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No, that's your thank you. Miss Budget approval meeting to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:00
Budget stripped of the United States of America. 00:00:07
And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:11
Let the record show we have a full quorum. Everyone's present tonight. 00:00:23
Does anyone from Solid waste here? 00:00:30
Budget for solid waste did not change between now and budget hearings. I can tell you it is a balanced budget. 00:00:56
Gateway accepted it just fine as far as the prep work goes. So currently they're 2025 budget is $515,976. 00:01:06
CET. 00:01:22
Any questions for solid waste? Are there specific words that we need to use to adopt these budgets? 00:01:23
Just a motion to approve. The only the only caveat with budget adoption is that it does have to be a super majority. 00:01:31
I'm asking are there certain words OK. 00:01:38
And we can do them as a whole as well. 00:01:41
I'll make a motion to approve Silent Waste 1A. 00:01:44
Thank you. Have a motion a second for approval solid waste budget for 2025, any discussion? 00:01:48
All in favor say aye. Any opposed? 00:01:56
Carries Georgetown Fire. 00:01:59
Good evening, Kevin Imhoff on behalf of Georgetown Fire. This is the budget that we submitted in in Gateway. 00:02:11
The Georgetown Fire has zero debt. We saved our community wasted money on interest payments in the past. 00:02:19
The board chairman, Michael Moody cannot be here tonight. He's a volunteer as as a conflict from a work related perspective. He 00:02:26
has sent me with a prepared statement that I'm happy to distribute to you all. I. 00:02:32
I would ask that the Council approve the budget. 00:02:40
The fire district has worked with Baker Tilly as an advisor for years. 00:02:45
We're adding two full time firefighters to assist with coverage given increased demand on account of Franklin Township, there are 00:02:51
no capital projects or anything else out of the ordinary associated with the budget. It is a deficit spending budget, but there 00:02:57
are sufficient cash reserves that the Township has acquired for the past years to pay for. 00:03:04
If you have any other questions. 00:03:12
Thank you. 00:03:14
I do have one question. Is this the same rate as last year? 00:03:16
A 2.964. 00:03:21
I will defer to one of our representatives here that has a better hand on the financial experience. 00:03:24
Jim Mayfield on the financial officer for the fire District. I believe it's the same rate that I would have to double check. 00:03:43
I make a motion to approve the Georgetown Fire District budget. 00:03:57
Dang it. 00:04:04
Motion is second for Georgetown. 00:04:05
Budget approval? Any further discussion? 00:04:08
Do you know how long you could operate under a deficit before? 00:04:11
For more increased revenue or cuts are made. 00:04:16
I said it the initial hearing. I know there are. 00:04:22
Several avenues being explored. 00:04:26
But I can't speak on behalf of those for this from the fire board to determine. 00:04:29
That's gonna be a question that would need to be brought to the fire board. 00:04:33
I understand. 00:04:38
Understood. But this, this in year 2025, you do have the cash reserves for this budget. OK, thank you. 00:04:42
Any further discussion? 00:04:50
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:04:53
That carries. Thank you. Thank you. You want me to count your fire? 00:04:57
Motion to approve. 00:05:05
1C New Albany Township Fire District. 00:05:08
Budget I have a motion and 2nd for nominee Township fire any discussion? 00:05:12
Seeing none all in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:05:21
That carries. 00:05:25
Islander Fire. 00:05:28
Motion to approve. 00:05:34
Must approve 1D highlighter fire. 00:05:37
Budget. 00:05:41
For 2025. 00:05:43
I have a motion and a second for Highlander Fire District. Any discussion? 00:05:45
Seeing none all in favor say aye. Any opposed? 00:05:52
That carries. 00:05:56
We are on to item. 00:05:59
Lloyd County Budget. 00:06:01
We will be approving this budget with the understanding that there are a couple items that we will have to clean up in January, 1 00:06:07
being. 00:06:11
Road department contract and the second being building authority. 00:06:17
Budget. 00:06:23
Still being. 00:06:26
Not syncing correctly with what commissioners have. 00:06:28
Submitted SO. 00:06:32
At this time, the highway department is still under negotiations for their potential. 00:06:39
Pull it down. 00:06:46
Better, Yeah. OK. Thank you. 00:06:50
The Highway department is still under negotiations for their 2025 salary increase. It has not been approved at this time. Any 00:06:54
increase as far as budget after the original advertised amount is not something that can really be addressed. So an additional 00:07:01
appropriation will have to happen at the first council meeting of January once an agreement is reached, as well as an updated 00:07:08
