WEBVTT 00:00:00.322 --> 00:00:08.257 - All right, I'm going to go ahead because the time is now 5.02 and we do have just about enough for, 00:00:08.257 --> 00:00:16.351 - well, we do, not just about, we do have the quorum because if we just about, we wouldn't be doing it. 00:00:16.351 --> 00:00:24.286 - So I'm going to call tonight's meeting to order. The time is 5.02 and tonight is the last. Woo-hoo! 00:00:24.450 --> 00:00:34.442 - work session presentation of the twenty twenty seven budgets. Here present we have in the rooms counselor 00:00:34.442 --> 00:00:44.057 - Iverson. Myself vital and wilts and I believe. More council members will be showing up here very soon 00:00:44.057 --> 00:00:54.238 - but again y'all are here for a good time not a long time so we will continue. Does anybody wish to make any 00:00:54.370 --> 00:01:06.271 - I'm not going to go into much field too much with everything because this is the last night, so nothing 00:01:06.271 --> 00:01:17.943 - else. However, I don't think that the folks that are here presenting will take much longer than there 00:01:17.943 --> 00:01:23.550 - are a lot of time frames. We've been doing well. 00:01:23.906 --> 00:01:31.684 - we thank you all, and I thank council members for that. But if we do need to stay on target and task, 00:01:31.684 --> 00:01:39.844 - the council staff will have a timer that will be presented here. And so when you get down to five minutes, 00:01:39.844 --> 00:01:47.546 - and when you get down to one minute, I believe that machine will make a nice little beep. That's it. 00:01:47.546 --> 00:01:53.342 - And then we will wrap it up. So again, these are presentations for tonight. 00:01:53.698 --> 00:02:02.065 - The public hearing is on October 6th at 5 p.m. Tuesday, October 6th at 5 p.m. And then our final adoption 00:02:02.065 --> 00:02:10.195 - will take place on Tuesday, October 20th, also at 5 p.m. We also have Councilor LaHoc in the building. 00:02:10.195 --> 00:02:17.694 - Yay, seems like you got your time frame. Okay, so we will go ahead and get started and for the 00:02:18.210 --> 00:02:25.973 - Last night of this conversation, I'm going to look at the auditor's office. So I'm going to look at 00:02:25.973 --> 00:02:30.942 - Ms. Gregory and Ms. Woodruff for your presentations. Thank you. 00:02:31.874 --> 00:02:37.906 - Good evening, Council. On the screen before you, you should see the deficit calculation that we've been 00:02:37.906 --> 00:02:43.707 - looking at at the beginning of each of these sessions. This is also printed in front of you and was 00:02:43.707 --> 00:02:49.565 - emailed out earlier today. The only change you should see on this document are the changes from last 00:02:49.565 --> 00:02:55.540 - night's session. Those were all within the general fund budget, so you'll notice that the general fund 00:02:55.540 --> 00:02:59.774 - has changed both in the ending cash balance and the deficit calculation. 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:08.883 - Thank you very much for that. Any questions or comments? Yes, Councillor Hawke. Right. As a reminder 00:03:08.883 --> 00:03:15.397 - for some of those who might have missed the announcement, it was made at the end of a meeting, and I 00:03:15.397 --> 00:03:21.975 - missed it, was that we're going to go over these numbers again on Thursday. I don't want to put words 00:03:21.975 --> 00:03:22.942 - in your mouth. 00:03:23.298 --> 00:03:31.674 - you now. So we could do that. We can do that because this is the final night. And so at the end of this 00:03:31.674 --> 00:03:39.729 - meeting, I unfortunately have a conflict that will start at 6 30 and I have to leave there and head 00:03:39.729 --> 00:03:47.783 - back to the dungeon. So that being said, we can either do that today and eliminate the conversation 00:03:47.783 --> 00:03:48.830 - on Thursday. 00:03:49.154 --> 00:03:56.428 - or we can do that tomorrow as well, because I think there might be some adjustments that we need to 00:03:56.428 --> 00:04:03.629 - do. I think we wanted to wait until the very end after all the presentations are over and do that. 00:04:03.629 --> 00:04:10.685 - But again, work smart or not harder, right? So if we can do that tonight, that might be helpful. 00:04:10.685 --> 00:04:17.086 - Or again, if council wants to do that tomorrow and just have a easy peasy lemon squeezy 00:04:17.314 --> 00:04:24.270 - that's up to us. But yes, you are correct. And a lot of it depends on what the commissioners say, and 00:04:24.270 --> 00:04:31.430 - we don't have the okay on that. Exactly. So I don't know how we could finish up tonight. That's exactly. 00:04:31.430 --> 00:04:38.250 - Exactly. I just wanted to make sure because I had missed that announcement. No, no, it's okay. When 00:04:38.250 --> 00:04:45.342 - are we going to do this? Oh, no, no. It is all good. So again, if council members want to look at that, 00:04:46.402 --> 00:04:53.067 - We can, you know, talk about that after we have the last presentation. But again, all of this is contingent 00:04:53.067 --> 00:04:59.301 - upon the edit use and that conversation our mind, us and folks of the public will be next Tuesday on 00:04:59.301 --> 00:05:05.472 - the 22nd. Yes, Councilmember Everson and for the record, we also have everybody here because now we 00:05:05.472 --> 00:05:08.126 - have counselors Henry and Decker. Welcome. 00:05:09.090 --> 00:05:18.062 - I just wanted to celebrate the four B's are up and we're able to see them. And I just verified that, 00:05:18.062 --> 00:05:25.790 - at least in the general fund, the numbers match. So, yay, we match. Yes, there you go. 00:05:26.306 --> 00:05:31.939 - I might just add on, I know that there's some budgetary adjustments as far that you want to make. When 00:05:31.939 --> 00:05:37.681 - we do that, it would be great if we also look at the levies, because we're going to need some adjustment 00:05:37.681 --> 00:05:43.587 - there. If you'll recall, we funneled all of the COLA adjustment, the growth quotient, I'm sorry, adjustment 00:05:43.587 --> 00:05:49.220 - into the general fund. So we'll need to even that out where it's necessary. Good point. Thank you very 00:05:49.220 --> 00:05:51.134 - much for that. Yes, Council Hawke. 00:05:56.482 --> 00:06:03.213 - It is everything because it tells us whether or not we need to move the dollars over into the other 00:06:03.213 --> 00:06:10.349 - funds. And I was contacting some people today to say, you know, the Otter's office has asked us to review 00:06:10.349 --> 00:06:17.080 - the four B's. Please look at yours and let me know if you think these numbers are going to work for 00:06:17.080 --> 00:06:23.879 - you because I don't want to put the words in another department. And, you know, the elected official 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.302 - knows what their budgets look like. 00:06:26.658 --> 00:06:36.129 - So but I gave them my word. We are going to be looking at it again. Absolutely. Anybody else? All right. 00:06:36.129 --> 00:06:45.148 - Thank you very much for that. And we will go ahead and proceed. So we will go with the first budget 00:06:45.148 --> 00:06:54.709 - here in tonight, which is the combined emergency dispatch budget. Council, I move to open for discussion. 00:06:54.709 --> 00:06:56.062 - That's budget. 00:06:57.154 --> 00:07:07.296 - second. All right, we got a motion. We got a motion and a second. Um and we are joined by the Bloomington 00:07:07.296 --> 00:07:17.055 - police fire chief, Mr Michael Decoff and Mr Bailey, the dispatch manager. Welcome. Police chief. Yes, 00:07:17.055 --> 00:07:26.910 - said that. Sorry. No, no, I want to respect your title. So thank you. We're here to present the budget 00:07:27.170 --> 00:07:35.468 - The 2027 budget for the Monroe County Central Emergency Dispatch Center. The total amount of the request 00:07:35.468 --> 00:07:44.004 - is $5,445,934.01. I'm going to just kind of touch on the highlights of the increases and any other specific 00:07:44.004 --> 00:07:52.144 - questions you might have about the budget. I will let the dispatch manager Jared Bailey answer because 00:07:52.144 --> 00:07:54.910 - he knows it much better than I do. 00:07:55.170 --> 00:08:04.466 - The salary lines increases are Cola and the city step increases. And along with that are the FICA and 00:08:04.466 --> 00:08:13.672 - Perf increases associated with that. So as you're well aware, all the health insurance costs, all of 00:08:13.672 --> 00:08:22.786 - that's increased. So that kind of summarizes the increases in the salaries. There's no increases in 00:08:22.786 --> 00:08:24.062 - the supplies. 00:08:24.802 --> 00:08:33.202 - Um, the communication contracts that we have, um, those, um, have their yearly increases. Um, there's 00:08:33.202 --> 00:08:41.520 - also an increase of $20,000 for the UPS maintenance, which is a three year every three year process. 00:08:41.520 --> 00:08:50.167 - And 27 is the, the year that that gets, um, upgraded. Um, obviously the cost for electrical water sewer, 00:08:50.167 --> 00:08:52.638 - all those, um, will increase. 00:08:53.154 --> 00:09:02.441 - that we're going to be working on as well next year. Um under machinery and equipment. We're having 00:09:02.441 --> 00:09:11.913 - some generator issues, so there's some. Cost related expenses to make sure that that generator stays, 00:09:11.913 --> 00:09:21.293 - stays functioning and working in emergency situations when we lose power. Um. Under other repairs is 00:09:21.293 --> 00:09:22.686 - an increase of 00:09:23.362 --> 00:09:33.494 - for the dispatch social worker. And last but not least, there's a slight increase in, um. Under under 00:09:33.494 --> 00:09:43.826 - other services and chargers for software for the dispatch social worker. So. I will entertain questions 00:09:43.826 --> 00:09:52.766 - and probably pass them to Jared. Thank you very much. Council I just want to say that the 00:09:53.154 --> 00:10:04.031 - printing off the updated budget. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. No. Yes. Counselor Hawke. Right. 00:10:04.031 --> 00:10:14.804 - I know that there's a lot of links that we haven't figured out how to put together in the coming years. 00:10:14.804 --> 00:10:20.190 - Or perhaps some have and I just don't know what the 00:10:20.930 --> 00:10:28.671 - so far but in the past we've always handled this with an inner local and I understand that the city 00:10:28.671 --> 00:10:36.412 - of Bloomington would like their own central dispatch and it's going to be your plan is to put it in 00:10:36.412 --> 00:10:44.307 - your building when you're finished if you finish with the new building that's being projected. So are 00:10:44.307 --> 00:10:49.726 - you planning that to be a central dispatch or just the city dispatch? 00:10:49.890 --> 00:10:57.662 - What's your plan? So there have You're correct. We operate under an interlocal agreement between the 00:10:57.662 --> 00:11:06.127 - city and the county That agreement hasn't been updated in many years. I know that the city's legal department 00:11:06.127 --> 00:11:14.054 - Would like to review that I think with the county legal department so that we can get that updated but 00:11:14.054 --> 00:11:16.670 - the the the plan would be when we 00:11:16.802 --> 00:11:24.900 - When we move to hopefully a new facility on South Roger Street, that we will bring dispatch along with 00:11:24.900 --> 00:11:32.841 - us so that everything is under one roof. But as of now, I've the plan is to maintain the city county 00:11:32.841 --> 00:11:40.703 - dispatch relationship and just just move everything to a new location. It seems to me that in turn, 00:11:40.703 --> 00:11:45.342 - you know, we get some kind of interlocal agreement that is 00:11:46.274 --> 00:11:54.465 - has a definite timeline for moving forward with whatever our plan is, but keeping us where we are now 00:11:54.465 --> 00:12:02.816 - presently so that we're making sure there's no glitch or anything, but making sure it doesn't go beyond 00:12:02.816 --> 00:12:11.087 - where this gets switched over where the county has more responsibility because that that entire public 00:12:11.087 --> 00:12:15.102 - safety responsibility is going to be, it appears, 00:12:15.490 --> 00:12:22.825 - on the county in part of our 1.2 and your portion will be in the city under your 1.2 unless we do it 00:12:22.825 --> 00:12:30.379 - somehow different but that unless the law changes between now and the time we actually do it so there's 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:35.390 - a lot of talking heads that need to start talking to one another and 00:12:35.522 --> 00:12:41.579 - and committing it to paper so we know when we're budgeting, whether we're budgeting for a growth of 00:12:41.579 --> 00:12:47.939 - city's expenses that's going to end up being our expense or city's expense that's going to be the city's 00:12:47.939 --> 00:12:53.997 - expense. So, and I think if you were looking at budgets, you would have to agree and you don't have 00:12:53.997 --> 00:13:00.296 - to agree with me now, but just to tell you that I think we have some concerns to make sure that we keep 00:13:00.296 --> 00:13:02.174 - everybody home until it's time 00:13:04.194 --> 00:13:12.423 - for the cutoff time, whatever that's going to be. I will take back to our attorneys, the county's desire 00:13:12.423 --> 00:13:20.260 - to look at the interlocal and make sure that we have everything in place. Well, I was just going to 00:13:20.260 --> 00:13:28.176 - reiterate that it's not just counselor hawk, but I do think it's probably a good idea that we have a 00:13:28.176 --> 00:13:33.662 - two phase review of interlocal agreement here, you know, one for now, 00:13:33.826 --> 00:13:41.014 - until you all are able to move and then have something ready to go once you moved, because it sounds 00:13:41.014 --> 00:13:48.487 - like there are going to be a lot of moving parts. I would agree. With all of that. So I was just echoing 00:13:48.487 --> 00:13:55.675 - in some respects what the Councilor was saying. Council Member Decker. Thanks for being here, Chief. 