SAY NO, BECAUSE WE'VE TRIED TO BE AND BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE, PEOPLE IT'S, IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO DO ANYTHING.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR BUDGET TREATS ALL EMPLOYEES FAIR.
YOU WILL BE FOCUSED ON MAINTAINING LONGTERM SUSTAINABILITY.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE POLITICALLY DESIRABLE, UH, IT'S BEEN SAID BY A SMART PEOPLE IN ACADEMIA, WE WANT TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT IT GOES TO THE DESIRABLE THINGS.
WE'RE ALSO ADMINISTRATIVELY SUSTAINED.
UH, AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE STRIVING TO ACHIEVE, CONTINUE TO IMPROVE.
WE ENSURE THAT THE BUDGET IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S PRIORITIES THROUGH OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS.
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THIS ANNUAL FOCUS ON PILLARS FOR SUCCESS AND ADD-ON AND COUNCIL IDENTIFIES MILESTONES.THE COUNCIL DISCUSSED, UH, MILESTONES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR AND ADOPTED THOSE AT THE JULY 13 COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, AND THE COUNCIL WAS CME STAFF TAKES COUNCILS, MILESTONES, AND GATES INITIATIVES AROUND THAT TO SHOW WHAT WE'RE DOING TO ACHIEVE THOSE, THE MILESTONES.
AND ULTIMATELY IT WAS WHAT WAS THE SUCCESS NOW? UM, CAN WE DO THIS TO BE ABLE TO SET PRIORITIES AND PRIORITIES ARE IMPORTANT IS, AS I SAID BEFORE, I'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE WITHOUT PRIORITIES.
UH, WE CAN GET, UH, DISTRACTED AND OVERWHELMED AND CRUSHED.
WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ACT, ACT, BE PROACTIVE IN OUR ACTIVITIES AND WE WON'T BE, BE ABLE TO BE EFFECTIVE IN GETTING THINGS DONE.
AND I THINK, UH, BEST WITHIN THAT BECAUSE OF OUR ABILITY TO PRIORITIZE.
UM, AND, AND WHEN I SAY OUR I'M TALKING ABOUT THE COUNCILS ABILITY TO PRIORITIZE AS WELL AS STEPS, UH, THIS IS A FUN, UH, UH, GRAPHIC FOR ME.
YOU'VE GOT THE DEATH STAR THERE AND ALL THESE BIG, HAIRY ISSUES THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
UM, BUT BY FOCUSING ON, ON, UH, WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT KEEPING THE MAIN THING, THE MAIN THINGS THEY SAY, UH, WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE PROGRESS.
SO I'M GOING TO TALK JUST ABOUT A COUPLE OF, UH, OF THE BIG ISSUES THAT, UH, THAT THE, UH, THAT ARE OUT THERE.
AND THESE SHOULD SOUND FAMILIAR BECAUSE THEY'RE A CONTINUATION IN MANY INSTANCES, UH, BUT FIRST INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLANNING, INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND FUNDING IN FISCAL YEAR 22, UH, 2022 BUDGET CONTINUES TO PROGRESS.
THE TOWN WAS MADE IN USING THE ANNUAL PROCEEDING OF THE COMPREHENSIVE, COMPREHENSIVE ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT HOW TO INVEST OUR RESOURCES, TO ADDRESS OUR INFRASTRUCTURE SHE NEEDS NOW.
AND IN THE FUTURE, WE ARE USING THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONDITION OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AS INTENDED TO CREATE PLANS AND MAKE DECISIONS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO PROPERLY MAINTAIN OR RESTORE OUR CORE INFRASTRUCTURE OR REMAIN PROACTIVE IN ADDRESSING THESE NEEDS A PROPOSED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGET.
THAT IS PART OF THIS, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET INCLUDES $47.2 MILLION IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAINTENANCE PROJECTS.
THESE INCLUDE BOTH, UH, BOND PROJECTS AS WELL AS NON BOND PROJECTS.
AND AS A REMINDER, UM, THIS IS, UH, THESE ARE BIG NUMBERS, BUT THERE ARE BIGGER NUMBERS OUT THERE.
AND, UH, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO RESOLVE IN A YEAR OR TWO.
THIS IS A 20 MILE MARCH, AND IT'S GOING TO BE, UM, IT'S NOT, THERE ARE NO QUICK SOLUTIONS.
WE NEED TO MAINTAIN OUR DISCIPLINE AND KEEP FOCUSED AND WORK OUR PLAN SO THAT WE CAN ADDRESS APPROPRIATELY THE ARMY INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS OVER TIME.
ANOTHER BIG ISSUE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING WITH THIS BUDGET IS ATTRACTING AND RETAINING TALENT AS A SERVICE ORGANIZATION.
THIS IS A CRUCIAL, A CRUCIAL PART OF OUR SUCCESS IN ACCORDANCE WITH COUNCIL DIRECTION AND IN ORDER TO CONTINUE THE TOWN'S EFFORTS TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN THE BEST TALENT POSSIBLE.
THE FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET INCLUDES A 4% COMPENSATION POOL TO FUND THE TALENT MERIT AND MARKET BASED COMPENSATION.
AS WE DISCUSSED IN FEBRUARY, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE, UH, WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT OUR COMPENSATION ADJUSTMENTS ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THE MARKET THAT WE WERE IN.
AND SO WE WILL DISCUSS THIS A LITTLE BIT LATER TODAY IN DETAIL, BUT I ENVISIONED THE COMPENSATION POOL TO ALLOW US TO ALLOCATE FUNDING TO MERIT OR AN OR MARKET, UH, ADJUSTMENTS AS NEEDED BASED ON WHAT WE LEARN FROM OUR COMPETITORS.
AS YOU REMEMBER SET UP, WE KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE DOING SO THAT WE'RE NOT, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, JASON OR TAILED WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP, UH, KEEP OUR COMPENSATION IN LINE WITH THE COUNCIL'S PHILOSOPHY.
UH, ALSO IN FEBRUARY, WE DISCUSSED, UH, WE HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT HAVING A BROADER PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE COUNCIL'S COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY WE WILL HAVE IN THE NEAR FUTURE AS PART OF MY 2121ST A HUNDRED DAY PLAN.
UM, ANOTHER BIG, UH, ISSUE THAT IS IN FRONT OF US IS DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THE FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET CONTINUES PROGRESS ON THE SELECTION AND ENGAGEMENT AT THE TREND OF A TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT MASTER DEVELOPER FOR THE PROPERTY THAT'S SURROUNDING THE, UM, FUTURE SILVER LINE RAIL STATION.
UH, ADDITIONALLY, UH, THE COMPLETION AND ADOPTION OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE IS SCHEDULED TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS AND HAVE TO BE COMPLETED BY THIS FISCAL YEAR.
AND THAT PROJECT IS IN IMPORTANT, UH, IS IMPORTANT FOR ADDISON RESPONSE TO FUTURE REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
AND IT WILL HELP US AND HELP GUIDE US IN HOW WE ENCOURAGE OR MAXIMIZE INVESTMENT OR REINVESTMENT IN ADDISON IN THE FUTURE.
AND FINALLY, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK GOING ON WITH THE COMBINED WITH THE MIDWAY ROAD ROAD RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT, BUT ALSO THE PLANNING EFFORT THAT'S GOING ON AT THE SAMS, UH, AREA, UH, STUDY AND WHAT THAT CAN DO TO PREPARE
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THAT AREA SPECIFICALLY, UH, FOR FUTURE REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY.SO THAT'S, WHAT'S GOING ON, UH, RELATIVE RELATIVE TO DEVELOPMENT OR REDEVELOPMENT IN FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET.
AND THE FUNDING IS THERE TO SUPPORT THOSE ACTIVITIES.
UM, KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE LEAD THROUGH A PANDEMIC AND WE CONTINUE TO, UM, THE PROPOSED BUDGET REFLECTS THE NEED TO CONTINUE.
SOME OF THE ACTIONS IMPLEMENTED IN FISCAL YEAR 2021, SUCH AS THE, UH, ADDISON CONFERENCE CENTER REMAINING CLOSE FOR THE ENTIRETY OF FISCAL YEAR 2022, AS WE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY, UM, THE PROPOSED BUDGET REFLECTS THAT WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE HOTEL LOCKET WITH HOCKEY, LET'S SEE TAX REVENUES TO FULLY RECOVER FISCAL YEAR 2022.
IT'S STILL GOING TO BE, UH, A FUTURE DATE BEFORE THAT WE SEE THAT FOR RECOVERY.
HOWEVER, ON, UH, ON, ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS, SALES AND MEDIA BEVERAGE TAXES ARE ESTIMATED TO RETURN SOME KOREAN PANDEMIC LEVELS.
SO IT WON'T BE STOP SHOPPING AND EATING AND DRINKING.
SO THAT'S A GOOD THING FOR US.
I'M PLEASED THAT A STAFF AT THE YOUNG ONSET OF THIS PANDEMIC, SO THE APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO TRY TO PROJECT HOW THIS COULD IMPACT US AND ALLOW US, WHICH ALLOWED US TO TAKE STEPS TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR BUDGETS, UH, MAINTAINED, UH, INTEGRITY.
AND DID HE GET OUT OF CONTROL OR DIDN'T HAVE ANY KIND OF MAJOR DEFICITS? SO FORTUNATELY, UM, SO FAR THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ADDISON HAS BEEN LESS SEVERE THAN ORIGINALLY PREDICTED.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD ALL BE PREPARED.
ADDITIONALLY, AS BARBARA, THE, UM, UH, RECOVERY EFFORTS, UH, THE CONGRESS, UH, ADOPTED WHAT'S CALLED THE AMERICAN RECOVERY PLAN ACT.
AND AS PART OF THAT, THEY HAVE A CORONAVIRUS LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUND.
THIS IS A FEDERAL PROGRAM AND FUNDING IS AVAILABLE TO GOVERNANCE LIKE EDISON AND AS BROADLY RESPONSE TO COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY, AND IT'S REALLY MITIGATE LOSS RATHER THAN BOSSES, ET CETERA.
UM, SO ADDISON IS ESTIMATED, UH, TO RECEIVE UNDER THIS FEDERAL PROGRAM, APPROXIMATELY $4 MILLION, AND THE FUNDS WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE TOWN IN TO TRAUNCH FIRST TRAUNCH.
WE HOPE TO RECEIVE BEFORE THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 2021.
WE ACTUALLY GET THE FUNDS THROUGH THE STATE OF TEXAS WE'RE AT THE MERCY OF THEM AND THEM HAVING THEM DO WHAT THEY NEED TO, TO GET THOSE FUNDS TO US.
UH, SO THAT'S THE FIRST HALF OF THAT MONEY.
UH, THE SECOND, UH, AND, AND THAT INITIAL TRAUNCH, WE ANTICIPATE HAVING IT EVENLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE HOTEL FUND AND THEN ALSO OUR SELF FUNDING PROJECTS FUNDS SO THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THE ACCIDENT TO DO THINGS IN GENERAL FUND OR EXCUSE ME, IN SELF PROJECTS, UH, FUND SELF FUNDED PROJECTS.
UM, AND THEN WE WOULD BE SCHEDULED TO RECEIVE A SECOND TRAUNCH OF THE A MILLION $4 MILLION.
SO THEY ARE MAKING $2 MILLION, 12 MONTHS AFTER THE FACT THAT WE RECEIVED THE FIRST COLLECTION AND THAT SECOND TRAUNCH, WE ANTICIPATE APPLYING FULLY TO HELP FUND, UH, TO MITIGATE REVENUE LOSSES IN THAT FUND.
UH, AGAIN, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT IS SOMETHING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A LOT, AND THIS BUDGET SUPPORTS OUR ONGOING EFFORTS TO CONTINUALLY IMPROVE THE WAY WE DELIVER SERVICES TO OUR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES.
I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT JUST A FEW OF THOSE.
UM, WE CONTINUE TO OUR EFFORTS OPTIMIZE HOW WE USE OUR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, SOFTWARE OR EUNICE.
UM, IT'S, IT'S GREAT TO SEE THAT OUR STAFF IS REALLY UTILIZING IT TO IN A WAY THAT PROVIDES IT AS A POWERFUL TOOL WITH ALL THAT WE DO.
UH, WE'RE ALSO ADDING FUNCTIONALITY TO IT BY GETTING, UH, PROGRAMS THAT, UH, THAT INTEGRATE WITH IT AND ALLOW THE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE FINANCE STAFF TO DO THINGS MORE EFFECTIVELY, THEY CAN MANAGE.
WE'RE IMPLEMENTING, UH, AN APPLICATION THAT ALLOWS THEM TO PROCESS, UH, SOFT OR SEE INVOICES, EXCUSE ME, UH, WITHOUT A LOT OF MANUAL WORK.
SO IT TAKES THAT OUT AND THEY CAN FOCUS ON DOING OTHER THINGS THAT ARE OF HIGHER VALUE, BUT ALSO GET OUR INVOICES PAID AND MANAGED APPROPRIATELY.
WE'RE CONTINUING TO DO WORK ON, UH, COMBINED WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, UH, AND AS OUR, OUR PLAN FOR THAT, AS WELL AS IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES FROM THE PARKS RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN, AS WELL AS UPCOMING, UH, OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPLEMENT PARTS OF THE NEW TRAILS MASTER PLAN.
UM, IF YOU'VE GONE THROUGH ANY OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS, IT'S KIND OF FUNNY, YOU WILL SEE THAT, UH, WE'VE MADE QUITE A FEW IMPROVEMENTS IN SIDEWALKS AND AREAS.
UH, THAT'S RELATED TO ADA, UH, ITEMS. IN FACT, WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA, AND SOME PEOPLE THAT DON'T FIND IT SO MUCH, UH, WE, WE JUST THINK THAT THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS TO TAKE CARE OF HER STUFF.
AND WE CONTINUE TO ASK THAT, UH, IF YOU IMPOSE ON ANYBODY THAT THEY HAVE PATIENTS WITH US, BUT WE WERE GRATEFUL FOR THE RESOURCES THAT YOU HAD WORKING AND GRATEFUL FOR THE TEAM THAT ARE DOING IT VERY WELL, CAN USE IMPROVEMENT
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AS WELL.AND ITEM THERE HAS BEEN EXPANSION OF THE LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND THE OPTICAL CAMERA SYSTEM THROUGHOUT TOWN, SORT OF EXCITED FOR THAT THIS YEAR, WE WERE BUDGETING AND PLANNING ON CONDUCTING ANOTHER RESIDENT SURVEY.
AS WE DID A FEW YEARS AGO, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE'RE HEARING RESIDENTS CENTER THINKING ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM ABOUT THAT WHEREVER WE CAN IMPROVE.
AND ALSO OUR BUDGET, THE CONTINUES, OUR EFFORTS THAT BEAUTIFIED BELTLINE ROAD IN, IN THE MEDIUMS THERE.
UM, AND SO YOU'LL SEE, UH, FUNDING FOR NOT ONLY THE, UH, THE, UH, CONTINUATION OF INSTALLING AND REPLACING LANDSCAPING IN THAT AREA.
UH, BUT THEN ALSO WE HAVE FUNDS SET ASIDE FOR REPLACING, UH, LANDSCAPING THAT WAS IMPACTED BY THE, UM, THE WINTER STORM, UH, FEBRUARY, INITIALLY, BECAUSE OF WORK, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT IS, UH, UH, IMPACT WAS IMPACTED AS WELL.
UH, FROM THAT WE'RE, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF WORK TO TRY TO ENTICE AND ENCOURAGE, UH, THOSE PROPERTIES THAT HAVE THAT PROCTOR, THAT VEGETATION THAT'S BASICALLY BID OR DYING, UH, TO UPGRADE THAT.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, UH, WE FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE BEING RESPONSIVE, BUT THERE'S KIND OF THE, UH, A RUSH ON PLANT, JUST THE PLANT MATERIAL, JUST LIKE THERE'S A RUSH ON A LOT OF OTHER THINGS.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO EXERCISE PATIENCE WITH THEM SO THAT NOT ONLY THEY CAN GET THINGS DONE, BUT WE'RE MOVING REASONABLE AND WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THAT.
AND THEN WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO DO OUR BEST TO FURTHER DEVELOP AND IMPROVE OUR LONG RANGE FINANCIAL PLANNING SO THAT WE'RE MAKING WISE DECISIONS AND UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS OF OUR DECISIONS FINANCIALLY.
UM, NOW ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CONTINUES TO BE, UH, TRUE IS THAT, UH, THERE CONTINUES TO BE PRESSURE ON OUR OPERATIONAL DOLLARS.
UH, WE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS AND ADDISON SOMETIMES, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR EXPECT OUR IT'S, OUR MEET EVERYBODY'S EXPECTATIONS THAT WE DO OUR BEST.
THERE WAS A HOT MARKET FOR LOTS OF THINGS, WHETHER IT'S CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL OR PEOPLE.
UH, WE GOT TO KEEP THAT IN MIND, AS FAR AS THE PRESSURES, IT PUTS ON OUR OPERATIONAL DOLLARS.
UH, LAST YEAR WE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE DIDN'T RECEIVE A CERTIFIED TAX ROLL, UH, FROM, UH, DECADRON, UH, BUT WE DID GET A CERTIFIED ESTIMATE FROM THEM.
AND AS A RESULT, WE KIND OF GOT TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THERE WAS A DECREASE IN PROPERTY VALUATION AND WHAT THE DIFFERENCE WOULD BE FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT, WELL, THAT ISSUE IS NOT GOING AWAY.
UM, WE SAW IN, I EXPLAINED, WE EXPLAINED TO THE TRANSMITTAL LETTER THAT THERE IS STILL ISSUES WITH HOW THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT IS HANDLING PROTESTS, THE PROTEST AND VALUES OF PROPERTY.
AND THERE ARE POTENTIALLY IMPACTS TO US GOING FORWARD IN THE FUTURE.
FORTUNATELY, WE'RE IN A POSITION RIGHT NOW WHERE IT'S NOT HARMFUL TO US, BUT WE DO NEED TO ADDRESS IT, UM, AS SOON.
AND IN FACT, SASS ALREADY PREPARED LETTER FOR THE, FOR US TO SEND THEM THE DECAF THAT THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE IN CONVERSATIONS AND HOPEFULLY BEAR FRUIT, UH, THAT WILL HELP RESOLVE THIS ISSUE.
AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER, BUT THAT IS, UM, ISSUES RELATED TO PROPERTY TAX VALUATIONS IS, IS IMPORTANT AND SOMETHING WE NEED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO.
UM, AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE OPERATE CONSERVATIVELY AND BECAUSE OF VERY OPERATE, THE VARIOUS OPERATIONAL PRESSURES THAT I'VE MENTIONED, UM, WE NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF OUR OPERATING ENVIRONMENT NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.
AND SO WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS, WHETHER IT'S PHILOSOPHICALLY OR THE POLICIES WE HAVE AND THE PRACTICES WE HAVE SO THAT WE CAN ALWAYS MAINTAIN AN APPROPRIATE BALANCE BETWEEN TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE, OPERATIONS THAT WE DO AS WELL AS INVESTING IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND THAT BALANCING ACT IS, IS, IS IMPORTANT, BUT IT'S, IT'S HARD, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT AND STRIVING TO GET IT RIGHT.
SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PAYING ATTENTION TO THAT EVERYTHING WE'VE DONE IN THIS BUDGET WE'VE DONE, UH, AND KEPT IN MIND THE LONG BUDGET ALLOWS US TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE EXCELLENT SERVICES THAT RESIDENTS BUSINESSES EXPECT.
IT'S PREPARED TO ADDRESS REVENUE CONSTRAINTS THAT WILL FACE US IN THE FUTURE.
OUR ACTIONS ALSO PROTECT OUR BOND RATING, AND THAT'S AN, THAT'S NO SMALL DEAL AS WELL.
UH, THE BONDING, THE BOND AGENTS OVER THE RATING AGENCIES LOOK AT THE WAY WE OPERATE AND THEY SAY, UH, BECAUSE THEY HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO COMMUNICATE TO PEOPLE WANTING TO INVEST IN OUR CREDIT, AND THEY SAY, UH, AS WELL, AND THEN THEY TAKE A LOOK AT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, FROM AN INVESTMENT STANDPOINT, THESE GUYS ARE A SOLID INVESTMENT OR NOT, UH, BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THEY'RE DOING WHEN THEY'RE NOT.
AND, UH, FORTUNATELY, UH, WITH THE RECENT REAFFIRMATION OF BOTH AAA RATINGS FROM BOTH THE STANDARD AND POOR'S, AND MOODY'S, UH, WE CONTINUE TO DO THE THINGS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE IN THAT ENVIRONMENT
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AS WELL.SO AS I GET READY TO, TO, UH, PASS THE BATON HERE TO OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, OFFICER, STEVEN GLICKMAN, I JUST WANT TO SAY TWO THINGS.
ONE AS THE PRESENTATION CONTINUES, UH, THIS EVENING, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS AT ANY TIME.
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION THAT WE CAN ANSWER QUICKLY, UH, WE WILL DO SO.
AND IF IT'S A QUESTION THAT REQUIRES MORE DISCUSSION TO GET AN APPROPRIATE ANSWER, THEN WE'LL JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT MAYBE, UH, PASSING THAT TO THE, A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE MEETING, BUT DON'T HESITATE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING THAT YOU HAD AT HIS COMES INTO YOUR MIND.
UH, AND THEN FINALLY, UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK STAFF FOR THE EXCELLENT WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE ON PAIRING THIS BUDGET.
IT'S NOT A SMALL, UH, THEY'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB.
UH, WE HAVE AN EXCEPTIONAL TEAM THAT I KNOW ARE COMMITTED TO SERVING THIS COMMUNITY AND EXCELLENCE, AND I'M PROUD TO BE SERVING WITH THEM.
SO WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO, I APPRECIATE AGAIN, YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION, AND I'LL PASS THE TIME OVER TO, UH, STEPHEN AND HIS TEAM TO, UH, GREAT.
STEVEN GLICKMAN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, AND AS WEST MENTIONED, AS I GO THROUGH THIS, THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF INFORMATION.
SO PLEASE HESITATE TO ASK QUESTIONS AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE MATERIAL AND BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS THOSE QUESTIONS.
SO THE FIRST SLIDE THAT WE HAVE IS OUR TOTAL FISCAL YEAR, 2022, A PROPOSED CONSOLIDATED OPERATING BUDGET.
AND THIS IS A TOTAL BUDGET PROPOSED OF $83.0 MILLION OF THE MAJORITY OR ALMOST HALF OF THAT IS RELATED TO THE GENERAL FUND AT $40.7 MILLION.
AND OF THAT $40.7 MILLION IN THE GENERAL FUND, 26.4 MILLION IS RELATED TO PERSONNEL COSTS AND THE REMAINING 14.3 MILLION RELATED TO OPERATING COSTS.
THEN WE HAVE OUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS.
WE HAVE THREE ENTERPRISE FUNDS, UH, IN TOTAL, UH, WITH A BUDGET OF $21.2 MILLION.
THE LARGEST OF THOSE IS THE UTILITY FUND AT 14.4 MILLION.
AND WE HAVE THE AIRPORT FUND AT 5.2 MILLION AND THE STORMWATER FUND AT 1.6 MILLION.
UH, FROM THERE WE HAVE OUR DEBT SERVICE FUND.
THIS IS TO PAY THE DEBT SERVICE ON THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, UH, RELATED TO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, UH, THAT IS AN $8.5 MILLION BUDGET.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS.
THE LARGEST OF THOSE IS THE HOTEL FUND $5.6 MILLION.
WE HAVE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND AND $2.0 MILLION.
AND THEN WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER FUNDS.
MANY OF THEM ARE VERY SMALL, UH, WHAT MAKES UP THE MAJORITY OF THAT $3.0 BILLION IN THE OTHER FUNDS IS RELATED TO THE SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A STREET SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS, AND WE HAVE AN INTERNAL SERVICE FUND, A BUDGET OF $2 MILLION, BUT WE HAVE AN EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT FUND IN THAT CATEGORY.
WE HAVE AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND IN THAT CATEGORY AND NEW PROPOSED IN THE FISCAL YEAR, 2022 BUDGET IS THE CREATION OF A FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND, UH, WHICH WOULD ALSO, WHICH WOULD BASICALLY, UH, FUND, UH, ONGOING, UH, EMERGENCY AND PLAN MAINTENANCE OF OUR FACILITIES AND THE FUNDING FOR THAT WOULD BE SIMILAR TO THE WAY THAT WE FUND OUR EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT.
UH, AND IT REPLACEMENT FUNDS, UH, FROM CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE OTHER FUNDS.
UH, PROPERTY TAX VALUES AND TAX RATE.
THE 20 FISCAL YEAR 2022 CERTIFIED TAXABLE VALUE IS $5.8 BILLION.
UH, THE CERTIFIED TAXABLE VALUE THAT WE RECEIVED IN FISCAL YEAR 2021, UH, WAS 4.9, $3 BILLION.
IT'S AN INCREASE OF ABOUT $150 MILLION.
AND OF THAT IT'S ABOUT EVENLY SPLIT BETWEEN, UH, GROWTH ON EXISTING PROPERTY AND THEN GROWTH, UM, FOR NEW PROPERTIES ADDED TO THE TAX ROLL.
THE CURRENT PROPERTY TAX RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 IS 60.8, SIX 76 CENTS PER $100 EVALUATION.
AND THEN THE PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IS 61.5, ONE OH 5 CENTS, UH, PER $100 VALUATION.
AND THE INCREASE THERE IS RELATED TO DEBT SERVICE, UM, TO FUND THE, UH, GENERAL OBLIGATION THAT SERVICE TOTAL CERTIFIED VALUE HISTORY.
AND HERE WE HAVE A 10 YEAR LOOK AT WHAT BOTH COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, UH, COMMERCIAL ARE ON THE TOP AND THE RESIDENTIAL AROUND THE BOTTOM, UH, WHAT THEY HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, CURRENTLY, UH, FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, UH, THERE WAS ABOUT A $100 MILLION INCREASE IN COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES.
AGAIN, THAT IS ALMOST EVENLY SPLIT BETWEEN
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NEW NEW PROPERTIES ADDED IN THE TAX ROLL AND EXISTING GROWTH.AND THEN THERE WAS ABOUT A $44 MILLION INCREASE IN, UH, RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES THAT HAS ALMOST AGAIN, EVENLY SPLIT BETWEEN NEW PROPERTIES, ADD TO THE TAX ROLAND AND SYSTEM STEVEN.
SO YOU MADE A COMMENT THAT I WANTED TO SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE THE COLOR OPPORTUNITY.
THE INCREASE PROPOSED INCREASE ON THE PROPOSED TAX RATE IS, IS DUE TO DEBT SERVICE.
SO I AM AN OLD RATE BASICALLY IS FLAT.
SO IS IT A FAIR UNDERSTANDING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE MAJORITY OF THIS DEBT SERVICES MOTOR APPROVED, IT IS ALL OVER, IT'S ALL THE INCREASES ALL OVER APPROVED IN OUR TOTAL BURKE DEBT SERVICE SERVICE BUCKET? UH, YEAH, MOST OF IT IS THOUGH.
SO I WANT TO VERY CLEAR ON THE RECORD THAT OPPOSE INCREASE HERE IS SOLELY FUNDED IS SOLELY DRIVEN BY VOTER APPROVED CAPITAL PROJECTS.
IS THAT A FAIR UNDERSTANDING? THAT'S CORRECT.
WELL, JUST MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT, THAT WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WITH THE VOTERS.
HAVEN'T BLESSED ON AN INCREASE IN ISRAEL.
AND, UH, TOTAL CERTIFIED VALUE HISTORY.
AGAIN, THIS IS THE EXACT SAME DATA AS THE PREVIOUS SLIDE.
IT'S JUST A DIFFERENT DEPICTION.
UM, YOU CAN SEE, UH, COMMERCIAL BUSINESS, PERSONAL PROPERTY AND RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES OVER THE YEARS, AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE PERCENTAGE THAT EACH OF THOSE MAKE UP OF THE TOTAL, UH, CERTIFIED VALUE FOR THE TOWN, UM, IN FISCAL YEAR 2022, UH, ALMOST EXACTLY EVEN OUR BUSINESS, PERSONAL PROPERTY, RESIDENTIAL AND A AT 15% EACH.
AND THEN COMMERCIAL MAKES UP 70% OF THE TAX ROLL FOR FISCAL YEAR 20.
I'VE GOT A QUESTION REAL QUICK.
IF I, COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THE CERTIFIED VALUE? UM, YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS HAS BEEN APPROVED, UH, BY D CAD AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS, IS THAT CORRECT? THERE'S, THERE'S TWO COMPONENTS OF THE CERTIFIED THAT, UH, BY LAW THEY HAVE TO, I BELIEVE THEY HAVE TO HAVE 95% OF ALL PROPERTIES THROUGH BASICALLY THROUGH THE SYSTEM, THROUGH ANY PROTESTS THAT THEY COULD MAKE IT MUSTARD.
UH, WHEN THE VALUES WERE CERTIFIED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, THERE WAS 4 BILLION OF 970 MILLION IN PROPERTY THAT WAS CERTIFIED.
AND THERE WAS ABOUT $105 MILLION IN PROPERTIES THAT WERE STILL WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS.
AND THAT THEY ALSO CERTIFIED THAT YOU CERTIFIED THAT IS THAT, IS THAT THE PART THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEND THE LETTER TO D CAT ABOUT THAT THAT'S A SEPARATE SET OF PRICING.
SO, SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TOTAL CERTIFIED VALUE, 95% IS COMPLETE, BUT THE CERTIFIED, THE LAST 5% WE'RE, WE'RE CLOSER TO 98%.
AND THEN PROPERTY TAX PAYER DISTRIBUTION AND ADIS, AND THIS IS AGAIN A SIMILAR SLIDE JUST BY FORMAT.
SO A COMMERCIAL MAKES UP 70% OF THE PROPERTY TAX THAT'S COMING IN, UM, BUSINESS, PERSONAL PROPERTY AND RESIDENTIAL, BOTH RIGHT THERE AT 15%.
AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT EACH OF THOSE TYPES OF PROPERTIES GENERATE, AS YOU CAN SEE, RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS PERSONAL PROPERTY ARE WITHIN $3,000 OF EACH OTHER.
AND THEN WE HAVE COMMERCIAL, UH, AT 21,179,000, AND THEN BOTH BUSINESS AND RESIDENTIAL, OR JUST UNDER $4.5 MILLION.
SO AS APPRAISED VALUES GO UP, UH, THE TAX RATE CALCULATION FOR THE NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE GOES DOWN.
SO, UH, THE NO NEW REVENUE TAX CALCULATION IS BASICALLY WHAT WOULD THE TAX RATE BE ON THE SAME PROPERTIES, RIGHT? TO GENERATE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TAXES THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
SO IF THE VALUES GO UP, THE GOES DOWN TO EGYPT TO GENERATE THE, THIS, UM, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT, UH, IF PROPERTY VALUES GO DOWN, THE RATE WOULD GO UP TO GENERATE THE SAME PROPERTY TAX.