salary ordinance at that time to reflect the new agreements between. 00:07:15
The union and the county. 00:07:23
So a caveat needs to be made concerning the budgets that there are going to be some adjustments made come January concerning those 00:07:26
salaries. Additionally, I know that the. 00:07:31
The governing bodies weren't quite able to sync up the potential double budgeting of security costs as well as the potential under 00:07:38
budgeting of the building authority. 00:07:44
Commitment itself. 00:07:51
So. 00:07:53
I have requested as a courtesy to the auditor's office due to the amount of work that's involved in the last minute changes at 00:07:55
budget adoption, that a caveat be added to your adoption vote this evening that that resolution take place between now and 00:08:02
December and then we can correct them in the January meeting so that everything is. 00:08:10
In minutes and in public meetings so that those adjustments do take place. 00:08:18
Which the adjustments don't exist right now and adoption is is happening at this point. So I would just ask that the wording be 00:08:24
included in an emotion made so that we can make sure that it's tracked and followed through minutes and that there is an 00:08:31
understanding that there will be a solution and it will be adjusted come January at the first meeting of the year. 00:08:39
Does anybody have any questions about those two things? 00:08:49
I have I have a question. Has the building authority contract been signed by the? 00:08:53
Commissioners. 00:09:00
I believe so. 00:09:02
I don't know if it has or not, to be perfectly honest. I don't have a copy of an updated contract for next year. So Aaron, do you 00:09:08
know if it's been signed? 00:09:11
The building authority budget, has it been approved by the commissioners because the lease is a long term lease that's not signed 00:09:16
every year? 00:09:19
The budget is was approved by the commissioners, but the two but the two bodies were still working together to find out if there 00:09:23
was double budgeting for building security. If I recall correctly, building security because the commissioners. 00:09:28
Yeah, their Police Department that they were paying, there's a couple, there's a couple things that are still. 00:09:36
Between the Council and Commissioners, that still needed to be worked out. 00:09:43
Once so. 00:09:47
Once the ad went to the state. 00:09:49
For the different categories as far as. 00:09:51
Our upcoming budget there's not really a way to adjust them once we've hit this point, and the resolutions and solutions between 00:09:57
the two bodies were not met in time for budget adoption. Which is why I recommended that a caveat be added to your adoption vote 00:10:03
in a public forum so that everyone is on the same page that these solutions still do need to be. 00:10:10
Rectified. 00:10:19
I'll make a motion to approve 2. 00:10:23
The Floyd County. 00:10:25
Budget adoption for both the Floyd County. 00:10:29
Budget and the Home Rule funds. 00:10:34
With the caveat that we. 00:10:38
We'll make some adjustments. 00:10:43
For the contract negotiations ongoing for the road department and also for the building authority. 00:10:45
Budget. 00:10:55
We have a motion and a second for Floyd County. 00:10:59
Item number 2, Floyd County budget and home rule funds. Any further discussion? 00:11:03
Is there a? Is it a form one or form 4 that we have to adopt with this? 00:11:08
OK. Do we have to include that in our motion? 00:11:15
Because in an ordinance of any sort. 00:11:17
It doesn't get assigned an ordinance number. 00:11:20
It's not required by the state. We have the county have an option to do so, but we've never done so. 00:11:23
I'd like to see it. Just table this vote for now. I mean, I we spent all this money on this benefit study. 00:11:32
And everyone's got to see the reports, the analysis of that, and we can save anywhere from 3/4 to $1,000,000 employee benefits, 00:11:40
not taking anything away from them, putting them in line with other counties throughout the state based on this study, and no ones 00:11:46
conceded anything. I think we should table this, turn this back to the commissioners and make them sign off on some of these cuts 00:11:52
to help offset some of these continued increases that we keep having. I mean, we've got all these increases here. We did all these 00:11:58
big. 00:12:03
Races two years ago and didn't look at the benefits and we saw how line those are now even after I got all these salary increases. 00:12:10
Then this year we give the prosecutors an additional increase on top of that. Then because we give the the prosecutors increases 00:12:16
we have to give to the public defenders that was well over $200,000. It's costing us, let alone all this extra benefits that got 00:12:22
put in with the sheriff's unions, even though I agree they need some raises, but there were some benefits put in there that nobody 00:12:28