00:13:55.675 --> 00:14:03.646 - My question to you is, when you heard a Councilor say that there's support looking at the interlocal, all that, 00:14:04.162 --> 00:14:10.904 - Is that the first time you've heard that from anyone on the county? If you can share with me about local? 00:14:10.904 --> 00:14:17.328 - Yeah, no, it's it's it's there's been conversations about we need to do this. There just hasn't been 00:14:17.328 --> 00:14:24.006 - any conversations about a date of when we would start doing this. So I sometimes like to ask the obvious 00:14:24.006 --> 00:14:30.366 - because I worry that we haven't talked about the obvious. No, Councilor Hawke's correct. It's it's. 00:14:30.626 --> 00:14:39.323 - a pretty old agreement, and it hasn't been updated in a long time, and a lot of things have changed. 00:14:39.323 --> 00:14:48.192 - And so it does need to be reviewed and updated, because there's things that are in there that we don't 00:14:48.192 --> 00:14:56.888 - do anymore, and it's just, so it's just, it's time. Logistically, there we go. Logistically, this, I 00:14:56.888 --> 00:14:59.902 - do want the microphone to pick up, 00:15:01.218 --> 00:15:10.597 - At best estimate, when would that earliest dispatch be at the other place that's just in the papers? 00:15:10.597 --> 00:15:19.882 - And I mean that in a, literally just in the paper. I'm no construction person, but I'm guessing 28, 00:15:19.882 --> 00:15:30.654 - maybe. That'd be ambitious, probably. Probably. Yeah. I like to put that in the scheme of things because, you know, 00:15:30.914 --> 00:15:37.721 - We've had structure issues all our own. That's a different book. But I'd kind of like to keep that in 00:15:37.721 --> 00:15:44.595 - the conversation, too. There's a lot going on there. Thank you all for being here. I really appreciate 00:15:44.595 --> 00:15:50.334 - you taking the time. Just a clarifying question and then a question about the budget. 00:15:50.530 --> 00:15:58.379 - The information we just handed shows that the total budget here is $5.4 million, and in the packet it 00:15:58.379 --> 00:16:06.229 - says $5.2, $5.3 million. The total here is $5.4, right? That is correct. Okay. All right. So what you 00:16:06.229 --> 00:16:13.925 - see on your screens is the budget that was just read out by Richard Deakoff. Okay. My question then 00:16:13.925 --> 00:16:20.158 - is on line 51110, salaries and wages regular, how many FTEs does that represent? 00:16:24.866 --> 00:16:35.607 - that. It represents a total of 32 telecommunicators, six supervisors, two management staff, and a dispatch 00:16:35.607 --> 00:16:45.745 - social worker. Great. That helps. Thank you. Yes, Councillor Hogg. A couple things. First, does this 00:16:45.745 --> 00:16:53.374 - also cover self insurance out of that for those folks? Can you repeat that? 00:16:55.138 --> 00:17:05.054 - We have set in the county. We have self insurance and we have to, you know, county pays for portion 00:17:05.054 --> 00:17:15.169 - of it. And so a large portion of it. And so where are where is the insurance paid for this? The staff 00:17:15.169 --> 00:17:24.094 - people here? If you look at 51230, there's health and life insurance. OK, so that but it. 00:17:24.546 --> 00:17:31.309 - Did you figure so much for each position that's there, whether it's filled or not? Because in the past, 00:17:31.309 --> 00:17:37.942 - we've seen you ask for so many people, but several of those are left unfilled. And we know you're not 00:17:37.942 --> 00:17:44.575 - going to fill that many in any one given year, because it takes, the chief has made sure I understand 00:17:44.575 --> 00:17:46.526 - this, it takes a long time to 00:17:46.658 --> 00:17:53.620 - get people ready to go and be online. And so then you don't want to bring them all in at once. But I 00:17:53.620 --> 00:18:00.651 - think the number was like six at a time, and then another six at a time, and so forth. So it would be 00:18:00.651 --> 00:18:07.820 - my hope that if you have budgeted for more than what you actually have filled right now, that you would 00:18:07.820 --> 00:18:12.990 - come back and do an additional for additional salaries and appropriations. 00:18:13.250 --> 00:18:20.601 - And that has to do because this interlocal just leaves everybody hanging out. Unless the interlocal 00:18:20.601 --> 00:18:28.025 - has changed, it has said that if there's a shortfall, the city and the county will share equally the 00:18:28.025 --> 00:18:35.375 - shortfall. Then it also talks about the distribution of any revenue that's left over and how that's 00:18:35.375 --> 00:18:41.182 - going to be distributed if ever there's not an interlocal. So you can see why. 00:18:41.570 --> 00:18:48.399 - the county would want to make sure that we're watching every dollar, just as I would expect you and 00:18:48.399 --> 00:18:55.228 - the people who represent you and all of the finances in your area would be watching. So I just want 00:18:55.228 --> 00:19:02.194 - to make sure that we're both staying on top of it and being absolutely fair and equal to one another. 00:19:02.194 --> 00:19:09.228 - But boy, that interlocal brought up to date would really keep us from having to ask too many questions 00:19:09.228 --> 00:19:11.550 - that there's truly no answer for. 00:19:12.386 --> 00:19:20.403 - sure the I'm sure you're aware of the way the city budgets we budget for every allocated position we 00:19:20.403 --> 00:19:28.341 - so we would we can take that this budget reflects that the dispatch center is funded through PS lit 00:19:28.341 --> 00:19:36.596 - and I own I know that's going to change in the coming years but I am aware that the controller has been 00:19:36.596 --> 00:19:39.454 - talking with county officials about 00:19:39.650 --> 00:19:54.505 - the changes to that fund and how that will impact the funding of dispatch. So I know that that is definitely 00:19:54.505 --> 00:20:07.998 - being discussed and watched. No questions. So thank you. Are there any other questions? All right. 00:20:09.634 --> 00:20:17.804 - I just wanted to point out, I don't know if the public's been able to see the whole budget, but if you 00:20:17.804 --> 00:20:25.735 - could just scroll down to the bottom half, I can't tell because it's so tiny, but in the lines that 00:20:25.735 --> 00:20:34.381 - are in purple, which are 53-150 and 53-160, are those two lines coming through the county and paid directly? 00:20:34.381 --> 00:20:37.950 - Is that why they're highlighted differently? 00:20:40.578 --> 00:20:49.796 - That's my understanding. That's my understanding, too. I just wanted to kind of make sure that that 00:20:49.796 --> 00:20:59.290 - was correct and that folks got a chance to see kind of how that worked. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else? 00:20:59.290 --> 00:21:08.692 - All right. Seeing none, may we have a roll call vote on this item? Councilor Crossley? Yes. Councilor 00:21:08.692 --> 00:21:09.982 - Iverson? Yes. 00:21:10.338 --> 00:21:25.999 - Yes. Councillor Hawk. Councillor Wilts. Yes. Councillor Henry. And Councillor Deckard. Motion passes 00:21:25.999 --> 00:21:38.558 - by majority six one six zero one. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next up. Here. 00:21:39.330 --> 00:21:56.051 - take a five minute break so they can reboot the mic so whenever you want to do that. Stay tuned as we 00:21:56.051 --> 00:22:07.198 - work through technical difficulties. Thank you. Order in the court. 00:22:08.258 --> 00:22:16.928 - All right, so we are going to go ahead and get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Thank you 00:22:16.928 --> 00:22:25.684 - all very much for your patience as we work through first world problems. So next up we have the review 00:22:25.684 --> 00:22:28.574 - of the waste production district. 00:22:30.434 --> 00:22:38.001 - Council I move to open for discussion review fund eighty two ten solid waste management operating fund 00:22:38.001 --> 00:22:45.495 - eighty two eighty three solid waste district debt service and finally fund twelve fifteen solid waste 00:22:45.495 --> 00:22:53.062 - district non-reverting capital. All right a motion and a second we are joined by Mr. McGlaskin and Mr. 00:22:53.062 --> 00:22:54.238 - Arnold welcome. 00:22:54.338 --> 00:23:00.238 - Good evening, I'm Tom Lasson, the director of the waste reduction district. I have our controller John 00:23:00.238 --> 00:23:06.023 - Arnold here with me. I think as we usually do, I will just in essence of time go through and briefly 00:23:06.023 --> 00:23:12.094 - highlight some of the significant increases and decreases in the proposed budget versus the current year. 00:23:12.354 --> 00:23:20.685 - In the personnel services category, our budget does include a 3.5% wage increase. That's based on the 00:23:20.685 --> 00:23:29.342 - Midwest Urban Wager Wagerer Index, the CPIW that we've historically used to do our COLA wage adjustments. 00:23:30.562 --> 00:23:38.574 - We are also seeking to increase the hours for one position. Our office manager is currently scheduled 00:23:38.574 --> 00:23:46.508 - for 30 hours a week. We have budgeted to move that position to 35 hours a week, based on the current 00:23:46.508 --> 00:23:51.614 - workload that's there. And if you'll recall, last year we talked 00:23:51.746 --> 00:23:58.138 - For this current budget year, we had a pretty good decrease in our health insurance line. We're also, 00:23:58.138 --> 00:24:04.467 - for 27, that's reduced another $70,000. You might recall last year I explained that through a number 00:24:04.467 --> 00:24:11.046 - of circumstances and the way that the increases for that budget line had been calculated in our previous 00:24:11.046 --> 00:24:17.438 - accounting software, it kind of got out of line with what our actual expenses are. And I believe that 00:24:17.570 --> 00:24:25.445 - With this reduction for 27, that will bring that line more true to what the district's actual expenses 00:24:25.445 --> 00:24:33.090 - are for health insurance as we move forward. In the supplies category, a fuel increase of $1,500. I 00:24:33.090 --> 00:24:40.736 - think we're all feeling the bite of fuel right now, but I don't think that's too big of an increase 00:24:40.736 --> 00:24:42.494 - given where costs are. 00:24:42.658 --> 00:24:50.762 - I also have a $3,500 increase in road-based materials. That is really for gravel at our rural recycling 00:24:50.762 --> 00:24:58.867 - centers for lot maintenance and the roads at our landfill that are in need of some additional work from 00:24:58.867 --> 00:25:06.270 - what we usually do on an annual basis. And the services category, we have quite a few changes. 00:25:06.370 --> 00:25:12.933 - There's a $2,000 increase in engineering. We need to do a groundwater elevation survey at the landfill. 00:25:12.933 --> 00:25:19.496 - We do that every few years at items request. As the landfill has been closed for a number of years now, 00:25:19.496 --> 00:25:25.807 - things are settling and moving, and they want us to survey our groundwater wells to ensure that our 00:25:25.807 --> 00:25:31.550 - groundwater elevation data is accurate for the sampling events we have to do twice a year. 00:25:31.810 --> 00:25:40.423 - We're also expecting the $5,000 increase in our laboratory line. We do anticipate a price increase from 00:25:40.423 --> 00:25:49.202 - our lab. We do have a $22,000 decrease in our consultant line, and that is specific to our multi-dwelling 00:25:49.202 --> 00:25:57.815 - compost program. We have had a consultant that set that program up and had been running it for the past 00:25:57.815 --> 00:26:01.790 - couple of years or the first two years of that. 00:26:01.922 --> 00:26:10.529 - That consultant has since moved out of state and we've elected to bring that program in-house and manage 00:26:10.529 --> 00:26:19.137 - it in-house moving forward. We did talk last year, it was our first year with a community grant program. 00:26:19.137 --> 00:26:27.006 - I think we've awarded five grants this year, about 18, a little over $18,000 in total on those. 