AND IF PROPERTY VALUES ARE EQUAL THAN THE RATE SHOULD BE, HERE'S A COMPARISON OF FISCAL YEAR,
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2022 TAX RATES IN DALLAS COUNTY.UM, EVERY OTHER CITY THAT'S LISTED HERE OTHER THAN ADDISON, THESE ARE THEIR FISCAL YEAR ENDING TAX RATES.
UM, BUT YOU CAN SEE HOW ADDISON COMPARES OVERALL TO THE OTHER CITIES IN DALLAS COUNTY, UH, WITH THEIR CURRENT TAX RATES WITH OUR PROPOSED TAX RATE.
UH, THE MEDIAN TAX RATE HERE IS JUST UNDER 67 CENTS.
AND THEN THE AVERAGE TAX RATE IS JUST UNDER 62 AND A HALF CENTS FOR ALL BELTS ON THE SNAP.
ONE, MY EYES AREN'T SO GREAT, BUT DALLAS SIX 70, HEY, DALLAS IS AT 78 CENTS.
AND THEN THIS IS THE SAME, UM, TYPE COMPARISON, EXCEPT WITH OUR COMPARISON SALES AND FOR THESE COMPARISON CITIES, YOU CAN SEE, UH, AGAIN, UH, THESE ARE THEIR FISCAL YEAR 2021 TAX RATES.
UH, IN THIS GROUP, THE MEDIAN TAX RATE IS 49.68 CENTS.
AND THE AVERAGE TAX RATE IS 49.33 CENTS.
AND THEN THIS IS A, ANOTHER CHART WITH OUR COMPARISON CITIES.
AND THIS ONE SHOWS WHAT THE AVERAGE PROPERTY TAX BILL, UM, IS FOR EACH CITY, BUT IT ALSO SHOWS WHAT THE AVERAGE TAX VALUE IN EACH CITY IS A UNIVERSITY PARK, UM, SKEWS, THIS DISCHARGE QUITE A BIT, UH, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE GREEN LINE.
THERE IS THE AVERAGE PROPERTY TAX BILL AND THE BLUE BAR IS THE AVERAGE TAXABLE HOME.
AND ARE WE LOOKING AT, UH, PROPOSED, UH, TAX RATES? WE, FOR, FOR, FOR ADDISON IT'S PROPOSED TAX RATE FOR THE OTHER CITIES, WE DO NOT HAVE THEIR PROPOSED TAX RATE IN THIS FISCAL YEAR, 2021 TAX RATE.
SO WE'RE COMPARING WHAT THEY DID LAST YEAR TO OUR PROPOSED, RIGHT.
STEVEN, CAN YOU GO BACK? SO WE KIND OF HAVE THIS CONVERSATION QUESTION, THIS DOESN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT NEXT, PLEASE.
SO CAN WE, CAN WE GET THE OTHER PROPOSED TAX RATES FOR NEW CITIES AND WE CAN, WE CAN, A LOT OF THEM DID NOT KNOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE JUST NOW DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING AT THIS POINT, TOO.
YOU REALLY WERE AHEAD OF THE PROPOSED DOCTORATE.
WE MAY BE AHEAD OF SOME OF THEM, SOME OF THEM HAVE HAD PROBABLY NOT HAD THEIR BUDGET WORKSHOP.
THIS POINT, WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THIS, OUR, OUR FOLKS ARE BUSY WITH OUR BUDGET.
WE'RE NOT FOCUSING ON DOING THE RESEARCH ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON AT OTHER COMMUNITY'S BUDGETS RIGHT NOW WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION, BUT WHY WE USE THIS BECAUSE IT'S, WHAT'S AVAILABLE TO US NOW.
AND BECAUSE WE'VE GOT OUR FOCUS ON WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO FOR OUR BUDGET, WE'RE NOT GOING OUT AND LOOKING AT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING FOR THEIR BUDGETS OR THEIR PROPOSED BUDGETS.
AND EVERY YEAR WHEN WE, WHEN WE PRESENT THIS, WE ALWAYS SHOW IT AS IN THE SAME WAY, EXCUSE ME, OUR PROPOSED NUMBERS RELATIVE TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S NUMBERS FOR THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE COMPARE OURSELVES TO ME.
UM, IS IT LIKE JUST PERFECTLY ENCOURAGED IN CITIES? IS IT DIFFICULT TO GET ON THEIR WEBSITE? SO SOMEONE WILL HAVE IT NOT HABIT.
I MEAN, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, SOME OF THEM HAVE IT AND NOT HAVE IT.
SO PART OF, PART OF, UH, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE 2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS THAT THERE IS A, YOU KNOW, EACH COUNTY TAX OFFICE AS A TRANSPARENCY WEBSITE.
SO NONE OF THEM HAVE POSTED THE PROPOSED TAX RATES YET.
UM, SO RIGHT NOW THE TAX OFFICES ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THE TAX RATE CALCULATION PROCESS.
UM, SO, SO NONE OF THOSE HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN POSTED.
NOW THEY MAY BE IN THEIR BUDGET, UM, AND SOME OF THEM ARE IN THEIR BUDGET AND SOME OF THEM, I MEAN, IF I WENT TO SOME CITIES AND WAS ABLE TO FIND IT, SOME, I HAD A LITTLE MORE TROUBLE FINDING IT, BUT, UM, SO WE COULD, BUT THERE, THERE IS A DATABASE THAT IS REQUIRED AND WHEN THOSE PROPOSED RATES ARE ACCEPTED BY THOSE ENTITIES, THAT THEY POST THEM ON THAT TRANSPARENCY TODAY.
UH, AND THIS IS A, UH, SAME SLIDE, UH, EXCLUDING UNIVERSITY PARK, WHICH MAKES THE SLIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEAR.
UM, AND, AND YOU CAN REALLY, UH, BETTER COMPARE THE AVERAGE TAXABLE HOME VALUE AND THE AVERAGE PROPERTY TAX PILL, UH, FOR EACH OF THESE CITIES.
NOW, THESE, THESE TWO SLIDES DO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT FOR THE COMPARISON CITIES, UM, THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS.
SO, UH, SO THAT TAX BILL IS ADJUSTED, UH, WHICH IS THE GREEN LINE IS ADJUSTED FOR WHATEVER THOSE CITIES OFFER.
IF THEY DO OFFER A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, ONLY THE HOMESTEAD
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EXEMPTION OVER 65 TO SAY THE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES, WELL, SORRY, I MISSPOKE.THIS IS THEIR AVERAGE TAXABLE VALUE.
SO I'M GOING TO INCLUDE ANY EXEMPTIONS THAT THEY OFFER.
BUT MOST OF THAT IS GOING TO BE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2022 PROPERTY TAX RATES.
AND THE COMBINED TAX RATE RIGHT NOW IS AT $2 AND 54, UH, 0.17 CENTS.
AND AGAIN, THESE OTHER ENTITIES, UM, WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR TAX RATES FOR THOSE OTHER ENTITIES.
UH, SO THE ADDISON TAX RATE IS THE ONE THAT HAS BEEN UPDATED FISCAL YEAR 2022.
UM, AND IN TOTAL, UH, THIS IS A DECREASE OF OVER 2 CENTS, UH, FROM THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION STEVEN ON THE PROPOSED TAX RATES FOR DALLAS ISD.
AND THE OTHER ONES IS THAT, IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN GET OUR HANDS ON THE DALLAS ISD? I BELIEVE THAT THEIRS IS OUT THE OTHER ONES, UM, UH, DALLAS COUNTY, PARKLAND HOSPITAL, ESPECIALLY PARKLAND HOSPITAL IN DALLAS COUNTY, COMMUNITY COLLEGE, COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
THOSE TEND TO BE THE LAST ONES THAT COME OUT.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO THE SAME TYPE OF REQUIREMENTS THAT CITIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES DO AT THE YES, IT'S AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, BUT IT'S NOT AVAILABLE.
AND THEN, UH, PROPERTY TAX RATES, FISCAL YEAR 2021, AND THIS GOES BACK TO, UH, WESS, UH, INITIAL REMARKS ABOUT US RECEIVING A CERTIFIED ESTIMATED TAX ROLL IN FISCAL YEAR 2021.
UH, SO THAT DROVE UP THE NONI REVENUE AND THE VOTER APPROVAL, UH, TAX RATE CALCULATIONS.
UH, SO THE NERDY REVENUE RATE CALCULATION LAST YEAR WAS, UH, 63.79 CENTS.
UH, THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE WAS 70.1933 SENTENCE.
NOW THE ADOPTED RATE IS 60.87 CENTS.
SO SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW, UH, BOTH OF THOSE CALCULATORS RIGHT NOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THIS SCHOOL YEAR 2022, WE KNOW THE REVENUE RATE IS 54.86 CENTS.
AND THAT IS A DECREASE OF ALMOST 9 CENTS.
NOW, WHY DID THAT DECREASE SO MUCH? THE MAIN REASON IS WITH SENATE BILL TWO FROM THE 2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION, THERE IS NOW A PROVISION IN THAT BILL THAT REQUIRES THE TA THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT TO REDUCE OUR TAXABLE VALUES FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, BY THE AMOUNTS THAT ARE STILL IN LAWSUITS SET UP.
WHEN THEY CERTIFIED OUR 2022 TAX ROLL.
THERE WAS ONE, ALMOST $1.2 BILLION IN PROPERTIES THAT WERE UNDER LAWSUITS FROM THE PREVIOUS TAX YEAR.
AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS OPINION OF VALUE ON THOSE WAS $569 MILLION LESS THAN WHAT WAS CERTIFIED IN 2020.
SO THEY REDUCE LAST YEAR'S TAX ROLL BY $569 MILLION FOR THE PURPOSES OF CALCULATING THIS TAX RATE.
SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY IT DECREASED SO MUCH.
IT'S A REALLY COMPLEX THING THAT DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.
UM, AND IT REALLY SKEWS THE WAY THAT THESE RATES LOOK OKAY.
YOU KNOW, UH, I'M A SIMPLE GUY.
UM, AND, AND SO THIS SOUNDS LIKE A WHOLLY ARTIFICIAL, UM, NICE WORD, UM, SCHEME, IS THAT FAIR UNDERSTANDING? I WOULD SAY SO.
SO, BECAUSE THE NOTE, SO, SO THE NO NEW TAX REVENUE RATE IS REALLY NOT 55 SENSES.
NO, IT'S REALLY NOT NOW, BUT YOU HAVE TO SAY NO, CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE LAW SAYS, RIGHT? CORRECT.
BUT IT'S REALLY NOT THAT CORRECT.
D CAN YOU GIVE US A NUMBER THAT IT REALLY IS ACTUALLY JUST DIDN'T MATTER.
SO, UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PRE SENATE BILL TWO, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING WAS REALLY AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON.
SO THESE ADJUSTMENTS, THEY, YOU KNOW, SO THEY, THEY REALLY DID A GOOD JOB OF MAKING IT WHERE THERE WERE NO BIG CHANGES BECAUSE OF STUFF LIKE THIS.
AND IF IT, IF THERE WERE, THEY GOT RECONCILED, NOW THERE IS NO METHOD IN THE LAW TO RECONCILE THESE TYPES OF THINGS.
SO IT JUST, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT DOESN'T GET SETTLED BEFORE THE NEXT YEAR, IT'S JUST GONE.
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AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR REAL ISSUE WITH THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT IS GETTING THESE THINGS THROUGH THE SYSTEM AND WHY THIS IS AN ISSUE THIS YEAR IS THAT IF YOU'LL RECALL LAST YEAR PRIOR TO OUR BUDGET PROCESS, WE, UM, DECLARED, UH, EMERGENCIES RELATED TO THE COPA, THE COVID PANDEMIC.AND AS A RESULT, THERE WAS A PROVISION IN STATE LAW THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO CAPTURE, UH, ESSENTIALLY BANK VALUE FOR FUTURE PURPOSES.
SO IF WE COULD INCREASE OUR REVENUE, INCOME TAX REVENUE INCOME, UH, IN EXCESS OF THE THREE AND A HALF PERCENT CAP, UH, THAT THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE.
RIGHT? AND SO WE KIND OF DID THAT.
WE HAVE BANKED TAX RATE INSTRUMENT THAT ALLOWS US TO ESSENTIALLY A CUSHION, THE BLOW HERE, RIGHT? BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE DON'T HAVE AND NOTHING SEEMS PROBABLY GO THERE, BUT THIS IS IT'S IMPORTANT.
PEOPLE KNOW THIS IS THAT IF, IF WE WERE REQUIRED TO USE THAT NO NEW REVENUE RATE AND JUST INCREASE IT BY THREE AND A HALF PERCENT, THERE'S GOING TO BE, THERE WOULD BE A HUGE, WE WOULD EITHER HAVE TO GO TO VOTERS AND ASK THEM TO IMPROVE SOMETHING IN EXCESS OF THAT, OR WE'D HAVE TO JUST OPERATE AT THAT 300%.
STEPHEN'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE IN THAT REVENUE NUMBER.
SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE EXPERT AND THE, UH, HAVE THE IMPACT WOULD BE IF THIS ISN'T RESOLVED IN THE FUTURE.
CAN I MAKE ONE THAT I THINK THERE'S A CONNECTION TO HERE EARLIER WHEN MARLON WAS ASKING ABOUT THE DATA AND THE NUMBERS AND THE RATES, YOU KNOW, OUR RATES MAY BE DIFFERENT THAN THE COMPETITORS CITIES.
THIS IS A REALLY BLATANT EXAMPLE OF HOW, WHEN WE MOVE THE NEEDLE, BE IT, UH, INTERNALLY OF OUR OWN DOING AS A POLICY MAKERS OR WHETHER THE STATE DOES IT, NOT ONLY ARE THE NUMBERS SKEWED ON THE SLIDE, BUT YOU REALLY HAVE TO HAVE YOUR CFO AND YOUR CITY MANAGER AND THE COUNCIL CARRY ON A DISCUSSION AMONGST OURSELVES.
AND THE CHALLENGE IS MANY CITIZENS THAT ARE NOT INVOLVED AND THE TRENCHES AND THE WEEDS THAT WE'RE INVOLVED IN CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE INFORMATION IS PUBLIC THAT'S PUBLIC, BECAUSE IT'S NOT IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS AS TO WHY THIS NUMBER FELL OR ROSE OR WHATEVER IT IS.
BUT EARLIER I WAS THINKING MORE THAN TO YOUR POINT, CAUSE I HEAR WHAT YOUR POINT IS ON THE, ON THIS DATA.
I WAS JUST GETTING FRUSTRATED, COMPARING CAN APPLES.
BUT ANY TIME WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING TOO, I JUST START THROWING OUT A FORMULA THAT NOBODY COULD EASILY SEE.
LIKE, LIKE PAUL SAID, YOU KNOW, HE'S A SIMPLE GUY.
I THINK MOST OF US ARE, BUT, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AND IT SHOULD NOT BE, YOU KNOW, UNDERSCORED IS THE IMPORTANCE OF ONLY CHANGING THE PATTERNS OF THE WAY THAT WE PRESENT DATA, ESPECIALLY IN OUR LITTLE GROUP REALLY ONLY WHEN IT MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE FOR ME, THIS IS MY I'M STARTING MY FIFTH YEAR, AND THIS IS ALL STARTING TO REALLY MAKE SENSE WHEN, WHEN, WHEN EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, NOW IT'S, IT'S, IT'S REALLY STARTING TO FIRE ON ALL CYLINDERS QUICKLY.
AND, UM, I DID JUST IMAGINE FOR THE, FOR THE REGULAR PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT SO HIGHLY FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING HOW CHALLENGING IT IS.
SO I JUST, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE LAST WEEK SKEW WITH THE DATA ANALYTICS, THE EASIER IT IS FOR ALL OF US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S IMPORTANT, THIS RATE IS DEFINITELY IS NOT A REASONABLE RATE AND, UH, THOSE PEOPLE IN THE STATE AND THEN THEY PROPOSE THE WAY IT IS, IS WE'VE REALLY TRIED TO MISLEAD POVERTY.
YEAH, YEAH, NO, IT'S NOT AT ALL, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE PEOPLE, IF YOU REALLY GO TO STEP.
SO THAT'S THE REASON WE NEED TO GET MORE INVOLVED IN LOBBYING THINGS LIKE THE OFFICIAL STATE.
AND I CERTAINLY AGREE WITH THEM.
THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO BE PAINFULLY DETAILED.
SO IT'S ON THE RECORD AND IT'S ON THE TAPE.
THAT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NO MISUNDERSTANDING, AND NOBODY CAN MAKE POLITICAL HAY AND THIS NONSENSE, YOU KNOW, PLAY AND CLAIM FACTS THAT ARE, THAT ARE JUST NOT TRUE
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AND, AND SHAME ON ANYBODY WHO TRIES TO DO THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I CAN, I CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, MUCH FODDER FOR, YOU KNOW, THE OUTRAGE, THE OUTRAGE THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, COULD, UH, COULD, COULD, COULD SURFACE, UM, AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH ALL THIS TO LORI'S POINT, THOSE ARE THE NUMBERS, RIGHT.IT JUST CAN TAKE AWAY ALL THOSE DISPARITIES, YOU KNOW, POP YOU VALUABLE TOTALLY A WAY, YOU KNOW, NORMALLY IF YOU GO TO ANY MEDIATION, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL BE TO HALFWAY.
SO IT'S GOT TO BE SOME WAY SOMEHOW MAKES IT MORE REASONABLE.
RIGHT, GREG, AND THEN, UH, SO WHEN YOU GET TO THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE, UM, THIS IS ALSO LOOKS VERY STRANGE BECAUSE NOW THERE'S A 13 CENT GAP OVER A 13 CENT GAP BETWEEN THE NEW REVENUE TAX RATE AND THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE.
SO, UM, THE STATE CALLS THIS TRUTH IN TAXATION, THERE IS NO TRUTH.
AND I'VE SAID THAT BEFORE SENATE BILL TWO, BUT IT'S VERY TRUE NOW, UM, THAT THERE IS NO TRUTH AND TRUTH IN TAXATION.
SO, UM, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE CAME DOWN.
AND THE REASON THAT THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE AND THE NOTING REVENUE TAX RATE ARE SO DIFFERENT IS AS WES ALLUDED TO THE AMOUNT THAT WAS BANKED FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, UH, WHICH IS EQUAL TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 VOTER APPROVAL RATE MINUS THE RATE THAT WAS ADOPTED.
SO THERE WAS, UH, A LITTLE OVER 9 CENTS, UH, THAT WAS BANKED, UM, WHICH INCREASES THAT VOTER APPROVAL RATE, UH, FOR CALCULATION PURPOSES.
SO, UH, THE PROPOSED RATE IS 61.51, ONE OH 5 CENTS, UM, OR SAPS ARE 61 POINT 51 OH 5 CENTS, UH, WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF JUST OVER SIX TENTHS OF ONE THING.
AND AS I SAID BEFORE, THAT IS ALL RELATED TO THAT SERVICE.
AND THAT IS ALL THE RECRUIT DEBT.
UH, THEY WERE PLANNING TO ISSUE IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, UH, PROPERTY TAX REVENUE.
SO, UH, THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2021 BUDGET AT A TAX RATE, UH, 60.86, 7 CENTS, UM, UH, CERTIFIED VALUES OF 4.9, 3 BILLION.
SO A TOTAL TAX LEVY, RIGHT AT $30 MILLION.
SO ONE PENNY ON THE TAX RATE THAT WAS EQUAL TO $493,000 IN REVENUE.
UH, WHAT THAT ONE PENNY ON THE TAX RATE TO THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER, UH, IN FISCAL YEAR 2021, UH, WAS $33 AND 50 CENTS A YEAR, OR ABOUT $2 AND 79 CENTS A MONTH.
AND FOR BUDGET PURPOSES, WE BUDGET THAT WE ARE GOING TO COLLECT 96 AND A HALF PERCENT OF THAT TAX LEVY.
SO OUR BUDGET IN FISCAL YEAR 2021, WHICH IS $28.9 MILLION IN TOTAL TAX REVENUE.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE GENERAL FUND THAT'S WHERE THE TOWN'S DEBT SERVICE IN GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, UH, THAT'S FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND.
AND THAT IS THROUGH THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND AND MOVING ON TO FISCAL YEAR 2022, THE PROPOSED RATE OF 61.5, 105 CENTS WITH A CERTIFIED VALUE OF 5.08 BILLION, UH, THAT BRINGS THE TAX LEVY TO $31.2 MILLION, AN INCREASE OF $1.2 MILLION FROM THE LAST FISCAL YEAR.
ONE PENNY ON THE TAX RATE IS EQUAL TO $508,000 IN REVENUE, $15,000 MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
AND THEN ONE PENNY ON THE TAX RATE FOR THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER IS EQUAL TO 34 POINT 96 CENTS, UH, IN FISCAL YEAR 2022, AN INCREASE IN THE DOLLAR AND 46 CENTS OR $2 AND 91 CENTS A MONTH, UH, OR AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 12 CENTS.
SO OVERALL THE TAX COLLECTIONS, WHICH AGAIN IS THE 31.2 MILLION AT TIMES ON SIX AND A HALF PERCENT COLLECTION RATE IS $1.2 MILLION AND THEN PROPERTY TAX RATE PROJECTIONS.
SO IN THIS SLIDE, WE SHOW A COUPLE OF THINGS, ONE WHAT THE NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE, IF THAT WAS ADOPTED AND WHAT THE DIFFERENCE FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET AS FAR AS TAX REVENUE WOULD BE, AND THEN WHAT IT WOULD BE IF THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE WAS ADOPTED, UH, AND THEN A HALF A CENT, AND THEN 1 CENT ABOVE THAT VOTER POOL.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE THAT GENERATES A LEVY THAT IS FAR BELOW THE PROPOSED, AND THAT IS DUE TO THE ISSUE THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, WITH DISPUTED VALUES, UH, FROM THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR AT
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96 AND A HALF PERCENT COLLECTION RATE, THAT IS A REDUCTION FROM THE PROPOSED, UH, TAX, UH, COLLECTION OF ABOUT 3.2, FIVE, $7 MILLION.ON THE OTHER SIDE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MOVER APPROVAL RATE THAT WOULD GENERATE 3.15, NO MORE DOLLARS IN TAX REVENUE.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT GAP IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO IS OVER $6 MILLION, UH, AND THEN A HALF CENT ABOVE THAT VOTER APPROVAL RATE, UH, GENERATES ABOUT $3.4 MILLION MORE THAN THE PROPOSED RATE.
AND THEN 1 CENT ABOVE THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE IS JUST OVER $3.6 MILLION MORE THAN THE, UH, TAX, UH, GENERATED BY THEM.
AND SO IN THIS SLIDE, UH, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO DISPUTED VALUES AND THE EFFECT THAT THEY HAVE ON THAT PROPERTY TAX RATE CALCULATION.
SO IN COLUMN ONE, WE HAVE THE CURRENT CALCULATION METHOD THAT WE'RE REQUIRED TO USE.
AND THEN IN THE SECOND COLUMN, WE HAD WHAT THE CALCULATION METHOD WAS PRIOR TO SENATE BILL IN 2019.
AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, ON THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO.
SO USING THE, THE CURRENT CALCULATION METHOD, AS WE MENTIONED, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A $569 MILLION IN PROPERTIES THAT WERE REDUCED FROM OUR PRIOR YEAR TAX RULE.
UH, SO IT REDUCED THAT TAX ROLL, UH, WHICH AS OF THIS JULY 22ND, UH, WAS SITTING AT 4.9, $9 BILLION.
SO REDUCE THAT BY $569 MILLION.
AND WE WERE SITTING AT 4.4, $2 BILLION, UM, WHICH IS NOT WHAT IS CURRENTLY ON THE CERTIFIED TAX RULES.
SO WHEN CALCULATING THAT AGAINST THE 2022 TAXABLE VALUE, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE WAS A 14.9% INCREASE IN PROPERTY VALUES, BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
SO THAT IS WHY THAT NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE, UH, COMES IN SO LOW AT 54.8593 SENTENCE.
NOW, THE WAY THAT THIS USED TO BE WAS THAT IF SOMEONE HAD A LAWSUIT RELATED TO THEIR PROPERTY AND IT WAS NOT SETTLED, IT WENT BACK TO WHATEVER THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT CERTIFIED, THOSE VALUES AS THAT, THAT WAY WE'RE COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES.
UM, SO THAT'S WHY THERE IS ZERO LISTED THERE IN THAT DISPUTED REDUCTION.
SO WHAT WE HAD ON THE TAX ROLL IS WHAT WE STILL, YOU WOULD USE FOR CALCULATION PURPOSES.
SO WITH THAT SAID, OVERALL, IT WOULD'VE BEEN A 1.8% CHANGE IN TAXABLE VALUE AND THAT NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE WOULD HAVE BEEN 61.77 CENTS, WHICH IS 6.90 CENTS LESS OR MORE THAN, UM, WHAT WE REQUIRED TO CALCULATE THAT TAX RATE AS, UM, SO IT'D BE 61.77 CENTS IS ACTUALLY HIGHER, SLIGHTLY THAN THE PROPOSED TAX RATE.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR AGAIN? SO THE REAL CALCULATIONS HERE, NOT THE 40 BELOW, IS THAT THE NOTARY TAX RATES, WHAT SIX MONTHS, 7, 6, 7.
THAT'S A REAL, THAT'S A REAL NEW TAX RATE.
AND, AND, AND THE MANAGER'S PROPOSING A TAX RATE PLUS IT'S SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THAT, CORRECT.
SO JUST YES, TO MAKE SURE THAT STEVEN'S NOT AN AWKWARD SPOT, RIGHT.
HE'S SAYING WHAT HE'S SAYING, WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SAID, ACCORDING TO THE STATE LAW, I FULLY APPRECIATE THIS.
BUT YOU KNOW, I'M ALSO GOING TO TRY TO INTERJECT A LITTLE COMMON SENSE INTO AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE IS NO COMPRESSORS.
AND SO I JUST WANT TO CITE WHEN I UNDERSTAND THAT'S A SIMPLE WAY TO, TO, TO, TO WHAT THE REAL NUMBERS ARE AND NOT SOME POLITICALLY CONTRIVED ALGORITHM TO TRY TO MAKE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOOK BAD.
IS THAT, IS THAT A FAIR UNDERSTANDING? YES.
AND TO, TO, TO LOOKING FORWARD NEXT YEAR, DURING THIS CONVERSATION, WE MAY NOT HAVE THE PRE SB TWO CALCULATION METHOD COLUMN, THE SPREADSHEET I'M JUST GOING FORWARD.
WE HOPE THAT WE DON'T HAVE IT.
I THINK THAT'S THE BE APPROPRIATELY THE BEST WAY TO SAY WE
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HOPE NOT.THIS IS PROVIDING CONTEXT, RIGHT? THE, I MEAN, IN AN IDEAL WORLD, UM, THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT IS ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THESE PRIOR TO, UH, THE TIME THAT WE NEED TO CALCULATE TAX RATES OR THE, THE LAWS CHANGES TO MAKE THIS MORE, MORE REASONABLE.
THERE WAS A PROPOSAL, THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION, 2021 TO FIX THIS, BECAUSE THIS IS OBVIOUSLY AN ISSUE AND THAT DID NOT GET APPROVED.
WE KNOW HOW MANY CITIES ARE, I GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT HOW MANY DO I GRAPPLE WITH THIS THIS YEAR, IF THEY DO, THEY DIDN'T ELECT TO WHAT WE DO NOW.
IT DEPENDS ON, BUT IT IS A LOT OF THEM IN DALLAS COUNTY THAT ARE, UH, THAT USE DALLAS CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT.
SO, UM, AND IT'S GOING TO BE ALL THE BIG, ALL THE BIG CAMPUSES IN COUNTIES WHERE THE ATTORNEYS CAN GO IN AND SEE THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT ON A HUNDRED PROPERTIES OR A HUNDRED CLIENTS ON ALL BIG PROPERTIES AND DO A LAWSUIT ON ALL OF THOSE PROPERTIES THAT WANTS TO, UM, IF IT'S A SMALL APPRAISAL DISTRICT, IT'S REALLY NOT WORTH THEIR TIME TO GO OUT AND TRY TO DO A BUNCH OF LAWSUITS, BUT IT IS IN DALLAS COUNTY AND HARRIS COUNTY AND KAREN AND THE BAY COUNTIES.
SO PROPERTY TAX RATES, THIS, THIS SLIDE SHOWS, UH, THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 FISCAL YEAR 2021, UM, APPROVED, UH, PROPERTY TAX RATE.
AND THEN THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2022 TAX RATE, UH, THE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SIDE OF THE TAX RATE.
THAT IS WHAT FUNDS, YOUR GENERAL GOVERNMENT, YOUR POLICE, YOUR FIRE, UM, YOUR STREETS, YOUR PARKS AND RECREATION DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THEN YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND.
UH, YOU CAN SEE FISCAL YEAR 20, 21 TO 2022.
UH, THE INTEREST IN THINKING THAT IS WHAT PAYS THE DEBT SERVICE ON THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, UH, THAT HAS A SLIGHT INCREASE, UH, JUST ABOUT SIX TENTHS OF ONE DAY.
UH, SO THAT IS THE INCREASE IN THE TOTAL TAX RATE FROM 60.87 CENTS, UH, TO 61.5105 AND THEN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE.
THIS HAS FISCAL YEAR 20, 20 ACTUAL.
SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE TOTAL TAX REVENUE THAT WE GENERATED IN EACH FUND.
THERE'S THE GENERAL FUND, WHICH IS THE, UH, THE TOP LINE ECO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND, THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND, AND THEN THE, UH, DEBT SERVICE, UH, FOR THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND FUND, UH, WE'RE FISCAL YEAR 2021 TO FISCAL YEAR 2022, UH, IN THE GENERAL FUND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND.
UH, THOSE SHOW A 3% INCREASE, UH, APPROXIMATELY 1.7% OF THAT INCREASE, UH, COMES FROM EXISTING PROPERTY.
AND THEN 1.3% OF THAT INCREASE COMES FROM NEW PROPERTIES THAT ARE ADDED TO THE TAX ROLL.
UH, THEN WE HAVE THE DEBT SERVICE FUND, AND THAT'S THE OTHER PORTION OF THE TAX RATE THAT IS GOING UP 7%.
AND THAT IS STRICTLY BASED ON, UH, THE AMOUNT OF DEBT SERVICE THAT WE HAVE IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
SO IN TOTAL TAX REVENUE FROM FISCAL YEAR 2021 TO FISCAL YEAR 2022 IS GOING UP 4.1, 2%.
STEPHEN, CAN WE GO BACK ONE SLIDE PLEASE? COULD YOU GO BACK 1, 1, 1 FROM THIS ONE? YES, YES.
I WANT TO FOCUS IN ON THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN SECOND ROW COUNTRIES AND SINKY YES.
SO JUST TO BE SURE THAT IS, THAT REPRESENTS THE DEBT SERVICE PORTION OF THE TAX RATE.
AND THAT INCREASE IS RESULT OF PLANNED ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION.
THAT IS, AND THESE BONDS WOULD APPROVE LIKE VOTERS IN 2012 AND 2019 ELECTION TO ELECTRICS.
AND THE PROPOSED RATE ALLOWS THE TOWN TO CONTINUE TO, TO PROVIDE EXCELLENT SERVICES THAT RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES EXPECT.
