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Tybee Island, Georgia
December 11, 1990
A Special Council Meeting was held on December 11, 1990 for
acceptance of the 1991 budget. Mayor Hosti called the meeting to order
for business legally presented to council. Councilmembers present were
the following: L. Jefferson Dukes, James Patrick Locklear, Paul G. Jackson,
James C. Brown and John 0. Youmans. Councilman Walsh had a previous engagement
made prior to this meeting date being set. City Administrator, Rowena Fripp
and City Treasurer, Patricia B. Pagan were present.
Mayor Hosti stated that this budget has been worked on for the
past two months and the budget is something we can live with for 1991.
He thanked Rowena Fripp, Patricia Pagan and Jackie Brown for all the work
they had done on the budget. Mayor Hosti then told council that we are in
a recession but that maybe we will take in more money than projected. The
Finance Committee will fine tune and adjust the budget every 3 months. At
this time Mayor Hosti turned the meeting over to Councilman Dukes, head
of the Finance Committee.
Councilman Dukes stated that he was unhappy with the revenue
figure and feels that it is not down low enough. He said the following
reasons: 1.) Troops are gone 2.) Civilian won't have income 3.) Government
grants are dried up 4.) movement underway concerning wetlands - lower
property evaluations. Councilman Dukes then moved to adopt the budget.
Councilman Jackson seconded. Mayor Hosti asked for any discussion on the
budget.
Councilman Dukes gave percentages from the 1990 to 1991 budget,
they are listed below. General Government up $4,800.00 - 1.9%; Police
down $27,000.00 - 4.9 %; Parking down $7,000.00 - 4.9 %; Fire down $13,000.00 -
13.2%; First Response down $3,700.00 - 39 %; DPW up $87,000.00 - 22 %;
Sanitation - down 1.6 %; Recreation down $19,900.00 - 34.7 %; Parks, Buildings
down 415.00 - 6.9 %; Lifeguards - same; Special Appropriations down - 2.8 %;
Other Government Expense down $17,484.00 - 4.3 %. The overall budget is
down .09 %. Councilman Locklear asked Rowena Fripp why the Recreation and
Fire Departments were hit the hardest. He stated that we might have to cut
some of the programs for youth and senior citizens. Mayor Hosti questioned
what programs? Councilman Locklear said soccer, football will probably be
replaced by the soccer program because now the Junior High Schools are
providing a football program for that age group. Rowena Fripp said that
she was under the impression that football was going to be dropped because
of not enough children coming out for the sport.
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Councilman Locklear said the fees charged for playing a sport
or attending senior citizens crafts programs will balance out and the
Recreation Department will need $4,472.00 added to its budget to meet
the 1991 expenses.
Councilman Locklear stated that this administration has been in
office one year and that there is still no Capital Improvement Plan. Rowena
Fripp said that she has the information and could give him a report very
easily. Councilman Locklear said that we will need at least $17,000.00
to upgrade the playground equipment in the parks.
Mayor Hosti said that council knew what kind of shape the city was
in December 89 and that everyone has done a good job with the departments.
You never know about emergencies. We need to generate more income. Councilman
Locklear said that nothing has been done concerning a user fee for trash and
garbage and that a study needs to be done about breakdown of the Police
Department. Mayor Hosti said that the Police Dept. has been cut from
15 officers to 11 officers. Councilman Locklear said he would like to see
something done about the bonus each employee gets at Christmas. Mayor Hosti
said that will be looked into next year.
Councilman Dukes said that the Planning Commission is developing
a C I P plan. He also said that we did not put enough money into General
Government to cover the Booten plan for computers. Councilman Dukes said
that we were as fair as humanly possible with the budget.
Councilman Youmans then stated that the Fire Department was cut 27%
and First Response was cut 50% from beginning budget of 1990. He said that
if you don't spend it your department gets cut. It took him 6 to 8 weeks
to get two separate Purchase Orders over $1,000.00 okayed and he can not
accept this budget.
Mayor Hosti said the city has been building up the Fire Department
for the past couple of years for the I.S.O. survey to lower the citizens
insurance rates.
Councilman Brown said that if we have a strong Recreation Department
that the children will have something to do and that means less police patrols.
Councilman Youmans stated that the people that cut the budget don't know
what it takes to run and operate a fire department.
Councilman Brown made a motion to take a 10 minute recess. Councilman
Locklear seconded. It was unanimous.
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The meeting was reconvened with Councilman Youmans stating that
he would go along with the budget if we put the original line items proposal
back and delete the C I P expenditures.
Councilman Jackson made a motion to amend the original motion by
taking the money out of the contingency fund.
Councilman Dukes made an amendment to the motion to transfer all
monies in line items 742, 743 and 744 into line items 701 trough 723 in
accordance with the Fire Department.
Mayor Hosti then called for the question. The budget was passed
unanimously.
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Mayor Charles`'. Hosti
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GENERAL FUND
REVENUE
EXPENDITURES
$2,217,374.40
GENERAL GOVERNMENT 262,142.76
POLICE DEPARTMENT 527,583.00
PARKING SERVICES 89,649.84
FIRE DEPARTMENT 90,114.72
FIRST RESPONSE 6,149.76
DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS 478,902.60
SANITATION 216,300.00
RECREATION 37,508.28
PARKS, BUILDINGS, STANDS 5,613.96
LIFEGUARDS 46,399.92
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION 70,440.00
OTHER GOVERNMENT EXPENSES 386,569.56
TOTAL EXPENSES
WATER /SEWER
REVENUE
EXPENDITURES
WATER /SEWER
2,217,374.40
677,902.20
677,902.20
Tybee Island, Georgia
December 11, 1990
Budget 1991