00:26:27.138 --> 00:26:35.984 - But we're pleased with that and have increased $10,000 in that line for 27 and plan to do some better 00:26:35.984 --> 00:26:45.004 - promotion of that program for 27 and hope that we can get that money out to local entities to do things 00:26:45.004 --> 00:26:48.126 - to promote and further our mission. 00:26:49.602 --> 00:26:56.159 - are doing a $5,000 increase in media advertising. We'd like to expand our media presence on some new 00:26:56.159 --> 00:27:02.846 - platforms. We're currently right now pretty much specific to television and radio, and with the advent 00:27:02.846 --> 00:27:07.390 - of social media and so forth, we'd like to expand our media presence. 00:27:07.650 --> 00:27:14.360 - There is a $60,000 increase in our liability line, and that is specific to we are required to have a 00:27:14.360 --> 00:27:21.070 - pollution prevention policy at the closed landfill. It is a 3-year policy, renews every 3 years, and 00:27:21.070 --> 00:27:27.914 - that will be due in 27. Vehicle repair and maintenance is increasing $9,000. That is based on expenses 00:27:27.914 --> 00:27:32.830 - that we have seen year to date this year and over the previous few years. 00:27:32.930 --> 00:27:40.029 - The same with machinery and equipment, repair and maintenance, a $13,500 increase just based on our 00:27:40.029 --> 00:27:47.271 - recent and current experience. I have a $9,500 decrease in snow removal. We have purchased snow plows 00:27:47.271 --> 00:27:54.370 - for our pickup trucks, two of our pickup trucks, and we're going to be managing snow removal at our 00:27:54.370 --> 00:27:56.926 - facilities in-house moving forward. 00:27:57.890 --> 00:28:05.382 - We have a $15,700 increase in machinery and equipment rental. We've talked with our board officers, 00:28:05.382 --> 00:28:13.175 - the board's executive committee, the compactor units that we use at our recycling centers are all about 00:28:13.175 --> 00:28:20.742 - 20 years old. It's time to replace those, and that will take some time to do, but that new equipment 00:28:20.742 --> 00:28:24.638 - is going to have a higher monthly lease cost on it. 00:28:26.242 --> 00:28:32.783 - I got a $3,000 increase in education and training just to try to get some more training and education 00:28:32.783 --> 00:28:39.453 - for our employees. A $10,000 increase in the leachate disposal line. That's kind of based on what we've 00:28:39.453 --> 00:28:45.994 - seen this year and, you know, trying to anticipate long range forecasts and what we think we'll need. 00:28:45.994 --> 00:28:52.535 - A $25,000 increase in household hazardous waste disposal costs are increasing. The types of materials 00:28:52.535 --> 00:28:56.062 - that we're getting and the volumes of those materials. 00:28:56.322 --> 00:29:04.876 - Some of them are costly, and that is really increasing our costs. We do have a $35,000 decrease in our 00:29:04.876 --> 00:29:13.927 - hauling contract. That is based on where we are year to date. You might recall we were under a new agreement 00:29:13.927 --> 00:29:22.398 - with a new vendor that was entered into in June of 2025, so some of that is still a learning process. 00:29:22.498 --> 00:29:29.814 - But with that new vendors processes and how they haul materials, we've also made some operational changes 00:29:29.814 --> 00:29:37.131 - that are decreasing the amount of hauling that we need done. A $10,500 increase in waste tire processing. 00:29:37.131 --> 00:29:44.309 - That's related to the waste tire amnesty days that we have started doing over the past year and a half, 00:29:44.309 --> 00:29:50.590 - I think, which and for those listening, we have an event this Saturday at the fairgrounds. 00:29:50.946 --> 00:29:58.799 - Uh, we also, um, do get, uh, have $10,000 annual grant from item, uh, that we've been awarded, uh, uh, 00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:06.500 - to do those events. Um, uh, recycling fees is decreasing, uh, $2,100. Uh, that's again based the new 00:30:06.500 --> 00:30:14.201 - vendor agreement. And when we did the 26 budget, we had just entered into that agreement and we kind 00:30:14.201 --> 00:30:19.614 - of overestimated what our expenses would be for the recycling on that. 00:30:20.354 --> 00:30:28.779 - And in a $2,000 increase in permits and licenses, we know we have some increases coming on some of those 00:30:28.779 --> 00:30:36.804 - software licenses in particular. In the capital category, $50,000 decrease in vehicle purchases. We 00:30:36.804 --> 00:30:45.470 - don't have any vehicle purchases planned. And a $31,000 increase in machinery and equipment purchase lease. 00:30:45.826 --> 00:30:52.015 - In addition to having 20 year old compactor units, most of our roll off containers are 20 plus years 00:30:52.015 --> 00:30:58.143 - old and repair costs have started approaching or in some cases exceeding the cost of purchasing new 00:30:58.143 --> 00:31:04.272 - containers. So we've started. You might recall earlier this year, we came to you with an additional 00:31:04.272 --> 00:31:10.645 - appropriation request to replace a number of those containers, and we're budgeting next year to replace 00:31:10.645 --> 00:31:15.486 - more of those. That's what I have to highlight from the operating fund. We can 00:31:15.842 --> 00:31:23.516 - deal with questions on that now or I can do go move on to the debt fund if you'd like, whatever your 00:31:23.516 --> 00:31:31.570 - preference. Yeah, in an interested time we should keep going. Okay, so on the debt service, final payment 00:31:31.570 --> 00:31:33.470 - is due in February. Yay. 00:31:33.922 --> 00:31:41.049 - And, I mean, everything is, and talking with DLGF should balance out, but the way that the tax disbursements 00:31:41.049 --> 00:31:47.654 - fall when the payments are due, the operating fund is going to have to loan a little over $47,000 to 00:31:47.654 --> 00:31:54.192 - the debt service fund in January to cover that payment in February, and we'll get tax disbursements 00:31:54.192 --> 00:31:59.358 - in June and December that should balance that fund out at the end of the year. 00:31:59.522 --> 00:32:06.802 - And then in the the capital improvement fund, that's one we have money in that fund We generally pass 00:32:06.802 --> 00:32:14.082 - a zero-sum budget every year So that as we had to do this year if we need to appropriate money out of 00:32:14.082 --> 00:32:21.505 - that fund The budget is on file with the state and it eliminates some steps to get that money available 00:32:21.505 --> 00:32:28.286 - Thank you very much for that any questions or comments from council members counselor Hawk and 00:32:30.210 --> 00:32:40.779 - Yes, it's good to see you folks again. Just as a reminder for some folks, it might be new to many years 00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:51.044 - ago. Well, many years ago, the county did all the solid waste and it wasn't a combined issue. But we 00:32:51.044 --> 00:33:00.190 - had for years, they also received a portion of the income tax. And then a few years back, 00:33:00.450 --> 00:33:08.563 - We said, well, we're not going to share that income tax with you anymore. Now, my question is, have 00:33:08.563 --> 00:33:16.839 - you looked at, because we know the growth of the income tax is supposed to be, growth of the property 00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:24.952 - tax is not going to be the same, the growth portion of it, and because you don't get the income tax 00:33:24.952 --> 00:33:29.982 - to make up for the shortfall like some of the other units do, 00:33:30.082 --> 00:33:38.086 - have you looked at that? And are you going to be all right? Are you going to just play the waiting game 00:33:38.086 --> 00:33:45.936 - and then come back next year and tell us where you are? Because as a reminder, if some waste district 00:33:45.936 --> 00:33:53.709 - would get any portion of it, if that would come up to be decided, that is the same 0.2 that could be 00:33:53.709 --> 00:33:58.558 - reduced to 0.1 because all we get is 1.7. But that's where the 00:33:58.658 --> 00:34:06.481 - Townships get money. That's where Bloomington Transit gets money. And that's where the library gets 00:34:06.481 --> 00:34:14.383 - money. And so that's going to be a tough nut to say extra money for solid waste. So I don't know. If 00:34:14.383 --> 00:34:17.982 - you're looking at it, are you going to be OK? 00:34:19.010 --> 00:34:26.812 - Well, obviously, we have looked at the proposed changes to the property tax laws and the potential impacts 00:34:26.812 --> 00:34:34.323 - that that might have on us. Obviously, at this point, nobody knows exactly what is going to happen and 00:34:34.323 --> 00:34:41.906 - what the true impact is going to be. But we are, at least in the short term, we are okay. We have ample 00:34:41.906 --> 00:34:45.406 - cash reserves that we would be able to survive. 00:34:45.570 --> 00:34:54.439 - Probably at least one, if not two budget cycles absorbing any decrease in property tax revenues that 00:34:54.439 --> 00:35:03.396 - may come. But yeah, we'll have to, in order to be able to maintain our existing level of programs and 00:35:03.396 --> 00:35:12.177 - services for the community, we will have to find other sources of revenue to offset those losses in 00:35:12.177 --> 00:35:13.406 - the long run. 00:35:15.586 --> 00:35:24.860 - Um, I just wanted to say, since I am the, the council designated the board that, um, you know, we approved, 00:35:24.860 --> 00:35:33.877 - we, we reviewed this, we've gone over in detail, I think almost every single line here. Um, and I really 00:35:33.877 --> 00:35:42.206 - appreciate the stewardship that, um, you both provide to the account lines here because that is, 00:35:42.754 --> 00:35:53.211 - obviously a point of discussion that we've had in our executive committee meetings about, okay, so things 00:35:53.211 --> 00:36:03.668 - are changing, how are we addressing it? And I've been very appreciative of the way in which Mr. McGlasson 00:36:03.668 --> 00:36:11.166 - has led his staff and stewarded the budgets to really provide that cushion. 00:36:13.890 --> 00:36:21.538 - for that all right seeing no councilor vital so I can't help but notice that the and I'm not disparaging 00:36:21.538 --> 00:36:28.822 - it but I noticed that the salary increase is three and a half percent and for the county in general 00:36:28.822 --> 00:36:34.430 - is two at this point so I wonder if you could elaborate on that a little bit 00:36:35.298 --> 00:36:42.862 - Well, we have historically used the Midwest Wager Index, the CPIW, and that is historically what we've 00:36:42.862 --> 00:36:50.646 - used. And unfortunately, it comes down to timing because our budget has to go through our board so early. 00:36:50.646 --> 00:36:58.137 - We have to kind of settle in on that before we know exactly what the county is going to do. And to be 00:36:58.137 --> 00:37:01.662 - blunt and honest, you know, at the time that we 00:37:01.890 --> 00:37:11.101 - elected that COLA increase. What I had was the county was going to be anywhere from zero to six percent. 00:37:11.101 --> 00:37:19.874 - Okay. All right. Thank you for your honesty. All right. Well, thank you very much for that. And may 00:37:19.874 --> 00:37:28.734 - we please have a roll call vote. Councilor Iverson? Yes. Councilor Feidl? Yes. Councilor Hawk? Well, 00:37:29.154 --> 00:37:36.400 - I thought we were still having the conversation about the salary increase. How do we go straight to 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:43.791 - the roll call? I'll just have to say no, because I was going to suggest that they had the same salary 00:37:43.791 --> 00:37:51.326 - increase that the county does. So I'll just have to say no. Councilor Wilts? Yes. Councilor Henry? Yes. 00:37:51.326 --> 00:37:57.630 - Councilor Decker? Yes. And Councilor Crossley? Yes. Motion passes by majority six one. 00:37:58.178 --> 00:38:06.095 - All right. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next up is item seven, which 00:38:06.095 --> 00:38:13.935 - is the Monroe Fire Protection District Council. I moved to open for discussion and review fund eighty 00:38:13.935 --> 00:38:22.082 - six oh three special fire general and fund eighty six ninety one special fire cumulative fire and finally 00:38:22.082 --> 00:38:25.310 - fund zero zero six one rainy day. Second. 