IN THE CASE OF THE, UH, YES, SIR.
I WOULD ADD ONE THING GQ, AND IT ALSO ALLOWS US AS A COMMUNITY TO SHARE THE BURDEN OF THOSE BENEFITS, THE COST OF THOSE BENEFITS OVER THE COURSE OF TIME.
AND I THINK THAT'S A BENEFIT BECAUSE IT'S A SHARED COST, RIGHT?
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SO THAT WOULD BE ONE THING.AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT? THANK YOU.
PROPERTY TAX RATES, THIS IS A 10 YEAR A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THE TOTAL TAX RATE, UH, HAS BEEN.
UM, AND THEN HOW MUCH HAS GONE TO OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE AND THEN HOW MUCH HAS GONE TO A DEBT SERVICE.
SO AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE FROM FISCAL YEAR 2021 TO 2022, UH, VERY SLIGHT CHANGE, THEN THIS SLIDE IS THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAX PORTION OF GENERAL FUND REVENUE.
SO IN TOTAL GENERAL FUND REVENUE IS $40.8 MILLION.
UH, 92% OF THAT IS GENERATED FROM TAXES OTHER THAN FROM RESIDENTS PROPERTY TAXES.
SO 8% COMES FROM RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAX.
THE OTHER 92% OF THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE IS FROM PROPERTY TAXES ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES, UH, SALES, TAXES, UH, OTHER FEES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THEN THE IMPACT ON THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT FISCAL YEAR 2021, UH, WE HAD AN AVERAGE HOME VALUE OF 430, $2,539, UH, THAT AVERAGE TAXABLE VALUE, WHICH IS REDUCED FOR, UH, ANY EXEMPTIONS, UH, THAT, THAT SOMEONE MAY HAVE, UH, COMES DOWN TO 330, $4,993, UH, WHEN MULTIPLIED BY THE TAX RATE, THAT MEANS THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON, UH, OF A, UH, AVERAGE HOME OWNER WOULD PAY A 2030 $9 AND 2 CENTS LOOKING AT THIS SCHOOL YEAR 2022, THE AVERAGE HOME VALUE IS NOW $449,858.
THE AVERAGE TAXABLE VALUE IS THREE HUNDRED FORTY NINE, SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY $7 MULTIPLIED BY THE PROPOSED TAX RATE OF 61 POINT 51 0 5 COMES THROUGH A TAX BILL OF $2,150 AND 63 CENTS.
AND THIS IS 111, $111 AND 61 CENTS MORE THAN FISCAL YEAR, 2021, ABOUT $9 AND 30 CENTS PER MONTH.
HEY STEVEN, CAN YOU GO BACK? SO THE LAST ONE, I JUST WANT TO LOOK AT THIS FOR A SECOND.
SO DOES THAT, DOES IT COVER UTILITIES? THIS IS, THIS IS JUST THE GENERAL, JUST THE GENERAL JONATHAN.
NORMALLY HE COULD INTO MAJOR RESOURCES.
WHY IS IT PAUL PATHS? THE OTHER IS SALES TAX COMING UP.
IT'S GOING TO BE A SLIDE THAT TALKS ABOUT FERTILITY.
SO, UM, FOR APPROXIMATELY AN AVERAGE HOMEOWNER, THE COST FOR CITY SERVICES, UH, THROUGH THEIR TAX BILL IS $179 A MONTH FOR THAT YOU GET 24 HOUR POLICE AND FIRE PROTECTION, AMBULANCE SERVICE, UH, STREET MAINTENANCE, LIGHTING, MAINTENANCE, LIBRARY, ACCESS TO PARKS, UH, ATHLETIC CENTER, ANIMAL CONTROL, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, UH, BUILDING INSPECTIONS AND PROPERTY STANDARDS.
AND THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE, UH, THERE'S THE APPROXIMATE PRICE OF ABOUT $150 THAT SOMEONE WOULD PAY FOR CAPABLE OF INHERENT SERVICE.
UM, ANOTHER ANALOGY THAT I USE IS, YOU KNOW, IF, UH, IF YOU DIVIDED THAT $179 BY ABOUT 30 DAYS IN A MONTH, THAT COMES OUT TO ABOUT $6 A DAY, WHICH IS ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE WOULD PAY FOR A CUP OF COFFEE STARBUCKS.
OR NOW YOU CAN GRAB A GREEN JUICE, RIGHT.
UH, TOTAL AVERAGE MONTHLY BILL INCREASED THE RESIDENT.
SO AS WE TALKED ABOUT THE PROPERTY TAX PER MONTH, GOING FROM, UH, ABOUT $170 TO JUST OVER $179, A $9 AND 30 CENT INCREASE, UH, THE WATER AND SEWER RATES, UM, HER, THE RATE AND STUDY, UM, THAT COUNCIL APPROVED IN 2018 ARE SCHEDULED TO GO UP TWO AND A HALF PERCENT, UH, WHICH REGENERATE, UH, WHICH WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL COST OF 63 CENTS FROM THE AVERAGE USER OF 5,000 GALLONS OF WATER AND 86 CENTS FOR THE AVERAGE, UH, 5,000 GALLON USER OF SEWER.
SO THAT TOTAL AVERAGE MONTH INCREASE OF PROPERTY TAX WATER AND SEWER SERVICE IS $10 AND 79 CENTS PER MONTH.
AND THEN DECISION PACKAGE SUMMARY ALL REQUESTS.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
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ABOUT, UM, THE TAX RATE DATA THAT WAS PROVIDED OR ANYTHING YOU'VE DONE? THE ONLY THING I HAVE IS A SUPER GENERAL QUESTION.I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE MONEY THAT WE GET FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE RELIEF RELIEF ACT THAT $4 MILLION.
UH, I'M ASSUMING THAT, UH, I UNDERSTAND THAT TWO IS GOING INTO THE HOTEL FUND AND TWO IS GOING INTO THE SELF-FUNDED FUND.
ONCE THAT MONEY IS DEPOSITED INTO THOSE.
HOWEVER, THE MONEY TRANSFERS THAT MONEY IS FOLLOWS THE SAME RULES OF THE HOT TAX FUND.
IN OTHER WORDS, YOU KNOW, WE MAKE OUR DECISION AT THE GET-GO AND ONCE, ONCE THAT MONEY GOES INTO THOSE FUNDS, THE SAME RULES, NO MATTER IF IT, IF WE DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, NO MATTER IF WE GOT THE MONEY FROM ACTUAL HOTEL, YOU KNOW, TAXPAYERS, CITIZENS PAYING INTO IT VERSUS, UH, THE FEDERAL FLOAT ERA AND THAT STUFF TO TWO THINGS, ONE IT'S NOT REQUIRED, BUT THAT'S THE WAY WE WOULD OPERATE.
SO IF IT'S IN THE HOTEL FUND, WE WOULD OPERATE IT AS IT, AS IF WE WOULD FOLLOW THE RULES THAT GENERALLY APPLIED TO THEM.
AND THEN IF THE, LET'S SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, THE 2 MILLION THAT'S IN THE SELF-FUNDED FUND, UH, THAT PRETTY MUCH WILL LIVE IN THAT FUND.
AND WE DON'T SAY, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE.
WHAT ABOUT THE STREETS? SO FOR THE PROJECT FUND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT PRETTY MUCH HAS TO LIVE THERE.
RIGHT? WELL, IT DOESN'T, IT IS WHERE, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, YOU MAKE ONE CLARIFICATION OF THE $2 MILLION FOR THIS THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE THIS YEAR.
$1 MILLION IS GOING TO GO TO THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND AND $1 MILLION IS GOING TO GO TO A HOTEL FUND.
SO THERE'S ONLY GOING TO BE A MILLION DOLLARS IN THAT SELF-FUNDED BUT ONCE IT'S THERE, IT'S A, IT CAN GO WHEREVER WE WANT IT TO.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS WHERE WE DON'T ANTICIPATE RECOVERING THE HOTEL PHONES, ALL OF THEM, ALL OF IT.
AND JUST CLARIFICATION, BUT YOU SUPPOSED TELL TAX IS WHAT IS RESTRICTED.
SO THIS IS NOT BEING HOTEL TAX.
IF WE PUT IT IN THAT FUND, LIKE WESTERN, WE WANT TO USE IT FOR THOSE PURPOSES, BUT WE WOULD NOT BE REQUIRED BY THE LAW TO USE IT AS WE WOULD BE REQUIRED WITH HOTEL TAX.
UH, SO WHEN IT COMES TO DECISION PACKAGES, JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY IS ANYTHING THAT'S, UH, REQUESTED BY DEPARTMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S BUDGET, WE TREAT AS A DECISION PACKAGE.
AND WHEN YOU SEE THESE, YOU'LL SEE A NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT WERE REQUESTED THAT HAD A RECURRING COST NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT WERE REQUESTED THAT WERE ONE-TIME IN NATURE.
AND THEN YOU'LL SEE ALSO IN THE BUDGET THAT THERE'S, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S CALLED PROPOSED OR REQUESTED, I GUESS, AND APPROVED IN THE BUDGET WHERE IT SAYS APPROVED.
THAT'S JUST BY THE CITY MANAGER TO BE IN MY BUDGET.
IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY SAYING THAT THE COUNCIL'S DONE ANYTHING.
IT'S JUST WHAT WAS PRESENTED TO ME BY STAFF.
I APPROVED TO INCLUDE IN THE CITY MANAGER BUDGET.
SO THAT'S, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WAS CLEAR FOR QUINCY.
SO A DECISION PACKAGE SUMMARY, ALL REQUESTS.
SO THESE ARE ITEMS THAT ARE IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, THAT YOU RECEIVED ON FRIDAY.
SO IN THE GENERAL FUND, WITHIN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, THERE WAS A $255,841 OF RECURRING COSTS.
UH, IN THAT DECISION PACKAGE, UM, UH, FOR THE AIRPORT FUND, THERE WAS A, ONE-TIME A $16,000 A DECISION PACKAGE AT THE STORMWATER FUND.
THERE IS 12,000 RECURRING REQUESTS AND A ONE-TIME REQUEST OF $73,000.
IN THE UTILITY PHONE, THERE WERE RECURRING REQUESTED 80,675,000 OR $675.
UH, AND ONE TIME A REQUEST, IF YOU LEARN 45,000, UH, IN THE SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND, THERE WAS A ONE TIME REQUEST OF 678, $515 AND BE STREET SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS.
AND THEN THERE WAS REQUESTS, UH, ON A ONE-TIME BASIS OF $1,980,000 ON THE NEWLY CREATED FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND, A RECURRING REQUEST OF $200,000 AND A ONE TIME REQUEST, UH, $150,000, AND THEN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT DECISION PACKAGES, A ONE TIME REQUEST OF 3 MILLION, 500, $14,713.
SO IN TOTAL, UH, RECURRING TOTAL DECISION PACKAGES, $548,560.
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AND THEN ONE TIME, UM, REQUEST 6 MILLION, $657,228.SO FOR THE GENERAL FUND, UH, WITHIN THE COMBINED SERVICES BUDGET, UH, THERE IS A DECISION PACKAGE FOR ADDITIONAL LEGAL SERVICES.
THAT'S CURRENTLY UNDER, UM, A REQUEST OF THE PROPOSAL.
SO NOT KNOWING WHAT THOSE COSTS ARE, UH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS, UH, PROPOSED, UH, COMBINED SERVICES, ADDITIONAL, UH, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY HOLIDAY.
UH, THE COST OF THAT IS $32,479 WITHIN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
AND THERE IS A NEW, UH, PROPOSED A CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
UH, THE RECURRING COST OF THAT IS $83,508.
THERE IS A PROMOTION TO SENIOR PERMIT TECHNICIAN, ALSO IN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, 3030 $5 IN FINANCE.
THERE IS AN EQUITY ADJUSTMENT FOR THE ACCOUNTING MANAGER AT $5,862.
UH, IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THERE IS A PROPOSAL FOR ADVANCED YOUR CLEANING AND INSPECTION $20,000, AND THEN, UH, ADDITIONAL EMS SUPPLIES AT 15,000, STILL ON THE GENERAL FUND AND HUMAN RESOURCES, EQUITY ADJUSTMENT FOR THE TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER AT $3,824, UH, FOR THE IT DEPARTMENT PROMOTION TO MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT, UH, A RECURRING COST OF $4,083 IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, A TRASH AND PROJECTS CREW.
AND THIS INCLUDES $20,000, UH, FOR CONTRACT LABOR AND THEN A PROMOTION OF, UH, AN EXISTING EMPLOYEE, UH, TO LEAD THAT GROUP IN TOTAL, THAT COST IS $28,532.
AND THEN IN PARKS WE HAVE, UM, AND THIS ONE WILL HAVE SOME, UH, UH, ONE-TIME COST AS WELL, AND WITH SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND, UH, BUT THERE WAS A PROPOSAL FOR, UH, CONVERTING LATE MAALOX, UH, PARK, UH, TO ALLOW FOR PICKLEBALL.
SO THE RECURRING COST OF THAT IS IF YOU A HUNDRED DOLLARS, WE'LL GET TO THE ONE-TIME COSTS IN THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UH, THERE IS A REQUEST, UH, FOR PROMOTION TO MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT AT $2,926.
AND THE RECREATION DEPARTMENT, THERE IS A PROPOSAL TO PROMOTE TO RECREATION MANAGER, UH, $5,092 IN TOTAL, UH, IN THE GENERAL FUND, UM, RECURRING COSTS, UH, $255,841.
UM, AND ONE ADDITIONAL FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE, UH, THE AIRPORT FUND, UH, THIS, UH, THERE IS ONE ONE-TIME REQUEST AND THIS IS, UH, RELATED TO, UH, AN ACCOUNTING STANDARD THAT, UH, WAS PUSHED BACK A YEAR DUE TO COVID.
SO THIS WAS IN THE FISCAL YEAR, 2021 BUDGET.
UH, BUT SINCE THEY PUSHED THAT, UM, THAT BACK, THAT REQUEST IS BEING PUSHED FORWARD TO THIS YEAR, SO THAT WE GET THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION.
THEN THE STORMWATER FUND, THERE IS A DECISION PACKAGE TO CORRECT SOME, UH, EROSION ISSUES THAT CONTRIBUTED PARK, UM, RECURRING COST OF $12,000 ON A ONE-TIME COST OF $73,000.
AND THEN THE UTILITY FUND, THERE IS A RECURRING COST FOR UTILITY BILLING, UH, THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC.
WE'VE HAD ADDITIONAL CUSTOMERS PAYING THEIR UTILITY PAYMENTS WITH CREDIT CARDS.
SO THIS RECURRING AMOUNT WOULD COVER THOSE ADDITIONAL FEES THAT WE'RE SAYING.
UM, AND THEN A ONE TIME COST, UH, FOR, UH, CELESTIAL COMPENSATION, UH, LANDSCAPING AND OFFICE SPACE IMPROVEMENTS.
UH, THIS IS FOR THE LANDSCAPING PORTION OF THAT $65,000.
THEN WE HAVE A UNFUNDED UNFUNDED MANDATE FROM THE STATE, UH, THAT REQUIRES, UM, THE TOWN TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN, UM, RELATED TO ELECTRICAL ISSUES WHO ARE UTILITIES, AND THAT HAS A ONE-TIME COST OF $30,000.
AND THEN WE HAVE A UTILITY REPAIR ID IQ CONTRACT, A ONE-TIME THOUGHTS, $150,000, AND THEN A RECURRING FIRE HYDRANT PAINTING CONTRACT FOR $35,000.
SO IN TOTAL FOR THE UTILITY FUND, RECURRING PROPOSALS OF $80,675, AND THEN ONE TIME, UH, 245,000.
CAN WE TALK, SHOULD WE GO BACK ON THAT SLIDE? AND, UH, CAN WE ADD SOME COLOR TO THE CREDIT CARD FEEDS COVERAGE FOR UTILITY BILLING? IT JUST SEEMS HIGH.
AND BASICALLY WE, I THINK WE'VE HAD A BUDGET RIDER ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, VERY EXCEEDED THAT TO MISS THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
AND IT'S REALLY BECAUSE WE USED TO HAVE MORE PEOPLE THAT WOULD PAY BY CHECK OR SOME OTHER METHODS, BUT SINCE, SINCE
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REALLY WE'VE BEEN MORE VIRTUAL THAT WE HAVE A LOT MORE CUSTOMERS PAYING BY CREDIT CARD.IT'S JUST THE VOLUME ISSUE IS THE FEES HAVEN'T CHANGED.
IT'S JUST THE AMOUNT OF WHICH AT WHICH IT'S BEING USED RENEGOTIATED BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME INCREASE WE ARE WORKING ON THAT UNDER OUR CURRENT CONTRACT, THIS WOULD BE SO WHY IT, SO WE HAD BUDGETED, YOU SAID ABOUT A HUNDRED UNITS GONE UP.
AND HOW MANY, HOW MANY UTILITY DO WE HAVE AN IDEA? HOW MANY UTILITY CUSTOMERS WE HAVE? YES, WE DON'T HAVE IT OFF THE TOP OF OUR HEAD, BUT WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY UTILITY TESTAMENTS HAVE MORE THAN 2000.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT.
WE HAVE IRRIGATION METERS AS WELL, SO WE HAVE A BUSINESS AND THEN OUT IN FRONT THEY HAVE IRRIGATION.
UM, I BELIEVE WE HAVE AROUND 3,600 METERS, THAT'S ABOUT $150,000 CREDIT CARD.
IF WE COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WOULD ENTICE HIM TO PAY A DIFFERENT WAY.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO GET CREATIVE TOO, IS THERE'S OTHER WAYS TO GET CREATIVE.
WELL, THE OTHER THING TOO, IS YOU CAN CHARGE YOUR CUSTOMERS FOR THIS FEE, RIGHT.
WE'VE INCLUDED IT IN OUR UTILITY RATES.
AND SO PART OF IT, I MEAN THAT A HUNDRED, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IS ALREADY BAKED INTO WHAT PEOPLE PAY ON THEIR WATER AND SEWER BILLS.
AND SO I HAVE JUST PAID FOR MY LICENSE PLATES.
NO, YOU CAN, YOU CAN PAY ONE AMOUNT IF YOU WANT TO PAY VIA CREDIT CARD.
I THINK IT'S A LITTLE, LIKE A DOUBLE UP IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE, IT'S INTERESTING.
I TEND TO LEAN TOWARDS, HEY AND SAVE A LITTLE AND NOT USE CREDIT.
SO IT WAS, UM, HOW RECALL LAST YEAR WE HAD A DISCUSSION ON THE IVR QUEUE AND SOME PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO STAFF AND IN LIEU OF ADDING STAFF WHERE YOU'RE IN AN ADDITIONAL NINE YET IS THAT SAME, SAME CONCEPT.
SO, UH, BECAUSE I HAVE, UH, HAVE YOU MENTIONED THAT YOUR COMPETENCE ABOUT DOING WORK AND SO I THINK THAT'S MONEY WELL SPENT.
UM, I'M A BIG BELIEVER IN VERY NORMAL THINGS.
THE ADA SIDEWALK, COMPUTERS, ALL THE THINGS THAT COMPENSATED HERE IS THAT BUDGET.
UH, SO-SO THE ONE-TIME KATE, CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THAT? AND THEN, UM, THE BIGGER, THE FIGURE WAS IT REQUIRED TO USE THE ELEVATOR FIGURE AGAIN THIS YEAR, BECAUSE AS OPPOSED TO EVEN, WE DIDN'T WANT TO ADD STAFF BECAUSE THAT MAKE SENSE TO THE INTERESTING QUESTION.
I DON'T KNOW IF I UNDERSTAND PERFECTLY WHAT YOU JUST, THE LAST PART OF WHAT YOU SAID, BUT, UM, SO YOU'RE ASKING, THIS IS WHY $150,000 ESSENTIALLY.
UH, WE BELIEVE THAT IS JANET, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WE BELIEVE THAT'S THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE CAN BUDGET RIGHT NOW, GIVEN THE CAPACITY FOR THE WORK THAT WE CAN MANAGE STAFF WORK.
CAUSE THERE'S, YOU GOT TO MANAGE THE CONTRACTS, ET CETERA.
SO, SO, SO IT'S A COMBINATION OF THAT.
AND IT'S ALSO A COMBINATION OF JUST, YOU KNOW, THE, THE COST OF, OF THE, THE WORK, THE IDEA WORK ITSELF.
SO RIGHT NOW THEY'RE BUSY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WOULD, THAT PRICE, PRICE INCREASE.
SO THE OTHER THING THAT WE HAVE HERE, THAT'S GOING, THEY HAVEN'T SEEN YET THAT THAT'S IN THE BUDGET, BUT THAT WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT YET.
IS THAT JUST FOR EXAMPLE, IN STREET MAINTENANCE, I THINK WE'RE AT 1.6, NO CBD $1.9 MILLION IN STREET MAINTENANCE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING.
SO JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE A SMALL NUMBER IN THIS LINE ITEM DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE DOING A LOT OF OTHER STUFF AS WELL.
AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IT GOOD.
FOR EXAMPLE, SHANNON COMES TO ME MID YEAR AND SAYS, I NEED, I CAN DO MORE WORK.
THEN WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AND COME BACK AND SAY, HEY, DO YOU WANT TO DO ANOTHER A HUNDRED THOUSAND $200,300,000, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO RUN FASTER THAN WE'RE EIGHT.
DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?
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OKAY.SO A SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND, OR THESE ARE ALL AT ONE TIME REQUEST.
SO WITHIN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, THERE WERE SPECIAL SERVICES CONSULTANTS, A ONE TIME $25,000, A DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, LONG RANGE PLANNING SERVICES, $140,000, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
THERE IS THE BUSINESS VEHICLE FOR THE PROPOSED CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER THAT IS RECURRENT POSSIBLE WITHIN THE GENERAL FUND.
THAT IS $38,000 FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
THERE IS A BAIL OUT SYSTEM, UH, $27,000 IN THE GENERAL SERVICES.
UH, THERE IS A FACILITY STUDY PHASE 2, 120 $5,000, UH, HUMAN RESOURCES UPDATING THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK, A $12,000, ADDITIONALLY HUMAN RESOURCES, UH, UPDATING, UH, AND HAVING A REVIEW OF THE TOWN'S DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN, UH TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
STEVEN, WHEN YOU DID SAY WITH THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER EQUIPMENT, THAT IS A VEHICLE, RIGHT.
AND THEN A BETTER QUESTION FOR WEST ON THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, LONG RANGE PLANNING SERVICES, 140,000 TO THAT, LIKE, UH, MAYBE A ZONING, UH, ELIGIBLE LOCAL, OUR AREA OF STUDY.
AND THEN, UM, STILL ON THE CELL PHONE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND.
THAT'S ACTUALLY, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A SPECIAL AREAS STUDY THIS COMING YEAR.
WE'RE GOING TO START THE COMP PLAN UPDATE AND THAT'LL PROBABLY FALL OVER TWO BUDGET YEARS.
SO WE'LL START AT, THIS IS THE FIRST PART, THE WAY THAT WE DID UDC AND ALL THE OTHER BIG TICKET ITEMS AND YOU'LL FALL OVER TO BUDGET YEARS.
NO, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, SORRY.
ALL OF OUR PLANNING IS, IS TIED TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO YOU CAN GO LOOK AT THE CONFERENCE OF PLAN AND LOOK AT ALL THE PAROTID STUDIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
FOR VARIOUS PARTS OF TOWN, WE'RE GOING TO UPDATE OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A MULTI-YEAR EFFORT, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TRAUNCH OF MONEY FOR THAT.
BUT TYPICALLY IT'S THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE WOULD USE THIS.
AND THAT'S WHY I ANSWERED THE WAY I DID IS WE WOULD TYPICALLY HAVE A BUDGET ABOUT THAT MUCH MONEY FOR AN AREA OF STUDY ASHLEY.
ASHLEY MITCHELL, THE CITY MANAGER JUST SPOKEN AND SHARED THAT INFORMATION WITH US.
AND A SALE ON THE SELF FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS DONE, UM, THE ONE-TIME COST FOR THE TRASH AND PROJECTS THROUGH, UH, THAT THAT WAS MENTIONED WITH THE GENERAL FUND.
THIS IS WHERE THEIR VEHICLE AND EQUIPMENT TO BEGIN THAT CREW, UM, A MAALOX PARK CONVERSION.
THIS IS THE ONE-TIME COST ASSOCIATED, UH, OF $116,000, UM, TO ALLOW FOR PICKLEBALL PLAY WORK.
UM, AND THEN THERE IS A TRUE MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION, UH, $66,000 AND THEN COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RELATED TO FORENSICS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AT A ONE-TIME COST OF $25,000.
SO IN TOTAL, A ONE-TIME COSTS FROM THE SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND $678,515.
AND THEN OUR STREETS SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND.
AND THIS IS WHAT WES WAS ALLUDING TO AS FAR AS STREET MAINTENANCE.
SO WE HAVE A MAJOR MAINTENANCE AT BELTLINE AND ADDISON ROAD, A $1,380,000 IS WHAT IS PROPOSED FOR THAT.
AND THEN THERE'S ONE TIME STREET, MAINTENANCE, MAINTENANCE, AND REPAIRS, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL RESIDENTIAL STREETS AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, UH, TOTALLY $600,000.
AND SO IN TOTAL, THOSE ONE TIME COSTS, UH, $1,980,000 FROM THAT STREET SETTLEMENT AND THIS IS THE, UH, PROPOSED NEWLY CREATED, UH, FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND, UH, UH, WHICH IS GOING TO BE MANAGED BY GENERAL SERVICES, UH, EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE, UM, UH, RECURRING AMOUNT OF $200,000.
AND THEN ADA COMPLIANCE, UH, $15,500.
AND THEN THERE ARE PLANNED FACILITIES, MAINTENANCE PROJECTS, $134,500.
SO 200,000 RECURRING AND $150,000 ONE TIME.
AND THEN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM, UH, DECISION PACKAGES, UM, UH, VITRUVIAN PART PHASE NINE, BLOCK 7 0 1.
THIS IS A WATER AND SEWER DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE STREETSCAPE, UH, ALONG, UH, THAT BLOCK,
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UH, ATTRIBUTED PARK, WHICH HAS COUNTDOWNS, UH, TOTAL COSTS, UH, $1,034,713.THE TOWN HAS EXISTING PYLON PROCEEDS ON AGAIN, AFTER THIS PROJECT, UH, PUBLIC WORKS, UH, ALSO THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND ADA IMPROVEMENTS.
THESE ARE IMPROVEMENTS TO, UH, PRE INTERSECTIONS, OR THIS IS PROPOSED FROM THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND AT $1,000,001.5 MILLION, AND THEN SURVEY YOUR PUMP STATION AND ELECTRICAL UPGRADES.
UH, THIS WOULD BE, UH, IT'S PUBLIC WORKS, BUT ELITE UTILITY FUND AT $980,000.
AND THE TOWN HAS EXISTING BOND PROCEEDS ON THAT CAPITAL PROJECT.
SO TOTAL FOR ALL FUNDS, I WAS EARNING, UM, COST OF $548,516.
ONE-TIME COST ARE PROPOSED PRIMARILY FOR, FOR THE, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, UH, AT SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND SIX MILLION SIX HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT DOLLARS.
WHEN YOU SAY A LOT OF NUMBERS OVER AND OVER, YOU'RE ALL RUNNING TOGETHER.
UH, AND THEN ONE PROPOSED, UH, FULL-TIME EMPLOYED, UH, BEING ADDED.
AND THAT WAS EQUALLY ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, DECISION PACKAGES? YEAH, ONE, I THINK I JUST MISSED IT WHEN YOU WERE HOLDING THROUGH THE SLIDES ON, UM, THE BELTLINE AND ADDISON ROAD MAINTENANCE.
COULD WE TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT? UM, WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE COUNSEL SHANNON HICKS, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING SERVICES.
UH, THE MONEY YOU SEE, UH, FOR THE MAJOR REPAIRS ON BELTLINE AND ADDISON ROAD IS TO DO SOME POINT STRUCTURAL REPAIRS THROUGHOUT THE ROAD.
IF YOU'VE DRIVEN DOWN ADDISON ROAD LATELY, YOU'LL KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
THERE'S SOME CERTAIN AREAS THAT NEED TO BE REPAIRED, AND WE'RE HAVING SOME AREAS WHERE WE'LL JUST ROLL ON BELTLINE ROAD.
SO WE'LL NEED TO GO FULL DEPTH REPAIRS, SMEARS.
YOU HAVE A FEEL FOR THE SPLIT OF THE COST BETWEEN THE TWO ROADS.
IT'S ABOUT TWO THIRDS ADDISON ROAD, ONE THIRD BELTLINE.
MY QUESTION IS ABOUT CAPITAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT ITEM NUMBER FOR THEIR WATER HEATER MOTORIZATION PROJECT.
CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DISADVANTAGE OF NOT BEING ABLE TO NOT BE ABLE TO START THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT? I APOLOGIZE, BUT I COULDN'T HEAR THE FIRST PART.
SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A WATER METER.
I'M LOOKING AT SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT APPROVED.
AND MY QUESTION IS SPECIFICALLY, CAN YOU TELL US WHAT WE'RE GIVING UP BY NOT PROVING SOME MONEY? WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT ARE CAUSED BY THAT? NOT TO THE BUDGET ITSELF, BUT JUST RIGHT NOW, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
WE LOOKED AT THIS SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT THEN IS, DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO INVEST THE MONEY OR WHAT, OR, OR IS WHAT WE'RE DOING? UM, JUST, I WOULDN'T SAY, JUST AS COST-EFFECTIVE IS IT IS, IT IS JUST AS COST EFFECTIVE, RIGHT? AND AS I REMEMBER THE CONVERSATION THAT THE COST EFFECTIVENESS WAS STILL, WE WERE STILL BEING COST-EFFECTIVE WITH, WITH THAT.
NOW IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO, UH, HAVE, UH, SOME TECHNOLOGY THAT DOES, UH, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT IS PROPOSED FOR THE WATER HEATER REPLACEMENT, UH, PROGRAM.
BUT AT THIS TIME WE DON'T BELIEVE, I DON'T BELIEVE, AND THAT'S MY I'M NOT PROPOSING THAT THE, UM, THE VALUE THAT WE WOULD GAIN IS WORTH THE INVESTMENT THAT WOULD BE MADE.
I THINK, I THINK, I THINK WE'RE, I THINK IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE THAN, THAN THE VALUE 200, 2 MILLION, 2.4, 5 BILLION.
AND I, I I'M SURE, UH, THERE ARE FOLKS ON MY STAFF THAT DISAGREE WITH ME, BUT THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY THAT IS A LOT OF FUN.
SO I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION AGAIN, ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WAS REQUESTED, BUT NOT NECESSARILY APPROVED, UH, THIS WOULD BE A POLICE THREE GUIDANCE, COMMENT, TALK, ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICE SPACE FOR RECORDS, CLERK, AND FORENSICS BY THE SORT OF THAT LAST PART I NEEDED THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THAT PICKED UP TOP SQUARE FOR FORENSICS.
THEY'RE THE FORENSICS I THINK, UH, ARE TAKEN CARE OF.
