Meeting of April 27, 2021

good morning i want to welcome everyone to our budget uh review meeting commissioners if you would stand and join me in a prayer and pledge our heavenly father we thank you for this beautiful day we thank you for a country that allows us to to get together and talk about things that impact the daily lives of our community we ask that you watch over our first responders our police our firemen and particularly those military folks who who are in foreign lands away from their family we ask that you you cure this pandemic that you send it back to where it came from get rid of it as quickly as you can we don't need any more sickness and death we ask all these things in your name amen i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you commissioners uh as usual we've got about an hour and a half to get this done because charlie and i have a tac meeting this morning did you remember that commissioner yes

so what we might do if we don't get through this we'll take a break and then come back uh we usually schedule a day and a half two days and i don't think it's ever taken that long since we we've been here uh i'm going to start it out by asking our county treasurer uh jim hendrix to do the talk to us about this initial draft and and uh the highlights of the budget certainly the initial draft uh i'll give you a list at the at the end of some modifications that we'll have to make to it but if you look at the second page just to go over the budget assumptions the currently adopted taxes were held constant with the exception of the occupational tax which uh had been deferred to increase originally from 0.70 to 1 percent on 1121 that got pushed to 112 so that's been factored into this this draft no additional debt the annual principal reduction is 2.7 million sheriff's office funding would be the same as the prior year

jail funding is at 2.3 million i sent you an email several months ago identifying the fact that state revenue was coming in lighter than budgeted that has continued and will have some impact on this fiscal year although our overall position is good so there won't be a negative position overall the budget for 22 though i think the revenue for the state had been assumed to improve the information that we are getting today indicates it may not improve so i'll keep watching that issue if we have to make some changes to manage that issue we'll i'll recommend it to you in plenty of time cost of living adjustment for salaries baked in here is two percent the retirement percentages increased by the normal uh maximum of twelve percent the one was delayed last year because of the pandemic so that that we're a year behind but it is going to do the 12 increase so non-hazardous rates go from 2406 to 26.95

the hazardous goes from 39 58 to 44 33 and anything else we'll we will go page by page in the next three or four pages if you have any questions on the assumptions jim uh on the the hazardous non-hazardous retirement i know several years ago there was a move and they did actually passed it where we are limited to no more than a 12 increase one year from one year over the the last did the is there a ending is there an end in sight or is that open-ended i think you go back to the the document you were talking about it was proposed for to be like a four or four and a half year time frame yeah but that doesn't that by no means is a cap so there's nothing that says it will stop i think they'll be evaluated annually and rates adjusted according okay any other questions continue the next page

exhibit a shows it's a summary of the major capital expenditures by department i'll just highlight a couple i know you've had a chance to look at all this but you know in the parks there's a capital repair maintenance fund of 250 000 there's always there's always a number of issues that pop up every year uh not necessarily that can be identified at the time but throughout the year so that pot's been placed in there to to handle those uh items that just show up there's the typical type of tractors rtvs mowers that you would expect the gun club as you know with the the recent article gun club finances have exceeded expectations it's been highly used that that there was a need in that market so everything's going real well out there and then continue and to improve things there's uh 29 000 worth of new wireless machines an archery target of 3500 to try to branch out for those who who like archery and even to possibly get a tournament or two

eventually under the fire department we have an engine carried over from this year for of 209 000 that would already been approved but time lag on ordering is not going to be in by the end of june so that that one's carried over then there's one new pumper at the east station of 600 000 animal control we put 370 000 in for the estimate for the new vet clinic i can tell you that in looking at the plans as they develop i will have a number of changes to present to you before the first reading to increase that either for size or for parking or for other things that are beginning to pop up that we didn't really have factored in the original number i think you've talked about some of it already i don't know how much i i think there's a little bit of increase there and mark you might all i can see is your head uh i think after reviewing those plans and looking at things we came up with what we think is a

better solution it's going to entail a little more cash uh but in the end i think will be better for the entire operation animal clinic would that be fair to say okay go away jim and in the road department there's an excavator of 125 000 the usual list of trucks dump trucks snow plows two tandem dumps at 150 each with the snow plow equipment the in looking at the asphalting from the road fund itself is 679 000 an additional 521 000 from the lgea fund we estimate flex funds of about 300 bridge fund of about 80 for a total of about a million five eighty that compares with last year pretty close doesn't it mark yeah if you look at the next uh two pages later okay not not the next page but two pages later there's the summary of the road for this year and last year broken out between the road fund and lgea fund and yeah you can see that the total and the the two funds for

the budget are about the same yeah the there's there's uh a little bit of difference in the state reimbursable funds from 520 down to 430 but so but primarily it's it's very close to the same yes flex funds they're going to be your first meeting or second meeting in may next meeting okay um before you turn that page jim let me just the gun club on those machines i think we have an opportunity jordan to purchase some one-year-old machines they were used for a tournament and that was about it we're gonna we can save a substantial amount of money there uh commissioner wathen and i had talked about the yellow creek park pickleball and you'll notice there's 25 000 for that pickleball court and on mine i've got a note to the side and we're expecting them to raise about 25 000 for that but it's going to cost more it's going to cost more than 50 to do that isn't it 50 50 for that one and then it was the estimate and then 40 for the total cost that stanley was 40 000 and we're going to pay that