else. 00:12:34
The county gets this deferred compensation. The county gets $17.00 per pay period now. Now they're going to get 100. Then we're 00:12:40
paying, what, $68,000 in uniforms? I mean, some of these fences can go back. 00:12:47
Can go back to. 00:12:55
To the Sheriff's Department itself, I mean, they got this commissary fund of $1.9 million. They can pick some of this stuff up. I 00:12:57
just don't know why we keep letting things grow and grow and grow. And that's here. We're talking about these taxes later, but 00:13:03
nobody wants to. We're not even talking about cuts. We're talking about putting freezes on things. I can't even get people to buy 00:13:09
into this. I mean, the taxpayers are here to hear this, to see this. They need to know this. 00:13:14
We have to have a budget adoption. 00:13:27
By the end of October, is that right? Yeah, the commissioners can still meet. They can still meet and still make some of these 00:13:31
concessions. 00:13:35
There's time. 00:13:40
And I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying, Jim, but this? 00:13:46
That can still happen. 00:13:51
Even with this adoption that can still we're at a. 00:13:53
Basically like a Max level. 00:13:57
Here with his adopted budget, so. 00:13:59
Changes can still be made. 00:14:02
Its benefits are. 00:14:07
You know, you're correct, we got to get Commissioner buying in on any change to benefits. 00:14:11
Which we have asked for. 00:14:17
No response and no. 00:14:20
Yeah, we don't pass a budget date. We're going to have to respond. 00:14:24
We're going to get automatic cuts to these. They're not going to want that. Let's cut the things we know we can cut instead of 00:14:27
being mandated something. 00:14:31
Any further discussion on it? 00:14:38
I'll just have to add that. 00:14:46
Something has to give with with the the points that Jim made in the commissioners. We need to come together on that. 00:14:50
However, if we don't adopt A budget by the end of the month, they, my understanding is the state will freeze our budget and give 00:14:57
us what we got last year and we'll lose out on any, any additional revenue of any sort. So it would be a huge penalty to us if we 00:15:04
didn't at least get this across the finish line for this month. But I think that we do need to. 00:15:11
Continue that conversation, see if we can get the commissioners to move on some things. 00:15:19
Any further comments or discussion? 00:15:25
All in favor of item two say aye. All opposed aye. 00:15:30
That carries. 00:15:35
Item 3 is the 2025 salary ordinance. 00:15:37
Salary ordinance reflects the salaries that were held at. 00:15:51
That were presented at. 00:15:56
Budget hearings as well as are reflected in the budget that was just adopted. So it does match those numbers. Again, the caveat 00:15:59
being that we don't know what the union and county will come to as far as an agreement. So the highway workers hourly rate will be 00:16:07
adjusted after the first of the year once a resolution is found there. But everything else matches the budgets that we're just. 00:16:15
Adopted. 00:16:23
Motion to approve salary ordinance. 00:16:28
2025 with the. 00:16:30
Caveat that the road department. 00:16:34
Salaries will be updated at the 1st January 2025. 00:16:37
2nd, we have a motion and a second for the 2025 salary ordinance. Any discussion? I just was I'm wondering why the road department 00:16:43
contract hasn't been? 00:16:48
Finalized ship? Well, there were several reasons. 00:16:54
The uh. 00:16:58
The head of their union was in the hospital for several months, I believe. 00:17:01
And so we met late to start and. 00:17:06
They presented the. 00:17:11
Insurance. 00:17:14
Deal again to us and. 00:17:16
That comes out of Chicago, so we had to coordinate that. 00:17:19
And then just over the last few weeks, it's been trying to get people on the same. 00:17:22
Meeting date and time to where we finally just said. 00:17:26
This week it's not going to matter if we do it this week or not. So we we're meeting again on Monday to try to forget to a 00:17:30
resolution. But it's it's been a combination of different things. 00:17:37
It's also worth noting that it's not uncommon that we, you know, we all know that here, but it's more for the public to you know, 00:17:50
for the for any salary ordinance that we have in any given year to be amended throughout the year with any adjustments that are 00:17:56
made. So it's not we have ended quarterly and resubmit it to the state at the same time that it is amended. 00:18:02
So you constantly keep it in an up-to-date format. 00:18:08
Any further questions or discussion? 00:18:15
All in favor of the 2025 Sally ordinance say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:18:19
That carries. 00:18:24
All right. That I'll, I'll take a motion to adjourn this budget meeting that concludes all of our agenda items. So moved. Second, 00:18:27
we are adjourned. 00:18:31