SO THE ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICE SPACE, WHAT WAS THE
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ASK THERE? IT WAS FOR SPACE SPECIFICALLY FOR OUR ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS.AGAIN, THAT WAS A PRETTY HEFTY PRICE TAG FOR THAT.
UM, WE'RE TRYING TO FIND OTHER OPTIONS THAT ARE LESS EXPENSIVE AT THIS TIME.
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE WAS THE RECORDS.
SO, UH, IN, IN RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE, WE HAVE THE PEOPLE NECESSARY TO DO THE WORK.
WHAT WE WOULD, WHAT POLICE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS THEY WOULD LIKE TO REALLOCATE A SUPERVISOR.
UH, THEY, THEY WOULD LIKE TO FREE UP THE PLAINTIFF'S SUPERVISOR IN ORDER TO ALLOW THEM TO DO, UH, MORE SUPERVISING AND LESS RECORDS WORK.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHETHER OR NOT THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL.
AND AS THEN JUST, UH, AUTOMATICALLY, UH, ADDING IT ANOTHER BODY.
AND THEN, UH, ONE ON FIRE, I HAVE NUMBER ONE.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US WHERE THE EMERGENCY MANAGER POSITION DAVID IS? UH, DAVID IS OUR EMERGENCY MANAGER, DAVID JONES, AND HE'S DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB AND I DON'T BLAME HIM AND HE WANTS TO DO OTHER THINGS.
AND SO, UH, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS AGAIN, FIND THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT.
GIVEN THE RESOURCES WE HAVE AND THE RESOURCES, IF YOU WANT TO EXPAND THE, THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD THAT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T WANT TO BE UNPREPARED, BUT IT'S REALLY EASY FOR PEOPLE TO GET OVERWHELMED BY ALL THAT THEY'RE POSSIBLY USED TO PAIN CAN BE DONE IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
SO I THINK SOMETIMES, AND THIS IS NOT A KNOCK ON ANYBODY IN OUR, IN OUR ORGANIZATION BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB.
UM, BUT SOMETIMES, UH, SCOPE CREEP IS SCOPE CREEP IS NOT UNCOMMON IN THE WORLD OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIND A BETTER WAY TO, TO, TO DO THAT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE DID IT.
I UNDERSTAND ABOUT SCOPE CREEP.
LIKE DID HE CAN REALLY EASILY, UM, GO FROM TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THIS, UM, THIS IS A SILLY EXAMPLE THAT I'M MAKING, RIGHT? YOU CAN, YOU COULD GO REALLY, REALLY GO FROM, UH, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, NO DUCKS FALL INTO A TWO-WAY STORM DREAM TO LIKE ENGINEERING SOME, UH, MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SYSTEM TO, UH, ENSURE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, DUCKS ARE NEVER IS AS A SILLY EXAMPLE, IT'S JUST POINTLESS.
BUT THE POINT IS IS THAT YOU CAN EAT VERY EASILY, UH, YOU KNOW, START DOING MORE THAN, THAN IS NECESSARY TO GET A JOB.
SO THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING THAT, IS THERE SOME WAY TO KEEP A SCOPE CREEP FROM HAPPENING? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE EVALUATED FOR THE NEXT WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP? YES.
THAT'S, THAT'S PART OF THE CONVERSATION THAT I COMMUNICATED TO STAFF THAT I'D LIKE US TO HAVE.
THEN ONE OTHER ITEM HERE THAT CAUGHT MY EYE IS UNDER RECREATION, HAVE NUMBER ONE COURT BUILDING UPDATES.
SO YOU'LL RECALL THAT IN THE 2020 BUDGET, WE HAD 450,000 OR SO, UH, BUDGETED.
AND BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, WE PRESSED PAUSE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
UH, WE'RE CLOSE TO BEING DONE, UH, WITH THE DESIGN FOR THE, UM, BLOCK ROOM IMPROVEMENTS, ET CETERA.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS AS A PART OF THE BIDDING PROCESS, UH, WE'RE GOING TO BID AS ALTERNATIVE ITEMS. SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THAT WOULD HAVE INCLUDED THOSE CORE IMPROVEMENTS.
AND IF WE CAN GET THOSE INCLUDED AS PART OF THE, UH, THE BOG ROOM IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE ALREADY FUNDED, UH, ANOTHER WAY, THEN WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THAT.
AND IF THERE'S, FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY HALF OF IT'S, UH, FUNDED AND WE NEED ANOTHER ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF MONEY THEN.
LET'S COME BACK AND HAVE A CONVERSATION.
OR, YOU KNOW, FROM A TIMING STANDPOINT, LET'S FIND OUT WHEN THE BEST TIME TO DO THAT IS SO IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE NOT SAYING NO, WE'RE TRYING TO FIND A DIFFERENT WAY TO DO IT AND ACCOMPLISH IT.
IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL, THEN GREAT.
IF NOT, THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND HAVE ANOTHER CONFERENCE.
SO ON THAT CONTINUUM WITH THE SAME QUESTIONING ON THIS CORE BUILDER UPDATE, I'M SURE THOSE ARE BEING TERRIFIC ASKS ARE BEING DRIVEN BY THE ASSET MANAGEMENT, UH, EVALUATION.
THOSE ARE ACTUALLY MORE DRIVEN BY A PREVIOUS, UH, MASTER PLAN RELATED TO THE, UH, THE ATHLETIC CLUB.
SO, I MEAN, THERE ARE, THEY ARE THINGS THAT, THAT WE NEED TO DO TO TAKE CARE OF OUR ASSETS, BUT THOSE, THOSE WERE REALLY THE, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE BIRTH PLACE OF THOSE IDEAS WERE REALLY COMING BACK FROM THE DISCUSSIONS
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THAT THE COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY HAD ABOUT UPDATING, UH, THE ATHLETIC CLUB.AND IF YOU RECALL, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WE DID, UH, WE DECIDED, OKAY, WE'VE GOT EXITED X AMOUNT OF MONEY.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE AMOUNT OF MONEY, X AMOUNT OF MONEY, WHERE, WHAT ARE THE PRIORITIES TO GET THESE DOWN? WHEN WE DID ELEVATOR, WE DID, YOU KNOW, AC UH, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS AND GOT THOSE KNOCKED OUT.
AND THE REMAINDER, A LOT OF THE, THESE CORE IMPROVEMENTS WERE, WERE THINGS THAT WEREN'T FUNDED THEN, BUT WE STILL WANTED TO DO.
AND SO THEY HAVEN'T GONE OFF OUR RADAR.
WE JUST WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN GET THEM INCLUDED IN OTHER PLANS.
I'M JUST, I WOULD JUST WANT TO JUST PROBE TO SEE IF IN FACT THERE WERE SOME RED THAT WE HAD AT ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THERE, NOT NECESSARILY, I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.
THAT WAS ACTUALLY A QUESTION I WAS GOING TO ASK LAST.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT, UM, ESPECIALLY THIS BUDGET YEAR, HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO REFERENCE THE DATA FROM THE ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR JUICES AND INFORMING DECISIONS OBVIOUSLY THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO THAT AND HAS THAT HELPED YOU, DO YOU HAVE ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED? YES.
I'M LOOKING BACK AT MY PEOPLE ABOUT LOOKING AT THIS DATABASE.
I MEAN, AND IN FACT, I THINK IT'S TIME FOR US TO BRING FORWARD, UH, THAT DATABASE THAT IS KIND OF SHOW PEOPLE WHAT, WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY GROWING INTO, BECAUSE WHAT YOU, WHAT YOU SAW LAST SAW ABOUT IT WAS PRETTY COOL, BUT IT'S EVEN COOLER NOW.
SO THAT, AND, AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT, UH, THAT WE'VE KIND OF DRIVEN THE DEVELOPER TO DO BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO, UH, SO YEAH, WE ARE NOW, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT DOING IT.
I MEAN, THERE'S A BIG LIST OF STUFF, SO WE'RE NOT ABLE TO DO IT ALL, BUT WE ARE A PRIORITY AND USING THAT TO, TO MAKE OUR PRIORITIES.
WELL, THAT WAS KIND OF, SO I WAS KIND OF WONDERING, IS, ARE THERE OTHER TOOLS AVAILABLE BESIDES WHAT YOU'RE DRIVING TO DEVELOP, WHICH IS GREAT, THAT THAT'S HAPPENING.
THAT WOULD BE AD-ONS FOR THAT, OR, YEAH, WE ACTUALLY ARE DOING SOME REALLY COOL THINGS.
UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE USING APPLICATIONS LIKE SMARTSHEET TO KIND OF INTEGRATE WITH THE ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S BASICALLY A SPREADSHEET THAT WE USE TO, UH, THAT INTEGRATES WITH, WITH A LOT OF THE DATA THAT, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO USE THERE.
AND THEN EVERYBODY AT ANY COMPUTER CAN LOOK AT IT AND SEE, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, A GANTT CHART TO SEE THE STATUS OF A PROJECT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE DOING THAT AT.
NO, WE'RE, WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE INTEGRATING IT INTO OUR BUDGET AND, UH, FINANCIAL PLANNING STUFF.
SO EVERYTHING'S WORKING TO A POINT WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO HELP US MAKE NOT ONLY GOOD DECISIONS, BUT THEN KEEP TRACK OF STUFF.
THEN, I MEAN, I HADN'T EVEN MENTIONED THIS TO THE CMMS, THE WHAT'S, THE ACRONYM, COMPUTER MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED.
SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE, ARE WORK.
WE'RE TRYING TO WORK TOGETHER OR HAVE ANY WRITTEN WORK TOGETHER SO THAT WE'RE USING AND HAVE WE HAVE, AND USE THE TOOLS THAT WE NEED TO BE REALLY EFFECTIVE IN THIS.
LET ME JUST SAY OUR ART, WE'VE GOT SMART PEOPLE DOING AWESOME WORK WITH, WITH COOL STUFF.
SO MOVING ON TO STAFFING SUMMARY.
SO THIS IS A VIEW OF THE LAST FIVE LAST FOUR FISCAL YEARS, AND ALSO A VIEW WITH THE 2022 BUDGET.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE GENERAL FUND, YOU'RE LOOKING AT A 20 21, 232 0.8 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES, AND YOU LOOK AT 2022 AND YOU SEE 2 31 0.2, IS THERE, CAN YOU REMEMBER BACK IN 2021, WE STARTED ALLOCATING SOME PERSONNEL, UH, RELATED, UH, UH ADMINISTRATION-WISE TO OUR OTHER FUNDS, SUCH AS THE AIRPORT UTILITY FUND, AND THEY PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TO THOSE BUTTONS.
SO THIS CONTINUES THAT, UM, UH, ALLOCATING, UM, SOME EMPLOYEES TO THE AIRPORT FUND 0.8 EMPLOYEES TO THE AIRPORT AIRPORT FUND, AND ALSO TO 0.8 ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES TO THE UTILITY FUND.
SO IN TOTAL, THAT BRINGS US TO OVER THE LAST TWO FISCAL YEARS, UH, TWO ADMINISTRATIVE LEVEL EMPLOYEES, UH, FULL-TIME EQUIVALENTS BEING ALLOCATED TO THE AIRPORT AND UTILITY FUNDS.
IN ADDITION TO THIS FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET, UH, THERE IS ONE, UH, FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT, UH, WHICH IS RELATED TO OUR OLD TRASH PICKUP CREW, WHICH IS REALLY A STORMWATER, UH, FUNCTION.
UM, SO THAT FTE BEING ALLOCATED, UH, ONE FTE FROM THE STREETS DEPARTMENT TO THE STORM WATER
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FUND.UH, AND THEN THE ADDITION OF ONE FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PER ACRE POST CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IS WHAT BRINGS US TO THAT 2 31 0.2 QUICK, IF YOU COULD GO BACK, UM, JUST A REMINDER THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT INCREASE FROM 20 TO 21 FISCAL YEAR 20, 20 TO 2021 WAS THE INSOURCING OF THE AIRPORT EMPLOYEES.
AND THEY WERE ALWAYS WORKING FOR US.
WE WERE JUST PAYING FOR THEM DIFFERENTLY.
THEY WERE CONTRACT LABORERS, UH, AND BY BRINGING THEM IN, WE REALIZED, UH, SOME PRETTY NICE EFFICIENCIES AND SOME COST SAVINGS AS WELL, JUST TO RECORD.
AND THEN THIS IS JUST A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF THAT SAME DATA, UH, EXTENDED, UH, BACK ABOUT 10 YEARS.
UH, SO AS CAN SEE, AS WES MENTIONED, THAT THAT INCREASED FROM 2020 TO 21, UH, THAT'S RELATED TO AIRPORT EMPLOYEES COMING ON.
AND THE TOTAL FROM 21 TO 22 IS RELATED TO THE ONE FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT.
UH, THIS IS VERY MUCH DETAIL ABOUT ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS AND ALL THE CHANGES RELATED TO THE DEPARTMENTS, UH, ON THIS.
UH, BUT IN TOTAL, THE TOTAL WAS 300.81.
I HAVE TO INCREASE ANY OVERALL QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE INTO THE GENERAL.
SO OUR GENERAL FUND OVERVIEW, UH, THE OUTSIDE RING THERE IS WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM AND THE INSIDE RE UH, WHERE IT GOES.
SO, UH, APPROXIMATELY, UH, JUST UNDER 50% OF THE REVENUE COMES FROM PROPERTY TAX AT $20 MILLION SALES TAX, UH, IS $13.7 MILLION.
AND THAT'S GOING BACK TO, UH, OTHER TAXES, WHICH ARE RELATED TO MIXED BEVERAGE TAXES AT $1.2 MILLION.
THOSE ARE GOING BACK TO PREPAYMENT.
FRANCHISE FEES ARE $2.1 MILLION.
AND THEN THE REMAINING REVENUE SOURCES ARE RELATED TO LICENSING, PERMITS, FINES, AND PENALTIES.
WHEN WE HAVE A SLOT WHERE THE MONEY GOES TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, AT $12.1 MILLION.
NOW THAT 12.1 POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE NORTH FACE CENTER, THEN WE HAVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AT $9.1 MILLION, OR WE HAVE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS HUMAN RESOURCES, FINANCE, IT GENERAL SERVICES, THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, ALL OF THOSE, ALL OF THOSE $9.3 MILLION AND THE PARKS AND RECREATION, $6.3 MILLION, 2.1 AND DEVELOPMENT.
SO OVERALL, THIS IS A VIEW OF THE FISCAL YEAR, 2021 BUDGET, UH, THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2022 PROPOSED BUDGET.
SO OUR TOTAL REVENUE IS PROJECTED TO INCREASE $1.5 MILLION, UH, TAXES.
UH, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE APPROXIMATELY 6 MILLION IN SALES TAXES, UH, PROJECTED TO GO UP RIGHT AT ABOUT $700,000.
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES INCREASE AT $1.4 MILLION, AND THEN REVENUE TO EXPENSE ARE BASICALLY FLAT.
THE CURRENT, THIS HERE'S ANOTHER GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE SOURCES THAT YOU CAN SEE ADD THE LOAN TAXES, SLIGHT UPTAKE EACH YEAR SALES TAX.
YOU CAN SEE THAT EVEN, EVEN THROUGH PANDEMIC, OUR FISCAL YEAR 2020 ACTUAL THAT WAS COLLECTED IS BELOW WHAT'S BEING BUDGETED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
SO STILL A VERY CONSERVATIVE BUDGETING APPROACH ON SALES TAX MAKES BEVERAGE TAXES.
UM, WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW IS, UH, WE'RE, I THINK THE LAST RECEIPT THAT WE HAD WAS ABOUT $123,000 FOR ONE MONTH, UM, ANNUALIZED THAT COMES TO ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, UH, WE'RE BUDGETING $1.2 MILLION.
THEN YOU HAVE OUR FRANCHISE FEES, LICENSING PERMITS, AND THEN OUR SERVICE FEES, AND THEN OUR OTHER FINES AND PENALTIES RENTAL INCOME INTEREST IN OTHER NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, IDIOT.
HERE'S THIS JUST A, IN A LIST FORMAT.
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TO GO FOR 19.4 20 MILLION, A 3.6% INCREASE NON-PROPERTY TAXES, UH, 13.9 TO 14.9.UH, THAT IS A, UH, JUST OVER 7% INCREASE, UH, FRANCHISE FEES, UH, A SLIGHT DECREASED ABOUT 8.7%, UH, LICENSES AND PERMITS AND SERVICE FEES ARE PROJECTED.
THE STATE FLAP, UH, FINES OR PENALTIES, UM, ARE EXPECTED TO BE INCREASED ABOUT 33%, BUT IT'S ONLY, UH, IT'S A SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT.
UH, AND THEN RENTAL INCOME IS VERY SMALL AND THEN INTEREST AND OTHER INCOME, UM, A LARGE PERCENTAGE INCREASE, BUT, UH, THE DOLLAR AMOUNT IS IT'S NOT.
SO IN TOTAL OPERATING REVENUE INCREASING BY ABOUT $1.5 MILLION OR 3.6%.
AND STEVEN, ON THAT SLICE ON THE NON-PROPERTY TAXES IS THAT ALL CIVIL TAXES OR SALES TAX AND SOME OTHER BAD NEWS SALES TAX INMATES, BEVERAGE TAX, AND THEY'RE STOKED.
AND ALL OF THE SALES TAX REPORT IS THAT JUST SHOWING OUR, OUR HALF THAT WE GET NOT, NOT DARK THAT'S CORRECT.
AND THEN HERE'S A TEN-YEAR SALES ACCESSORY.
SO, UM, OVERALL IT'S, IT'S FAIRLY LINEAR.
THERE ARE A COUPLE OF LARGE AUDIT PAYMENTS THAT ARE THE VERY LARGE SPIKES THERE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT, UM, OVER THE COURSE OF TIME, IT'S BEEN ACTUALLY VERY CONSISTENT, UH, WHICH IS REALLY, UM, DUE TO THE DIVERSE, THE SALES TAX SPACE, THE TALENT ACT.
SO IT'S NOT REALLY BASED IN ONE THING.
AND WHEN YOU SEE OUR QUARTERLY REPORT, YOU SEE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THAT SALES TAX.
UH, AND THAT'S WHY IT IS SO STABLE FOR A LONG TIME.
WHAT ARE THOSE TWO SPIKES ATTRIBUTING TO THOSE ARE, UM, IN 2017 AND THEN 2018, THERE WERE LARGE AUDIT PAYMENTS THAT WERE REALLOCATED FROM, UH, BY THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE TO ADDISON.
SO THAT'S WHY THERE WERE TWO VERY LARGE SPIKES.
WE GOT THOSE LUMP SUMS AT TWO MONTHS AND CAN SOMEBODY SHARE HOW, HOW WE CAN AFFECT IT OR NOT WITH, UH, THEN WE HAVE SOME CHANGE IN ONLINE SALES TAX SO THAT WE ACTUALLY GET A LINE ITEM ON OUR SALES STACKS, UH, THAT WE RECEIVED MONTHLY.
AND THAT HAS FLUCTUATED THAT WE'VE GOTTEN, UH, I THINK AS LOW AS $4,000 IN A MONTH FROM THAT AS HIGH AS I THINK OF ABOUT $15,000 A MONTH FROM THAT SELL STAMPS REALLY HAS AN IMPACT.
I THINK PART OF THAT IS, UH, WE, WE THINK THAT THERE WAS, THERE WAS PROBABLY ONE, UM, TAXPAYER THAT PROBABLY COULD, UM, WE WOULD REALLY SEE AND FEEL THE, THAT, THAT CHANGE IN THE RULE OF THE SALES TAX ALLOCATION RULE.
UM, BUT, UM, THEY ARE A, UH, AN OIL AND GAS, UH, ENTITY.
AND AT THE TIME OF, UH, THIS ALL HAPPENING, THE OIL AND GAS MARKET WAS, WAS IN THE PITS, RIGHT? SO WE DIDN'T SEE A HUGE DECREASE BECAUSE OF THAT.
SO IF, AS IT COMES BACK, WE MAY NOT SEE A LARGE INCREASE, BUT IT WAS, WE DIDN'T EXPERIENCE A LARGE DECREASE BECAUSE OF THAT SALES TAX, UH, RULE, UH, CHANGE, UH, JUST THAT WHY THAT SALES TAX RULE CHANGE, UM, BY THE COMPTROLLER, THAT'S BASICALLY SAYING EVERYTHING HAS TO BE DETERMINED.
SALES TAX HAS TO BE ALLOCATED BASED ON THE DESTINATION OF THE PRODUCT THAT'S BOUGHT IS LEGISLATION WAS, DID NOT PASS THIS LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, UH, TO, UM, TO, TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT NOW, UH, WHICH IS NOT A BAD THING.
UM, NOW, UM, THE CITIES THAT ARE, I THINK, MOST IMPACTED BY THIS, UH, THIS RULE BY THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF SUING THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE TO GET THAT LITTLE CHANGE.
UH, THE BIG, THE LEADERS OF THAT, UH, THAT, THAT LAWSUIT ARE THE CITY AROUND DRUNK DOWN IN AUSTIN OVERSEAS.
AND HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE AND THE CITY? SO THOSE ARE BOTH, UH, UH, LEADERS OF THAT MOSQUE THERE.
UH, ONE OTHER THING, UH, AS STEPHEN MENTIONED THAT WE'VE GOT THOSE EXPIREDS, WE HAVE HAD AN EXPERIENCE WHERE WE HAD TO PAY BACK, YOU KNOW, A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY.
AND ACTUALLY WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, I THINK WE HAD TO PAY BACK ALL AT ONCE, UM, UH, LIKE, UH, FOUR OR $500,000 BILL TO THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE.
AND THE GOOD THING ABOUT THAT IS IT'S NEVER NICE TO GET ONE OF THOSE LETTERS, BUT THEY DO GIVE YOU OPTIONS ABOUT HOW YOU CAN PAY IT SO YOU CAN PAY IT ALL AT ONCE, OR YOU CAN PAY IT OVER A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS, WE DID THE 48 MONTH PAYMENT PLAN WHERE IT WOULD JUST COME, THEY WOULD REDUCE OUR SALES TAX RECEIPTS BY, YOU KNOW, MEMORY TO AMOUNT EVERY,
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EVERY SO OFTEN.SO IF SOMETHING LIKE THAT WERE TO HAPPEN TO US, IT'S NOT, UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DRAMATIC IN TRAUMA AS WELL.
YOU MENTIONED THAT THIS IS RELATED TO THE INTERNET TAX, BUT NO, NO, THAT WAS JUST, THAT WAS PRE, THAT WAS SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
I THINK SOMEBODY WAS JUST, SOMEBODY WAS SAYING THEY WERE STILL MAD AT, IN ADDISON, BUT THEY HAD MOVED TO ANOTHER COMMUNITY.
AND WHEN THAT WAS FOUND, THE CONTROLLER FACES FACES, IT GIVES THEM ALL THE MONEY AND MAKES US PAY IT BACK.
AND THE NEXT SLIDE IS, IS A, JUST A CLOSER LOOK SAYING SAME INFORMATION, BUT THE LAST FIVE YEARS, UH, AGAIN, THE TWO VERY LARGE SPIKES ARE RELATED TO, UH, THOSE AUDIT PAYMENTS COMING IN WHEN THEY PAY THEM TO YOU, YOU GET THEM IN ONE MONTH.
SO WHEN THEY GO OUT, UH, YOU CAN, YOU CAN ELECT TO DO THE LAYAWAY PLAN.
SO, SO BACK IN, UH, EARLY 2018, AND THEN I GET IN 2019, THOSE SPIKES AND SEE ARE RELATED TO THOSE AUTO PAYMENTS COMING IN, UH, RATE OF CHANGE IN SALES TAX.
SO THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THE AVERAGE SALES TAX, UH, PER YEAR THAT'S BEEN GENERATED HAS BEEN JUST OVER $14.5 MILLION.
UM, IF YOU GO BACK IN 2016, IT WAS JUST UNDER 13, BUT EVERY YEAR, SINCE THEN SALES TAX HAS EXCEEDED $14 MILLION.
AND INCLUDING 2020, WHICH HALF OF THE YEAR WAS AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC.
UM, OUR PROJECTED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 IS 14.5 MILLION, UH, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN WHAT WE BUDGETED.
IF YOU RECALL, WE, UH, OUR ORIGINAL BUDGET WAS A 10% REDUCTION FROM OUR TRADITIONAL, UH, $13.7 MILLION BUDGET.
UH, SO WE ARE ESTIMATING THAT WE'RE GOING TO EXCEED THAT BY JUST OVER $2 MILLION.
SO, UH, SO AGAIN, THE FISCAL YEAR 2022 PROPOSE OF 13.7, UH, THAT IS STILL A VERY, UH, UM, UH, CONSERVATIVE, UH, SALES TAX ESTIMATE, AND THEN GENERAL FUND PROPOSED EXPENSES, UH, $40.7 MILLION, UH, THE TOWN AGAIN AS A SERVICE ORGANIZATION.
SO THE MAJORITY OF THE COSTS, ESPECIALLY IN THE GENERAL FUND ARE RELATED TO PERSONNEL SERVICES AT 63.9%.
UH, THEN NEXT TO THAT, WE HAVE CONTRACTUAL SERVICES AT 19%, AND WE HAVE MAINTENANCE AT 9.4% SUPPLIES MAKE UP 4% OF THE TOTAL BUDGET.
THEN WE HAVE WHAT WE CONTRIBUTE, UH, FOR CAPITAL AND IT REPLACEMENT.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, AT 3.2%, THEN WE HAVE OUR CAPITAL OUTLAY AT 0.3%.
AND THEN HERE ARE THOSE, UM, THE, UH, UH, DEPARTMENTAL, UH, PROPOSED OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES.
SO IN THE CITY SECRETARY'S BUDGET, UH, EIGHT, 3%, 3.8% INCREASE WITHIN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE FROM, UH, 21 TO 22 8 1 0.8% INCREASE IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, EVEN 1.7% DECREASE WITHIN GENERAL SERVICES, 8.5% INCREASE WITHIN MUNICIPAL COURT, 8.8% INCREASE, UH, HUMAN RESOURCES, 18.7%, UH, INCREASE, UH, WITHIN THE IT DEPARTMENT, UH, 0.4% INCREASE, UH, COMBINED SERVICES.
AND IF YOU RECALL, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF DECISION PACKAGES RELATED TO COMBINED SERVICES THAT WERE RECURRING IN NATURE.
UM, AND ADDITIONALLY, IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, OUR PROPERTY INSURANCE HAS GONE UP FAIRLY SIGNIFICANTLY.
SO IN TOTAL, UH, THAT IS A 14.7% INCREASE AND CITY COUNCIL.
AND I REMEMBER THIS SLIDE LAST YEAR, I DID NOT DO THAT DECREASE, DECREASE IN THERE.
UM, SO, UH, BUT, BUT WHAT WE HAVE IN THERE AS A 17.8% INCREASE OR DECREASE, I'M SORRY, UH, ON THE CITY COUNCIL BUDGET SEVEN TOTAL GENERAL GOVERNMENT, UH, A VERY, UH, SLIGHT INCREASE OF 9.1 TO 9.3 MILLION OR 1.7%.
CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE FINANCE DECREASE THERE? YEAH.
SO PART OF THAT, IF YOU REMEMBER, WE TALKED ABOUT ON THE PERSONNEL SLIDES OF SOME POSITIONS BEING REALLOCATED TO OTHER FUNDS.
SO WITHIN FINANCE, WE HAVE 0.8 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENTS BEING ALLOCATED EQUALLY TO BOTH THE AIRPORT FUND AND THE UTILITY.
SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT CREATES THIS DECREASE IN THE GENERAL.
AND THEN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, WE HAVE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, A 2.5% INCREASE, UH, EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, UH, AND THIS
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INCREASES, UH, 14.6%.AND THIS IS PRIMARILY RELATED TO, UH, THE NORTH TEXAS EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION CENTER IS NOW SETTING ASIDE MONEY FOR REPLACING THEIR COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH.
SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT THAT INCREASE IS RELATED TO, UH, FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO BASICALLY DO WHAT WE DO WITH OUR IQ REPLACEMENT FUND AND SET MONEY ASIDE TO PURCHASE THAT, UH, WHEN THEY NEED IT.
UH, THEN WE HAVE OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AT A 4.9% INCREASE.
SO IN TOTAL PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, GOING FROM 20.3 TO 21.2 OR A 4.3% ACRES, THEN WE HAVE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, FROM 1.6 MILLION TO 1.8.
UH, THE MAJORITY OF THAT INCREASE IS RELATED TO THE PROPOSED FORCEMENT, UH, OFFICER.
UH, SO UNTIL THAT PERCENTAGE INCREASED 10.4%, THEN WE HAD THE STREETS DEPARTMENT, UH, GOING FROM 2.2 TO 2.1, THAT'S A 0.7% DECREASE.
AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS ALSO ALLOCATING ONE EMPLOYEE, ONE FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT FROM THE STREETS DEPARTMENT TO THE TRAINERS AND THEN ON THE PARKS AND RECREATION.
SO WE HAD THE PARKS BUDGET 4.3 OR 4.5 MILLION, 5.7% INCREASE, AND THEN THE RECREATION BUDGET, A DECREASE AT 1.9%.
SO IN TOTAL PARKS AND RECREATION GOING FROM 6.1 TO 6.3 MILLION OR 3.4%.
SO IN TOTAL, UH, IN THE GENERAL FUND, WE HAD A FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET OF 39.3 MILLION IN FISCAL 2020 TO PROPOSE A 41 7.
SO AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 1.4 MILLION OR 3.6 AND THEN, UH, TRANSFERS TO OTHER FUNDS.
UH, THIS WAS TRANSFERS THAT WERE, UM, FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS, AND PREVIOUSLY THESE WERE BUDGETED.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT WAS, UH, OUR RATINGS, EIGHT RATING AGENCIES, AND WHAT THEY LIKE TO SEE WHEN WE PREPARE A BUDGET AND THAT KIND OF THING.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DO NOT PARTICULARLY CARE FOR IS WHEN WE'RE BUDGETING A DRAW DOWN OF OUR FUND BALANCE.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS PROPOSED WITH THIS, UH, TO FUND THAT CELL PHONE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS FORWARD IS TO UTILIZE END OF YEAR SAVINGS AND TRANSFER THOSE AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, RATHER THAN BUDGETING TO TRANSFER THOSE FUND BALANCE IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
IT'S JUST A CHANGE IN THE WAY IT'S GOING TO OCCUR.
SO THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SEE A TRANSFER FROM OTHER FUNDS TO FUND THOSE PROJECTS OVER INTO SOMETHING SPECIAL PROJECTS YOU'RE STILL PUTTING MONEY TO WORK.
WE JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T MAKE THE RATINGS AGENCIES SCORE FLAGS.
SO IN TOTAL TOTAL EXPENDITURES, A 40.0 MILLION IS WHAT WAS BUDGETED IN 2140 0.7 IS THE PROPOSED 22, A 1.7% INCREASE, AND THEN A GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE.
SO IN THE FIRST COLUMN, UH, THERE'S A LOOK AT THE FISCAL YEAR 20, 20 ACTUAL, UH, WE HAD A BEGINNING FUND BALANCE OF ABOUT 20.6 MILLION, A SLIGHT DRAWDOWN, A TWO 20.1 MILLION.
