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SPECIAL MEETING
July 9, 1979
7:30 p.m.
The Meeting was called to order by Mayor Pasley.
The Roll of the City Council was called with the following
members present: McCloskey, Williams, Hopper, and Bauman.
Absent: Olesen and Raymond.
(HEARING ON PROPOSED USES OF GENERAL REVENUE SHARING AND DISCUSSION
ON THE BUDGET)
The Mayor explained that the purpose of this Special Meeting was
for two reasons: to get input from the public with regard to
proposed uses of General Revenue Sharing and to present the
- proposed budget for public input and discussion. Councilwoman
Williams was responsible for the preparation of the proposed budget
which will be shown on the screen with an overhead projector.
Councilwoman Williams is the Chairman of the Finance Committee
and was largely responsible for the preparation of the budget.
The notice that appeared in the local newspaper to notify the
public was as follows:
HEARING ON PROPOSED USES OF GENERAL REVENUE
SHARING
The City of Caldwell, Idaho, will hold a Public Hearing
at the City Hall Council Chambers at 704 Blaine, Caldwell,
Idaho, on July 9, 1979 at 7:30 p.m. and on July 10, 1979
at 12:00 Noon for the purpose of obtaining written and oral
comment from the public on the proposed uses of revenue
sharing funds in the upcoming budget for Fiscal Year 1979 -80.
All interested citizens' groups, senior citizens and .senior
citizen organizations are encouraged to attend the hearing.
Persons attending the hearing shall have the right to provide
written and oral comments and suggestions regarding possible
uses of revenue sharing funds.
Amount of unappropriated revenue sharing funds
in trust fund $ 250,498.00
Amount of revenue sharing funds expected during
FY 1979 -80 264,745.00
Councilwoman Williams stated that a little different approach was
used this year in preparing the proposed budget. It was prepared
on tax funds, enterprise funds, and on dedicated funds. The proposed
budget was prepared on slides to show on the overhead projector.
She further explained that since the City deals with services more
than anything else, a great deal of the budget was salaries. The
total salary budget, including the Library, amounted to $2,386,000.00;
the fringe benefits were $437,376.00 for a total salary budget of
$2,437,762.00. The budget was prepared by line items that have been
submitted by the Department Heads and the City Council has gone
over every line item of this budget. This was a tentative budget
and the Council now needed any input that the public might have with
regard to this budget and with regard to the Revenue Sharing uses.
She further commented that it would be necessary for the Council to
close this budget and the Revenue Sharing expenses within ten days
and the purpose of the meeting was for any suggestions that the
public might have with regard to either the budget or the Revenue
Sharing.
The Mayor then presented the tentative budget on an overhead projector
for the public to observe and make any comments that they cared to
make in regard to it.
The Mayor had slides prepared showing the salaries and the fringe
benefits broken down into each fund. He pointed out the amounts,
the fringe benefits, and the number of employees in each Department.
The Council discussed several of the funds presented and any questions
from the audience were answered as the Mayor progressed through
the slide presentation.
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After the slide presentation, Councilman McCluskey was recognized
and stated that he would like to commend the Mayor for the
presentation as it was the best he had ever seen.
The Mayor then asked if there was any questions from the audience
with regard to the regular budget before going into the Revenue
Sharing. One member of the audience asked just what the fringe
benefits consisted of. Councilwoman Williams answered that this
included Social Security, Retirement, Workmen's Compensation and
Unemployment Insurance:, FICA, and Medical.
Ellen Marks from the Statesman asked if the City anticipated
anymore people being laid off this year. Councilwoman Williams
answered that the salaries included in this budget were the
present salaries and if no one gets any increases, they did not
anticipate any layoffs this year. Ellen Marks also asked what
else had been cut back. Councilwoman Williams pointed out that
there was not much Capital Improvements and Councilman McCluskey
further pointed. out that there was an extreme cutback if you take
the inflationary dollar into consideration. Other than Revenue
Sharing monies, there just was not much to spend on Capital
Improvements.
Councilman Hopper stated that 27% for fringe benefits for the City
was really not so much. when you consider that in the private sector
it was running anywhere from thirty to thirty -five percent. He did
not feel that the City was out of line with this percentage.
The Mayor then requested that Councilwoman Williams present the
proposed uses of the Revenue Sharing monies. She informed the
audience that the City of Caldwell had some equipment that was
bought on a lease purchase. The City does not want to go into
the to owing on this equipment as they would like to be completely
out of debt. They budgeted within the Revenue Sharing this year
to pay off every one of these pieces of equipment. This equipment
was things that the City of Caldwell needed. Much of it was in
the Street Department, but there was one in the Parks Department
and one in the Golf Department. Also, they would like to budget
in the Revenue Sharing a sewer study that was being done by the
Assistant Engineer that the City needed for sewer extensions. The -
Mayor explained that this was from Linden to Ustick, somewhere betwee
the railroad tracks and Cleveland Boulevard on Dearborn Street
going South., plus a large pumping station close to the Meat Packers.
Other items the Council would like to budget Revenue Sharing monies
for were: Irrigation tiling, accessories for the well on Spruce
Street and Montana Avenue; a sprinkling system for a new area
that will be opened at the Cemetery; the City needs a new Fire
Engine; monies to pay off the Local Improvements District on
Kimball Avenue; there was requests to cover the Charolais barns for
shows that are held there; the Rodeo Board would like to have
restrooms so the Fieldhouse will not have to be left open when they
have their shows; a rotary mower was needed at the Cemetery which
the Sexton felt would do the work of about three other mowers;
the Street Department needs a front end loader which the Department
uses for many things. Councilwoman Williams then stated that these
were some of the things that the City Council felt were needed.
She then asked if there was any suggestions from members of the
audience as to uses for the Revenue Sharing monies.
Ellen Marks asked if there was money to do all of these things and
if there would be any monies left. Councilwoman Williams said
that there was enough monies for these suggestions and she would
hope to have money left.
Councilman McCluskey pointed out that the City of Caldwell does not
feel that the Revenue Sharing money will be available again. This
was just assumption on the part of the City Council., but they do
not believe that Congress will pass the law for the Revenue Sharing
again.
Councilwoman Bauman stated that the Council hoped to have a
contingency, as it was such a bare bone budget, for any emergency
that might happen in any department and this may have to come out
of Revenue Sharing as the money was not available anywhere else.
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Alice Dunlap was recognized and agreed that the contingency was a
good idea as you cannot foresee what might happen. She mentioned
the window that they had shot out at the Library and how expensive
it was to replace and the possibility of the cost being so much
higher for such an emergency in the coming year.
One member of the audience asked if there would be copies of this
proposed budget for the public. The Mayor explained that it would
be published in the paper and that the formal public hearing would
be on the 7th of August and the first notification in the
newspaper would be on the 21st of July. So far the copies the
Council had were work copies, but copies of the budget would be
available for the public to inspect as soon as the Council was
prepared for the appropriation ordinance to be presented for
approval.
Since there was no more input from the audience with regard to the
uses of the Revenue Sharing monies or the regular budget, the
Mayor declared the Public Hearing closed.
Since there was no more business to be presented at this time
before the City Council., the Mayor declared the meeting adjourned
at 8:20 P.M.
APPROVED AS written THIS 16th DAY OF July , 1979.
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