00:38:26.754 --> 00:38:38.819 - We got a motion and a second and joining us is our fireteeth. Mr. Diller and Lori Robinson, our financial 00:38:38.819 --> 00:38:50.883 - manager. Welcome. Good evening. Thanks for having us. Ready for me? Yes, sir. Go ahead. All right. Better 00:38:50.883 --> 00:38:56.574 - get the clock up so I know. Oh, yeah. You got it. 00:38:56.674 --> 00:39:03.908 - And you can just roll through all of them. Sounds good. So I'm going to cover the general fund and cumulative 00:39:03.908 --> 00:39:10.550 - fund. And then Lori's going to talk about our rainy day and a couple of donation funds that we have. 00:39:10.550 --> 00:39:17.191 - So, you know, first and foremost, there's been years of discussion, work and meetings, um, to get to 00:39:17.191 --> 00:39:24.096 - where we are currently. Um, you know, we now have a staff station coming in in January and being blossom 00:39:24.096 --> 00:39:26.398 - township. Um, and, and that's, uh, 00:39:27.458 --> 00:39:35.427 - something that took several years. Because of that, we're looking at a $1,089,000 increase over last 00:39:35.427 --> 00:39:43.553 - year's budget to staff that station 24-7. We've once again submitted assistance to firefighters grant, 00:39:43.553 --> 00:39:51.758 - which, if that's successful, could hire some additional firefighters over the next few years and offset 00:39:51.758 --> 00:39:54.046 - some of the costs that we've 00:39:54.178 --> 00:40:01.989 - that we've previously looked at. So things are changing. We're still adding geographic area. We're still 00:40:01.989 --> 00:40:09.577 - adding firefighters, and we'll kind of discuss some of the details as we move through here. So if you 00:40:09.577 --> 00:40:17.239 - look at our cost of living adjustment, it's kind of a good transition from solid waste to ours. We are 00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:20.958 - at 4% cost of living adjustment with this budget. 00:40:21.058 --> 00:40:28.253 - We do understand that the county is doing too, but we are still playing catch up slightly on competitive 00:40:28.253 --> 00:40:35.174 - fire service in Monroe County specifically and really in our region. So while we're close, we're not 00:40:35.174 --> 00:40:39.422 - quite there and we need to continue to make progress on that. 00:40:40.098 --> 00:40:47.372 - In this budget, there's fewer chiefs once again. Last year, we made a permanent elimination of an assistant 00:40:47.372 --> 00:40:54.108 - chief position, and we made a temporary reduction in the battalion chief positions due to vacancies 00:40:54.108 --> 00:41:00.911 - in our current organizational structure. And I can tell you that we have definitely felt the need to 00:41:00.911 --> 00:41:07.848 - work back towards getting the second battalion, but this just wasn't the year to try and get that done 00:41:07.848 --> 00:41:08.926 - mathematically. 00:41:09.026 --> 00:41:16.065 - We senior chiefs, myself, the deputy chiefs, and the assistant chiefs have been assisting in covering 00:41:16.065 --> 00:41:17.790 - those roles when needed. 00:41:18.114 --> 00:41:25.459 - I do see that there are some shifts occurring since the merger. It was discussed early on that we were 00:41:25.459 --> 00:41:33.160 - top heavy, and there definitely was truth to that. But as time has went on and we've gotten more organized, 00:41:33.160 --> 00:41:40.576 - we have reduced those positions as we go. So I hope you all, each year when I talk about this, you know 00:41:40.576 --> 00:41:47.422 - that we are still paying attention to the way we're structured. In the office for pay category, 00:41:47.618 --> 00:41:54.207 - Um, you know, there are vacancies, uh, currently in some of the positions, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, 00:41:54.207 --> 00:42:00.486 - chauffeur, and those are merit positions. So we have to go through a specific process to fill those. 00:42:00.486 --> 00:42:05.086 - Um, and with that, there's really no reason to budget for an entire year. 00:42:05.602 --> 00:42:12.376 - When we know that those vacancies probably won't take place until next fall Won't be filled until next 00:42:12.376 --> 00:42:19.217 - fall. So this budget takes that into consideration and we've reduced that In the full-time firefighters 00:42:19.217 --> 00:42:25.860 - category we are increasing by six firefighters, but those are dedicated to being blossom township So 00:42:25.860 --> 00:42:28.030 - there are six firefighters still 00:42:28.130 --> 00:42:35.867 - that we've been working on. We've been working out there that our grand plan, if you will, was to phase 00:42:35.867 --> 00:42:43.306 - up to, but we're holding on those six firefighters. The firefighters that were adding this year are 00:42:43.306 --> 00:42:51.192 - those needed to staff that being blossom stations. So, um, again, um, I'll mention those six firefighters 00:42:51.192 --> 00:42:58.110 - again. And probably again next year and the year after that, and if we can add them 123 at a 00:43:00.514 --> 00:43:10.123 - we're going to try and get those positions filled this time around. As you know, over the years, we've 00:43:10.123 --> 00:43:19.546 - hired so many full time folks that we've depleted our volunteer ranks and our part time ranks really 00:43:19.546 --> 00:43:29.156 - about every time we did a process. This time we're building those up and with us hiring less full time 00:43:29.156 --> 00:43:30.462 - positions. Uh 00:43:31.650 --> 00:43:39.786 - really a big hit this time around for us was the state mandated employer contribution increase in the 00:43:39.786 --> 00:43:48.002 - 77 fund police and fire. They increased that statutorily from 23.5 to 26.5 for the certified salaries. 00:43:48.002 --> 00:43:56.058 - So really, whatever salary we are paying or giving an increase to, there was a 3% increase on top of 00:43:56.058 --> 00:44:00.286 - that this year as well. So it really, really kind of 00:44:00.642 --> 00:44:07.448 - We've had a lot of volunteers. We've had a lot of volunteers who have tied our hands and some other 00:44:07.448 --> 00:44:14.459 - areas. Um but on a very efficient and cost effective practice. Um. Our volunteer volunteer association 00:44:14.459 --> 00:44:21.333 - is definitely alive and well again. Um you know, there was a time when a lot of our departments were 00:44:21.333 --> 00:44:28.276 - needing to merge because our volunteer numbers just weren't where they needed to be. But we've really 00:44:28.276 --> 00:44:30.590 - revitalized that. And while we do 00:44:30.690 --> 00:44:38.287 - non-emergency responder volunteers that help supplement the many tasks that we were also taxing our 00:44:38.287 --> 00:44:46.339 - firefighters with. So whether that be our fire prevention details, our community events, we have a robust 00:44:46.339 --> 00:44:54.468 - group of volunteers who are really helping us thrive in the public relation area. So outside of personnel, 00:44:54.468 --> 00:44:58.494 - we're looking at supplies categories, we really just 00:44:59.778 --> 00:45:06.410 - Well, it was difficult for Lori and I. No, I'm kidding. We took the red pen to most of those categories 00:45:06.410 --> 00:45:12.786 - based on our actuals. So if you look at our actuals over the last few years, you'll see that really 00:45:12.786 --> 00:45:19.354 - we slimmed those down to where they're exactly where we need them to be. And that included quite a few 00:45:19.354 --> 00:45:25.858 - changes in those categories. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that you see a reduction in all those 00:45:25.858 --> 00:45:27.070 - categories because 00:45:27.394 --> 00:45:34.373 - there was an anticipated increase for some of those with bean blossom. So what we did before we did 00:45:34.373 --> 00:45:41.351 - this budget is we took that bean blossom expectation. We carved out the fire district's 2026 budget 00:45:41.351 --> 00:45:48.330 - and then added those two together. So some of those lines don't show as drastic decreases what Lori 00:45:48.330 --> 00:45:55.379 - and I saw looking at 2026 is fire district budget. And that's because every category was impacted by 00:45:55.379 --> 00:45:56.286 - that merger. 00:45:56.546 --> 00:46:03.901 - And the services categories, you know, those are reflective of the budget, um, that we presented during 00:46:03.901 --> 00:46:11.185 - those bean blossom mergers. And we tighten those up also based on 2025 and the first half of 2026. Um, 00:46:11.185 --> 00:46:18.470 - so we're pretty happy with, with where we're at in those services category. Uh, but there's really not 00:46:18.470 --> 00:46:22.430 - anything left in supplies and services for us to shift. 00:46:23.394 --> 00:46:29.288 - Uh, if I'm moving into cumulative fund, uh, which I teased Lori and said, I usually did that anyway. 00:46:29.288 --> 00:46:35.241 - And then you guys caught me and told me that we weren't on that budget. But since we're doing it all, 00:46:35.241 --> 00:46:41.251 - um, you know, our cumulative fire rate is still at the 0.0333 and that applies to all of our townships 00:46:41.251 --> 00:46:45.278 - within the fire district. We've completely paid all of our debt off. 00:46:45.634 --> 00:46:53.466 - effective this 2026 year. So we are going to have a lot of funds available in cumulative fund to start 00:46:53.466 --> 00:47:01.527 - catching up on equipment. When we merged five years ago, there was a vast variety of different apparatus, 00:47:01.527 --> 00:47:09.131 - different equipment, and we have slowly mitigated some of the issues and the complexities of having 00:47:09.131 --> 00:47:13.694 - a fleet that really is a code of many callers, if you will. 00:47:13.794 --> 00:47:20.832 - But we're to the point where it's time to start replacing a lot of that equipment and freeing up those 00:47:20.832 --> 00:47:27.869 - debts, being debt free and using the cumulative fund and the rainy day fund to to make those purchases 00:47:27.869 --> 00:47:35.044 - cash outright. It's going to save our taxpayers a lot of interest. So we're happy that that is something 00:47:35.044 --> 00:47:41.398 - that we promised years ago. And we're finally to the point where we're able to execute that. 00:47:41.398 --> 00:47:43.038 - So with that, we've got 00:47:43.490 --> 00:47:51.326 - the rainy day fund that L'Oreal mentioned that's got some equipment in that that we're going to pay 00:47:51.326 --> 00:47:59.397 - cash for. Hello, counselors. The rainy day fund, as Dustin mentioned, we're using that to purchase new 00:47:59.397 --> 00:48:07.234 - to new apparatus. We budgeted for that for twenty twenty six one point seven million. That's a fire 00:48:07.234 --> 00:48:11.230 - boat and a new engine. But it takes a long time to 00:48:12.354 --> 00:48:31.966 - we're not asking for any new budgetary numbers for 2027. For the rainy day. Um those are all the 00:48:32.194 --> 00:48:39.600 - that we have to mention is that we are following the state Board of accounts directive and creating 00:48:39.600 --> 00:48:47.005 - budgets for our special programs, donation fund and our restricted donation fund for this year. But 00:48:47.005 --> 00:48:54.411 - since our board of fire trustees has authority over those home rolled funds, we don't didn't really 00:48:54.411 --> 00:49:01.150 - present them at this meeting, but our board did have a public meeting and voted those two. 00:49:01.250 --> 00:49:09.691 - to approve those numbers. Auditor Gregory will be submitting it with the form three for advertising 00:49:09.691 --> 00:49:18.638 - through this form. Okay, thank you very much for your presentation. Councilors, do you have any questions 00:49:18.638 --> 00:49:27.838 - on their budget? Councilor Hawk? Yes, I understand that the commissioners will be meeting. Is that tomorrow? 00:49:28.002 --> 00:49:38.781 - They're going to be meeting to discuss your tax rate or tax levy. What is it? It's the max levy is the 00:49:38.781 --> 00:49:49.559 - max levy. So and and I. So is this budget? Did you include what you anticipate will be approved at the 00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:51.966 - commissioners meeting? 00:49:52.290 --> 00:50:00.356 - Okay, so what we're voting on right now is not that vote on yet by the commissioners, but this is not 00:50:00.356 --> 00:50:09.054 - the final vote anyway, but I just wanted to okay, so I'd like to know what what the difference is going to be 00:50:09.986 --> 00:50:16.537 - where it was before, and then what's been bossed and added. So there's just a change in process, 00:50:16.537 --> 00:50:23.358 - if you will. So the law changed in how we've done this previously. In the past, when we had a merger 00:50:23.426 --> 00:50:29.713 - the numbers that we presented during those public meetings. We then drafted a letter and sent it to 00:50:29.713 --> 00:50:36.504 - DLGF to increase our maximum levy. The process now requires the commissioners to have a resolution allowing 00:50:36.504 --> 00:50:43.042 - us to do so. So once they do that, I'll take that letter, just like we did the previous, and we'll send 00:50:43.042 --> 00:50:49.644 - that to DLGF. So we're not doing anything different than what we have in the past. It's just the process 00:50:49.644 --> 00:50:52.222 - is different this year. But the numbers. 