UH, SO AN ENDING FUND BALANCE PERCENTAGE OF 54.9%, UH, THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET INCLUDED THAT FUND BALANCE COMING, UH, BASICALLY EQUAL TO THAT TRANSFER TO THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND BY ABOUT $700,000, UH, TO 19.4 MILLION OR 49.4% OF OPERATING EXPENSE EXPENDITURES.
BUT WHAT'S ACTUALLY ACTUALLY HAPPENING IS THAT OPERATING REVENUE RELATED PRIMARILY TO SALES TAX AS FAR EXCEEDING OUR BUDGET.
SO WE'RE ANTICIPATING ABOUT $1.6 MILLION MORE IN REVENUE THAN WHAT WAS BUDGETED.
UM, AND THEN ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, UM, THERE IS A SLIGHT INCREASE OVER THE BUDGET.
AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS TO UTILIZE THOSE ADDITIONAL REVENUES.
SO PART OF THIS, UH, ON THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 ESTIMATE IS TO, UH, SEED FUND THE NEW FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND.
SO 500,000 IN OPERATING EXPENDITURES ARE BEING, UH, SENT FROM THE GENERAL FUND AND BASICALLY TO THIS NEW FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND TO PROVIDE SOME FUNDING FOR THAT.
UH, AND THEN IF YOU NOTICE THE ESTIMATED TRANSFER TO THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS DONE BUDGETED AT 0.7 MILLION OR 700,000, BUT WHAT WE CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD BASED ON OUR YEAR-END ESTIMATE IS 1.5 MILLION.
SO INSTEAD OF TRANSFERRING IT OR BUDGETING TO DO THAT NEXT YEAR WOULD DO THAT AT THE END OF THIS YEAR.
AND THEN OUR REVENUES STILL EXCEED OUR EXPENDITURES.
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END OUR, UH, ENDING FUND BALANCE AT 2020 0.1 MILLION, WHICH IS WHAT WE STARTED WITH THIS ARE WITH, UH, OUR, OUR ENDING FUND MOUNTAIN'S PERCENTAGE 51.1% OF OPERATING EXPENSES.AND IF YOU LOOK AT NEXT YEAR, WE HAVE OPERATING REVENUES 40.8 OPERATING EXPENSE OF 40.7.
SO OUR ENDING FUND BALANCE TAKES SLIGHTLY UP TO 20.2 MILLION.
THE FUND BALANCE PERCENTAGE GOES DOWN BECAUSE THE OPERATING EXPENSES HAVE GONE UP.
SO THAT 20.2 MILLION IS A LOWER PERCENTAGE OF A HIGHER LEVEL OF OPERATING EXPENSES, UH, BUT STILL VERY HEALTHY AT 49.5%.
UH, THEN ANOTHER VIEW OF THE GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE.
AND THIS ONE, REALLY WHAT THIS ONE SHOWS IS THE CHANGES FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET TO WHAT WE'RE ESTIMATING AT THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 2021.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE REVENUE INCREASE OF $1.6 MILLION IS WHAT WE'RE ESTIMATING OVER WHAT WE BUDGETED OPERATING EXPENSE, UH, A SLIGHT INCREASE OF ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND THERE.
UM, AND THEN AN ADDITIONAL $800,000 TRANSFERRED TO BE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND, WHICH LEAVES OUR FUND BALANCE BASICALLY WHERE WE STARTED.
SO, UH, ABOUT 700,000 HIGHER THAN WHAT WE ANTICIPATED BUDGET WATERS.
UM, SO OVERALL, UH, STILL A VERY STRONG POSITION.
AND THEN AGAIN, YOU GET ANOTHER VIEW OF THE FISCAL YEAR, 2022, UH, PROPOSE, OKAY, STEPHEN, DO WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A FEELING OF SENSE OF HOW MUCH WE CAN MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT IN THESE FUNDAMENTAL ANSWERS WITHOUT THROWING A RED FLAG FOR OUR RATINGS.
RIGHT? SO, SO WHAT I MENTIONED IN THIS SLOT, WELL, THIS SLIDE IS, IS THAT THE FUND BALANCE PERCENTAGES WENT DOWN, EVEN THOUGH THE AMOUNT STAYED THE SAME.
SO AS LONG AS, AS LONG AS YOUR REVENUES ARE EXCEEDING OR EQUAL TO YOUR EXPENSES, YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN GREAT POSITION.
NOW, THE PERCENTAGE IS GOING TO GO DOWN A LITTLE BIT AS YOUR EXPENDITURES GO UP OVER TIME.
SO THAT, THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO KEEP IT, KEEP YOUR FUND BALANCE LEVEL.
YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO DRAW YOUR FUND BALANCE DOWN, UM, BUT KEEPING IT LEVEL AND NOT HAVING EXPENSES THAT EXCEED YOUR REVENUES.
WHAT ELSE ARE YOU ASKING? I, OF COURSE, I'D LIKE TO ASK IT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL, BUT OVERALL I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME INFORMATION ON WHEN WE ACTUALLY RECEIVE THE FUNDS, THE RATINGS THAT WE DO HAVE FORTUNATE TO HAVE AS A BAR MANAGER AND SEE HOW THOSE CORRELATE TO THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST THOSE BALANCES AND SEE IF WE GET BETTER UNDERSTANDING THE RELATION BETWEEN ANY CHANGES IN THE FUND BALANCE AND HOW IT'S IMPACTED OUR FUND.
SO FUNDED PROJECT FUND OVERVIEW.
UM, SO, UH, AS MENTIONED, AND THIS TIES INTO, TO WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE GENERAL FUND.
SO PREVIOUSLY WE WERE, UH, WERE SENDING, UM, YOU KNOW, BUDGETING MONEY TO TRANSFER OVER THERE.
UH, SO THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET HAD $700,000, UH, BUDGETED TO GO FROM THE GENERAL FUND, UH, OVER TO THIS FUND AND TOTAL EXPENSES AT $1.5 MILLION.
UH, AND THEN IN FISCAL YEAR 2022, THOSE ONE TIME DECISION PACKAGES, UH, TOTAL JUST UNDER SEVEN AND THAT'S ABOUT $700,000.
AND THOSE ARE, UH, PROPOSED, UH, ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, UH, WHERE THERE IS NOT A PROPOSED, UH, REVENUE.
UH, SO, UH, FUNDING SOURCES IS FROM THE GENERAL FUND NOW EXPENSES.
UH, WE WENT OVER THAT, ALL OF THOSE DECISION PACKAGES, THE MAJOR ONES WERE, UM, NOT WELL, UH, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE.
WE SET A AREAS STUDY, UH, THERE'S TRAILS, MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION.
AND THEN THERE IS THE SECOND PART OF THAT FACILITY, UH, STUDY, UH, AND CONSOLIDATION.
UH, AND AGAIN, HERE'S A LIST OF THOSE, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2022 SELF FUNDED PROJECTS, AND WE HAVE THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK UPDATE, A DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN REVIEW, UH, OUR SPECIAL SERVICES CONSULTANTS, UH, COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RELATED TO FORENSICS, UH, THE BAIL OUT RESCUE SYSTEM, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
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VEHICLE AND THE VEHICLE AND SUPPLIES FOR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER THAT WAS COMPOSED, UH, VEHICLE AND SUPPLIES FOR THE TRASH AND PARKS CREW THAT WAS PROPOSED, UM, ELA, UH, COURT CONVERSION.AND THE SECOND PART OF THAT FACILITY STUDY, UH, THE TRAILS MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION, AND THEN THE LONG RANGE PLANNING SERVICES IN TOTAL $678,515 AIRY COUNSEL.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AND WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE BREAK? OKAY.
UH, AGAIN, STEVEN GLICKMAN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, AND WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS.
FIRST SPECIAL REVENUE FUND HERE IS THE LARGEST OF THE SPECIAL REVENUE.
SO THIS IS A VIEW OF A FISCAL YEAR, 2021 BUDGET, UH, AND THE FISCAL YEAR 2022, THE BUDGET, UH, REVENUE, UM, $5.3 MILLION BY DOING 21 AT $7.4 MILLION IN 22, THAT IS A $2.1 MILLION INCREASE.
PRIMARY REASON FOR THE INCREASE AS WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IS A $2 MILLION GRANT FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN.
TOTAL EXPENSES AT 5.5 MILLION ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE THE 5.6, UH, ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS INCREASE.
SO IN TOTAL REVENUE TO EXPENSE, UM, ABOUT EIGHT ONE POINT MILLION DOLLAR $1.8 MILLION INCREASE FROM REVENUE TO EXPENSE.
AND THIS IS A GRAPHICAL VIEW OF WHERE THE REVENUES COME FROM.
SO YOU CAN SEE, UM, FISCAL YEAR 20 ACTUAL IS THE BLUE BAR.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE WHOLE HOTEL TAXES THERE, UM, DECREASED, EVER RELATED TO COVID A SPECIAL, SPECIAL EVENTS, UH, DID NOT OCCUR.
SO THERE WAS VERY LIMITED PROCEEDS FROM THIS SPECIAL EVENTS, UM, CONFERENCE CENTER CLOSED YEAR.
SO THERE'S SOME REVENUE AT THE DAY, BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
AND THEN, UM, THEN WHEN IT WAS CLOSED AND THERE'S NO REVENUE THERE, UH, 2122, THEN THERE WAS OTHER, UH, THEATERS THAT ARE RUN OFF INTEREST AND OTHER INCOME.
AND THEN THERE IS THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL FEDERAL, WHICH IS THE GRANT RELATE TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN BUDGET.
AND THEN AGAIN, ON THE HOTEL TAX, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET FOR 2022 BUDGET ARE PROJECTED TO STAY FLAT AT ABOUT $4.2 MILLION IN HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, AND THEN PROCEEDS FROM SPECIAL EVENTS ARE ADJUSTED.
SO A, UH, DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE REVENUE SOURCES, UM, AS MENTIONED THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, UH, IS PROJECTED TO REMAIN FLAT AT, UH, $4.16 MILLION PROCEEDS FROM SPECIAL EVENTS, UH, 4.5% INCREASE FROM 1.1 MILLION TO 1.1, 5 MILLION, THE CONFERENCE CENTER BEING CLOSED.
THERE'S NO REVENUE SHOWN FOR LIKE 21 OR 22, UH, THEATER CENTER RENTAL, UM, SMALL DOLLAR INCREASE, BUT LARGE PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN THERE.
AND THEN THE BIG ITEM THERE IS THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL FEDERAL, WHICH IS LIKE IN THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, $2 MILLION AND THEN INTEREST AND OTHER INCOME, UH, DECREASE US AGAINST SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT OF LARGE PERCENTAGE.
SO IN TOTAL REVENUE GOING FROM 5.3 MILLION TO 7.4, UH, 8 39 0.6% INCREASE IN, AGAIN, THAT INCREASES BASICALLY ALL RELATED TO THAT AMERICAN RESCUE.
AND ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, UH, THE MAJORITY OF EXPENSES ARE RELATED TO PRODUCING SPECIAL EVENTS.
UM, SO CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ARE AT 67.9%, UH, PERSONNEL SERVICES, 22.6%.
THEN WE HAVE MAINTENANCE AT 6.1%, UH, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CAFE WITH MEN AND THE I-TEAM REPLACEMENT FUNDS.
AND THE NEWLY CREATED FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND ARE 2.3%.
AND THEN WE HAVE A SUPPLIES AND THIS IS THE EXPENSES SHOWN BY FUNCTION.
SO YOU CAN SEE, UH, SPECIAL EVENTS AT 43.5% MARKETING, 20.5%, ESPECIALLY EVENTS OPERATIONS, WHICH IS RAPE.
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UNDER 17.8%, UH, PERFORMING ARTS 5.9% ADDISON THEATER CENTER, UH, 4.9%.UH, THE CONFERENCE SENATOR IS STILL SOME EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH OWNING THAT FACILITY, SUCH AS, UH, SOME UTILITIES, SOME MAINTENANCE, UM, INSURANCE ON THAT PROPERTY AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
SO THEY STILL HAVE A OVERALL BUDGET THAT MAKES UP 3.8% OF THE TOTAL HOTEL FUND BUDGET.
AND THEN WE HAVE GENERAL HOTEL OPERATIONS OF 3.6%.
AND THEN ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, YOU CAN SEE EACH OF THOSE FUNCTIONS AND WHAT THEY AMOUNT TO A DOLLAR WISE AT THE THEATER CENTER.
AND THERE'S A 13.7% INCREASE ENLISTED HERE.
AND THAT'S REALLY RELATED TO, UM, BUILDING MAINTENANCE.
IT WAS, UH, REALLY RELATED NOT TO THE THEATER CENTER, BEING REALLOCATED OVER TO SPECIAL EVENTS.
AND THE CONFERENCE CENTER THAT THAT BUDGET IS INCREASING SLIGHTLY, UH, GENERAL HOTEL OPERATIONS.
AND THAT IS, UH, ALL RELATED TO, UH, THE TRANSFER, UH, THAT IS BUDGETED, UH, FROM THE 2022 BUDGET, UH, TO CONTRIBUTE $50,000 OVER TO FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND.
THEN WE HAVE MARKETING A 2.3% INCREASE, UH, PERFORMING ARTS.
UH, THOSE ARE FLAT AND WE HAVE SPECIAL EVENTS, 8.8% INCREASE.
AND THEN ESPECIALLY THAT'S OPERATIONS, 6.6% TOTAL ON THE EXPENSE SIDE FOR THE HOTEL FUND, A 2.2% INCREASE IN EXPENSES AND SPECIAL EVENTS.
THESE ARE THE THREE MAJOR SPECIAL EVENTS, REVENUE, AND EXPENSE.
SO FORETASTES ADDISON REVENUE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 WAS 333,000.
AND THE PROPOSED US NEW 2022 REVENUE BUDGET IS 355,000 ON THE EXPENSE SIDE.
UH, THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET WAS AT 800 AND, UH, JUST UNDER 815,000.
UH, THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2022 IS JUST UNDER 813,000.
SO THERE'S A, UH, A NET POSITIVE REVENUE TO EXTENSIVE ABOUT $24,000 GOING THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2021 TO A FISCAL YEAR, 2022 FOR THE KABOOM TOWN, UH, REVENUE FROM 21 TO 22 IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE FROM $115,500 TO $149,000.
AND THEN THE EXPENSE SIDE IS ANTICIPATED TO INCREASE SLIGHTLY FROM $523,000 TO $533,000.
SO AGAIN, A POSITIVE VARIANCE REVENUE TO EXPENSE YEAR OVER YEAR, ABOUT $23,000 FOR WORK IN TOWN.
AND THEN WE HAVE OCTOBER FEST, UH, REVENUE, UH, ANTICIPATED IN 2021, $619,000.
I ANTICIPATED TO GO TO $610,000, AND THEN ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, UH, BUDGET OF $799,000 TO $798,000.
SO BASICALLY A FLAT FOR OCTOBER FEST, A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE VARIANCE THERE ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT COMES ON THAT, OKAY.
MOVING ON, NOT TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND.
UH, SO THIS FUND GETS, UH, IT'S REVENUE FROM A, A, UH, PIECE OF THE AD, THE, UH, PROPERTY TAX RATE THAT IS ANTICIPATED TO GENERATE ABOUT $1.1 MILLION IN REVENUE.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A HOTEL FUND TRANSFER.
UH, AND THIS, UH, IF YOU REMEMBER IN FISCAL YEAR 20 AND FISCAL YEAR 21, WE HAD CUT THAT TRANSFER IN HALF, UM, BASICALLY TO LOOK, TO ALLOW THE HOTEL FUNCTION TO RECOVER.
UH, SOME FUNDS HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED THAT WERE NOT, YOU DON'T HAD NOT BEEN UTILIZED, UM, UH, FOR TOURISM AT THAT POINT.
SO THERE HAD BEEN SOME FUND BALANCE BUILT UP, UH, RELATED TO, UH, THOSE PREVIOUS YEAR TRANSFERS.
IT'S AGAIN, PROPOSED TO BE HALF OF WHAT IT HAD BEEN, UH, IN THE PAST.
BUT THEN, UM, ONCE YOU'LL SEE OUR LONG-TERM PLAN, UH, IT'S PROPOSED TO GO BACK UP TO TRADITIONAL LEVELS STARTING THIS WEEK ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, UH, THERE ARE INCENTIVES, UH, ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS THERE'S OPERATIONS, UH, $1 BILLION AT THE TOURISM SIDE, APPROXIMATELY 800,000 UM, INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS.
SO THE FIRST INTERNAL SERVICE FUND WE HAVE HERE IS THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT FUND.
UH, THERE ARE THREE, UH, PURCHASES PROPOSED IN THE FISCAL YEAR, 2022 BUDGET.
UH, THE FIRST ONE IS, UH, REPLACING THE BELIEFS IN CAR VIDEO AND BODY ACHING BODY
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CAMERAS THAT, UH, IS $510,000.THEN THERE IS MICROSOFT LICENSE UPGRADES AT $100,000, AND THERE IS A REPLACEMENT OF MOBILE DEVICES, COMPUTER AT $260,000 FOR EACH TOTAL EXPENSE OF $870,000.
THEN WE HAVE THE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT FUND.
AND THIS, UH, HAS, UH, IS BASICALLY FOR PRIMARILY THE PURCHASE OF REPLACEMENT VEHICLES AND OTHER EQUIPMENT.
UM, SO IN GENERAL SERVICES, THERE IS A PROPOSED F-150 CREW CAB REPLACEMENT AND AN
THERE IS PROPOSED TO, UH, POLICE MOTORCYCLES TO BE REPLACED IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
THERE IS A, UH, FORD INTERCEPTOR PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED IN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
F-150 SUPER CAB PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED, UM, IN THE STREETS DEPARTMENT AND F SEVEN 50, UH, PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED.
AND THEN A BACKUP IN PARKS, A FORD F ONE F THREE 50 EXTENDED CAB IS PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED IN THE RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
UH, LIFE FITNESS WEIGHT CIRCUIT IS PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED AND IN THE UTILITIES DEPARTMENT, UH, THERE'S A FORD F150 AND THEN A PIPE HUNTER VACUUM TRUCK THAT IS PROPOSED.
SO IN TOTAL BE TOTALLY CAPITAL EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT FUND EXPENSE BUDGET IS $760,283.
AND THEN THE FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND F Y UH, 22 PURCHASES.
SO AGAIN, THIS IS A NEWLY, NEWLY CREATED PROPOSED, UH, FUND TO, UM, TO BASICALLY DO ONGOING EMERGENCY AND PLAN MAINTENANCE PROJECTS FOR, UH, FACILITIES.
SO, UH, EMERGENCY AND PLAN MAINTENANCE IS A 230, $2,500.
AND HERE IS A, UH, FIRE STATION TO THE RESTROOM, UH, ACCESSIBILITY PROJECT FOR $15,500.
UH, THERE IS A REPAIR OF ATTRIBUTED RESTROOMS, UH, $40,000.
UH, THERE IS A CAPSTONE REPAIR AT THE CENTRAL FIRE STATION AT $55,000, AND THEN UPDATING THE ATHLETIC CLUB, A MONUMENT SIGN THAT $7,000.
SO IN TOTAL EXPENDITURES OF 350,000, NO, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT INTERNAL SERVICE AND MOVING ON TO ENTERPRISE FUNDS AND STARTING WITH THE UTILITY OPERATING FUND.
AND SO THIS FUND GETS ITS REVENUE FROM THE SALE OF WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS.
SO TOTAL REVENUE IN THIS FUND IS PROJECTED TO INCREASE FROM 14 MILLION TO 14.4 MILLION, WHICH IS A, ABOUT A $400,000 INCREASE.
UH, THE REASON FOR THAT INCREASE IS A 2.5%, UM, SCHEDULED RATE INCREASE, UH, THAT IS IN LINE WITH THE RATE STUDY THAT WAS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL IN 2018.
AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, UH, GOING FROM 13.9% OR $13.9 MILLION TO $14.4 MILLION OR AN INCREASE OF ABOUT $500,000 OVER THERE.
SO RATHER THAN TO EXPENSE, BASICALLY WE HAVE A VERY SLIGHT REVENUE AND OVER EXPENSE, BUT FOR THIS PURPOSE OF SHOWS, IT SHOWS SO IN TOTAL WATER SALES ARE PROJECTED TO BE ABOUT 7.7 MILLION OF THAT 14.4 MILLION.
THEN WE HAVE WASTEWATER, UH, SALES, UH, WHICH ARE PROJECTED TO BE 6.5.
SO OUR WATER PURCHASES, WHICH IS THE WHOLESALE COSTS THAT WE PAY TO PROVIDE WATER IS AT 4.2 MILLION.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR WHOLESALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SERVICES AT $3.7 MILLION.
AND WHAT MAKES UP THE REMAINDER OF THAT EXPENSE BUDGET IS THE OPERATING SIDE, WHICH IS THE STAFF THAT ACTUALLY IS PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING, UH, THE WAY THE WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEM.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR DEBT SERVICE PAYMENT OF $1.5 MILLION.
SO UTILITY FUND BALANCE, WE HAVE, UM, BEGAN FYI 20, UH, WITH ABOUT $6.5 MILLION.
AND THEN I WORKED IN CAPITAL PERCENTAGE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020.
WAS IT 51.9%? AH, THERE WAS SOME, UH, CASH FUNDED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT YEAR, JUST UNDER $1 MILLION.
UH, THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 ESTIMATE, UH, HAS US COMING, UH, BEGINNING WORKING CAPITAL OF ABOUT $6.4 MILLION.
UH, THERE WERE SOME ONE-TIME DECISION PACKAGES AND AGAIN, SOME, UH, CASH FUNDED CAPITAL PROJECTS, WHICH ARE ANTICIPATED TO BRING THAT IN THE WORKING CAPITAL, UH, DOWN
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TO $6 MILLION OR 43.4% OF THE OPERATING EXPENSES.AND THEN THE PROPOSED THIS YEAR 2022 BUDGET, UH, THERE ARE, UH, BASICALLY OPERATING REVENUE AND OPERATING EXPENSE ARE EQUAL TO EACH OTHER, BUT THERE ARE SOME ONE-TIME DECISION PACKAGES AND SOME SMALL AMOUNTS FOR CASH FUNDED CAPITAL PROJECTS.
SO THAT FUND THAT WORKING CAPITAL WAS ANTICIPATED WOULD COME, UH, COME DOWN FROM 6 MILLION TO 5.6 MILLION THAT WERE 38.9% OF OUR OPERATING EXPENSES.
WARREN'S YOUR RATE CHANGES? SO, AS I MENTIONED, THERE IS A, UM, A PLAN TWO AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASE TO, UH, WATER AND SEWER RATES.
SO A CONSUMER THAT CURRENTLY USES 5,000 GALLONS, UH, WOULD SEE THEIR BILL INCREASE FROM ABOUT $59 AND 71 CENTS TO $61 AND 20 CENTS OR A DOLLAR AND 49 CENTS FROM OTHERS.
SOMEONE THAT USES 8,000 GALLOWS WOULD SEE THEIR, UH, THEIR RATE, THEIR MONTHLY BILL GO FROM $87 AND 79 CENTS TO $89 AND 98 CENTS OR ABOUT $2 AND 19 CENTS INCREASE.
AND THEN SOMEONE THAT USES ABOUT 10,000 GALLONS PER MONTH WOULD SEE THEIR BILL GO FROM ABOUT A HUNDRED, $6 51 CENTS TO $109, 17 CENTS OR $2.
UH, THIS IS A LOOK AT UTILITY RATES FOR COMPARISON CITIES AND LIKE THE TAX RATE.
THESE ARE FISCAL YEAR 2021 FACILITY RATES FOR THESE OTHER COMPARISON CITIES, BUT USING THE PROPOSED THIS WEIRD 20, 22 UTILITY RATE OR THE 10.
SO YOU CAN SEE, UH, THE UTILITY RATES, THE ADDISON IS IN THE, UH, BASICALLY THE LOWER, MID TO LOWER RANGE, AS FAR AS OUR COMPARISON CITIES GO, UH, AT $61 AND 20 CENTS OR, UM, CUSTOMER THAT USES 5,000 GALLONS UH, AND WE HAVE THE SAME THING, BUT, UH, FOR DALLAS COUNTY CITIES.
AND THEN AGAIN, WE HAVE THE SAME SITUATION THAT THESE ARE RATES THAT WORK THAT ARE IN EFFECT NOW FOR THESE CITIES, AS THEY'VE NOT ADOPTED NEW TAX NEW, UH, UTILITY RATES YET.
SO THESE ARE THEIR FISCAL YEAR 2021 UTILITY RATES, UH, FOR THE TOWN, UH, WHAT'S SHOWN IS THE PROPOSED IS FOR YOUR 22, UH, UTILITY RATES.
SO EVEN WITH A TWO AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASE, YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, ADDISON RATE PAYERS ARE PAYING LESS THAN BOTH THE MEDIAN AND THE AVERAGE OF THE OTHER CITIES AND DALLAS COUNTY, UH, BY A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT MARGIN.
SO ON AVERAGE, UH, ABOUT ALMOST $10 A LITTLE OVER BETWEEN NINE AND $10, AND ON AVERAGE, LESS THAN THE AVERAGE OTHER DALLAS, TEXAS, HEY, STEVEN, ON THIS SLIDE AND THE PREVIOUS ONE, AND I KNOW WE'VE GOT SOME SIMILAR SLIDES NEAR THE START OF THE PRESENTATION, BUT, UM, I, I CAN'T READ THAT SMALL PRINT, BUT DOES IT SAY SOMETHING ALONG THE LINE OF THIS IS ADDISON'S 2000 TO 22 PROPOSED AND THE OTHER ONES THAT, THAT ONE DOES NOT SAY THAT THAT SAYS, UH, RESIDENTIAL WATER RATE PER 5,000 GALLONS AND RESIDENTIAL WASTEWATER RATES FOR 5,000.
ARE WE GOING TO SHARE THIS WITH THE PUBLIC LATER? THE PRESENTATIONS? I MEAN JUST THE POWERPOINT.
CAN WE UP, SHOULD WE ADD SOMETHING ON THE SLIDE THAT WE CAN ADD VERBALLY? YES.
THE OTHER THING TOO IS JUST SO EVERYBODY HEARS BECAUSE IT IS HARD TO SEE.
I ACTUALLY MADE A NOTE AS I CAN ANYWAY.
UM, THE LIGHT BLUE IS THE WATER RATE AND THE DARK BLUE IS THE SEWER RATE.
AND THEN, SO IN THE GREEN, THE LIGHT GREEN IS THE WATER, THE LIGHT, THE DARK GREEN IS THE SEWER.
I THINK IT'D BE HELPFUL IF WE DID THAT FOR EVERY ONE OF THOSE SHOULD PUT THE COMPETITOR.
UH, AND MOVING ON TO THE STORMWATER OFF OPERATING FUNDS.
SO THIS IS FUND RECEIVES ITS REVENUE FROM FEES THAT ARE CHARGED TO RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES THAT CURRENT STAFF HAVE SCHEDULED.
SO DRAINAGE FEES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 ARE PROPOSED AT $2.6 MILLION.
UH, THE EXPENSE SIDE RELATED TO OPERATIONS ONLY IS $1.6 MILLION.
AND THAT INCLUDES OUR DEBT SERVICE PAYMENT OF APPROXIMATELY $500,000.
SO OUR STORMWATER RATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, UH, THESE ARE PROPOSED, UH, PER AN ORDINANCE, OR THESE WERE, THESE WERE ADOPTED, UH, VIA AN ORDINANCE FOR MULTIPLE YEARS ALREADY.
SO THESE ARE SCHEDULED TO GO INTO EFFECT, UM, OCTOBER 1ST, 2021.
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THIS WILL BE THE LAST YEAR THAT IS COVERED BY THAT ELIMINATES.THAT WAS A DOCTOR, UH, SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
UH, SO THESE RATES ARE ANTICIPATED TO GO UP 4.3% FOR THIS YEAR 2021 TO FISCAL YEAR 22.
HOWEVER, WHEN LOOKING AT THE FUND, IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT RATES WOULD NEED TO GO UP, UM, IN THE FUTURE AT LEAST FOR SOME TIME.
SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT'S BEING GENERATED IN THE EXPENSE SIDE, UH, THE CURRENT RATES, UH, PROPOSED THERE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, UH, SEEM TO BE ADEQUATE, UM, GIVEN THE EXPENSES, STEVEN, CAN YOU TELL US IN BED SOMETIMES IT'S 2013, HOW YOU WERE PUTTING THE FACULTY, THE COUNCIL, WAS IT A RECOMMENDATION BY THE STAFF? DO WE KNOW THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A RATE STUDY THAT WAS DONE AND THEN COUNCIL AND ADOPTED ORDINANCE.
AND THAT'S GOING TO COME IN FRONT OF US AGAIN HERE IN THE NEXT YEAR.
HOW DO YOU, HOW DO WE PLAY NO, FOR THOSE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE, FOR THE RATES THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON THE BOOKS, UH, COUNSEL, UH, THERE WAS A CASE, AND I'M NOT SURE IF ANYBODY'S ON HERE FROM THAT COUNCIL, BUT IT WAS, I BELIEVE, UH, MAYBE 2018 OR 2016, THEY ADOPTED THE RATE INCREASES FOR MULTIPLE YEARS.
NO, IT'S ASKING FOR THE STORMWATER.
SO AT THE END OF THE BEGINNING OF EACH FISCAL YEAR, WE, THE COUNCIL WILL ADOPT, WE STAFF WE'LL BRING FORWARD TO COUNCIL WITH, UH, AN ORDINANCE THAT SETS ALL THESE NEW RATES, RIGHT? SO THAT, THAT WOULD COME BEFORE YOU, BUT AS FAR AS DOING ANOTHER RATE STUDY, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? YES, BECAUSE I'M LEARNING THAT, THAT WAS A, A RATE STUDY THAT WAS DONE BACK IN 20 10, 13, RIGHT NOW WE ARE NOT ANTICIPATING BRINGING ANOTHER RATE STUDY RELATED TO STORMWATER FEES FOR, BECAUSE IT HAS IT RIGHT NOW WHERE WE ARE, OUR PLAN IS, IS THAT WE WILL CASH FUND A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PROJECTS OUT OF THE STORM WATER FUND.
AND OVER A PERIOD OF, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT, LET'S SAY IT'S 2 MILLION, LET'S SAY THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF, OF, UH, PROJECTS, CASH PROJECTS THAT ARE BROUGHT DOWN TO THE BACK OF THE FUND BALANCE A LITTLE BIT, BUT WITHIN TWO AND A HALF YEARS OR SO, WE'VE ALREADY MADE UP THAT MONEY AND WE CAN SPEND THAT AGAIN ON ANOTHER TYPE OF PROJECT.
AND SO, BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT STRUCTURE IN PLACE RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T THINK WE NEED TO DO ANYTHING TO ADJUST THE RATES.
WE CAN, WE CAN KIND OF USE THAT, UM, THAT PLAN TO, TO CONTINUE TO ADDRESS STORMWATER ISSUES.
NOW, FOR WHATEVER REASON, WE DETERMINED THAT THERE'S A GREATER NEED SOONER.