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Event transcript
No, that's your thank you. Miss Budget approval meeting to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:00
Budget stripped of the United States of America. 00:00:07
And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:11
Let the record show we have a full quorum. Everyone's present tonight. 00:00:23
Does anyone from Solid waste here? 00:00:30
Budget for solid waste did not change between now and budget hearings. I can tell you it is a balanced budget. 00:00:56
Gateway accepted it just fine as far as the prep work goes. So currently they're 2025 budget is $515,976. 00:01:06
CET. 00:01:22
Any questions for solid waste? Are there specific words that we need to use to adopt these budgets? 00:01:23
Just a motion to approve. The only the only caveat with budget adoption is that it does have to be a super majority. 00:01:31
I'm asking are there certain words OK. 00:01:38
And we can do them as a whole as well. 00:01:41
I'll make a motion to approve Silent Waste 1A. 00:01:44
Thank you. Have a motion a second for approval solid waste budget for 2025, any discussion? 00:01:48
All in favor say aye. Any opposed? 00:01:56
Carries Georgetown Fire. 00:01:59
Good evening, Kevin Imhoff on behalf of Georgetown Fire. This is the budget that we submitted in in Gateway. 00:02:11
The Georgetown Fire has zero debt. We saved our community wasted money on interest payments in the past. 00:02:19
The board chairman, Michael Moody cannot be here tonight. He's a volunteer as as a conflict from a work related perspective. He 00:02:26
has sent me with a prepared statement that I'm happy to distribute to you all. I. 00:02:32
I would ask that the Council approve the budget. 00:02:40
The fire district has worked with Baker Tilly as an advisor for years. 00:02:45
We're adding two full time firefighters to assist with coverage given increased demand on account of Franklin Township, there are 00:02:51
no capital projects or anything else out of the ordinary associated with the budget. It is a deficit spending budget, but there 00:02:57
are sufficient cash reserves that the Township has acquired for the past years to pay for. 00:03:04
If you have any other questions. 00:03:12
Thank you. 00:03:14
I do have one question. Is this the same rate as last year? 00:03:16
A 2.964. 00:03:21
I will defer to one of our representatives here that has a better hand on the financial experience. 00:03:24
Jim Mayfield on the financial officer for the fire District. I believe it's the same rate that I would have to double check. 00:03:43
I make a motion to approve the Georgetown Fire District budget. 00:03:57
Dang it. 00:04:04
Motion is second for Georgetown. 00:04:05
Budget approval? Any further discussion? 00:04:08
Do you know how long you could operate under a deficit before? 00:04:11
For more increased revenue or cuts are made. 00:04:16
I said it the initial hearing. I know there are. 00:04:22
Several avenues being explored. 00:04:26
But I can't speak on behalf of those for this from the fire board to determine. 00:04:29
That's gonna be a question that would need to be brought to the fire board. 00:04:33
I understand. 00:04:38
Understood. But this, this in year 2025, you do have the cash reserves for this budget. OK, thank you. 00:04:42
Any further discussion? 00:04:50
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:04:53
That carries. Thank you. Thank you. You want me to count your fire? 00:04:57
Motion to approve. 00:05:05
1C New Albany Township Fire District. 00:05:08
Budget I have a motion and 2nd for nominee Township fire any discussion? 00:05:12
Seeing none all in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:05:21
That carries. 00:05:25
Islander Fire. 00:05:28
Motion to approve. 00:05:34
Must approve 1D highlighter fire. 00:05:37
Budget. 00:05:41
For 2025. 00:05:43
I have a motion and a second for Highlander Fire District. Any discussion? 00:05:45
Seeing none all in favor say aye. Any opposed? 00:05:52
That carries. 00:05:56
We are on to item. 00:05:59
Lloyd County Budget. 00:06:01
We will be approving this budget with the understanding that there are a couple items that we will have to clean up in January, 1 00:06:07
being. 00:06:11
Road department contract and the second being building authority. 00:06:17
Budget. 00:06:23
Still being. 00:06:26
Not syncing correctly with what commissioners have. 00:06:28
Submitted SO. 00:06:32
At this time, the highway department is still under negotiations for their potential. 00:06:39
Pull it down. 00:06:46
Better, Yeah. OK. Thank you. 00:06:50
The Highway department is still under negotiations for their 2025 salary increase. It has not been approved at this time. Any 00:06:54
increase as far as budget after the original advertised amount is not something that can really be addressed. So an additional 00:07:01
appropriation will have to happen at the first council meeting of January once an agreement is reached, as well as an updated 00:07:08