00:50:52.994 --> 00:51:06.077 - So the former max levy, the previous max levy was estimated at $12,668,400. With the new beam blossom 00:51:06.077 --> 00:51:19.161 - budget, our new max levy that we have asked for is $13,757,526. On the 4B, we're not asking to tax on 00:51:19.161 --> 00:51:21.598 - the full max levy. 00:51:21.858 --> 00:51:36.023 - we'll only be taxing on $13,257,526. And that increases $1,089,126. Wait a second. We'll only be taxing 00:51:36.023 --> 00:51:49.779 - on $13,000. Say that again, please. The 4B shows our requested tax levy is $13,257,526. OK, and then 00:51:49.779 --> 00:51:51.550 - Destin said, 00:51:52.930 --> 00:52:06.420 - It's $1,089,126. It's for? That is for the addition of Bean Blossom Township. That's the addition for 00:52:06.420 --> 00:52:19.911 - it. OK, and do we know what the tax was going to change for the tax rate? Yeah, the rates, I believe, 00:52:19.911 --> 00:52:21.630 - with current 00:52:21.954 --> 00:52:29.595 - twenty twenty seven tax code it was point three one four zero. Lori can cited off the paper I'm going 00:52:29.595 --> 00:52:37.235 - off of a lot of numbers. We expect the tax rate to settle at point three one four zero our advertised 00:52:37.235 --> 00:52:43.902 - rate is slightly higher than that based off ninety seven percent of the. Net net eighty. 00:52:49.538 --> 00:52:56.644 - This is a lot to learn. And it's been a joy trying to get through it. We've been working on this together 00:52:56.644 --> 00:53:03.816 - for a long time. And we just think, oh, this is awful. Every year is something else. And we do it somehow. 00:53:03.816 --> 00:53:10.721 - It's exciting. So I appreciate you bringing all this in. I appreciate you answering questions. Because 00:53:10.721 --> 00:53:17.424 - as you know, this is in my district, where Bean Blossom is. And some people are delighted, and some 00:53:17.424 --> 00:53:18.430 - people aren't. 00:53:19.010 --> 00:53:25.201 - And they all think it's my fault, whichever it is. So I'll take it. I got broad shoulders. Counselor 00:53:25.201 --> 00:53:31.392 - Iverson. Well, I'm happy the fire protection district is in my district as well. And I think for all 00:53:31.392 --> 00:53:37.951 - of those folks watching, the increase in the personnel lines gives a little bit of extra hope that there's 00:53:37.951 --> 00:53:44.080 - going to be someone responding when they need it. And in fact, that's the question that I wanted to 00:53:44.080 --> 00:53:48.126 - ask is down in the supply lines. 83 or four is your EMS supplies. 00:53:48.418 --> 00:53:56.093 - It's a healthy growth there. Thirty seconds. Can you give us kind of where EMS is in the county these 00:53:56.093 --> 00:54:03.692 - days? Because I know when we were talking about giving extra vehicles and all that stuff, it was, it 00:54:03.692 --> 00:54:04.670 - has changed. 00:54:04.770 --> 00:54:10.521 - We currently have one ambulance that is got dedicated staff to it 24 seven so that there are actually 00:54:10.521 --> 00:54:16.384 - bodies in that apparatus. We have a second ambulance that's cross staffed with a rescue. So if a second 00:54:16.384 --> 00:54:21.684 - call goes out for the ambulance still hop in the ambulance and not take the rescue truck that 00:54:21.684 --> 00:54:25.630 - we traditionally would have taken in the past. So we essentially have 00:54:26.114 --> 00:54:32.305 - I'm going to call it 1.5 ambulances live and well on the street. We're also doing a lot of special events 00:54:32.305 --> 00:54:38.437 - with those, which has alleviated some of the staffing burdens for IU Health. One big, I guess, important 00:54:38.437 --> 00:54:43.518 - thing, and if Jeffrey wants to walk up here, he might be able to give you more detail. 00:54:44.034 --> 00:54:50.423 - We are getting really close to ambulance dispatching in the county going to avl which is the automate 00:54:50.423 --> 00:54:56.812 - Automated vehicle location. So the closest unit when that happens our call volume with the ambulances 00:54:56.812 --> 00:55:03.577 - will definitely increase Right now we're in that reserve capacity because the two systems don't necessarily 00:55:03.577 --> 00:55:06.270 - work well together So when that happens um 00:55:06.946 --> 00:55:13.350 - Jeffrey can probably give me a timeline on that, but that is a big part of this. We do anticipate EMS 00:55:13.350 --> 00:55:19.753 - calls going up in 2027. Jeff, I'll tell you why. Yeah, so basically the way that we've structured the 00:55:19.753 --> 00:55:25.717 - county on AVL engines is we send the closest resource. It doesn't matter jurisdictional lines, 00:55:25.717 --> 00:55:31.870 - township lines, anything else. We send whatever the closest resource. So once the AVL units work, 00:55:32.002 --> 00:55:38.921 - on the ambulance side of it, which ours are alive and well and functioning as our engines do. It's getting 00:55:38.921 --> 00:55:45.582 - IU Health to add that component to theirs that will allow the closest ambulance resource in the county 00:55:45.582 --> 00:55:52.242 - to be sent to the appropriate calls. Do the surrounding counties and their ambulance services, do they 00:55:52.242 --> 00:55:53.406 - have AVL as well? 00:55:54.274 --> 00:56:01.396 - I can't answer that. I don't know. I can tell you that I changed those to AVL engines probably back 00:56:01.396 --> 00:56:08.518 - in 2023 to where we send the closest resource, appropriate resource, and that has tremendously made 00:56:08.518 --> 00:56:15.640 - a difference on call volumes. And then I think we were talking that we're expecting call volumes to 00:56:15.640 --> 00:56:17.278 - increase. Why is that? 00:56:17.858 --> 00:56:25.470 - Vanebearing Township, which is the township that the staffed ambulance is in, sees a large number of 00:56:25.470 --> 00:56:33.006 - medical calls in Monroe County. So they'll get that resource every time it's close. And they'll get 00:56:33.006 --> 00:56:40.542 - it automatically, not back up. Good to know. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions? All right. 00:56:41.218 --> 00:56:48.721 - I would like to make one comment since we talked about that ambulance stuff. And this is like not even 00:56:48.721 --> 00:56:56.735 - off the press yet, but yesterday at the countywide fire chief's meeting, we finally put into stone countywide 00:56:56.735 --> 00:57:04.311 - automatic aid. So Monroe fire, the city of Bloomington and Ellisville will be running jurisdiction free 00:57:04.311 --> 00:57:08.318 - to structure fires October 1st. Oh, wow. That's great. 00:57:09.282 --> 00:57:15.825 - Wow. Very good. Thank you. That's great. That's awesome. Thank you very much for that. Particularly 00:57:15.825 --> 00:57:22.367 - for people way out on the edges of the county. Took a while. That's fantastic. Yeah, and especially 00:57:22.367 --> 00:57:29.368 - in your areas, your urban areas, like your Perry areas, your Van Buren areas, where there's city resources 00:57:29.368 --> 00:57:36.303 - stacked on top of county resources in those same jurisdictionals, it'll be night and day to what services 00:57:36.303 --> 00:57:38.462 - they get quick. Fantastic. Yeah. 00:57:39.298 --> 00:57:48.192 - On the south side, we are half county, half city station 22. All right. So with that being said, may 00:57:48.192 --> 00:57:57.439 - we please have a roll call? Councilor Wills. Yes. Councilor Henry. Yes. Councilor Decker. Yes. Councilor 00:57:57.439 --> 00:58:06.685 - Crossley. Yes. Councilor Iverson. Yes. Councilor Fiddle. Yes. And Councilor Hawke. Yes. Passes unanimous 00:58:06.685 --> 00:58:07.742 - seven zero. 00:58:08.322 --> 00:58:15.044 - Thank you all very much. I keep looking forward to having their meetings here so that we can all participate. 00:58:15.044 --> 00:58:21.583 - I ask that every year. I know. Don't let it happen. I was waiting for that. I know. You're sick of hearing 00:58:21.583 --> 00:58:27.878 - it. All right. So we will thank you. Counselor Henry has left, but we still have a quorum, and we will 00:58:27.878 --> 00:58:34.234 - continue on with the next presentation, which is from the Monroe County Public Library. Counsel, I move 00:58:34.234 --> 00:58:38.206 - to open for discussion and review, Fund 0101, General Operating. 00:58:38.786 --> 00:58:47.632 - fund zero one eight zero debt service and finally fund zero zero six one rainy day. And we are joined 00:58:47.632 --> 00:58:56.737 - by the financial manager welcome good evening good evening I'm Gary letler finance director Greer Carson 00:58:56.737 --> 00:59:01.854 - is at a library board meeting tonight or he would be here. 00:59:02.178 --> 00:59:13.097 - I'll start by summarizing the library's 2027 budget information that's in the county budget system. 00:59:13.097 --> 00:59:24.343 - For 2027, the total budget amount proposed for the library is $14,619,210. It's a 6% increase from the 00:59:24.343 --> 00:59:31.550 - 2026 total library budget. The rainy day fund budget is $730,000. 00:59:31.906 --> 00:59:41.383 - We have that in place for large unexpected spending needs like building repairs. I'm not expecting any 00:59:41.383 --> 00:59:50.769 - actual spending from the rainy day fund next year. The debt fund budget is $640,713 and it covers the 00:59:50.769 --> 00:59:59.970 - payments that will be due on two bonds. The first bond is a $2 million general obligation bond that 00:59:59.970 --> 01:00:01.534 - will be paid off 01:00:01.666 --> 01:00:11.930 - at the end of 2027. The 2027 amount due on that bond is $271,000. We do not plan to renew the six-year 01:00:11.930 --> 01:00:21.995 - $2 million bond after it is paid off next year. We have used the general obligation bond to fund the 01:00:21.995 --> 01:00:31.262 - library's technology needs, including public use computers and software. It's also been used 01:00:31.618 --> 01:00:39.470 - for the library's facility repairs and improvements. A new book mobile will be delivered later this 01:00:39.470 --> 01:00:47.322 - year, which is being purchased with funds from this bond. After 2027, we plan to pay for technology 01:00:47.322 --> 01:00:55.409 - and facility needs out of the operating fund budget. This is one reason the library will need the full 01:00:55.409 --> 01:01:00.670 - amount of the growth quotient increase for the next several years. 01:01:01.698 --> 01:01:11.975 - The second bond being paid for out of the debt fund is a 20-year, $6 million bond that helped pay for 01:01:11.975 --> 01:01:22.253 - the Southwest Branch construction. That payment is about $370,000 a year. After 2026, we will have 15 01:01:22.253 --> 01:01:31.422 - years left to pay off the Southwest Branch bond. Most of the proposed $14.6 million budget 01:01:31.938 --> 01:01:43.181 - is for the operating fund. The operating budget is $13,248,497. About 70% of the operating fund budget 01:01:43.181 --> 01:01:54.642 - is for wages and benefits. For 2027, there are no plans for major increases to current levels of library 01:01:54.642 --> 01:02:00.318 - service. There may be some slight staff adjustments 01:02:00.578 --> 01:02:10.451 - But there are no dramatic changes in library service plan for 2027 that would require more staff. For 01:02:10.451 --> 01:02:20.905 - the 2027 budget, we're using an estimated wage increase of 2.75% or 75 cents an hour, whichever is greater. 01:02:20.905 --> 01:02:27.390 - When we get to year end and we know what health care related costs 01:02:27.554 --> 01:02:37.760 - will be for 2027, then we will make a final decision on wage adjustments for 2027. We have had some 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:48.068 - indications that health care costs for 2027 could rise by more than we have seen in the past several 01:02:48.068 --> 01:02:55.518 - years. Questions that many libraries are probably being asked in the new 01:02:55.842 --> 01:03:04.102 - library budget approval process is, why do you need a 6% increase in the tax levy? The answer is based 01:03:04.102 --> 01:03:12.362 - on the long-term plan for the library service in Monroe County. The change to library service that has 01:03:12.362 --> 01:03:20.382 - had the most impact on Monroe County in recent years has been the addition of the Southwest branch. 01:03:21.026 --> 01:03:30.267 - I hope you've had a chance to go and maybe participate in a teaching kitchen program. After the completion 01:03:30.267 --> 01:03:39.077 - of the Southwest branch, the rainy day fund was drained down to its minimum level, which is a million 01:03:39.077 --> 01:03:48.060 - dollars. Since then, we've had an operating surplus each year that has grown the rainy day fund balance 01:03:48.060 --> 01:03:50.046 - to about $3.3 million. 01:03:50.850 --> 01:03:59.108 - The library is not planning for any major service expansion for at least the next five years. For the 01:03:59.108 --> 01:04:07.285 - long term, the library is planning for service expansion as the county continues to grow. The growth 01:04:07.285 --> 01:04:15.463 - quotient, which is 6% for 2027, is a reflection of the average growth in personal income for Indiana 01:04:15.463 --> 01:04:18.782 - residents over the past six year period. 