AND WE HAVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT ADJUSTING RATES THAT BEFORE WE GO AND DO A WEIGHT STUDY, WE'LL SAY, HEY, COUNCIL, WE'RE HAVING THIS ISSUE.
THIS IS WHERE TO FIND THE PROBLEM AND THEN TALK ABOUT SOLUTIONS.
AND IF WE NEED TO DO ANOTHER RATE STUDY, WE'LL GO AND DO IT, AND THEN COME BACK WITH THE FINDINGS AND A RECOMMENDATION.
BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S NOT SCHEDULED OR PLANNED TO DO ANOTHER RATE STUDY IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR THE STORM WATER FOR THE STORM WATER FUND, EXCUSE ME, THAT'S RIGHT.
FOR THE UTILITY FUND WE WILL DO, UH, AT NEXT YEAR IS THE END OF THE ROAD STUDY THAT THE COUNCIL ADOPTED BACK IN 2018, WHICH WAS A FLAT PERCENT, WHICH WAS, IT WAS A FIVE-YEAR PLAN.
AND EACH OF THOSE FIVE YEARS HAD DIFFERENT RATE INCREASES.
SO THIS YEAR WAS INCREASES YOUR FOUR OF FIVE IT'S TWO AND A HALF PERCENT.
NEXT YEAR IS FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT.
THIS IS THE LAST, BUT THIS IS THE LAST YEAR OF THE TWO AND A HALF OF, OH, I MISUNDERSTOOD.
UH, ANYWAY, UH, THESE YEARS, ONE WAS 6%.
ONE WAS 2%, ALMOST 5%, 10% OR WHATEVER.
SO THAT WAS SET UP IN A WAY SO THAT WE CAN NOT ONLY, UM, BUILD IN THE ABILITY TO ADD STAFF THAT WAS NEEDED YOU'LL RECALL THERE WAS A SHORT-TERM AND A LONG-TERM, UH, UM, UH, PERSONNEL PLAN THAT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
BUT THEY WERE ALSO WANTING TO, UH, DO, UH, IN THE RATES, THE ABILITY TO NOT ONLY CASH FUNDS, SOME CAPITAL PROJECTS, BUT ALSO ANTICIPATE ANY KIND OF, UH, DEBT SERVICE THAT MIGHT NEED TO BE PAID FROM THAT FUND AS WELL.
SO WE WILL COME BACK WITH ANOTHER RATE STUDY ON THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STILL ABLE TO EXECUTE A PLAN RELATIVE TO THE FUNDING OR, UH, GOALS AND THE UTILITY FUNDING.
AND THAT WILL COME FORWARD SOON WITHIN THE NEXT 12, 18 MONTHS.
ONE THING ON THE STORMWATER FUND, THE 2022 RATES, THOSE ALREADY HAD BEEN ADOPTED.
SO THERE WAS AN, THERE WAS AN ORDINANCE AND I BELIEVE IT WAS ADOPTED IN 2022, THAT WAS FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OF STOLEN WATER, SORRY, 2018 THROUGH 2022.
SO THIS IS THE LAST SCHEDULE FOR THAT ORNAMENTS INCREASE, BUT THE UTILITY FUND ONE IS BROUGHT EVERY YEAR
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AND ONTO THE AIRPORT OPERATING FUNDS.SO TOTAL REVENUE FISCAL YEAR 2022 WAS PROPOSED AT $7.1 MILLION.
THAT'S A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF $1.9 MILLION.
AND THE REASONS FOR THE INCREASE RELATED TO SERVICE FEE INCREASES, WHICH ARE PRIMARILY A FUEL FLOW ANCHOVIES, BUT ALSO ADDITIONAL, UM, LEASES, UH, BEING, UH, RENEGOTIATED AND ADDED, UH, ADDING REVENUE, UH, FROM THE LEASE SIDE OF GOING UP TO 5.6, UH, FROM ABOUT 4.3 ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, EXPENSES ARE BASICALLY FLAT AT 5.1 MILLION AND THEN REVENUE TO EXPENSE, UH, REALLY NEW TO ME, A BIG INCREASE ON THE REVENUE SIDE, UH, ABOUT 1.9% OR $1.9 MILLION INCREASE THIS YEAR.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT AIRPORT FOR UNDER ANY OTHER ENTERPRISE LENS ONTO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS BUDGET? SO, UH, WE HAVE SEVERAL FUNDS AND THIS FIRST LOOK IS, IS ALL OF THE FUNDS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
SO FIRST HAVE GENERAL OBLIGATION CERTIFICATE OBLIGATION, UH, IN FISCAL YEAR 2022, UH, THAT BUDGET IS PROPOSED THAT RIGHT AT $38 MILLION OR $33 MILLION.
UH, THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND, UH, IS PROPOSED AT $1.5 MILLION.
UH, WE HAVE UTILITY CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION VOTE.
UH, IT'S PROPOSED AT $3.6 MILLION, AND WE HAVE UTILITY FUND CASH RESERVES, WHICH ARE WITHIN THAT UTILITY OPERATING.
BUT WE JUST LOOKED AT RIGHT AT ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
UH, WE HAVE A STORMWATER CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION, UH, REMAINING 700,000, UH, TO BE SPENT.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE STORMWATER FUND CASH RESERVES, UH, $800,000 BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 22.
AND THEN WHEN WE GO DOWN TO THE AIRPORT FUND, WE HAD AIRPORT FUND GRANT FUNDS, UH, $5.8 MILLION.
AND THEN YEAH, THE AIRPORT FUND CASH RESERVES THAT $1.6 MILLION, WHICH BRINGS US TO THE TOTAL, UH, AS WE WERE 26, 22 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGET, $47.2 MILLION.
SO IF YOU LOOK OVER THE FIVE-YEAR, UH, STANDARD SHOWN HERE IN TOTAL, A LOT OF WORK, UH, IS ANTICIPATED TO HAPPEN, YOU KNOW, OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS TO THE TUNE OF ABOUT $155.18 TOTAL FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL.
UH, SO THESE ARE OUR GENERAL GOVERNMENT CAPITAL PROJECTS.
AND IF YOU, IF YOU NOTICE THAT YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED WHEN YOU WERE REVIEWING THE PROPOSED BUDGET BY, WE ADDED A LOT MORE DETAIL IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT SIDE THIS YEAR, WE HAD SOME PROJECTS THAT WERE, THAT WERE, UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY LUMPED TOGETHER, BUT THEY WOULD MULTIPLE PROJECTS THAT WE BROKE A LOT OF THESE THINGS OUT, UM, PRIMARILY IN THE UTILITY, ON THE UTILITY AND STORMWATER FUND SIDE WHEN WE GET TO THOSE.
UM, BUT THERE'S A LOT MORE PROJECTS THAT ARE LISTENING A LOT MORE DETAIL.
UM, SO STARTING, STARTING AT THE TOP, WE HAVE OUR ATTRIBUTE AND WATER, RIGHT PERMIT COMPLIANCE.
THAT'S A, A SMALL BUDGET ABOUT $40,000 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
UH, WE HAVE THE TRUE VITRUVIAN WEST STREET STATEMENT DEVELOPED LANE EXTENSION.
UH, THAT PROJECT IS PROPOSED YEAH, 2.19 MILLION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE COMPLETION OF THE LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION, UH, SYSTEM EXPANSION ABOUT A $400,380,000 THERE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, THE MIDWAY RIGHT CONSTRUCTION, JUST UNDER $16 MILLION PROPOSED.
AND WE HAVE KELLER SPRINGS RECONSTRUCTION JUST OVER $8 BILLION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
UH, WE HAVE H H VAC REPLACEMENTS ABOUT $700,000 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
THEN WE HAVE ROOFS ROOF REPLACEMENTS, $2.4 MILLION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, AND THEN LOCK ROOM RECONFIGURATION 1.1, 4 MILLION.
I CAN JIM AND TRACKING IMPROVEMENTS OVER AT THE ATHLETIC CLUB, UH, 0.2, 9 MILLION.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE POOL MODERNIZATION OVER AT THE ATHLETIC CLUB 0.6, 9 MILLION.
UM, AND THEN THE POLICE GUN RANGE, AIR FILTRATION PROJECT, UH, $260,000.
UM, AMERICAN WITH DISABILITY ACT IMPROVEMENTS, UH, ABOUT $470,000 A TRAIL REHAB EXTENSION AND WAYFINDING, UH, $410,000 LAYLAX BOND ABOUT $70,000.
AND THEN WE HAVE ATTRIBUTED PARK PHASE NINE, BLOCK 7 0 1, UH, WHICH IS, UH, $190,000.
SO IN TOTAL, THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT'S CAPITAL PROJECTS, UH, TOTAL JUST OVER $33 MILLION FOR FISCAL YEAR 20.
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THANKS, STEVEN, CAN WE GO BACK JUST ONE SLIDE, THIS ONE? YES, SIR.AND, UM, ON THE PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY, COTTON BELT, SILVER LINE, OR THE ESTIMATED 2040 2041 WITH THAT MONEY AND SPENT IT HAS NOT.
AND WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S GOING TO BE, SO WE BUDGETED FOR IT IN 21, BUT THAT'S REALLY A LUMP SUM PAYMENT TO THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT.
SO WHENEVER THEY REQUEST THAT THAT EXPENDITURE WILL OCCUR.
SO WE'RE STILL ESTIMATING THAT IT MAY HAPPEN IN 21.
IF IT DID NOT, IT MIGHT HAPPEN SOON, REAL SOON.
AND IF IT DOESN'T, IT COULD BE 20, 22.
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AT SOME POINT, BUT WHETHER OR NOT IT'S GOING TO BE DONE BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR, THAT WAS REALISTICALLY, IT'LL PROBABLY HAPPEN IN FISCAL YEAR.
I CERTAINLY HOPE SO BECAUSE IT WASN'T IN THE BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR.
WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT IT'S TAKEN CARE OF.
SO IF IT'S NOT, IF IT'S NOT, IF IT GETS DONE THIS FISCAL YEAR, THEN WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT.
IF IT'S, IF IT DOESN'T GET DONE, THEN WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT IT'S REFLECTED APPROPRIATELY.
AND WE HAVE TO DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO REFLECT THAT WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THAT, BUT WE'VE GOT THE MONEY YOU'RE JUST WAITING TO GIVE IT TO THE COG WHEN IT'S NECESSARY.
AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND, THERE IS ONE PROJECT PROPOSED, UH, FROM THAT FUND THAT IS A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND ADA IMPROVEMENTS AT THREE INTERSECTIONS.
UH, AND THAT PROJECT TOTAL IS $1.5 MILLION.
AND WE HAVE THE UTILITY CAPITAL PROJECTS.
SO AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S A LOT MORE PROJECTS LISTED HERE THAN PREVIOUS YEARS.
SO WITHIN THE HISTORY OF 2022 BUDGET, UH, THERE IS A COMPLETION OF CALLAWAY WITH STATION REHAB AND REPAIR ABOUT $600,000 CHLORINE BOOSTER STATION, ABOUT $500,000.
NOW WE HAVE MARSHALL LANE, SPRING VALLEY ROAD, WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT, $570,000.
WE HAVE LAKE FOREST DRIVE A UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS AT $1.2 MILLION.
AND THEN WE HAVE PIPE BURSTING AT JULIAN STREET TO ADDISON CIRCLE, UH, $120,000.
WE HAVE REPLACEMENT OF SURVEY OR PUMP STATION NUMBER TWO, UH, UH, $190,000.
AND THEN WE HAVE A SURVEY OR PUMP STATION ELECTRICAL UPGRADES, $220,000, UH, FOR A TOTAL CIP PROJECT BUDGET FOR UTILITIES AT 3.6, $8 MILLION THIS YEAR.
AND WE HAVE OUR STORMWATER CAPITAL PROJECTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
AND THERE WERE TWO PROJECTS ANTICIPATED.
WE HAVE RYE CREEK BASE AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LAY LOCKS AREA, 1 MILLION, $150,000.
AND THEN YOU HAVE WYNNEWOOD ROAD, RICH CLASS COHORT, CULVERT OUTLET, UH, BUDGETED AT $400,000 FOR A TOTAL BUDGET FROM STORMWATER PROJECTS AT 1.5, $5 MILLION.
THEN WE HAVE OUR AIRPORT PROJECTS.
UH, THE MAJORITY OF THIS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IS RELATED TO BRAVO GOLF, TAXIWAY IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE FACILITY REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS, UH, ABOUT $140,000 80 ADA REPAIRS IMPROVEMENTS, JUST ABOUT $30,000 IN TOTAL PROJECTS FOR THE AIRPORT AT 7.4, $2 MILLION.
THIS IS THE ADDISON GROWTH FUND BALANCE.
SO, UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT MAKING A LOT ON INTEREST.
SO IT'S SITTING AT $3.1 MILLION IN ANTICIPATED THAT TO SAY THAT FREQUENTLY IN DOLLARS.
SO THAT IS A, THAT IS A VIEW OF THAT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE, UM, MADISON GROVE OR ANY OF THE CAPITOL ON THE AIRPORT? ARE WE STILL DEALING, DEALING WITH COLLINS' FINGER ROOMMATE, ROOMMATE REMEDIATION ISSUES.
THIS WAS A UNDER THE FACILITY REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS, AND WE'RE AT THE CAPITOL.
SO 1995, WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING FOR, SIR? THIS IS VARIOUS.
AND THE CONSIGNOR SO, NO, THAT'S NO THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN TAKEN CARE OF.
SO WE JUST NEED TO UPDATE THAT.
ON TO, UH, THE LONG RANGE FINANCIAL PLAN.
SO THE FIRST LOOK IS THE FISCAL YEAR 2022,
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A PROPOSED BUDGET.AND THIS TAKES US THROUGH FISCAL YEAR, UH, PROPOSED 2030.
UM, SO THERE'S SOME ASSUMPTIONS HERE.
SO ONE A THAT SALES TAX WOULD INCREASE 2% A YEAR OVER YEAR FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 TO FISCAL YEAR 2030, PROPERTY TAX REVENUE, 3.5% GROWTH FROM 23 TO 2030.
AND THEN ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, UH, PERSONNEL INCREASES OVERALL 3% FROM 23 TO 2030.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, THOSE, UH, BACK RED AND BLACK LINE, THE BLACK ON BEING REVENUES AND THE RED LINE BEING EXPENDITURES ARE MOVING IN TANDEM, WHICH, WHICH IS WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
SO, UH, NO DRAW DOWN THERE IN FUND BALANCE, BUT THAT MINIMUM BUTTON BALANCE, IF YOU LOVE, BECAUSE THOSE EXPENSES ARE GOING AT MINIMUM FUND BALANCE CREEPS UP.
SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER WITH REGARDS TO HOW TO MANAGE THAT FUND BALANCE A LITTLE BIT, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT OVERALL, STILL VERY HEALTHY FUND BALANCE RESERVES AND, UH, REVENUES THAT EXCEED EXPENDITURE SLIGHTLY.
AND THIS IS A VIEW THAT IF WE HAD THE 20, 22, NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE IS SO SIGNIFICANTLY SKEWED BY THE TAX RATE CALCULATION, THAT YOU CAN SEE A $3 MILLION DECREASE.
LIKE YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, IN THE GENERAL FUND, UH, FOR REVENUE IN THAT $3 MILLION INCOME DECREASE AT CONTINUES IN HER IS WHEN SHE, WHEN SHE GOES DOWN, THE WAGE RECOVER, THAT IS TO, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MASSIVE TAX INCREASE AFTER THAT.
SO, UM, SO THAT, SO SHOWING IT THIS WAY, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UH, REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES, UM, THE WRONG WAY.
UH, SO BASICALLY UPSIDE DOWN, IF THAT NOTING REVENUE TAX RATE WAS, THEN WE HAVE HOTEL FUND.
UH, THIS ONE LOOKS A LITTLE BIT STRANGE BECAUSE BACK IN 2018, UH, IN 2019, THOSE WERE PRE PANDEMIC REVENUE NUMBERS, AND YOU CAN SEE 20, 20 REVENUE AND EXPENSE GOES DOWN PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY.
UH, THEN YOU SEE, UM, WHAT WE HAVE THERE FOR 2021 AND 2022, THAT PRETTY BIG UPTICK.
AND THAT'S REALLY, YOU SEE THAT AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN MONEY BEING UTILIZED IN THE HOTEL FUND.
SO THAT PUTS US, UH, REVENUES OVER EXPENDITURES, UH, FOR THOSE COUPLE OF YEARS.
AND THEN ONCE WE GET TO 20, 23 AND GOING FORWARD, UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT DELTA BETWEEN, UH, EXPENDITURES EXCEEDING REVENUE.
SO THERE'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO NEED THAT NEED TO HAPPEN.
BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT, UH, THAT, UH, FEDERAL MONEY COMING IN FROM THAT AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN KEEPS THAT FUND BALANCE IN A POSITION THAT, UH, THAT WE'RE IN A GOOD SPOT, UM, MOVING FORWARD, UH, AT LEAST IT GIVES US SOME BREATHING ROOM.
SO THE REVENUE ASSUMPTIONS THAT WERE USED, UH, FOR THE HOTEL MOTEL TAX WAS A 10% GROWTH FOR YEAR 20, 23, A 7.5% FOR THIS YEAR, 2024, 5% FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025, AND THEN TWO AND A HALF PERCENT FROM FISCAL YEAR 2026.
SO EVEN WITH THAT, WE STILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A DELTA THERE, EXPENSES EXCEED SINCE STEVEN WITH THOSE ASSUMPTIONS UP THERE.
WHEN DO WE GET BACK TO PRE PANDEMIC HOTEL? BUT I THINK IT'S, I DON'T, I GUESS I'M ASKING THE QUESTION.
I DON'T THINK WE GET THERE ON THIS SLIDE, RIGHT.
IT'S REALLY, REALLY AT THE END.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT 2019, WE HAD $7 MILLION IN REVENUE.
UH, WE DON'T GET BACK TO $7 MILLION UNTIL 2026.
SO, SO IF WE SEE A REBOUND, WELL, OBVIOUSLY LIKE STEVEN SAID, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT GOING TO, WE'RE GOING TO GET THE BLACK AND THE RED LINE UP.
SO WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN WE BRING IN, BUT IF, IF WE GET A RETURN TO PREPARE DEMIC LEVELS SOONER THAN OBVIOUSLY THIS, THE PICTURE BRIGHTENS, AND WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE SOME OTHER ADJUSTMENTS AS WELL.
SO IT'S, AND THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE, I WOULD SAY PROJECTION.
UM, SO REVENUE ASSUMPTIONS HERE, UH, FUEL FLOW HBS AT 3% GROWTH IN FISCAL YEAR, 2023 TO 2030.
AND THEN WE HAVE GROUND LEASE REVENUE REMAINING FLAT FROM FISCAL YEAR 2020 TO BUDGET YEAR.
UH, THROUGHOUT THE PROJECTION HERE, YOU CAN SEE, UH, DUE TO, UM, FUEL FLOW, WHICH MEANS BABIES BEING VERY STRONG RIGHT NOW, AND THEN INCREASED GROUNDLINGS REVENUE, UH, THAT REVENUES
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ARE EXCEEDING THE EXPENSE SIDE, UH, PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY, UH, GOING FORWARD.SO NOW THERE'S AT LEAST IN THIS PROJECTION PRETTY HEALTHY FUND BALANCE.
AND IN, IN A CAPITAL INTENSIVE TYPE OF FUND WHERE PROJECTS ARE REQUIRED, THEY'RE HIGH, LARGE CAPITAL PROJECTS.
WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE MATCHING FUNDS.
THAT'S THAT'S WILD, AND THEN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND.
SO THIS, UH, THIS PLAN GETS ITS REVENUE, UH, FROM A ALLOCATION FROM THE TAX RATE OF 2.371 TO 6 CENTS.
AND THEN IT ALSO GETS TRANSFERS FROM THE HOTEL FUNDS TO FUND TOURISM.
SO YOU SEE, UH, THE COUPLE OF 20, 20, 20, 21, 20 22, WHERE WE CUT THAT TRANSFER FROM THE HOTEL FUND IN HALF.
AND YOU CAN SEE REVENUES EXCEEDING, OR I'M SORRY, EXPENDITURES EXCEEDING REVENUES, UH, THAT WHEN WE GET TO FISCAL YEAR 2023, YOU CAN SEE THAT WHEN WE, WHEN WE REVERT TO DOING THAT TRANSFER AGAIN, THAT THIS GETS BACK ON TRACK AND MAINTAINS THE FINE BALANCE ABOVE THE POLICY OVERALL RESPONDENTS AND THEN WE HAVE OUR STORMWATER, SO STORMWATER FEES, AND THIS HAS THE INCREASE THAT WAS ADOPTED THE ORDINANCE, I BELIEVE IN 2018 FOR A THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2022, BUT IT ALSO HAS THOSE FEES REMAINING FLAT AS WE ARE 2022, UH, THROUGHOUT, UH, THE PROJECTION.
SO EVEN WITH THOSE DEEDS REMAIN REMAINING FLAT, OUR REVENUE IS STILL EXCEEDS THE EXPENSES.
THIS ALSO ALLOWS FOR SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, AND THEN IT ALSO ALLOWS A PRETTY STRONG WORKING CAPITAL AND THEN HERE WE HAVE OUR UTILITY FUND AND UTILITY FUNDS.
SO THE ASSUMPTIONS HERE ARE THAT WATER AND SEWER RATES WOULD INCREASE 5% A YEAR.
ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, WE HAVE AN ASSUMPTION THAT OUR COST OF WATER AND SEWER WHOLESALE PURCHASES WOULD INCREASE ABOUT 5% EACH YEAR THROUGHOUT, UH, THE PROJECTION.
SO, UH, THIS FUND OVERALL, YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, THE, UM, REVENUES AND EXPENSES ARE BASICALLY EQUAL UP TILL ABOUT 20 25, 20 26.
WHAT YOU SEE THERE IN THOSE OUT YEARS, THAT'S CAPACITY TO ISSUE DEBT FOR ADDITIONAL CAPITAL AND ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT LONG, LONG TERM FINANCIAL.
SO OTHER FISCAL YEAR, 2022 BUDGET RELATED DISCUSSIONS.
SO HERE WE HAVE THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.
SO WITHIN THE GENERAL FUND, WE HAVE, UH, THE, WHAT THE ORGANIZATION REQUESTED AND THEN WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
SO WITHIN, UH, FOR THE ADDISON ARBOR FOUNDATION, THEY REQUESTED AT $65,000 WITHIN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS 50,000 PLUS 15 IN MATCHING FUNDS.
SO 65,000 TOTAL, UH, THE ADDISON EAGLES, CIVIL AIR PATROL, I REQUESTED $3,600.
UH, AND IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
UH, DALLAS CAT LADY, 5,000 REQUESTS, 5,000 IS, AND THREE IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
METRO CARE SERVICES, 11,500 IS A, WAS REQUESTED 5,000 IS INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET.
UH, METRO PRESS SERVICES AT $66,120 WAS REQUESTED.
AND THAT IS THE AMOUNT THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
AND THEN WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC $8,000 WAS REQUESTED.
UH, $5,000 IS INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
SO TOTAL REQUESTS FOR THE GENERAL FUND, $159,220.
AND THEN, UH, INCLUDING THE PROPOSED BUDGET OF $146,120, AND THEN MOVING ON TO THE HOTEL FUND, AND WE HAVE A WATER TOWER THEATER, A REQUESTED $500,000 AND INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS $226,589 PLUS 100,000 IN MATCHING FUNDS.
AND THIS IS EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT THAT IS INCLUDED.
THERE IS THE CABIN ON FLIGHT MUSEUM AT $100,000 WAS REQUESTED.
UH, ZERO IS INCLUDED THE PROPOSED BUDGET, AND THEN WE HAVE OUTCRY THEATER, $5,000 BUSTED 2,500 IS INCLUDED IN THOSE BUDGET.
SO TOTAL HOTEL FUND 500, THAT SHOULD ACTUALLY SAY 605,000.
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UH, FOR REQUESTS.UH, WHAT WAS IN THE PROPOSED IS $329,089.
UH, AND THEN ALSO AS PART OF WATER TOWER THEATER IS IN TIME FUNDING, WHICH INCLUDES THE OFFICE RENT AND PRODUCTION RENT.
UH, SO THE TOTAL VALUE OF THEIR PROPOSED GRANT IS 375,000.
AND THEN IN OUR CHILD SAFETY FUND, WE HAVE THE FAMILY PLACE WHICH HAD REQUESTED $5,000 WITHIN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, IS $2,500.
SO THE GRAND TOTAL OF ALL THE FUNDS FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, THERE WERE $669,220 IN REQUEST.
UH, AND WE HAD, UH, 477, 700 $9 MAKE IT INTO THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
SO THAT PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, WHEN YOU INCLUDE THOSE WATER TOWER THEATER INCOME AMOUNTS, UH, IT GOES UP TO $526,120.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT NONPROFIT BUDGETS? YES.
HOW, HOW ARE DECISIONS MADE ON THAT? WHO RECEIVED MONEY? THE COUNCIL? SO, SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET.
YEAH, THAT WAS MY, MY DECISION BASICALLY WHEN, UM, WITH WHAT THEY PRESENTED WAS I KEPT EVERY IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT I HAVE EVERYTHING AS IT WAS IN 2021.
AND SO IF THE COUNCIL WANTS TO DISCUSS SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN THE OPPORTUNITY, THERE'LL BE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT, WHAT TO CONSIDER A REQUEST THAT WASN'T ACCOMMODATED BY THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE ATE IN 2041.
WHAT WAS BUDGETED FOR 22,000? NO FISCAL YEAR 2021.
THAT WAS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE DECIDED.
UM, YEAH, MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE IS, IS THE AMOUNT PROPOSED THE SAME AS WHAT WE PAID LAST YEAR? AND THE ANSWER IS NO, NO, IT IS THE SAME.
IS THAT THE SAME FOR WATERTOWER AND METRO CARE? YEAH.
SO WHAT IS THE WHAT'S IN THE FISCAL YEAR? 2022 PROPOSED BUDGET THAT THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WAS APPROVED IN THE FISCAL YEAR, 2021.
CAN WE GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE? YEAH.
YOU SAY EDISON, EGOS, CIVIL AIR PATROL.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN IN-KIND DONATION, OR THEY DID NOT MAKE A REPETITIVE LAST YEAR.
THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR, BUT WE GOING TO GIVE THEM JUST IN CONDEMNATION.
JUST GIVE THEM STUDY SAID NO, WE'RE NOT PROPOSING TO GIVE THEM ANYTHING.
SO WE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE THEM ANYTHING.
I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, WERE PATROLLING TO DO THE MONEY.
I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'VE DONE BEFORE, BUT YEAH.
UH, AND THEN I JUST WANT TO RUN DOWN KEVIN ON, THROUGH THE QUESTIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE PRINCIPLE AND CAN WE AFFORD TO LOSE THAT IS A DIFFERENT QUESTION ALTOGETHER.
CAN WE AFFORD TO LOSE THEM? RIGHT.
WHAT I WOULD SAY ABOUT THE CABINET LIKE MUSEUM IS WE, WE LOVED THAT THEY'RE HERE IN ADDISON, BUT I THINK, UH, BASED ON A CONVERSATION THAT MYSELF, THE MAYOR AND MARLON HAD WITH, UH, THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CABINET FLIGHT MUSEUM, I THINK, UH, BEFORE WE MAKE A LARGE FINANCIAL COMMITMENT TO THEM, IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR LONG-TERM PLAN IS, BECAUSE I THINK THAT LONG-TERM PLAN, UM, MIGHT BE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE THINK IT IS.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LONG-TERM MORE THAN TWO YEARS.
UM, DO WE KNOW? SO THEY JUST RENEWED A LEASE, IS THAT CORRECT? NO.
CAN YOU GIVE US AN UPDATE, YOU KNOW, UH, ABOUT THE RENEWAL COUNTING OFFLINE ZOOM? CERTAINLY.
YEAH, THEY ARE, THEIR LEASE IS COMING UP HERE AT THE END OF THIS YEAR AND THEY WOULD LIKE, THEY, WE HAVE, WE'VE STARTED CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM ABOUT THEY'VE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN DOING SOMETHING ON A SHORT-TERM BASIS, UH, TO, TO, TO, TO BE AT THE AIRPORT FOR AGAIN, A COUPLE OF
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YEARS.AND SO WE'VE BEEN WITH THEM ABOUT THAT.
WE HAVEN'T FINALIZED ANYTHING, BUT WE PLAN TO HOPEFULLY HAVE SOMETHING FINALIZED THIS FALL.
CAN YOU UPDATE US FOR THOSE WHO ARE CORRECT? CAN YOU TELL US WHO KEVIN IS RIGHT OVER THERE? YEAH.
SO THEY'VE GOT FIVE TOTAL HANGERS.
ONE'S A SUBLEASE THROUGH, UH, UH, ANOTHER PARTY.
UH, AND THEN THEY'VE GOT, UH, A HANGER.
IT WAS, IS IT PROVIDED BY WHERE IS STILL RIGHT HERE? THANK YOU.
UH, THERE WAS, UH, THEY HAVE A BEV, THREE OR FOUR LEASES FROM US.
GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL.
MY NAME IS BILL DARREN AND THE REAL ESTATE MANAGER FOR THE AIRPORT.
UH, JANET KING INTERNATIONAL HAS THREE GROUND LEASES WITH THE AIRPORT.
TWO ARE DUE TO EXPIRE THE END OF THIS YEAR.
THE THIRD ONE IS TO EXPIRE LATE.
THEY HAVE A SUBLEASE WITH A FOURTH, A GROUND LEASE THAT IS DUE TO EXPIRE IN 2023.
SO ALL COME DUE, UH, WHEN THEY EXPIRE, THE BUILDING OWNERSHIP WILL REVERT TO THE TIME PASS.
UM, THERE IS A FIFTH PAINTER THAT THEY HAVE THAT IS ACTUALLY AN OFF-AIRPORT PROPERTY, UH, THAT THEY HAVE A, THE FENCE PERMIT THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO USE.
AND IT'S IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THEIR EXISTING HANGERS THERE.
AND WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING DOES THAT INCLUDE THE JANET KING, THE JANET KING CORPORATE NAME? THE JANE KING CORPORATE HANGER IS ACTUALLY THE THROUGH THE FENCE HANGAR THAT THEY HAVE A LEASE WITH THROUGH A THIRD PARTY.
THAT'S NOT AFFILIATED WITH YOUR BOARD.
UM, SO I THINK WHAT YOU PREVIOUSLY SAID ON METRO CARE.
I THINK IF WE CHECK OUR RECORDS, WE, WE, UH, WE PAID THEM $2,500 LAST YEAR.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS ON THEIR APPLICATION.
THAT'S WHAT WE APPROVED LAST YEAR.
WE'LL CHECK ACTUALLY KNOWS SHE'S HERE.
SOMETIMES WE DON'T HAVE IT LIKE THAT.
ANYWAY, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THIS SLIDE? CAN WE, WE LOOK AT THE NEXT SLIDE AGAIN REAL QUICK.
I THINK THIS ONE IS WHO, WAS THERE A SLIDE AFTER THAT? YES.
ANY QUESTIONS? WE'LL CHILL, NOT FLATTERING.
HOW WOULD LOVE TO MAKE A COMMENT? UM, I'VE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM.