salary ordinance at that time to reflect the new agreements between. 00:07:15
The union and the county. 00:07:23
So a caveat needs to be made concerning the budgets that there are going to be some adjustments made come January concerning those 00:07:26
salaries. Additionally, I know that the. 00:07:31
The governing bodies weren't quite able to sync up the potential double budgeting of security costs as well as the potential under 00:07:38
budgeting of the building authority. 00:07:44
Commitment itself. 00:07:51
So. 00:07:53
I have requested as a courtesy to the auditor's office due to the amount of work that's involved in the last minute changes at 00:07:55
budget adoption, that a caveat be added to your adoption vote this evening that that resolution take place between now and 00:08:02
December and then we can correct them in the January meeting so that everything is. 00:08:10
In minutes and in public meetings so that those adjustments do take place. 00:08:18
Which the adjustments don't exist right now and adoption is is happening at this point. So I would just ask that the wording be 00:08:24
included in an emotion made so that we can make sure that it's tracked and followed through minutes and that there is an 00:08:31
understanding that there will be a solution and it will be adjusted come January at the first meeting of the year. 00:08:39
Does anybody have any questions about those two things? 00:08:49
I have I have a question. Has the building authority contract been signed by the? 00:08:53
Commissioners. 00:09:00
I believe so. 00:09:02
I don't know if it has or not, to be perfectly honest. I don't have a copy of an updated contract for next year. So Aaron, do you 00:09:08
know if it's been signed? 00:09:11
The building authority budget, has it been approved by the commissioners because the lease is a long term lease that's not signed 00:09:16
every year? 00:09:19
The budget is was approved by the commissioners, but the two but the two bodies were still working together to find out if there 00:09:23
was double budgeting for building security. If I recall correctly, building security because the commissioners. 00:09:28
Yeah, their Police Department that they were paying, there's a couple, there's a couple things that are still. 00:09:36
Between the Council and Commissioners, that still needed to be worked out. 00:09:43
Once so. 00:09:47
Once the ad went to the state. 00:09:49
For the different categories as far as. 00:09:51
Our upcoming budget there's not really a way to adjust them once we've hit this point, and the resolutions and solutions between 00:09:57
the two bodies were not met in time for budget adoption. Which is why I recommended that a caveat be added to your adoption vote 00:10:03
in a public forum so that everyone is on the same page that these solutions still do need to be. 00:10:10
Rectified. 00:10:19
I'll make a motion to approve 2. 00:10:23
The Floyd County. 00:10:25
Budget adoption for both the Floyd County. 00:10:29
Budget and the Home Rule funds. 00:10:34
With the caveat that we. 00:10:38
We'll make some adjustments. 00:10:43
For the contract negotiations ongoing for the road department and also for the building authority. 00:10:45
Budget. 00:10:55
We have a motion and a second for Floyd County. 00:10:59
Item number 2, Floyd County budget and home rule funds. Any further discussion? 00:11:03
Is there a? Is it a form one or form 4 that we have to adopt with this? 00:11:08
OK. Do we have to include that in our motion? 00:11:15
Because in an ordinance of any sort. 00:11:17
It doesn't get assigned an ordinance number. 00:11:20
It's not required by the state. We have the county have an option to do so, but we've never done so. 00:11:23
I'd like to see it. Just table this vote for now. I mean, I we spent all this money on this benefit study. 00:11:32
And everyone's got to see the reports, the analysis of that, and we can save anywhere from 3/4 to $1,000,000 employee benefits, 00:11:40
not taking anything away from them, putting them in line with other counties throughout the state based on this study, and no ones 00:11:46
conceded anything. I think we should table this, turn this back to the commissioners and make them sign off on some of these cuts 00:11:52
to help offset some of these continued increases that we keep having. I mean, we've got all these increases here. We did all these 00:11:58
big. 00:12:03
Races two years ago and didn't look at the benefits and we saw how line those are now even after I got all these salary increases. 00:12:10
Then this year we give the prosecutors an additional increase on top of that. Then because we give the the prosecutors increases 00:12:16
we have to give to the public defenders that was well over $200,000. It's costing us, let alone all this extra benefits that got 00:12:22
put in with the sheriff's unions, even though I agree they need some raises, but there were some benefits put in there that nobody 00:12:28
