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CITY COUNCIL BUDGET COMMITTEE – SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
CALL TO ORDER
The Council Budget Committee of September 8, 2014, was convened at 5:34 P.M. by
Councilman Ralph Bray, Finance Committee Chairman.
ROLL CALL
The following Budget Committee Members were present for the roll call:
Present: Bray, Costales, Graham, Henry, Hussey, Mihalevich, Prather,
Scrivner, and Ward
Absent: Branch
A quorum was declared present.
DISCUSSION AND ACTIONS TAKEN ON BUDGET ISSUES
Mayor’s Proposed Budget:
Chairman Bray introduced Mayor Eric Struemph and asked him to make a presentation.
Mayor Struemph presented his proposed FY2015 Budget to the Council Budget
Committee, and explained certain highlights of his proposed budget.
Budget Committee Meeting Procedures:
Following the Mayor’s presentation, Chairman Bray explained the procedures by which
meetings will be conducted throughout the budget process. He stated that he would
request Committee Members who have questions about the budget to submit those
questions to Interim Finance Director Bill Betts to provide all answers to the Committee,
thus ensuring that all Members have the same information. Chairman Bray then asked
Mr. Betts to briefly explain the contents of the budget book which the Council just
received at the beginning of the meeting.
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Staff / Department Budget Presentations:
At the conclusion of Mr. Betts’s presentation, Chairman Bray announced that at the next
meeting of the Committee scheduled for Wednesday, September 17, the Committee will
hear presentations made by the Police and Fire Departments.
Revenue Projections:
Chairman Bray asked Mr. Betts to explain the revenue projections contained in the
proposed FY2015 budget, after which he opened the floor for questions or discussion of
the revenues presented.
Motion #1:
At the conclusion of discussion, a motion was made by Councilman Scrivner, seconded
by Councilman Henry, to accept the projected total revenue amount of $29,500,558.22
for the present time as the ‘working amount’ from which budget discussions can
proceed.
Following discussion, a motion to amend Councilman Scrivner’s motion was made by
Councilman Prather, seconded by Councilman Scrivner, to amend the Projected Sales
Tax amount by substituting the “three-year average” figure of $9,668,066.07 figure as
the sales tax revenue projection.
Councilman Hussey suggested using dates of September 1 through August 3 1 of the
past 36 months as the three-year average so that the first eight months of calendar year
2014 could be included in any three-year calculation.
Councilman Prather agreed to modify his motion to accept that suggestion, Councilman
agreed to accept as his second, the motion to amend being as follows:
“The three-year period beginning September 1, and ending August 31, for the
past 36 months shall be calculated to determine actuals, and used for projecting
sales tax revenues for the FY2015 budget.”
The motion to amend was then approved, as follows, by a roll -call vote:
Aye: Bray, Costales, Graham, Henry, Hussey, Mihalevich, Prather,
Scrivner, and Ward
Nay: None
The original motion as made by Councilman Scrivner was then approved, as amended,
by the following roll-call vote:
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Aye: Bray, Costales, Graham, Henry, Hussey, Mihalevich, Prather,
Scrivner, and Ward
Nay: None
ADJOURNMENT
A motion for adjournment was made by Councilman Bob Scrivner, seconded by
Councilman Carlos Graham, and approved unanimously at 6:25 P.M.