UM, AND I WAS AT THAT MEETING.
IT WAS VERY HELPFUL WHILE YOU WERE THERE ALSO MAYOR WESTERNS THERE.
UM, I'D LOVE TO FIGURE OUT THIS LEASE SITUATION.
AND THEN, AND THEN MAYBE AFTER THAT, UM, HOPEFULLY THAT CONCLUDE AND, UH, AND I HOPE THAT WE COULD LOOK AT SOME TYPE OF SERVICE AGREEMENT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE PRESENT TIME, UH, TO HAVE THE LOSS, SOME OF THE PREMIER OF WARBIRDS AND KABOOM OR OTHER FLYING EVENTS.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S LIKE WHAT WE DID THIS YEAR WITH THEM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, I MEAN, WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND I MEAN, I JUST READ THE APPLICATIONS AND CREDIT FOR READING THEIR APPLICATION.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE WORDING, BUT I ASSUME THAT THEY HAD COMPLETED THAT LEASE BECAUSE THERE WAS A VERY ASSUMPTIVE STATEMENT.
WE NEED THIS GRANT FUNDING TO PAY FOR THE EXTRA A HUNDRED.
WELL, I THINK IT'S, I THINK THEY KNOW THAT.
SO RIGHT NOW THE LEASES THAT THEY HAVE THROUGH THE TOWN ARE LONG-TERM GROUND LEASES AND THOSE WILL LAND AND THOSE LEASES, OR,
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UH, LOOK AROUND THESE IS BECAUSE THEY, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY INVESTED THE CAPITAL TO BUILD THE ANCHORS.AND SO YOU GIVE THEM A LOWER LEASE RATE THAN YOU OTHERWISE WOULD FOR A COMPLETED, UH, FACILITY, BUT PROPERTY WITH COMPLETED FACILITY.
SO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE INVESTING THAT MONEY, RIGHT? SO NOW THAT THE INVESTMENT'S ALREADY THERE AND THAT REVERSED AT THE END OF THEIR AGREEMENT, THAT GOES REVERT BACK TO THE TOWN.
NOW WE HAVE TO, IF WE'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, INVEST ANYTHING, WE HAD TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY TO DO THAT.
AND SO WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO CHARGE A COMMERCIAL RATE, THE GROUND LEASE RATE, UH, TO BE ABLE TO NOT ONLY OPERATE IT, BUT THEN ALSO, UH, TAKE CARE OF THAT KIND OF INVESTMENT.
YOU'LL SEE WHERE THERE ARE PEOPLE OR ENTITIES THAT ARE MAKING LONG-TERM COMMITMENTS TO THE AIRPORT, WHERE WE WILL SAY, ALL RIGHT, YOU ALREADY HAVE, YOU'RE COMING UP AT THE END TO AN END, TO THE END OF AN EXISTING GROUND LEASE.
YOU WANT TO EXTEND THAT GROUND LEASE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, ATLANTIC AVIATION WAS THE MOST RECENT WHERE WE DID THAT.
UH, SO IN EXCHANGE FOR X NUMBER OF YEARS OF EXTENSION OF THE LEASE, YOU'RE GOING TO X, YOU'RE GOING TO INVEST X MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO UPGRADE THOSE FACILITIES.
AND SO THAT THEN INSTEAD OF CONVERTING TO A COMMERCIAL LEASE AT A HIGHER RATE, STAYS AT A GROUND LEASE AT THE LOWER RATE, BUT WE'RE GETTING TO BED WITH IT.
THE FACILITY IS GETTING THE BENEFIT OF THE INVESTMENT.
SO THAT'S WHY WE KNOW THAT THEY KNOW UNLESS THEY HAVE SOME OPTIONS, THEY COULD INVEST A LOT OF MONEY AND UPGRADE THOSE FACILITIES AND HAVE A LOWER REESE LEASE RATE, OR IF THEY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT, AND THEY JUST WANT TO USE THE FACILITY, THEN THEY WOULD PAY THE HIGHER COMMERCIAL RENT RENT.
SO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT IT'S BEEN RESOLVED, THEY KNOW THAT THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF DISCUSSIONS WE'RE HAVING WITH THEM.
CAN I JUST ASK THEM, ASK A BROAD AIRPORT LEAST QUESTION IN SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITH WHAT'S TYPICAL WHEN A TENANT WOULD RELEASE OR RE UP, UH, THEIR LEAKS.
I MEAN, WOULD THAT COME A YEAR BEFORE SIX MONTHS? IS THERE ANY TYPICAL FOR TYPICAL SITUATION? LIKE FROM A TIMING STANDPOINT? I MEAN, THIS, I DON'T KNOW IF IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S COMING UP QUICK.
I THINK IT DEPENDS ON THE TENANT.
IT COULD BE, YOU CAN BE, I THINK IT VARIES.
I THINK IT WOULD BE NICER TO DO IT SOONER THAN LATER, BUT NOT EVERYBODY'S LIKE THAT.
GARY'S, HE'S NOT LISTENING TO ME.
I MEAN, HE HE'S NEGOTIATING WITH HIM.
I'D LOVE TO KIND OF GET A FEEL.
UH, THE, WITH THE NATURE OF THE GROUND, UM, QUITE FRANKLY, THE SOONER THAT YOU DO THE REINVESTMENT AND EXTEND THE OPTION OR THE EXTENDED TERM COMPLETION, THE TENANT WILL GET A FARTHER, FAR GREATER RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENTS IN THEIR CAPITAL INVESTMENT.
WHEN YOU WAIT TOO LATE IN THE TERM OF THE LEASE, UM, REALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THE EQUITY OWNERSHIP IN THE BUILDING PERMIT, A BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS ALREADY ARE REVERTING TO THE CITY.
IT'S JUST, WE DON'T RECOGNIZE IT UNTIL THE LEASE EXPIRES.
SO NOW WITH THE CABIN ALL LEASES, THERE'S ONLY A YEAR LEFT, REALLY THEIR INVESTMENT VALUE IN THOSE BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS IS NEGLIGIBLE.
IT REALLY IS NOW VESTING WITH THE TOWN.
WE JUST DON'T RECOGNIZE IT UNTIL THE, AROUND THESE TERMINATES.
AND WE HAVE CONTROL OF THE PROPERTY HELP.
IF YOU REMEMBER ON THE LEASE THAT IT IS ABOUT TO EXPIRE, THE STUDENTS IS THAT THIS YEAR, YES, SIR.
NOVEMBER IN THE NOVEMBER, THERE'S TWO OF THEM THAT WILL EXPIRE TO BE THE TWO CLOSEST TO THE STREET, WHICH IS THEIR PRIMARY, UM, MUSEUM FACILITIES, STEVEN ANDREW, INITIALLY, UM, I HAVE A RECOLLECTION THAT WE HAD SOME FRICTION OR RESISTANCE REVIEWING CAVANAUGH'S FINANCIALS.
IS THAT STILL SITUATION? CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL ACTUALLY, WHERE I THINK COUNTING LANDER, UM, YOU ARE CORRECT.
THAT, THAT HAS BEEN A PROBLEM IN THE PAST AND, AND RECEIVING UPDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENT FROM THEM HAS BEEN AN ISSUE.
SO WE DID NOT RECEIVE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FROM THEM DURING THIS APPLICATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 22, WE DID REVIEW THEIR 9 97 MIDDLE, UM, WHICH WAS PRETTY EQUIVALENT.
YOU COULD SEE EXPENDITURES, BUT NO DID NOT RECEIVE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THAT WERE AUDITED THIS YEAR.
W UM, WITH WHERE THEIR REVENUES ARE
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RIGHT NOW, UNDER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE? AND I'M JUST GOING OFF THEIR APPLICATION, UM, GOING ON THEIR NINE 90.IT IS MORE THAN THAT, CORRECT.
SO THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT SOMETHING TO US.
AND IS THE NIGHT NINE, NINE YEARS AT BACKWARD LOOKING IT'S FOR 2019, THAT'S THEIR MOST RECENT ONE
IF YOU GET AN ANSWER TO THE, THE METRO CARE SERVICES, YES, THERE WAS 500 OR $5,000 BUDGETED.
UH, WHEN THE CONTRACTS WERE APPROVED BY COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL DID THE PAYMENT WAS 25.
CORRECT, BUT BUDGETED WAS 5,000 BUDGET.
SO THERE SHOULDN'T BE AN ACTUAL COLUMN, NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE I'M AN OPPOSING, I'M STILL PROPOSING THAT WE DO WHAT WE BUDGETED LAST YEAR.
I MEAN, IT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHAT, WHAT WE ACTUALLY WAS WAS, WAS PROVIDED.
SO HAPPY TO DO THAT, BUT, AND ARE WE AT THE POINT WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EACH ONE OF THESE WE WANT TO BE, I HAVE IT A LOT.
I, UH, THE ONLY THING I FEEL REGRET FOR YOU IS KEVIN OFFLINE IS SO BAD.
IT WOULD JUST IN MY MIND, AND WHETHER THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW THE RULES, IT'S JUST SWEDEN.
SO, UH, THEY, YOU KNOW, UH, OF COURSE THEY HAVE OTHER PLAN THEY'RE TRYING TO MOVE TO MOST TEXAS FOR SURE, IN KANSAS.
SO EVENTUALLY I THINK THEY WANT TO MOVE AWAY, BUT I ALWAYS TRY TO KEEP THEM AT SOME SONG I'LL FUNCTION, THE ADDISON.
SO I THINK FOR THE CONVERSATION IS NEEDED.
AND THEN, UM, YOU WILL ALWAYS KEEP A GOOD ATTRACTION, YOU KNOW, IT'S STILL VALUABLE.
SO I REMEMBER THE LAST VISIT, YOU KNOW, WITH LEARN ABOUT ALL THE STUFF, BUT I ALWAYS TRY TO HAVE THEM KEEP SOME FUNCTION.
AND SO WHEN I RECALL THAT WE WERE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH FROM AN ADDISON PERSPECTIVE, THEY WERE CALVING ALL OF THIS OPEN TO IT AS IS, UM, A SMALLER PRESENCE IN ADDISON KIND OF WORK SOMETHING OUT FOR BOTH PARTIES THAT WOULD MAYBE KEEP A SMALLER VERSION OF CAPITAL FLIGHT USE INTERMINABLE.
WE KNOW RIGHT NOW, NOW THAT HADN'T BEEN FIGURED OUT, BUT, UH, THAT WAS, YEAH.
YEAH, WHATEVER CALL ABOUT THAT WAS THAT THEY WERE OPEN TO HAVING A CONTINUED PRESENCE IN ADDISON, BY THE TOWN OPERATING A MUSEUM, AND THEY HAVE AN OFFLINE MUSEUM.
PEOPLE WOULDN'T LEND US THE PLANES.
THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE RECOLLECTION I HAD OF THAT IN, UM, HAVING OPERATED A MUSEUM BEFORE.
AND HAVING SPOKEN PREVIOUSLY ABOUT MAKING SURE WE'RE FOCUSING ON OUR CORE OR CORE SERVICES, UM, THAT WOULD BE, I DON'T THINK THAT WOULD BE A WISE MOVE FOR THE TOWN TO ENTER INTO EASY MUSEUM BUSINESS AND FROM SUBSEQUENT CONVERSATIONS I HAD WITH THEM.
I THINK THEY KIND OF UNDERSTOOD OUR SILENCE, UH, ON THAT, ON THAT IDEA, NOT REALLY RESPONDING BACK TO THEM AS KIND OF, WE WEREN'T INTERESTED AND THEY WERE, AND THEY, THEY HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS, UM, THAT INDICATED THEY MIGHT, MIGHT STAY.
BUT WHAT I SURE WOULD LOVE TO FIGURE OUT THIS CURRENT LEADS TO GO FROM THERE.
SO I, I THINK THAT'S, CAN WE COME BACK? I MEAN, WE COULD ALWAYS MAYBE DO A SERVICE AGREEMENT LATER OR BUDGET AMENDMENT IF WE FIGURED OUT WE NEEDED THAT'S.
THAT'S CERTAINLY A POSSIBILITY.
I THINK WHAT I SAID EARLIER WAS I THINK BEFORE WE CAN MAKE
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A LARGE FINANCIAL COMMITMENT, I THINK WE NEED TO GET SOME OTHER THINGS RESOLVED SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT THEIR PLANS ARE IN ADDISON, UH, BEFORE WE MAKE A COMMITMENT.SO I, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS, IS, IS RIGHT.
GUESS I DON'T SEE THEM JUST AS A BUSINESS.
SO MY HEART'S POLES FOR THAT BECAUSE IT'S AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE, IT'S A MUSEUM.
WE HAVE THEM PERFORM AT OUR FUNCTIONS.
SO FOR ME, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT BUSINESS WHERE THE OTHER VIDEOS, SO THAT'S FINE.
I THINKING WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING AND IF WE DON'T DO IT TONIGHT, THAT'S OKAY TOO.
I'M HAPPY TO DO THINGS BY COMPARISON.
IF YOU TALK ABOUT, UH, PLUS THE NAME OF THE, UH, FLYING MUSEUM OVER CITY OF DALLAS FRONTIER FLIGHT, THEY DIDN'T HAVE AS MANY COLLECTION AS KEVIN OFFLINE.
SO, UH, THE VALUE OF CANNOT, KEVIN OFFLINE IS MUCH BETTER, BUT SINCE THEY RAISE A LOT OF MONEY TO BUILD THAT FACILITY.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST HOPING, YOU KNOW, JIM, KEVIN CAN DO SOMETHING SIMILAR, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN PROVIDE THEM WITH LAUNDRY.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, EVEN LOOKING AT CONSIDERING GIVING THEM A FAVORABLE RATE, BUT YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE SOMETHING SIMILAR AND IT WILL BE EDUCATION.
ALSO, I THINK ATTRACTED A LOT OF PEOPLE TO AVIATION INDUSTRY.
WHAT'S INTERESTING MARY, TO YOUR POINT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, UH, AT THEIR ATTENDANCE NUMBERS, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY DRAW FROM OUTSIDE OF THE STATE AND INTERNATIONAL TO ADD US, TO VISIT THE MUSEUM.
UM, SO THEY, THEY DO CONTRIBUTE, UM, TO HELPING US BE A DESTINATION CITY THAT WE WANT TO LEAVE.
UM, SO I WOULD LOVE TO TRY TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT WHERE WE COULD MAKE IT, HAVE IT, SOME SORT OF PRESENCE HERE, BUT, UM, THEY, THEY HAVE REALLY BIG PLANS UP INSURANCE.
UM, THEY MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THAT'S THE FUTURE.
SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS, IS PART OF THEIR FUTURE GOING TO BE AN ADDICT.
AND ALSO AM I SUMMING THAT UP CORRECTLY? OKAY, GREAT.
I THINK IT'S TO PUT THIS OR NOT PUT THIS INTO YOUR PROPOSED BUDGET, WE HAVE TO GET A LITTLE MORE CONTACT CONTACTS IN THE MORNING OF, UH, RUNNING A MUSEUM.
WELL, LET'S WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
WHAT'S THIS IN STAFFORD DISCUSSIONS.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AS HARLEM'S SAID, IF, IF, IF IT MAKES SENSE TO INCLUDE IT IN A KNOCK OFF AN ALLOCATION, AT SOME POINT YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE THE BUDGET TO DOCTOR.
WE'LL JUST DO THAT, BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE A SERVICE, YOU KNOW, W YOU KNOW, LET'S LET THEM BUILD IT WITH HIS JOB IS OKAY.
SEE YOU AND TRY EARNESTLY TO, TO, TO KEEP THEM HERE IN SOME FORM OR FASHION, I'M HAPPY TO DO IT.
EVEN IF THEY MOVE SHERMAN, SHERMAN, OR WHATEVER, THEN MAYBE WE CAN ASK THEM TO COME BACK AND FLY DOWN AND PAY THEM FOR SEVEN.
BUT NONE OF THAT IS MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE WITH THAT EXPERIENCE.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, LOVE TO KEEP HIM HERE TOO.
AND IT HAS TO MAKE SENSE, YOU KNOW, I FIGURE THE PRECEDENT WE SET AT THE AIRPORT.
IF WE DO SOMETHING THAT IS EXTRAORDINARY, THAT IS NOT COMMERCIALLY CONSISTENT WITH THE MARKET.
AND BECAUSE I THINK THAT JUST OPENS UP THE DOOR.
SO THAT CERTAINLY THE CONCEPT OF THAT.
SO, UM, LET'S AGAIN, LEAVE THE PEOPLE THAT WE PAY FOR THEIR EXPERTISE TO DO THEIR JOBS, SEE WHAT THEY GIVE US AGREE.
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MAYOR, DO YOU PLAN TO GO THROUGH THESE NON-PROFITS ONE BY ONE? BECAUSE IF NOT, I'D LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING, IF SO, I CAN WAIT.NO, I THINK WE KNOW NOBODY HAD ANY THOSE BACHELORS HERE.
SO THE ONLY THING I WAS GOING TO BRING UP, THIS IS, UH, UM, METRO CARE.
WE GAVE THEM $2,500 IN GRANT FUNDING LAST YEAR.
UM, AND, AND LOOKING AT THEIR APPLICATION THAT THEY SERVED 11 RESIDENTS, UM, OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS, I JUST THINK, UH, $2,500 IS APPROPRIATE GOING FORWARD.
SO THAT, THAT WAS THE ONLY, UM, TO WHAT, TO WHAT THE CITY MANAGERS, I THINK THAT MAKES SENSE.
I HAVE ONE COMMENT ABOUT THE WATER TOWER.
SO I'M KIND OF BACK TO MESSAGES.
I UNDERSTAND WE'RE KEEPING THEIR FUNDING THE SAME AS IT WAS LAST YEAR, BUT I, I KNOW THAT IN SOME CONVERSATIONS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH TOWN TO DO SOME IN THERE LEFT TO REDO THE FACILITIES AGREEMENT OVER THERE, UM, I THINK I WANT TO ENCOURAGE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION BECAUSE OF THE FACT THE SAME.
IT'S LIKE WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT STICK TO, TO FOR BUSINESS.
SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE'LL COME BACK TO ALL OF US, BUT I THINK THAT CONVERSATION'S A GOOD ONE.
I THINK IT MAKES SENSE FOR THE TOWN AND POSSIBLY.
SO CAN YOU ELABORATE ON, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALWAYS, WE'VE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT THAT.
THE THEATER, WE'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS TO BE, TO BE ARTISTIC AND, AND, YOU KNOW, FACILITIES AGREEMENT, MEANING THEY MIGHT, THEY BE THE PEOPLE TO, TO, UM, I GUESS, MANAGE THAT FACILITY INSTEAD OF HAVING, YOU KNOW, COUNT STAFF DO ALL THAT.
SO RIGHT NOW THE FACILITY, THEY, THEY, THEY RENT THE FACILITY FROM THE TOWN OR SEVERAL NIGHTS TO DO WHATEVER THEIR PRODUCTIONS ARE.
THEN THERE ARE PRODUCTIONS THAT WE DO ON A SMALL SCALE, UH, FOR SOME, SOME THINGS, BUT THEN THERE ARE OTHER NIGHTS WHERE THE FACILITY IS JUST NOT BEING USED.
SO THE CONCEPT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED, UM, IS IF THEY WERE IN CHARGE OF OPERATING THAT FACILITY AND HAD THE ABILITY TO MAXIMIZE ITS UTILIZATION, IS THERE A BENEFIT TO, UH, THE TOWN AND THEN ALSO ENHANCE BETTER BENEFIT TO THEM? AND SO JASMINE HAS HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH SHANE PETERMAN OVER THERE, VERY POSITIVE CONVERSATIONS.
UM, AND SO THAT'S THE CONCEPT, OR WE'RE, WE'RE EXPLORING WITH THEM, BUT THEY WOULDN'T OWN THAT WOULD NOT KNOW THAT I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON ANY OF THE OTHER FEDERAL DATA.
UNLESS, UNLESS, I MEAN, I, I GOT THREE PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT AND I'M ASSUMING, SO I APPROVED, BUT I STAND CORRECTED.
IF THERE IS A DESIRE TO KEEP IT AT 5,000, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
PLEASE GIVE ME THAT DIRECTION.
I WOULDN'T SAY THAT OTHER MONEY, YOU WOULDN'T CHANGE YOUR BUDGET.
WE'RE NOT, I DON'T THINK WE'RE DONE TALKING ABOUT THE QUESTION.
DO YOU HAVE MORE TO TALK ABOUT STEVEN? THAT, THAT WAS IT.
UM, YEAH, THERE WAS JUST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.
NON-PROFITS BUT MINE, CATHERINE, MY INCLINATION INSTITUTES ARE NON-PROFITS.
UH, THE, THIS THING HAS EVERY SINGLE ENTITY THAT IS SEEK OUR SUPPORT IS IT'S APPLIABLE SUPPORT IT.
THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN, AND IT'S EASY TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT.
AND THAT I TAKE MY DUTY TO, TO PROVE OUR CORE CITY SERVICES AT A HIGH LEVEL, AT A REASONABLE PRICE,
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AT A FAIR TAX RATE, VERY SERIOUSLY, AND EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS.AND SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT BIG DOLLARS HERE, BUT $2,500, $2,500.
UH, I IT'S, IT'S WHAT THAT CREEP SCOPE GROWS.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I'M AT.
THERE'S NOTHING, NOTHING, ANY OF THESE, CAN I ADD SOMETHING TO YOUR POINT? UM, WHEN I WAS LOOKING THROUGH THESE APPLICATIONS, UM, I WAS GOING THROUGH IT PRETTY THOROUGHLY.
I MEAN, THERE'S A BIG RED FLAG, HUGE RED FLAG THAT POPS UP.
YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION, PLEASE QUANTIFY THE NUMBER OF RESIDENTS.
YOUR AGENCY PROVIDED SERVICES CURRENT YEAR, AND THEN NEXT YEAR.
AND SO WHEN I SEE AN APPLICATION AND LOWERING, AND I'VE LOOKED AT A LOT OF THESE BEING ON THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS BUREAU FOR WHAT, THREE YEARS OR SO, UM, WHEN I SEE AN APPLICATION THAT'S THOROUGHLY FILLED OUT THAT HAS NOTHING IN THAT BOX.
AND, AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, WHAT, HOW DO YOU SERVE THE TOWN? THERE'S NOTHING THAT SAYS, WELL, ADDISON RESIDENTS RECEIVE EXCELLENT.
THESE ARE, I'VE GOT SOME PILOTS THAT ARE BUDDIES OF MINE.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS ROUGH FOR ME.
BUT, UM, I DON'T MOVE BEYOND IF THERE'S NO RESIDENTS OR I CAN'T, I CAN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT CONSIDERING THEM, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW COULD THEY, I DON'T THINK THEY COULD SIGN THE GRANT FUNDING AGREEMENT WITHOUT SERVING ADDISON RESIDENTS.
UM, SO THAT THAT'S, THAT'S A RED FLAG FOR ME.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I STOPPED MY THOUGHT PROCESS ON THIS, BUT I WOULD URGE THEM TO APPROACH THE STATE OF TEXAS DALLAS COUNTY.
THEY'RE DOING SOME EXCEPTIONAL FLIGHTS, UM, WHERE THOSE GOVERNMENT ENTITIES, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE SOME, SOME GRANT FUNDING SUCCESS WITH, WITH THEM.
SO COUNSEL, IF WE CAN, UH, IF, IF YOU'LL INDULGE ME FOR A MINUTE, BECAUSE I THINK THIS MAY BE THE LAST THING WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT HOW I COULD FINISH THIS PROCESS, BUT I'D LIKE TO SPEAK, HAVE JANICE GET THE MICROPHONE FEE ONLINE FROM AN AGENDA ON A VISIT WITH YOU ON SOMETHING.
SO I WANT TO FOCUS ON THE, UH, THE CONVERSION TO SOME PEOPLE, OF COURSE, A MULTIPURPOSE COURT DECISION FOR THOSE.
AND I WANT TO GET YOUR, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE BUDGETING HERE BECAUSE 116,000 IS, IS THAT MOSTLY BEING CONSUMED BY A FENCE, UH, SOME, UH, LIGHTING AND, UH, IT'S GREAT AT SCREENS.
IS THAT MAINLY CONSUMABLE THAT $16,000 A LITTLE BIT OF STRIPING ON THE BASKETBALL COURT? IS THAT A FAIR UNDERSTANDING? SURE.
UM, THE MAJORITY OF WHAT IS IN THAT BUDGET ITEM, WHICH I THINK IS LIKE $116,000, IS THE FENCING, UM, ALSO INCLUDED IN THAT IS SOME ADDITIONAL LIGHTING, UM, PROVIDING ELECTRICAL SERVICE TO THAT AREA AND THEN STRIVING IN APPLYING SURFACING OVER THE COURTS AND THEN PROVIDING, UM, A STORAGE BOX AND, UM, NETS AND SIMILAR, YOU KNOW, THE SUPPLIES THAT COME WITH BALL COURTS.
SO COUNSEL ON MARCH TWO, UH, I ASKED THE, A QUESTION AND WE GOT THE ANSWER ABOUT $25,000 COST TO, UH, CONVERT THAT SLAB OF CONCRETE THAT WE CURRENTLY USE AS A BASKETBALL COURT, TAKE OUT THE TWO GOALS, RESURFACE IT AND TURN IT INTO A, THROUGH THE WALL COURTS.
AND SO, UM, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO, I MEAN, I'M INTERESTED IN DOING IT AND I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO, TO CONSIDER THAT WITH A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT.
IT'S, IT'S NOT BIG DOLLARS IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS.
UM, UH, I THINK THAT, UH, IN JUNE, I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FOR YOU, BUT YOU, AND I'VE A DISCUSSION YOU'RE, YOU'RE COMFORTABLE THAT THIS IS A SPORT THAT IS IN HIGH DEMAND GROWING, ET CETERA, IS THAT FAIR? I WON'T SPEAK FOR YOU.
SO THE PARKS RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN RECOMMENDED THAT WE LOOK
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AT WAYS TO BUILD ADDITIONAL PICKLEBALL COURTS AND ALISON, UM, AT THE TIME THE PLAN WAS DONE, THEY WERE AWARE THAT WE HAD, UH, SOME FUNDING TO STRIDE THE TENNIS COURTS AND PROVIDING PICKLEBALL MCCLAY, BUT BASED ON THE POPULARITY OF THE SPORT, THE WAY THAT THEY SAW THE SPORT GOING, THE INFANT THAT WE GOT FROM MY RESIDENTS, THEY INDICATED THAT WE WOULD NEED THAT PLAN INDICATED WE WOULD NEED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COURTS WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.UM, I THINK PAT CAN ALSO, HE'S LOOKED AT THE RESERVATIONS THAT WE HAVE ON THE COURTS.
AND WE DO HAVE SOME TIMES OF DAY THAT THEY'RE ALWAYS BOOKED.
WE'VE GOT RESIDENTS THAT, UM, ARE WAITING UNTIL MIDNIGHT TILL THE COURTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE NEXT DAY TO GO IN AND MAKE A RESERVATION PRETTY FREQUENTLY.
UM, SO THIS WOULD HELP ALLEVIATE SOME OF THAT STRAIN.
SO COUNSEL, UM, I'M SUGGESTING THAT WE HAVE A, UH, A LEGITIMATE NEED HERE, I, OTHER THAN PICK A WALL HERE.
UM, AND I'M PART OF THE DEMAND ON OUR LIMITED RESOURCES, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE GET A MUCH BETTER PRODUCT IF WE, UH, FIRST OF ALL, THAT BASKETBALL COURT IS CRACKED AND IT NEEDS SOME REPAIRS.
UH, AND WHAT I'VE MY VISION HERE IS TO, UH, SPEND THAT EXTRA DOLLARS TO FIX THE CRACKS, TO REMOVE THE GOALS, TO, UH, TURN THE SURFACE INTO THREE PICKLEBALL COURTS THAT RESEMBLED TENNIS COURTS THAT HAD THE TENNIS COURT TYPE SURFACE AND, UH, DIFFERENT, UH,
UM, WE HAVE, UH, UH, UH, YOU HAVE AN INDOOR BASKETBALL COURT THAT IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR AS RESIDENTS.
THERE'S A OUTDOOR BASKETBALL COURT AVAILABLE JEWISH TUITION ENTRY SCHOOL THAT IS, UH, ANYBODY CAN GO OUT THERE AND PLAY, UH, THAT IS, YOU KNOW, BY THE TIME I'M GUESSING YOU COULDN'T DO IT DURING SCHOOL HOURS, BUT DURING THE SUMMER AND AFTERSCHOOL HOURS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PUBLIC PROPERTY OUT THERE.
IT'S NOT TOWN PROPERTY, BUT IT'S PUBLIC PROPERTY.
SO THERE'S THAT, THERE'S THAT FACILITIES OUT THERE FOR OUTDOOR BASKETBALL.
BUT, UH, REMEMBER THIS IS, UM, UH, WE PROVIDE SOME FACILITIES FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
YOU HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE ADDISON ATHLETIC CLUB.
YOU HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE ACAPELLA CENTER, THE CLUB TO PLAY TENANTS AND TO PLAY PICKLEBALL AT THE END OF THE SPIN STOP TENNIS COURTS.
AND WE, UH, UH, MY FEELING IS THAT THERE IS NOT OVERT DEMAND FOR BASKETBALL, OUTDOOR BASKETBALL, UH, BY ADDISON RESIDENTS.
UH, RIGHT NOW THERE IS A OUT THERE ISN'T A DEMAND FOR, UH, THESE BIGGER BALL FACILITIES.
AND, UM, SO I THINK THAT, UM, I WOULD ASK THAT, UH, Y'ALL, UH, AFFIRMATIVELY CONSIDER, UH, ANY, UH, CHANGING THIS PLAN TO ADD THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO, UH, UPGRADE THIS TO THE, UH, UH, UNIT TO, UH, DEDICATED PICKLEBALL FACILITY WITH THE RICE AND THE, UH, THE WINDSCREEN DRILL THING, WHICH LIKE WE HAVE ON TEST SCORE.
SO, UM, WITH THAT REQUEST TO DISCUSSION, I'D LOVE TO ADD SOMETHING BEFORE I DO.
UM, CAN I GET A QUICK SHOW OF HANDS ON CITY COUNCIL, UH, OF WHO RECEIVED THE CITY COUNCIL QUESTION ANSWERS? DID EVERYBODY, I MEAN, THAT CAME IN TODAY, SO I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY GOT TO SEE IT.
IT'S GOT SEVERAL DIAGRAMS. UM, ONE OF THE DIAGRAMS IS TWO STRIPE PICKLEBALL LINES OVER THE BASKETBALL COURT.
UM, AND WHEN I LOOKED AT THIS THAT JUST DOESN'T LOOK LIKE SOMETHING I'VE SEEN IN ADDISON.
UM, AND I DON'T THINK IT WORKS.
UM, OUTDOOR PEOPLE USE THE OUTDOOR BASKETBALL COURTS, UH, FIGHTING OVER THE COURT TIME WITH PICKLEBALL OR OTHER, OTHER SPORTS.
AND WHEN I LOOKED AT, UM, THE DIAGRAM OF THE OUTDOOR PICKLEBALL COURTS, IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
UH, I KNOW THEY'LL GET A LOT OF PLAY ON THEM.