else. 00:12:34
The county gets this deferred compensation. The county gets $17.00 per pay period now. Now they're going to get 100. Then we're 00:12:40
paying, what, $68,000 in uniforms? I mean, some of these fences can go back. 00:12:47
Can go back to. 00:12:55
To the Sheriff's Department itself, I mean, they got this commissary fund of $1.9 million. They can pick some of this stuff up. I 00:12:57
just don't know why we keep letting things grow and grow and grow. And that's here. We're talking about these taxes later, but 00:13:03
nobody wants to. We're not even talking about cuts. We're talking about putting freezes on things. I can't even get people to buy 00:13:09
into this. I mean, the taxpayers are here to hear this, to see this. They need to know this. 00:13:14
We have to have a budget adoption. 00:13:27
By the end of October, is that right? Yeah, the commissioners can still meet. They can still meet and still make some of these 00:13:31
concessions. 00:13:35
There's time. 00:13:40
And I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying, Jim, but this? 00:13:46
That can still happen. 00:13:51
Even with this adoption that can still we're at a. 00:13:53
Basically like a Max level. 00:13:57
Here with his adopted budget, so. 00:13:59
Changes can still be made. 00:14:02
Its benefits are. 00:14:07
You know, you're correct, we got to get Commissioner buying in on any change to benefits. 00:14:11
Which we have asked for. 00:14:17
No response and no. 00:14:20
Yeah, we don't pass a budget date. We're going to have to respond. 00:14:24
We're going to get automatic cuts to these. They're not going to want that. Let's cut the things we know we can cut instead of 00:14:27
being mandated something. 00:14:31
Any further discussion on it? 00:14:38
I'll just have to add that. 00:14:46
Something has to give with with the the points that Jim made in the commissioners. We need to come together on that. 00:14:50
However, if we don't adopt A budget by the end of the month, they, my understanding is the state will freeze our budget and give 00:14:57
us what we got last year and we'll lose out on any, any additional revenue of any sort. So it would be a huge penalty to us if we 00:15:04
didn't at least get this across the finish line for this month. But I think that we do need to. 00:15:11
Continue that conversation, see if we can get the commissioners to move on some things. 00:15:19
Any further comments or discussion? 00:15:25
All in favor of item two say aye. All opposed aye. 00:15:30
That carries. 00:15:35
Item 3 is the 2025 salary ordinance. 00:15:37
Salary ordinance reflects the salaries that were held at. 00:15:51
That were presented at. 00:15:56
Budget hearings as well as are reflected in the budget that was just adopted. So it does match those numbers. Again, the caveat 00:15:59
being that we don't know what the union and county will come to as far as an agreement. So the highway workers hourly rate will be 00:16:07
adjusted after the first of the year once a resolution is found there. But everything else matches the budgets that we're just. 00:16:15
Adopted. 00:16:23
Motion to approve salary ordinance. 00:16:28
2025 with the. 00:16:30
Caveat that the road department. 00:16:34
Salaries will be updated at the 1st January 2025. 00:16:37
2nd, we have a motion and a second for the 2025 salary ordinance. Any discussion? I just was I'm wondering why the road department 00:16:43
contract hasn't been? 00:16:48
Finalized ship? Well, there were several reasons. 00:16:54
The uh. 00:16:58
The head of their union was in the hospital for several months, I believe. 00:17:01
And so we met late to start and. 00:17:06
They presented the. 00:17:11
Insurance. 00:17:14
Deal again to us and. 00:17:16
That comes out of Chicago, so we had to coordinate that. 00:17:19
And then just over the last few weeks, it's been trying to get people on the same. 00:17:22
Meeting date and time to where we finally just said. 00:17:26
This week it's not going to matter if we do it this week or not. So we we're meeting again on Monday to try to forget to a 00:17:30
resolution. But it's it's been a combination of different things. 00:17:37
It's also worth noting that it's not uncommon that we, you know, we all know that here, but it's more for the public to you know, 00:17:50
for the for any salary ordinance that we have in any given year to be amended throughout the year with any adjustments that are 00:17:56
made. So it's not we have ended quarterly and resubmit it to the state at the same time that it is amended. 00:18:02
So you constantly keep it in an up-to-date format. 00:18:08
Any further questions or discussion? 00:18:15
All in favor of the 2025 Sally ordinance say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:18:19
That carries. 00:18:24
All right. That I'll, I'll take a motion to adjourn this budget meeting that concludes all of our agenda items. So moved. Second, 00:18:27
we are adjourned. 00:18:31