01:04:19.554 --> 01:04:28.198 - The mission of the library is to provide the best possible service with available income. Increases 01:04:28.198 --> 01:04:36.928 - to the library revenue from property taxes in future years will help the library grow along with the 01:04:36.928 --> 01:04:45.830 - county's need for library service. In 15 years, the current loan for the Southwest branch will be paid 01:04:45.830 --> 01:04:48.510 - off. One scenario for the next 01:04:48.802 --> 01:04:57.290 - service expansion would be to build a branch on the east side of the county after the current branch 01:04:57.290 --> 01:05:05.946 - bond is paid off. Funding would come from operating surplus that has accumulated in the rainy day fund 01:05:05.946 --> 01:05:15.358 - and possibly another construction bond. 15 years is a long time. Another scenario is that the library's efforts 01:05:15.490 --> 01:05:24.281 - in cultivating philanthropic sources of revenue are successful, and we pay off the bond early. In the 01:05:24.281 --> 01:05:33.416 - next five years, the library plans to put more resources into cultivating philanthropic giving, including 01:05:33.416 --> 01:05:42.207 - exploring what is available from charitable foundations and planned giving from donors. Monroe County 01:05:42.207 --> 01:05:45.310 - has seen the impact of philanthropy 01:05:46.018 --> 01:05:55.922 - The original downtown library was paid for by the Carnegie Foundation. Our goal is to pay for Bloomington's 01:05:55.922 --> 01:06:05.275 - next library branch construction with revenue from philanthropic sources instead of a bond issue. Any 01:06:05.275 --> 01:06:15.454 - questions? Thank you very much for that. Council members, do you all have any questions? Councilor Hawke. Yes. 01:06:15.682 --> 01:06:24.513 - As you already know, I love our libraries. I love the old library. I still call it the old library. 01:06:24.513 --> 01:06:33.697 - You know where the history center is? That's the library I grew up with. And it's so special to so many 01:06:33.697 --> 01:06:42.792 - people in this community. And so I'm very interested in the health of our library. I also have to look 01:06:42.792 --> 01:06:44.382 - at the fact that, 01:06:44.770 --> 01:06:52.666 - you have for years counted on receiving a large portion of the revenue from the income checks, which 01:06:52.666 --> 01:07:00.483 - unless something happens, you will not be receiving that. The years keep mixed up when you're going 01:07:00.483 --> 01:07:08.300 - to stop getting it. Or if you're going to get a portion of it, and I'm sure you're already aware of 01:07:08.300 --> 01:07:14.398 - this, it has to come out of that portion that the county gets. It's like 0.2. 01:07:14.498 --> 01:07:23.370 - that's available that might come down to 0.1, because we can only get 1.7 for the whole county. 01:07:23.370 --> 01:07:32.612 - And so 1.2 for operations, 0.4 for fire and EMS, and 0.2 for townships and library and solid waste, 01:07:32.612 --> 01:07:41.854 - if we want, and Bloomington Transit. And so since we can only do 1.7, one of those has to lose 0.1. 01:07:42.370 --> 01:07:51.420 - And I don't know which one will be. It won't be my decision. But how much having said all that, how 01:07:51.420 --> 01:08:00.740 - much is the library hoping that they will or working around what your revenue might be once this comes 01:08:00.740 --> 01:08:09.790 - into place? Because I don't think there's anybody here right now that knows what's going to happen. 01:08:12.002 --> 01:08:19.423 - We've seen the local income tax projections for 2027. We're fine with that. And if something down the 01:08:19.423 --> 01:08:26.771 - road causes a decrease in that revenue or a big change, we'll make adjustments. We'll just deal with 01:08:26.771 --> 01:08:34.264 - it. I just wanted you to know that that's something we're facing to have to make decisions on, so it's 01:08:34.264 --> 01:08:41.758 - not a surprise. And I'm sure it's not, because you're staying on top of it. Just wanted to remind you. 01:08:42.210 --> 01:08:47.840 - I wanted to start off by thanking you for mentioning the bookmobiles. I have people in my family and 01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:53.581 - many people in my district who simply can't get out to one of your branches, and your bookmobiles make 01:08:53.581 --> 01:08:59.266 - sure that they have a steady supply of fresh reading materials. So we really appreciate you including 01:08:59.266 --> 01:09:01.886 - those populations in your bookmobile services. 01:09:02.114 --> 01:09:09.652 - You know, you did mention that the majority of your budget is in those personnel lines. And, you know, 01:09:09.652 --> 01:09:17.118 - that's just something that we deal with as well. So I think, you know, one of the things that we keep 01:09:17.118 --> 01:09:24.510 - talking about is healthcare and the rising cost of healthcare. Could you talk a little bit about how 01:09:24.510 --> 01:09:31.902 - you're dealing with that in your organization? We have been fairly fortunate the last several years. 01:09:32.322 --> 01:09:45.064 - Our increases have ranged from 0 to 5 percent. You know, I think maybe last year was 8 percent. And 01:09:45.064 --> 01:09:57.934 - next year we expect that based on our claims history so far this year, we expect that we could see a 01:09:57.934 --> 01:10:01.502 - lot larger, 15, 20 percent. 01:10:01.794 --> 01:10:13.972 - I have built that contingency into the personnel category. So whatever happens, we've got it covered. 01:10:13.972 --> 01:10:26.746 - I really like your attitude. It's a really positive can-do attitude. That's fantastic. Yeah. Okay. Anybody 01:10:26.746 --> 01:10:30.686 - else? Yeah. Thank you very much. 01:10:31.010 --> 01:10:40.054 - And may we please have a roll call on their budget. Councillor Crossley? Yes. Councillor Iverson? Yes. 01:10:40.054 --> 01:10:48.922 - Councillor Fiddle? Yes. Councillor Hawke? Yes. Councillor Wilts? Yes. Councillor Decker? Yes. Motion 01:10:48.922 --> 01:10:57.790 - passes unanimous six zero. All right. Thank you very much. We appreciate all that you do. Thank you. 01:10:58.178 --> 01:11:06.316 - Next up, I will say, council, I have to leave after the start of this next upcoming budget. I again 01:11:06.316 --> 01:11:14.861 - have to go back to the dungeon across the street. So I we will hear from our convention center. Council, 01:11:14.861 --> 01:11:21.534 - I moved to open for discussion and review fund eleven twenty seven dash zero zero 01:11:21.858 --> 01:11:29.282 - zero zero convention visitor tourism fund forty nine oh nine dash zero zero zero zero convention visitor 01:11:29.282 --> 01:11:36.493 - capital improvement fund and finally the twenty twenty seven combined CIB convention center budget we 01:11:36.493 --> 01:11:43.564 - need a longer table. Yeah you all can pull up chairs on the to the table because and we also have a 01:11:43.564 --> 01:11:50.846 - familiar face around here welcome everybody did ask him if it was weird sitting back there rather than 01:11:51.138 --> 01:11:59.484 - somewhere else. I didn't see. I didn't see. Special person here. Yeah, it's like the Avenger team united. 01:11:59.484 --> 01:12:07.435 - That's right. Yep, collecting infinity stones. Yep, go for it. Well, folks, thank you for having us. 01:12:07.435 --> 01:12:15.309 - My name is Mike Campbell. I'm the president of the Convention Visitors Commission. And 2027 will be 01:12:15.309 --> 01:12:20.190 - a landmark year for hospitality and tourism in Monroe County. 01:12:20.290 --> 01:12:27.932 - with the opening of the expanded convention center in January and improvements to the existing building 01:12:27.932 --> 01:12:35.501 - and later that summer. Also the opening of the Visit Bloomington downtown center on the corner of West 01:12:35.501 --> 01:12:42.996 - Walnut Street and Third Street and hosting our first hundred team lacrosse tournament at the expanded 01:12:42.996 --> 01:12:45.054 - Carson Farm Athletics Park. 01:12:46.146 --> 01:12:54.032 - We've anticipated this year and its arrival for many years, and this budget reflects those preparations. 01:12:54.032 --> 01:13:01.994 - And over the past few years, we've intentionally conserved funding in order to maximize our impact during 01:13:01.994 --> 01:13:09.880 - this expansion. We plan to invest more in operations, marketing, and sales than we anticipate generating 01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:12.734 - this year in innkeepers' tax revenue. 01:13:13.890 --> 01:13:22.671 - And to cover the difference, we will draw down on the reserves we've strategically saved specifically 01:13:22.671 --> 01:13:31.281 - for this purpose. As a reminder, 100% of all of this funding for these line items comes exclusively 01:13:31.281 --> 01:13:40.062 - from the innkeepers tax. So our proposal with this budget is an increase of 24% to visit Bloomington. 01:13:41.250 --> 01:13:50.263 - This will reflect an increase in salaries and the creation of one new convention sales manager position 01:13:50.263 --> 01:13:59.277 - to go with our recently promoted director of convention sales and also incorporating the sales position 01:13:59.277 --> 01:14:08.117 - from the convention center management company. And so the revenue or the expenditures and salary will 01:14:08.117 --> 01:14:10.110 - reflect that. We'll be 01:14:10.210 --> 01:14:21.321 - spending more in our convention sales for funding for lead generation, website SEO, advertising and 01:14:21.321 --> 01:14:33.321 - event support, and sports marketing to capture even more tournament opportunities in our leisure marketing. 01:14:33.321 --> 01:14:38.654 - As you know, much of advertising and convention 01:14:40.098 --> 01:14:48.188 - lead procurement has to do with destination marketing and bringing people to our community who might 01:14:48.188 --> 01:14:56.679 - not otherwise come to Bloomington. This budget also shows a 136 percent increase to the Convention Center 01:14:56.679 --> 01:15:02.206 - management company. This is a substantial increase and fills the gap 01:15:02.306 --> 01:15:09.973 - what we believe will be the revenue generated from the expanded convention center. And that is anticipated. 01:15:09.973 --> 01:15:17.428 - In the first few years, we would expect as the business starts to mature and the demand starts to mature 01:15:17.428 --> 01:15:24.811 - that that percentage will decrease and we will be generating more revenue out of the convention center. 01:15:24.811 --> 01:15:28.574 - But the first few years, we anticipate there will be 01:15:28.706 --> 01:15:39.600 - running at a substantial subsidy. This budget also shows a one-time $1.593, $819 funding allocation 01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:51.147 - to the Capital Improvement Board. And this is for three projects and alternates that were brought forward 01:15:51.147 --> 01:15:56.158 - before us from the Capital Improvement Board. 01:15:56.258 --> 01:16:06.681 - for use by the innkeeper's tax in order to make some updates to the existing building. And then finally, 01:16:06.681 --> 01:16:16.706 - the commissioner's expense and the capital reinvestment asset protection fund, we anticipate staying 01:16:16.706 --> 01:16:25.342 - the same. Our long-term financial outlook, we do estimate a drawdown this year of 1.78 01:16:25.602 --> 01:16:35.031 - million dollars out of the innkeepers' carryover balance. That still leaves us with a balance that we 01:16:35.031 --> 01:16:44.368 - would be able to respond to any shortfall in the next few years after that. As the business matures, 01:16:44.368 --> 01:16:53.150 - this is 2027, and we are not anticipating a host hotel being attached to the Convention Center 01:16:53.506 --> 01:17:03.685 - Till 2030. And so at some point, when that happens, we feel that we'll be running at a net positive 01:17:03.685 --> 01:17:13.967 - again. Any questions on the general fund? Just keep going through all the funds and then we'll touch 01:17:13.967 --> 01:17:23.230 - on the questions later. OK. So that's the general fund. And then I think the other fund is 01:17:23.586 --> 01:17:32.501 - the capital reinvestment fund, and we do have $100,000 allocated to handle any things. We do still have 01:17:32.501 --> 01:17:41.158 - a property on North Walnut where the current visitor center is, and then anything that would come up 01:17:41.158 --> 01:17:49.988 - with the new downtown commission. Great. Thank you. Does anybody else want to say anything about these 01:17:49.988 --> 01:17:53.502 - budgets? All right. We'll go to council. 01:17:53.698 --> 01:18:03.034 - Council member Hawke. Right. As we're moving forward with the plans that people worked for so many years 01:18:03.034 --> 01:18:12.369 - to get going. Has there been any further discussion about raising the income tax, raising the innkeepers 01:18:12.369 --> 01:18:19.838 - tax? I know that throughout the state we're seeing that opportunity to grow tourism 01:18:20.098 --> 01:18:26.754 - by increasing their innkeeper's tax. Are you thinking that might be helpful or are you holding off on 01:18:26.754 --> 01:18:33.475 - that until you get your host hotel or? What's that there? I don't think we need it at this point, very 01:18:33.475 --> 01:18:40.000 - bluntly, as far as an increase in that. I think we have great funding mechanisms with both the food 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:46.851 - and beverage innkeeper's and innkeeper's tax both being able to handle them. And the plan here allocates 01:18:46.851 --> 01:18:49.918 - and funds our plans for the foreseeable future 01:18:50.530 --> 01:18:59.653 - with the current percentage. Now, once we do have the host hotel and there are two other hotels that 01:18:59.653 --> 01:19:08.686 - are also being talked about, we do think that those will also add to the tax base. And so if you're 01:19:08.686 --> 01:19:17.719 - thinking about this over the course of three to five years, when those will be built, I don't see a 01:19:17.719 --> 01:19:20.158 - need to advocate for that. 01:19:21.346 --> 01:19:31.667 - Good to see you all. You mentioned in the first budget that you had a line that you had, I believe you 01:19:31.667 --> 01:19:41.989 - said three projects from the CIB that you wanted to fund. Can you talk a little bit about those? Sure. 01:19:41.989 --> 01:19:50.206 - So it's 1.593 million and those are for a DOAS system to be added to the existing 01:19:51.138 --> 01:19:59.588 - Convention Center, which will help with air make-up and air handling and to make that more efficient. 