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UP WITH WHAT WE HAVE ON TENNIS.UM, THE OTHER THING I THINK OF THIS IS WHEN IS ALL OF THE SNOW, WE KNOCK, KNOCK ON A LOT OF DOORS.
WE KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY THAT WHEN I, WHEN I SEE PEOPLE, UH, PLAYING ON THE OUTDOOR BASKETBALL COURTS, I DON'T RECOGNIZE THEM AS THAT AS THE RESIDENTS.
I DON'T, MAYBE THEY ARE, MAYBE THEY AREN'T, MAYBE, MAYBE SOME OF THEM ARE, BUT I KIND OF QUESTIONED OUT HOW MANY RESIDENTS ARE USING THOSE OUTDOOR BASKETBALL.
UM, AND SO I'M IN AGREEMENT, UH, WITH, WITH THIS IDEA THAT PAUL'S GOT, UM, AND IT, IT CAUGHT IT, HE KIND OF MADE ME CHANGE.
MY, MY THOUGHT IS, OKAY, WHAT ARE WE, WHAT ARE WE OFFERING IF WE DID THIS? WHAT ARE WE OFFERING TO OUR BASKETBALL PLAYERS? AND LIKE ALL SET, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE COURT AT GEORGE BUSH, BUT, UM, WHAT, WHAT I DON'T THINK YOU MENTIONED YOU MENTIONED IS IN THE INDOOR BASKETBALL FOR WE'RE GOING TO BE PROVING THAT LIGHTING, UM, MAYBE IN A YEAR'S TIME WHEN THOSE IMPROVEMENTS ARE COMPLETED, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY WELL.
THOSE, UH, THE WOOD, THE FORWOOD BASKETBALL GOALS ARE GOING TO BE, UH, GLASS EVERYTHING'S GOING TO MATCH.
IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY, IT'S GOING TO BE A MORE PREMIUM, MUCH MORE PREMIUM, UH, EXPERIENCE FOR BASKETBALL OR ANYTHING THAT OCCURS IN THAT GYMNASIUM AND WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW.
SO, UM, I THINK IF WE WENT THIS ROUTE, IT WOULD LOOK GREAT.
IT WOULD DEFINITELY FILL A NEED.
THAT'S, UH, THAT'S LACKING RIGHT NOW.
UH, UH, OTHER CITIES HAVE GOT DEDICATED PICKLEBALL COURTS.
I KNOW BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I HAVE TO GO TO PLAY.
UM, I CAN'T, I CAN'T HARDLY GET ON THE ASS, UH, TENNIS COURT BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS RESERVED AT THE TIME I'M TRYING TO PLAY.
SO I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA, ESPECIALLY FOR WELL, I GUESS IS SILENCE.
I MEAN, YOU ALL ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THIS.
I MEAN, WE HAVE TO GIVE THE MANAGER SOME DIRECTION, CLIMB WAY, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? TALK ABOUT COMFORT, THE AUDIBLE BASKETBALL FOR STRIPE PICKLEBALL LINES, YOU KNOW, UH, ONCE YOU DO THAT, IT'S VERY CONFUSING, THEN IT'S VERY HARD, YOU KNOW, I, I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE A STRIPE THAT IS TENNIS COURT IS VERY SIMPLE.
SO, YOU KNOW, JORDAN PICKLES, BALLS LINE IS A SIMILAR, BUT THAT'S OKAY.
BUT IF ALL A BASKETBALL COURT, IF YOU WANT TO STRADDLE THAT, IT'S CONFUSING.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO PLAY BASKETBALL OR VOLLEYBALL OR POSSIBLY.
BUT IF YOU WANT TO GIVE UP THAT BASKETBALL COURT, YOU KNOW, JUST THAT INTO TOTAL PICKLEBALL, THAT'S PROBABLY ABOUT THE SOLUTION.
IF PEOPLE DO WANT TO PLAY BASKETBALL, THAT MEANS THAT OTHERWISE YOU WOULD SEE ALL THE STRIKES, YOU COULD GET IT CONFUSED.
YOU KNOW, HONESTLY I PLAY BASKETBALL, YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN, OTHERWISE, YOU COULDN'T EVEN FILL OUT WHICH, WHAT YOU LEARN.
YOU WANT TO USE THE THREE POINTS.
SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, MANY
SO BUGGER THE DECISION PACKAGE REQUESTS, THE SUMMARIES, UH, ITEMS, UH, COURT CONVERSION IS THAT, UH, I DON'T KNOW, 200 PARKS, $1,500.
THAT'S FOR MAINTENANCE AND EQUIPMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THEN THERE'S A ONE-TIME AMOUNT THAT THAT'S THE $116,000 THAT'S THAT'S ON DURING THE
WE'LL GET IT TO YOU ONCE ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
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WHAT? MINE IS FINE.LAYLA PARK COURT CREW VERSION.
LINE TWO ON PAGE 50 UNDER PARKS.
SO 2, 2 72 WAS REQUESTED ONE TIME APPROVED ONE ONCE 1, 1, 6, 16, AND CAME UP WITH A ONE 16.
THE 2 72 AMOUNT INCLUDED A SHADE STRUCTURE, UH, ABOUT $158,000 FOR A SHADE STRUCTURE.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS A LITTLE NICE.
YOU PAID FOR THIS HUGE STEEL, THE CONTRAPTION THAT GOES OVER THERE.
I DIDN'T THINK, UH, INSTALLING A, UH, SHADE STRUCTURE WITH FRUIT, UH, FOR, FOR TWO REASONS, ONE THE EXPENSE, BUT TWO, SHE IS, WELL, ONCE THERE'S A STRAIGHT SPECIAL THERE, THERE'S GOTTA BE A STRAIGHT STRUCTURE NEXT DOOR.
AND I REMEMBER GOING TO, UH, RESIDENTS ASKED ME ABOUT SHADE STRUCTURES OVER OUR PLAYGROUNDS, RIGHT? SO ONCE AGAIN, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO CERTAIN STRUCTURES, BUT I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS APPROVED THE EXPENDITURE IN THIS CASE.
SO WHAT, WHAT ARE WE IS THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE HAVING TO SAY? WHETHER OR NOT WE AGREE WITH THE DECISIONS
SO 1 16, 25 IS 1 41
AND MAKE IT A DEDICATED PICKLEBALL OR, YOU KNOW, FIX, FIX THE CRACKS IN THERE.
I'M IN FAVOR OF THAT, DO IT RIGHT.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT, IT'S NOT BIG DOLLARS.
IT'S JUST NOT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT PUTTING THE SHADE STRUCTURE.
I, I THINK THAT THAT'S, WE'LL NEVER SEE THE END OF THIS.
SO, SO TO DO WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING WOULD BE $141,000.
IF THAT'S WHAT THE THAT'S, WHAT A STAMP, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I ASKED WHAT STAFF GAVE US 25,000 AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A LINE IN THE SAND.
I MEAN, IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FOR THEM, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE SOMEWHERE IN THE $25,000 RANGE, YOU KNOW, SO WE WE'RE BUMPING IT UP TURNER, I SEE 141,000 AND JUST TAKE OUT THE BASKETBALL COURTS AND, YOU KNOW, SCREW THAT ALL OUT AND PUT A NICE TENNIS COURT SERVICE ON PERMANENT PICKLEBALL THAT'S IN THERE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE ANY NEED TO DISCUSS ANY FURTHER ON I'M IN FAVOR.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS FEEL WHEN MR. ALLEN, ARE YOU IN FAVOR? IS THAT I KNOW PAULA A FUN TRIP.
I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE PREVIOUS SURVEY THAT WE PUT OUT.
WAS THERE ANY 2018, WAS ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CABAL SURVEY? NO, BUT WE DID GET IN A FEEDBACK FROM THE PERS, UH, PARKS, THE PARKS MASTER PLAN THAT'S IT WAS THE CONVERSATIONS AND THE SURVEYS THAT WE DID AS PART OF THAT EFFORT THAT INFORMED THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DECISION OR THE, THE PROVIDES THE INFORMATION THAT JANET IS SHARING, UH, THE, THE COMMUNITY RIGHTS SURVEY WAS NOT THAT SPECIFIC THAT WAS DONE IN 2017.
WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT THERE'S DEMAND THERE FOR THAT.
GIVE THE VANTAGE OF THAT DIRECTION THEN.
AND I'VE GOT, I'VE GOT ONE OTHER ITEM BEFORE ONE TO FINISH UP TONIGHT.
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YEAH, YEAH.THE, THE, UH, YEAH, THE, THE OTHER ITEM I WANT US TO CONSIDER IS, UH, UM, THE, UH, IN THE MANAGER'S DECISION MAKING PACKAGE, UH, REQUESTS, THERE'S THE ADDITION FOR THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
DAY HOLIDAY, ADDING THAT TO OUR LIST OF, UH, EIGHT, THE, YOU KNOW, PAID LEAVE DAYS.
AND, UM, SO I WAS THE ONE WHO ASKED THE QUESTION, WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE RIGHT NOW? WHAT, HOW MANY, HOW MANY, HEY, MAY DAC.
AND SO WE, WE'VE GOT A VERY, I EXPECTED A DETAILED ANSWER.
I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WOULD BE THIS EXTENSIVE AS TO WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO, SO, UM, MY, MY CONCERN IS, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT, YOU GET DAYS LIKE JURY DUTY, YOU GET SICK DAYS, YOU GET VACATION DAYS.
UM, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NINE HOLIDAYS.
UM, AND ASSUMING, ASSUMING YOU'RE NOT IN THE MILITARY, WHICH WOULD PUT OUT MORE DAYS THAT, THAT, AND TENURE, UM, YOU KNOW, INCREASES YOUR VACATION DAYS.
SO, SO IF, IF YOU HAD BEEN HERE SIX, SIX YEARS, I THINK YOU COULD HAVE ROUGHLY YOU COULD, DEPENDING ON THE SCENARIO WITH SICK DAYS AND JURY DAYS AND ALL THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CLOSE TO A MONTH, I THINK OF CALCULATING, UH, ABOUT 30 DAYS OF PAID, PAID DAYS OFF.
AND, AND I'M, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO HAVING THE MLK BEING A HOLIDAY.
I THINK THAT'S A GREAT, A GREAT DAY TO CELEBRATE WHAT A GREAT PERSON TO CELEBRATE.
UM, BUT IF, IF WE DO THAT, UM, WHAT WAS YOUR HOT, A LOT OF, A LOT OF DAYS OFF, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A REOCCURRING COST OF $32,479.
AND I JUST, I JUST KIND OF WONDER IF, IF MAYBE WE SHOULD ADD MLK DAY, BUT MAYBE CONSIDER REMOVING, UM, ONE OTHER, ONE OTHER HOLIDAY OR OTHER DAY OFF THAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW, SLIGHTLY DISAGREE.
YOU DISAGREE WITH THAT, BUT I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE.
I TH TH THIS, OUR STAFF, AND I AGREE THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE A BALANCE BETWEEN PROVIDING BENEFITS TO STAFF AND BEING PRUDENT WITH THE BUDGET.
BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE STAFF THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE IS EXTREMELY EFFICIENT AND CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THEIR JOB DUTIES AS IF THEY HAD SPENT THOSE EIGHT HOURS.
AND I KNOW THAT WHEN MY EMPLOYER GIVES ME SOMETHING, I DOUBLED BACK IN RETURN.
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT IT THAT YOU GET A, YOU GET A RIPPLE EFFECT.
IT'S ALMOST, IT'S, IT'S AN INVESTMENT.
AND I HAVE NO INTEREST IN TAKING AWAY ANY, ANY TIME OFF.
UM, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT, IT'S IT? IT'S NOT JUST THAT THIS PARTICULAR HOLIDAY IS AN IMPORTANT HOLIDAY.
IT'S, UH, IT'S, UH, IT HAS HELPED ME, IS IT A FEDERALLY MANDATED SCENARIO THAT WE'RE IN? WE CAN'T JUST PICK AND CHOOSE.
IT'S NOT A FEDERAL HOLIDAY, BUT I THINK MOST STATES I DON'T, IS IT AFFILIATED, SORRY.
IT IS RECOGNIZED IT'S NOT MANDATED, BUT IT IS RECOGNIZED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BUT I THINK MOST STATES, SO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE IT RECOGNIZES THAT MOST STATES DO.
I DON'T KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING THAT DON'T CELEBRATE MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY.
UM, UH, AND THEN MANY, UH, YOU KNOW, CITY CITIES DO OF OUR, UH, OF OUR COMPETITOR CITIES, SEVEN OF THE 13, UH, RECOGNIZE MARK.
I MEAN, SO IT'S JUST, IT'S, IT'S, THERE'S SOME THAT DO.
AND SOME DON'T WE LIVE IN A WORLD.
THIS WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN NOW HAS CHANGED SO MUCH, ESPECIALLY RECENTLY.
AND IF, IF, IF STAFF PASSED A RESPONSIBILITY OR SOMETHING THAT THEY NEED TO DO, AND IT FALLS ON MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY, OR WHICHEVER DAY, I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE MAJORITY OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE GOING TO BE HANDLING TOWN, BUSINESS IF NEEDED.
UM, AND I THINK I, I JUST DON'T WANNA, I DON'T WANT TO PICK ON THIS PARTICULAR LINE ITEM IN THE BUDGET.
UM, I DON'T GET STUCK WELL, WELL, LET'S, LET'S AT LEAST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RECORD, UH,
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THIS, THIS WASN'T JUST CREATING.I MEAN, THIS IS NEW TO THE BUDGET.
AND SO, UH, PERHAPS THE WEST OR PASSIONATE WHOMEVER, I MEAN, GIVE US, YOU KNOW, THIS JUST, WASN'T JUST THESE THINGS DON'T JUST APPEAR.
YOU ALL TALK ABOUT YOU, YOU, YOU, UH, WE NEED TO DO THIS BECAUSE OF WHATEVER, I MEAN, SO JUST TELL US, TELL US THE STORY BEHIND THIS LINE, DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND LOOKING AT OUR COMPARISON CITIES.
WE HAVE NOTICED THAT OVER THE LAST YEAR, PLUS WE'RE SEEING MORE CITIES LOOK AT ADDING MLK, THE CITY OF CARROLLTON IN THE MOST RECENT.
AND SO IN LOOKING AT OUR TOTAL BENEFITS PACKAGE, IF YOU WILL PAY PLUS BENEFITS, THIS IS ONE THAT I BROUGHT TO THE MANAGER AND RECOMMENDED THAT WE INCLUDE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE COST IS $30,000.
SO CONSIDERING THE COST AND THE BENEFIT TO BE COMPARABLE TO PARABLE CITIES WHO WANTED TO RECOMMEND THIS, IF YOU LOOK AT, UH, OUR, OUR COMPETITORS CITIES, UH, SOME CITIES HAVE 10, 9, 10, AND A HALF 11, EIGHT DAYS.
SO YOU TAKE THE AVERAGE OF ALL OF OUR COMPETITORS, CITIES, IT'S ALMOST NINE AND A HALF VACATION DAYS THAT THEY PROVIDE.
AND SO WE ADD NINE, WE, WE PROVIDE NINE, WE THOUGHT THIS WAS A, A, UM, AN EASY WAY TO MAKE IT REALLY NICE TO WORK IN.
SO IT'S ALSO ABOUT SOME OF THESE, SOME OF THESE DAYS, REGARDLESS OF WHICH DAY IT IS, IT'S A TIME FOR EMPLOYEES TO REFLECT ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO THEM.
AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF MEANING TO THIS PARTICULAR HOLIDAY AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME AND HUMANITY AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
YOU UNDERSTAND? I'M NOT SAYING DON'T DO THAT.
DID YOU UNDERSTAND THEM? I, ALL I KNOW IS THAT YOUR, YOUR, YOUR CONCERN TO ME SEEMS THAT BECAUSE WE'VE ADDED THIS ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY, THAT, THAT THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH HOW MUCH TIME WE'RE PAYING THE EMPLOYEES WHEN THEY'RE NOT WORKING.
YOU WANT ME TO ANSWER THAT? YEAH, NO, MY ISSUE, WHAT I'M SUGGESTING IS WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD ADD DEFINITELY.
SO, UM, I'M IN AGREEMENT OF THAT, WHAT I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT IS ALL THE OTHER DAYS THAT WE OFFER, WHICH I THINK ARE GREAT.
UM, BUT SHOULD WE CONSIDER NOT DOING THE, THE EMPLOYEE BIRTHDAY DAY OFF? I'M JUST NOT USED TO SEEING THAT IN THE CORPORATE WORLD THAT I GREW UP IN.
HEY, THIS IS A SPECIAL PLACE WITHOUT A DOUBT.
I THINK WE DO A LOT OF SPECIAL THINGS.
I THINK, I THINK IT'S VERY SPECIAL.
WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY, WHEN YOUR BIRTHDAY ROLLS AROUND, I'M NOT GOING TO BE THE COUNCIL MEMBER OF THIS KIND OF TAKE AWAY THE PARTS OF THE DAY OFF THAT'S OKAY.
YES, IT WAS TALKING A LITTLE BIT, BUT, UH, WALKING, THOSE ARE KINGSBOROUGH'S DAY USED TO BE, UH, IN MY MIND IS FEDERAL HOLIDAYS.
SO LIKE A BAG IS CLOSED POST OFFICE, EVEN MALES.
AND THEN THE MOST BUSINESS SCHOOL STILL OPENS SOME SCHOOL CLOTHES, BUT, YOU KNOW, IF MAJORITY OF CITY WANT TO DO THAT, SO THIS IS ONE OF THE BENEFITS TO OUR OWN EMPLOYEES AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T OPPOSE THAT, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL REALLY MISSED, UM, FOR IT, BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE ALL KIND OF RACIALLY DIVIDED A HOME, YOU KNOW? SO ALL THOSE, WE CAN BRIDGE THE GAP FROM DIFFERENT RACES, YOU KNOW, AND ACTUALLY AS ASIAN AMERICAN OR MINORITY MINORITY.
SO, BUT I ALWAYS BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER CULTURE BETTER, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO TREAT EACH OTHER NICER.
AND, UH, HOW THE ADDISON'S GREASY, JUST LOOK AT MYSELF, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF MYSELF, IF I COULD BE PAID, YOU KNOW, IN HERE WITH THE 75% OF CAUCASIAN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE GREATEST TOWN IN THE WORLD.
YOU CAN NEVER BE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
YOU KNOW, SOMETIME JUST SAY, YES, SORRY.
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YOU KNOW, THE, THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO TALK ABOUT THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, MERLIN'S GREAT AND VERY CLEAR THAT IT'S, IT'S NOT ABOUT NOT CELEBRATING GREAT MAN'S BIRTHDAY BY ANY MEANS.IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A QUESTION OF RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS AND THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, MORAL, AND I'LL TELL YOU MY EXPERIENCE.
THIS IS MY COMPANY'S PRETTY GENEROUS WAY.
DON'T GIVE HIM A BIRTHDAY THING.
THEY CALL IT A FLOATING HOLIDAY AND I CAN TAKE IT ON MY BIRTHDAY, OR I CAN TAKE IT ANY DAY.
I WANT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STAY FLOATING HOLIDAY.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE MOVING AWAY FROM THAT, THAT MOVING.
I HAVE PTO DAYS, YOU KNOW? AND SO THERE'S NO SUCH SECOND SICK DAYS.
AND WHEN I USED TO MISS, BECAUSE I'M SICK BECAUSE I WANT TO GO TO OUR NEW COURTS AND PLAY PICKLEBALL OR WHATEVER, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I, I'M, I'M SHARING WITH YOU SOME OF MY EXPERIENCE.
AND THAT'S OF COURSE BEEN THE PRIVATE INDUSTRY, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, BUT, BUT, UH, WHAT, WHAT STRIKES ME ABOUT THIS IS IT DOESN'T, IT'S, IT, IT DOESN'T OFFEND MY SENSES.
AND I DESCRIBED TO YOU TALKING TO CATHERINE ABOUT $2,500, AND, YOU KNOW, MY SENSITIVITY TO THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, THIS IS A BIGGER NUMBER AND I JUST ASKED, AND THE COUNCIL WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO GRANT ME $25,000 FOR A PICKUP BALL OR, YOU KNOW, UPGRADE, ET CETERA.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, MY HONEST ASSESSMENT IN THIS MOMENT IS IT DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T STRIKE ME AS THAT, THAT WE'RE GETTING OUT OF BALANCE.
THAT THAT'S MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THAT.
SO THAT'S ALL WE CAN SPEAK TO IS OUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.
AND I MAY, I MAY I ADDRESS ONE KEY ON THE ONE, THE ONE THING THAT MARLIN BROUGHT UP EARLIER WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT APPLICATIONS FOR NON-PROFITS AND WE'RE DETERMINING, YOU KNOW, THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION, ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LOT IS THE BENEFIT OUT OF SOME RESIDENTS.
SO THE WAY I LOOK AT THIS IS THE PIBIL ALL SITUATION TO MY MIND PROVIDES QUALITY OF LIFE, DATA, SOME RESIDENTS THAT ARE TAXPAYERS THAT ARE, THAT WE'VE SEEN A SHIFT AND THE SPORTS ACTIVITY.
AND SO LET'S GET THIS TAKEN CARE OF WE'RE GOING TO DO IT.
THAT'S A BENEFIT TO ADD SOME RESIDENTS THE SAME AS I SEE THIS PARTICULAR SCENARIO, TAKE THE FLAVOR OF THE HOLIDAY OFF OF IT AT THE END OF THE DAY.
IT'S IT REALLY, ISN'T THE BIG SCHEME OF THINGS.
IT'S A SMALL THING THAT ADDISON CAN SAY, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR BIGGER, THE VISION THAT WE HAVE IS WE WANT OTHER CITIES TO LOOK AT US AND SAY, YES, WHAT ALISON DID IS GREAT BECAUSE WE NEEDED TO RETRACT AND RETAIN EMPLOYEES.
AND THAT IS A CRITICAL, WE WERE NOT PLAYING OUT CATHERINE AND I WENT TO, UM, NEWLY ELECTED OFFICIALS CONFERENCE AND WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE AND OPPORTUNITY THAT MEETING NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OTHER CITIES WOULD HAVE BIGGER BUDGETS AND THEY CAN JUST ENTICE, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN RAISE PAY, THEY CAN DO ALL OF THESE THINGS.
AND THEY BROUGHT A BIGGER BUDGET FOR US.
AND SO I, MY DECISIONS ON RESOURCE ALLOCATION HAVE BECOME VERY GUIDED BY THE BENEFITS OUT OF SOME RESIDENTS AND EMPLOYEES AS WELL.
AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE MY HEAD IS WITH IT.
IT'S NOT ABOUT 25,000 VERSUS 2,500.
IT'S ABOUT THE CONCENTRATION OF RETURN TO THE US AND TAXPAYER.
I'M CONFIDENT WITH THE DECISION AFTER EACH, OR IS RECOMMENDED BASED ON THE ROI LIKE THAT SUPPORT THIS, UH, THIS PROPOSED.
DID WE AGREE? DID, DID, DID WE GIVE YOU DIRECTION ON THE METRO CARE? UM, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS BEFORE YOU DISMISS MAYOR.
DO YOU HAVE ONE THING ABOUT, UH, I HAVE MENTIONED IN MY INTRODUCTION THAT WE HAD THIS COMP POOL, THE 4% COMP WAS WANTING TO KIND OF MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS COMFORTABLE WITH THE DIRECTION WE WERE HEADING.
I'M HAPPY TO DISCUSS IT RIGHT NOW, UNLESS THERE'S OTHER DISCUSSIONS WHILE THE COUNCIL WANTS THAT.
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THING ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR ITEM, RIGHT, IS IT NOT THAT, UM, THAT WE, WE, WE RE WE HAVE AN ALLOCATED, BUT THE, IN THE EVENT OF A TSUNAMI OR, YOU KNOW, WELL, MY PLAN IS THAT, THAT, THAT IN THE BUDGET, THERE'S THE 4% AND COUNCIL APPROVES THAT AND SUPPORTS THAT.THEN WHAT WE WILL LOOK AT AS FAR AS WHAT, HOW THAT'S BROKEN UP VERSUS MARKET OR MERIT, THEN WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL SURVEY OUR COMPETITOR CITIES.
LIKE WE SAID, WE WOULD, BASED ON WHAT WE'RE LEARNING FROM THEM, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE MARKETPLACE.
IF, FOR EXAMPLE, WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE TO DO A MARKET ADJUSTMENT OF A HALF A PERCENT.
WE HAVE THAT HALF OF A PERCENT TO BE ABLE TO DO TOWARDS THAT.
AND THEN WE HAVE THREE, 9% APPLIED TO THE MERIT.
IT COULD BE THAT IT'S THREE TO ONE OR TWO TO TWO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THE BUDGET IS A 4% POOL SO THAT WE CAN DO WHAT WE NEED TO BASED ON CONVERSATIONS WE HAD PREVIOUSLY THIS YEAR, I'M COMFORTABLE WITH THAT WORD ASIDE.
I, YOU WE'D HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS, UH, UH, RELATIVE TO WHAT MAKES SENSE TO BE OUR COMPETITOR CITIES.
AND SO AT, AT SOME POINT, I MEAN, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO REVISIT THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONING THEM, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO SEE AS WE COMPARE TO, YOU KNOW, DO WE NEED TO REVISIT THAT QUESTION? I MEAN, WE'RE KIND OF GOING BACKWARDS IN CIRCLE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? SO, SO WE WILL CERTAINLY INFORM THE COUNCIL WHAT THE OUTCOME OF THAT IS IN, BUT ASSUMING THAT THE COUNCIL IS GOOD WITH THE 4%, THEN WE'LL MOVE FORWARD.
WE'LL INFORM IT, MOVE FORWARD.
HOWEVER, SEPARATE FROM THAT, WE MENTIONED THAT WE WOULD HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY THAT STILL HAS TO HAPPEN.
SO THAT WILL BE, THAT WILL BE SEPARATE, BUT RELATED TO THAT, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT DOES, BUT IT'S A COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY AND WHO WE ALIGN OURSELVES WITH THE COMPETITOR RECEIVED THE SAME THING.
WELL, SO IT WILL BE, BUT NOT FOR THIS.
I WOULD, I WOULD NOT, I WOULDN'T SAY IT'S NOT FOR THIS YEAR, MEANING WE'LL USE OUR COMPETITOR CITIES THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY AND JUST KIND OF MAKE THEM MORE OF A FORWARD LOOK.
THE PHILOSOPHIC THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSATION WILL BE MORE FORWARD-LOOKING.
AND THAT'S NOT ONLY FOR COMPENSATION COMPARISONS, WE HAVE OTHER, I THINK IT WAS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT COMPARITOR CITIES FOR DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO, BUT THIS, THE CONVERSATION SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO COMPENSATION, PHILOSOPHY IS ONE THING, HAVING US, YOU KNOW, BEING, UH, BEING COGNIZANT THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A DIFFERENT TOPIC, IT MAY MORE MAKE MORE SENSE TO HAVE A DIFFERENT POOL OF COMPARISON.
CITIES IS, IS NOT UNREASONABLE.
CAN YOU REMIND US, WHEN CAN YOU REMIND ME, CAN YOU REMIND US OF WHEN WE HAD THAT STEADY LAST, UH, THE COMPENSATION COMP COMPARITORS, UH, WHEN WE SELECTED THE CONFERENCE THAT THIS COMPARATIVE STUDIES WAS IN 2014, 2014, WAS THAT A COMMITTEE? WAS IT, YEAH, IT WAS A COMMITTEE.
IT HAD SOME REPRESENTATION FROM THE COUNCIL AND ALSO STAFF AND THAT THERE WERE CONVERSATIONS.
AND THE OUTCOME OF THAT WAS WHAT WE HAVE TODAY.
NO, PRIOR TO THIS IS ON THE 14TH, WE NEVER CHOOSE ANY COMPARISON CITY, HONESTLY, AS TOM, JUST THE CITY MANAGER AND HR DIRECTOR.
SO THIS CITY MODELS INFORMATION, THE FONDNESS OF ON THE RECEIPTS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR TO THE CITY WAS CHOSEN.
SO, SO, YOU KNOW, UM, OF COURSE THE QUESTION NOW YOU ARE ASKING IS BECAUSE THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IT'S ON NOW.
AND THEN, BECAUSE NOW ALLEN FRISCO AND MCKINNEY PROSPER AND THE SOLANA, OR THE SERIES IN THE NORTH STAR TO GROW THE SIDRA, YOU ALL 980 AND 90 BEING ADDISON.
SO WE'LL ASK WHY THOSE SEE WHAT CHOSEN.
SO, YOU KNOW WHAT, OF COURSE YOU WILL LEAVE, YOU OPERATE FOR, TO THE CHOSE THOSE CITY, JUST BY US GELATIN PROVINCE.
WE WERE IN SCOTTSDALE OR THE SILVADENE CITY, INSTEAD OF MORE, UH, IT'S GOING TO BE A CONVERSATION IN A WAY TALK ABOUT
SO THEY ARE ABLE TO, SO WE NEED TO HAVE SOME DISCUSSION AROUND THAT I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH THE FUNDING POOL.
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I JUST, THE ONLY QUESTION I HAD IS, DO YOU HAVE ANY, ANY IDEA THE CONVERSATION WAS STATIONED IN MY 21ST 100 DAY PLAN.UH IT'S IT'S IT'S THAT CONVERSATION IS PART OF THAT.
MY 21ST HUNDRED DAY PLAN ENDS OCTOBER EARLY OCTOBER.
SO SOME HOPEFULLY BEFORE, EARLY OCTOBER.
UH, SO I GET THE SENSE MAYORS ITCHY, UH, TO, TO SAY SOMETHING.
SO, UH, WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS THIS, UM, WE CAN COMPLETED OUR PRESENTATIONS, UM, IF THERE IS A NEED TO VISIT TOMORROW AND WE ARE HAPPY TO ACCOMMODATE THAT, BUT I'D LIKE TO KNOW THAT FROM Y'ALL RIGHT NOW AND OKAY.
SO NOT ONLY ARE THERE WHERE THERE'S SOME QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE TO, WE STILL OWN ANSWERS ON, BUT IT, IF BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF, YOU KNOW, SEPTEMBER IS WHEN WE'RE GOING TO START THE NEXT PROCESS, YOU KNOW, STEPS IN THIS PROCESS, PUBLIC HEARINGS, ET CETERA.
IF YOU HAVE BUDGET QUESTIONS BETWEEN NOW, AND THEN DON'T HESITATE TO ASK THEM AND WE WILL GET KECK, WE'LL COLLECT THEM AND SEND THEM OUT TO THE ENTIRE COUNCIL LIKE WE NORMALLY DO.
UM, SO, ALL RIGHT, SO THE ANSWER IS WE'RE NOT HAVING ANOTHER MEETING TOMORROW, SO ARMA, YOU ALREADY PREPAID THE FOOD, JUST MAKE SURE THAT FOOD, ALL THE EMPLOYEES CAN.
WE'RE JUST DISCUSSING THAT AND PAIN PAINFUL.
SO IF THERE WILL BE ANY QUESTIONS I BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE, ANYTHING FURTHER, WE'LL JUST DISMISS THE MEETING.