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TUESDAY.. MAY-14. 1991 <br /> <br />Council began~consideration of matters relating to the FY91-92 Budget. In <br />response to a question by Councilman Oakes, City Manager Brown explained that <br />Council had been given a list of all changes to date in the City Manager's <br />proposed budget'and that those changes, combined with reductions in the <br />.Actual and Estimated" expenditures from the FY90-91 Budget, resulted in a <br />new projected General Fund surplus of $241,469 as of 6/30/92. Mr. Brown <br />noted, however, that the Department of Criminal Justice Services had notified <br />the City thatit would receive only $282,563 in House Bill "599" funds for <br />FY91-92, a reduction of $53,610 over the projected revenue resulting from <br />this source which was contained in the City Manager's budget proposal. <br />Therefore, the projected General Fund surplus will be reduced to $187,859 as <br />of 6/30/92. Councilman Oakes requested tha't Mr. Brown prepare a letter to <br />area =legislatOrs in protest of the reduction in "599" funding for <br />cofisideration at the next Council meeting. <br /> <br /> Council conducted a public hearing on the~proposed FY91-92 budget. Mr. Worth <br /> H. Carter, Jro stating that he was speaking as a taxpayer, not as a School <br /> Board member,'made the following comments: (1) that from the data which had <br /> been made available to him, he felt the City did not need to increase water <br /> or sewer rates, and if a further review of the budget is made, the City could <br /> increase the ending surplus or reduce .the real estate tax rate; (2) that <br /> Council had not attached specific salaries to specific positions in the <br /> budget process and totaled them to~determine if the budget appropriation <br /> matches the proposed salaries~ (3) that Council should review, by social <br /> security number, each position in the budget by range & step, department, <br /> account line in the budget, compensation, and reconcile this information to <br /> <br /> the budgets for Fiscal Years 1988-1992; (4) that he was bothered by the <br />hiStOry of the'City budget processin that 'the City always ended up with a <br /> <br /> greater closing surplus than was anticipated in the budget; (5) that he <br /> <br /> <br />