01:19:59.588 --> 01:20:07.873 - And then window replacement, we wish was cheaper, but it is a big building, and so that was brought 01:20:07.873 --> 01:20:16.158 - forward as well. It was around $800,000 itself. And then some masonry repair. That was actually the 01:20:16.158 --> 01:20:17.566 - smallest amount. 01:20:21.634 --> 01:20:30.791 - Any other comments or questions from council? Do you have another one? I would love just the, you know, 01:20:30.791 --> 01:20:39.683 - short version update on the new Convention Center project and how that's going. I know we're slated, 01:20:39.683 --> 01:20:45.758 - you said early January. I think it's Elvis's birthday that was like, 01:20:46.018 --> 01:20:53.117 - it slated for opening. That's what I remember the target being, you know, things that stick with you. 01:20:53.117 --> 01:21:00.077 - Anyway, I just would love to give you the opportunity to share any updates. Sure. Thank you for the 01:21:00.077 --> 01:21:07.037 - question. And I also would like to take the opportunity to thank the county council, obviously, for 01:21:07.037 --> 01:21:14.206 - your support throughout this project. And I want to thank Mike and the commission. We actually had six 01:21:14.626 --> 01:21:20.228 - Alternates that we needed to fund for the expansion I'm not the expansion but the renovation of the 01:21:20.228 --> 01:21:26.167 - current building and we were able to fund two of those which were the kitchen repair and a not not repair 01:21:26.167 --> 01:21:32.106 - kitchen remodel and IT connections So the two buildings were talking to each other and people were having 01:21:32.106 --> 01:21:37.708 - the same experience But there were four there were actually four we couldn't fund and so we went to 01:21:37.708 --> 01:21:42.078 - Mike and the Commission and they very generously have helped us fund those so 01:21:42.146 --> 01:21:48.765 - The HVAC replacement was the fourth one. So HVAC replacement that I'm learning a lot. DOAS system is 01:21:48.765 --> 01:21:54.793 - a direct outdoor air support system, but it improves the efficiency of the HVAC system. The 01:21:54.793 --> 01:22:01.150 - window replacements and then the masonry repairs. We're on track to have the building completed. 01:22:01.346 --> 01:22:08.166 - On January 8th, I remind everyone that's Elvis's birthday. And so I've put a picture of Elvis in the 01:22:08.166 --> 01:22:15.458 - construction office, and the construction people see it every day. We will then move over to the renovation 01:22:15.458 --> 01:22:22.413 - of the current building. And that's due to be completed by the end of June of 2027. We are well within 01:22:22.413 --> 01:22:29.841 - our construction budget. And everything is, we had our meeting today, our CIB meeting today, and everything's 01:22:29.841 --> 01:22:31.326 - going extremely well. 01:22:31.490 --> 01:22:37.585 - So I'd be happy to answer any questions. But we're on track. We're on budget. I think you'll be pleased. 01:22:37.585 --> 01:22:43.506 - And people talk all the time about seeing what's happening at the building. And I think our community 01:22:43.506 --> 01:22:49.601 - will be very pleased with the aesthetic and the architecture of the new building. And we've been excited 01:22:49.601 --> 01:22:55.754 - to be a part of it. And again, I want to thank you for all you've done. And Galen Cassidy, your appointee 01:22:55.754 --> 01:22:59.934 - to the CIB, is here with me this evening. So I wanted to make sure that 01:23:00.514 --> 01:23:08.487 - You realized he shows up for your meetings. So I wonder if you know or can give us a timeline on the 01:23:08.487 --> 01:23:15.907 - art that will appear after it's built, right? The art? Yes. Well, we've got the the the large 01:23:15.907 --> 01:23:24.196 - art installation project, which is the wisteria mine. So people quit calling it a snake. It's a wisteria 01:23:24.196 --> 01:23:25.854 - vine. There will be. 01:23:26.178 --> 01:23:32.103 - Some on the north face of the building if you ever look at the construction, there's there's Mason or 01:23:32.103 --> 01:23:36.286 - there's a masonry, but there's a space that's going to be limestone and 01:23:36.386 --> 01:23:43.305 - and it's Quarry Cut Stone. And there are three panels within that that we are working with Amy Breyer, 01:23:43.305 --> 01:23:50.290 - who's a master sculptor, for what we can put in there. And today we had an announcement at our meeting. 01:23:50.290 --> 01:23:57.343 - We're moving, the art installation was $400,000, approximately, at $520,000, which is the 1% art budget. 01:23:57.343 --> 01:24:00.702 - So today we are moving forward with the local art 01:24:01.090 --> 01:24:08.837 - proposals and our committee is going to put out a call for artists for local art. We've identified local 01:24:08.837 --> 01:24:16.288 - art as being Monroe County and adjacent counties that touch Monroe County. So about $80,000 is still 01:24:16.288 --> 01:24:23.888 - left that will be awarded for local art which will be installed in the building and gallery spaces and 01:24:23.888 --> 01:24:29.790 - spaces that have been identified for the architect within the building for art. 01:24:30.562 --> 01:24:37.535 - So another outside concern is, of course, the road construction, right? Can you give us a timeline and 01:24:37.535 --> 01:24:44.577 - remind people where that all falls? Well, Third Street in particular, Friday at noon, Third Street will 01:24:44.577 --> 01:24:51.415 - be reopened. That'll all be completed by Friday at noon. So this Friday, the 18th. So paving happens 01:24:51.415 --> 01:24:58.253 - tomorrow, and striping happens Friday morning. And so Friday by noon, it's scheduled to be reopened. 01:24:58.253 --> 01:24:59.742 - That's very exciting. 01:25:00.162 --> 01:25:07.565 - Yes, yes. All right. Any other comments or questions from council? I literally was going to ask that 01:25:07.565 --> 01:25:14.968 - last one because I was in traffic today and I'm using some choice language while I was heading there 01:25:14.968 --> 01:25:22.444 - and all this convention center is a real road. But I'm very excited that this is going really quickly 01:25:22.444 --> 01:25:28.894 - into plan. And it sounds like with that timeline, by the next time we have a comic con, 01:25:29.058 --> 01:25:36.266 - It'll be under two very new facilities, am I right on that? The renovation goes through June 2027, so. 01:25:36.266 --> 01:25:43.755 - August of 27. It'll be a whole new experience, and that keeps growing. And that is kind of why I'm excited 01:25:43.755 --> 01:25:50.823 - about all this. Well, Comic-Con is an example, but it's, you know, I've watched it for years, and it 01:25:50.823 --> 01:25:54.462 - grows every time. And every not-for-profit in their 01:25:55.074 --> 01:26:00.775 - about the fact that they want more space for these big events and galas, and this is awesome. 01:26:00.775 --> 01:26:06.960 - Thank you. Let me wrap it up, Mr Campbell. You are a master at what you do. I've served on the board. 01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:13.085 - I've gone through a couple of these budgets with you, and I just really hope you're wrong this time. 01:26:13.085 --> 01:26:19.029 - You had. Yeah, I know. Get ready. You had said that you think the first couple of years might be, 01:26:19.029 --> 01:26:24.062 - you know, needing to have some additional help. Our revenue might be a little low. 01:26:24.322 --> 01:26:30.555 - I don't know. I think Monroe County is a special place and I think we're going to have the business. 01:26:30.555 --> 01:26:36.726 - We just had a dinky little recovery summit as the county folks. We're just going to have like local 01:26:36.726 --> 01:26:43.267 - folks come and talk about how substance use disorder was, you know, how to recover from people recovering 01:26:43.267 --> 01:26:49.685 - from that. And we had people from all over the state that came to Bloomington just to go to this event. 01:26:49.685 --> 01:26:52.030 - And I remember standing at the window 01:26:52.418 --> 01:26:58.512 - looking over at the construction of the new center. I was standing with a probation officer from Evansville 01:26:58.512 --> 01:27:04.379 - and a probation officer from Fort Wayne, and they were agog at what we were doing here. And we're like, 01:27:04.379 --> 01:27:10.247 - we have to come back. So I hope you're wrong. So Peter, we're probably going to need to talk afterwards 01:27:10.247 --> 01:27:15.889 - and get some of those leads from you so that we can follow up on some of those bookings. All right. 01:27:15.889 --> 01:27:18.654 - I love working with you. Let's do it. All right. 01:27:19.074 --> 01:27:26.223 - If there are no comments or questions from Council, can we please have a roll call vote? Councillor 01:27:26.223 --> 01:27:33.372 - Hawke? Yes. Councillor Wilts? Yes. Councillor Deckard? Yes. Councillor Iverson? Yes. And Councillor 01:27:33.372 --> 01:27:41.022 - Feidl? Yes. Motion passes unanimous, five zero. Thank you for what you do. Thank you very much. Thank you. 01:27:44.450 --> 01:27:53.676 - All right, next, we're going to move on to our next department, which is the council office. Mr. Deckard, 01:27:53.676 --> 01:28:02.641 - could you read our motion, please? Council, I move to open for discussion and review fund one thousand 01:28:02.641 --> 01:28:11.519 - zero zero six one general fund and fund one one eight six zero zero zero zero rainy day fund. We have 01:28:11.519 --> 01:28:13.086 - a second. Second. 01:28:13.410 --> 01:28:28.063 - All right, we have a motion and a second. And this is the council office. So I'm looking over at the 01:28:28.063 --> 01:28:40.830 - table. Ms. Kim shell, are you walking us through? Yes. All right. What do we got? Okay. 01:28:41.954 --> 01:28:52.420 - The personnel lines, except for a three-year bump, have the 2% COLA. Our assistant council administrator 01:28:52.420 --> 01:29:02.587 - will reach her three-year bump in October, and so that's why you'll see a big increase right there on 01:29:02.587 --> 01:29:11.358 - that line. The supply lines are flat from what we did last year. I just kind of flipped 01:29:11.874 --> 01:29:20.600 - the amounts from the office supplies into the printers. We're using a little bit more office supplies. 01:29:20.600 --> 01:29:29.242 - The printers and the copiers, copying supplies is where I purchased the paper from. I got a good deal 01:29:29.242 --> 01:29:37.714 - last year, so I'm still kind of running on that. So I haven't really had to buy a lot of copy paper 01:29:37.714 --> 01:29:40.510 - this year. The dues is the same. 01:29:41.058 --> 01:29:54.544 - The contractual services right now is what we're budgeting for FSG. We're also using WIS on an as needed 01:29:54.544 --> 01:30:08.030 - basis. The current contract with FSG is 30,000 or not to exceed 28,000, I mean, but I have had to dip in 01:30:08.546 --> 01:30:18.013 - with regards to WISC, because we've done a couple things this year with WISC. I did leave it flat, and 01:30:18.013 --> 01:30:27.571 - I have been able to move some things around for this year, so I, unless something happens where we open 01:30:27.571 --> 01:30:33.086 - up PAC and that kind of thing, which I don't want to. I do. 01:30:34.082 --> 01:30:44.689 - you know, we would have to like go back and revisit the contractual with regards to that. Right now 01:30:44.689 --> 01:30:55.932 - I have a dollar with regards to professional services and that is for the ongoing litigation with regards 01:30:55.932 --> 01:31:03.038 - to the ACLU. For this year you appropriated $30,000 but no one has 01:31:03.810 --> 01:31:12.377 - you know, giving me, you know, I've only had one invoice at this point. I have not received any other. 01:31:12.377 --> 01:31:21.109 - So I didn't know what to budget moving forward. So I didn't know if you wanted to budget another $30,000 01:31:21.109 --> 01:31:29.510 - for next year or if you wanted to have, you know, come back with additionals as we did it, you know. 01:31:29.510 --> 01:31:33.086 - So that's a conversation I needed to know. 01:31:34.018 --> 01:31:50.175 - what to do with. Sophia Travis, I left flat, but the MLGQ is at 76%. If you wanted to increase it, that 01:31:50.175 --> 01:32:01.982 - number would be 201,400, which that's what we've done in the past years is, 01:32:02.658 --> 01:32:14.700 - use the growth quotient to increase that amount. The other thing that we've done in the past is the 01:32:14.700 --> 01:32:26.622 - BEDC. We had 30,000 in there. We have not spent that donation amount for the last couple of years. 01:32:30.914 --> 01:32:40.741 - The deduce amount is $5,925. I do need that amount at least, so if you would want to reduce that down. 01:32:40.741 --> 01:32:50.759 - I believe there was talk earlier of just getting rid of that additional amount to BEDC as tax abatements 01:32:50.759 --> 01:32:57.438 - or you guys are working into it that they were getting like an amount 01:32:58.594 --> 01:33:07.033 - BED was to receive an amount from them. I can't remember. That was that one time? Okay. So I wasn't 01:33:07.033 --> 01:33:15.725 - sure what we were doing with that. So I just went with the 15,000 with regards to BEDC, because that's 01:33:15.725 --> 01:33:24.585 - what we budgeted for 2026. Just keep going through all the budgets. We'll ask questions later. Oh, rainy 01:33:24.585 --> 01:33:26.526 - day is the same thing. 01:33:26.754 --> 01:33:33.833 - We didn't, I didn't change anything in rainy day. It's a million dollars for each category, 11.86. So 01:33:33.833 --> 01:33:40.773 - there's a million dollars in the supplies, a million dollars in the services, and a million dollars 01:33:40.773 --> 01:33:47.783 - in the capital. And let's see, is that, that's my budget. All right, thank you so much. Council, any 01:33:47.783 --> 01:33:55.070 - questions about this budget? Council Member Wilts, do you have your hand raised? All right, lead us off. 01:33:56.610 --> 01:34:08.228 - It sounds as though you, and I'm assuming under the guidance of our leadership, left a lot of things 01:34:08.228 --> 01:34:20.766 - the same in anticipation of discussion. Correct. Got it. So I'm curious with the professional services line. 01:34:25.890 --> 01:34:34.280 - how much we've already spent from that. Right now I've only spent $3000, but that was the retainer amount. 01:34:34.280 --> 01:34:41.965 - I have yet to receive an invoice yet. I was going to reach out to them and figure out is this it. 01:34:41.965 --> 01:34:50.120 - You know, I'm assuming they're going to bill us quarterly, you know, so that's that's why I didn't know 01:34:50.120 --> 01:34:54.590 - how to budget. With regards to moving forward next year, 01:34:58.594 --> 01:35:05.915 - I believe when we looked at the commissioner's budget, they had money set aside in their budget for 01:35:05.915 --> 01:35:13.969 - litigation. I think it would be appropriate so that we're able to respond quickly to go ahead and appropriate 01:35:13.969 --> 01:35:21.290 - the same 30,000 again. I think so too. We saw from the latest judge's order where there's something 01:35:21.290 --> 01:35:27.294 - of a timetable set out that we're going to be going through at least this spring. 01:35:27.714 --> 01:35:38.323 - At least. Yeah. So I, Councilmember Welch, I think you're right. Okay. Do you want to talk through other 01:35:38.323 --> 01:35:48.528 - things or do you want to amend or how are we doing? Let's amend as we go. Okay. So I'm going to move 01:35:48.528 --> 01:35:54.590 - that we set in county general line 30013 at 30,000. Second. 01:35:56.258 --> 01:36:06.270 - All right, we have a motion and a second. Is there any conversation about this professional services 01:36:06.270 --> 01:36:16.480 - line as it relates to the ACLU litigation? Seeing none, may we please have a roll call vote? Councilor 01:36:16.480 --> 01:36:24.510 - Decker? Yes. Councilor Iverson? Yes. Councilor Feidl? Hock. Councilor Hock? Yes. 01:36:26.146 --> 01:36:36.300 - Yes. Motion passes, unanimous 5-0. All right. And as a way of guiding the conversation, Council, do 01:36:36.300 --> 01:36:46.454 - you think 6% is enough for the Sophia Travis increase? We're going to give raises to the folks here 01:36:46.454 --> 01:36:55.390 - before we think about giving raises to the folks there. That's what the money goes for. 01:36:57.858 --> 01:37:06.660 - So I'm understanding your comment, Councilor Hawk. Are you saying that we wanna ensure that we've addressed 01:37:06.660 --> 01:37:14.973 - COLA for county employees? We don't know until the county commissioners say we can start moving money 01:37:14.973 --> 01:37:23.531 - over there because if we don't move the money around, we are in deficit. We have, but we in every budget 01:37:23.531 --> 01:37:26.302 - have built in the COLA we expect. 01:37:28.642 --> 01:37:37.553 - some might say the minimum COLA we expect. So in that same spirit, I think I would suggest that we put 01:37:37.553 --> 01:37:46.724 - in the minimum increase that we expect for this fund, whatever we agree that might be. Are you suggesting 01:37:46.724 --> 01:37:55.462 - then the 2% because that's what kind of raise you're talking about? I think 2% would be a minimum. I 01:37:55.462 --> 01:37:56.414 - think that 01:37:57.058 --> 01:38:03.868 - Um, round numbers are also a way to go. So you could say 200,000. That's what I was going to recommend. 01:38:03.868 --> 01:38:10.547 - And I would remind council that adoption isn't for another month. We have time to, to, to think about 01:38:10.547 --> 01:38:17.160 - this, but I do think, uh, it would be nice to signal to the community that we have not forgotten our 01:38:17.160 --> 01:38:23.774 - nonprofits because they're also paying higher gas prices. They're also paying higher grocery prices. 01:38:24.930 --> 01:38:34.105 - So council, I move that we set the Sophia Travis line 30031 to $200,000. Second. All right. We have 01:38:34.105 --> 01:38:43.740 - a motion on the floor with a second to raise Sophia Travis up to $200,000. Are there any other questions 01:38:43.740 --> 01:38:53.374 - or comments regarding this motion? Seeing none, may we please have a roll call vote? Council votes. Yes. 01:38:54.626 --> 01:39:11.226 - Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 01:39:11.226 --> 01:39:22.846 - Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 01:39:24.290 --> 01:39:33.212 - So am I remembering correctly that there is some sort of a process going on with legal and BEDC trying 01:39:33.212 --> 01:39:41.961 - to come up with something? Not that I'm aware of, but it could be that Mr. Cockrell's handling it. I 01:39:41.961 --> 01:39:50.709 - think there's something in the works, as I remember. I know in the past we've tried to do a contract 01:39:50.709 --> 01:39:54.174 - that was not approved. So I don't know. 01:39:54.370 --> 01:40:01.281 - if they're still working on the contract. There's a new initiative, because I observe on the BEDC it's 01:40:01.281 --> 01:40:08.058 - part of my liaison assignment, and I'm pretty sure there's discussions going on between BEDC and Mr. 01:40:08.058 --> 01:40:14.835 - Cockrell about this. That's all I want to say. That, if I may, that may be, I do not know that. I do 01:40:14.835 --> 01:40:22.014 - know that our past, I wish Councillor Crosley were here to hear this, but I know that she probably already 01:40:22.014 --> 01:40:24.094 - knows this, but our past angst 01:40:24.450 --> 01:40:31.929 - on this is I think no more on a contract basis because the commissioners I think entered into one a 01:40:31.929 --> 01:40:40.081 - few months back. The majority. I think so too. Yeah. So I think that sea change is moved, which I appreciate 01:40:40.081 --> 01:40:47.635 - very much to the commissioners. I think that was an appropriate move that we got a lot of gray hairs 01:40:47.635 --> 01:40:54.142 - on, but now we can ship gray hairs to other headaches. So, but I don't know about what 01:40:54.242 --> 01:41:02.215 - councilor Fido on this I think excuse me I think that's why conqueror was involved because of that he 01:41:02.215 --> 01:41:10.344 - was working with the commissioners and BEDC maybe I didn't make that clear what's this contract so this 01:41:10.344 --> 01:41:18.942 - there is a contract that was my understanding there is I don't know if it's fine they were that might be yeah 01:41:20.162 --> 01:41:27.861 - They would, you all would know if this were right, the auditor's office? We have not yet seen it. Okay, 01:41:27.861 --> 01:41:35.487 - so maybe that is. And I'm looking in the contracts folder and I don't see any approved contract that's 01:41:35.487 --> 01:41:43.112 - been added to the folder for BEDC. From what I understand. Any change needs some help after all. Good, 01:41:43.112 --> 01:41:47.998 - I'm glad we talked about that. All right, councilor, member Hawk. 01:41:48.130 --> 01:41:56.398 - Yes, just as a reminder, many years ago, we had a position in the county commissioner's office at his 01:41:56.398 --> 01:42:04.748 - own office. It was, I don't remember that young man's name. I should, but I don't remember. But at any 01:42:04.748 --> 01:42:13.340 - rate, we did a lot of work in house and we're not doing that now as much. And it's important that someone 01:42:13.340 --> 01:42:15.934 - be doing it because we need to, 01:42:16.578 --> 01:42:23.719 - be prepared to reach out to companies that we might miss and encourage them to come here and grow their 01:42:23.719 --> 01:42:30.861 - workforce here. And if we're not going to do that in-house, and certainly if we support this BEDC, it's 01:42:30.861 --> 01:42:37.727 - going to be cheaper than trying to do it in-house. We know how quick that department could grow. So 01:42:37.727 --> 01:42:40.062 - I'm just saying that we shouldn't 01:42:40.226 --> 01:42:49.319 - I think what we should look at is if this is not a part of our responsibility, because it certainly 01:42:49.319 --> 01:42:58.958 - was for years, and it should still be thought of. You know, the chamber works at it, and the also chamber 01:42:58.958 --> 01:43:08.414 - works at it, but they do a lot of other things, but the BEDC, that is their mission, and we should want 01:43:08.414 --> 01:43:10.142 - to grow jobs here. 01:43:10.626 --> 01:43:18.707 - That's why I support it. All right, Councilmember Wilts. I agree that it is something, and I think we've 01:43:18.707 --> 01:43:26.402 - all supported this in the past. I think the question then becomes, do we wait to find out what this 01:43:26.402 --> 01:43:34.098 - contract asks for or requires of us, I guess, or do we put something in there? I mean, I don't have 01:43:34.098 --> 01:43:39.870 - any basis except for last year, and it looks like it's changed every year. 01:43:40.418 --> 01:43:46.910 - So maybe we just wait until we have a contract to sign. My understanding, though, is that the council 01:43:46.910 --> 01:43:53.785 - pays dues and then other departments also pay dues if they want to be part of the BDC. I guess the question 01:43:53.785 --> 01:44:00.214 - I'm asking is, is this $5,925 for the entire county or is it just for the council? It's just for the 01:44:00.214 --> 01:44:06.770 - council. I would feel comfortable moving forward so that Councilmember Feidl can continue to represent 01:44:06.770 --> 01:44:10.398 - us with that amount. And then if we need to increase it, 01:44:10.498 --> 01:44:18.980 - That's good. In a month. Sound good? You don't need a contract then for that. Right. No. Council, I 01:44:18.980 --> 01:44:27.207 - move to set line 33032 BEDC to $5925. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there additional 01:44:27.207 --> 01:44:35.689 - conversation? My own conversation would be if we wish to include it, we can look at it again at our 01:44:35.689 --> 01:44:37.470 - final decision time. 01:44:39.426 --> 01:44:49.500 - All right. May we please have a roll call vote. Councilor Hawk. Yes. Councilor Wilts. Yes. Councilor 01:44:49.500 --> 01:44:59.474 - Iverson. Yes. Councilor Deckard. Yeah. And Councilor Feidl. Yes. Motion passes unanimous five zero. 01:44:59.474 --> 01:45:05.758 - Council any other comments or questions on the council budget? 01:45:08.034 --> 01:45:18.590 - All right, seeing none, may we have a roll call vote on the overall council budgets? Councilor Deckard? 01:45:18.590 --> 01:45:29.349 - Yes. Councilor Iverson? Yes. Councilor Feidl? Yes. Councilor Hawke? Yes. And Councilor Woods? Yes. Motion 01:45:29.349 --> 01:45:31.582 - passes unanimous 5-0. 01:45:31.906 --> 01:45:38.298 - Well, thank you so much. This concludes the budget review for the county council office. And before 01:45:38.298 --> 01:45:44.881 - we recess, just a quick note for council and the public. Do take a moment to look through the budgets. 01:45:44.881 --> 01:45:51.592 - Tomorrow we will be bringing back budgets for further review. So any items you think you want to tackle, 01:45:51.592 --> 01:45:58.048 - bring those back. And as a handy guide, this colorful chart of the four B's provides a good resource 01:45:58.048 --> 01:45:59.198 - on where to look. 01:46:00.802 --> 01:46:07.174 - If there's nothing else, then this meeting is recessed to Thursday, September 17th, 2026 at 5 p.m. right 01:46:07.174 --> 01:46:11.422 - here in the NatU Hill meeting room and on Teams. Thank you very much.