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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010 08-24 Special BudgetMeridian City Council Meeting -Budget Hearing August 24 2010 A Council Budget meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 24, 2010, by Mayor Tammy De Weerd. Members Present: Mayor Tammy De Weerd, President David Zaremba, Charlie Rountree, Keith Bird, and Brad Hoaglun. Others Present: Bill Nary, Jaycee Holman, Anna Canning, Stacy Kilchenmann, and Todd Lavoie. Item 1: Roll-call Attendance: Roll call. X David Zaremba X Brad Hoaglun X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird X Mayor Tammy De Weerd De Weerd: Okay. I will go ahead and call the special meeting to order. For the record it is Tuesday, August 24. It's 6:00 p.m. I'd like to welcome Ralph. We appreciate your constant attendance and dependable. We will start tonight's meeting with roll call attendance. Item 2: Adoption of the Agenda De Weerd: Item 2 is adoption of the agenda. Hoaglun: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun. Hoaglun: I move adoption of the agenda as presented. Zaremba: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as presented. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 3: Public Hearing: FY2010 Amended Budget De Weerd: Item 3 is our public hearing for the FY 2010 Amended Budget. We will turn this over to Todd. Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 2 of 13 Lavoie: Good evening, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. I'm here to present to you the fiscal year 2010 budget amendment. You should have received the presentation in paper copy and also a supplemental form that shows the budget amendment for fiscal year 2010 in detail, so I'm going to go over quickly the total budget amended for fiscal year 2010. A few weeks ago we proposed 65,894,051 dollars for the fiscal year 2010 budget amendment. That is actually an increase from our original budget of 1.26 percent from the beginning of the year to the end of the year and that was for all funds included. The total General Fund with amendments that are supplied to you under detailed form, those -- the total budget for General Fund was 32 million -- was for 32,879,959 dollars, which is a 6.06 percent increase from the beginning of the fiscal year. During the fiscal year the departments did present to you all the amendments. If you have any questions I'm more than happy to answer those for you. Our Capital Improvement Fund throughout the year actually went down 47 percent from the beginning of the fiscal year. The Enterprise Fund, total budget ended up at 32,910,072 dollars, which is actually a decrease of 2.86 percent from the beginning of the fiscal year. The next slide here shows a summary of the major 2010 budget amendments. Some of these probably you recall the police building final debt payment for the police building. We amended that for 451,325 dollars. We had some contracted legal expense amendments. An Idaho Power grant amendment. Those were the three major ones in the General Fund. The Enterprise Fund had a few adjustments throughout the year. We had a reclaimed the water booster station for a little over 635,000. The EECBG grant we received was 231 and we adjusted our revenue 605,000. Some revenue numbers come in a little bit better than expected. For fiscal year 2010 this sheet here is a summary of some other minor amendments that represent the 1.1 million dollars in total amendments throughout the fiscal year broken out by funds and, then, this one is by the Enterprise Fund, 1.5 million dollars in total amendments throughout the fiscal year. With that I will stand for questions for fiscal year 2010. De Weerd: Council, any questions for staff at this time for this agenda item? Bird: I have none. Rountree: I don't have any. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you, Todd. Lavoie: Thank you. De Weerd: This is a public hearing. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to provide testimony? I do have a sign up. Mr. Mike Anderson. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Anderson: Madam Mayor and City Council Members, I'm Mike Anderson, 2000 North McDermott Road. I adjoin the Borup property out at Cherry Lane and McDermott. What drives me to be here tonight is my concern for two items. One, the reallocation of Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 3 of 13 funds that is in the budget from the Lions Club assistance to building a dog pound in a ten acre parcel in the dog park. Secondly, the proposal to build a 500,000 dollars dog pound outside the Comprehensive Plan is next to my home. And, thirdly, there is a real inexpensive reconciliation I'd like to propose. The first item, the reallocation of funds from the Lions Club, I'm not a Lions Club member, I live right beside them and I'd give them a right of way across my property, but -- De Weerd: Mr. Anderson, I'm sorry to interrupt you. But right now we are on 2010 amended budget and -- Anderson: There is 7,000 dollars in there -- De Weerd: Oh. Okay. Anderson: Yeah. I'm sorry. There is 7,000 dollars that sneaks in and this thing is six inches thick. I'm sorry. It's just so big. We went through it and there is 7,000 dollars that is used in there to design the dog park and now it's not even in a comprehensive area. What I'm concerned about is the momentum is going. You spent 7,000 last year, 50,000 has been proposed, and put five and there is a half a million dollar dog park aimed at me. How do I get ahead of this train and slow down the momentum? That's why I'm here, because the 7,000, yeah, it's not very big, but the proposed dog park is in a nonindustrial area. So, that 7,000 is trash. I'm concerned about the money that's being wasted for the city here and it isn't going to go anywhere unless you guys amend the whole Comprehensive Plan and I think that needs to be noted. I want you guys to understand what I'm looking at. The five -- the 7,000 for the proposal, then, the 50,000 that was proposed, but because of some technicality didn't pass and now there is a half a million dollar dog park, this looks like a locomotive to me. So, that's why. And, then, the next year Iguess I -- I'm familiar with this, but I know your budget is that thick and somewhere in there there is hiding a whole bunch of money and I can't find it. Capital improvements, expenses, you know, and we have been struggling with this trying to figure it out and I don't know what to say, other than, hello, 7,000 has been spent already for a study on a dog park that has no connection to Eugene's ideas, Seattle's ideas, it's an idea -- I don't know where it came from. Hoaglun: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun. Hoaglun: If I might address that. I serve as the liaison to the Parks Department. The 7,000, if I recall correctly, was funding that when -- as they developed a concept. What is -- what is the Borup property going to look like down the road with the ball fields and there were a couple different things and they did add in there if we were to put a dog park out there where would it go, how -- would it fit with the overall concept of ball fields and there were four different concepts. Do you position ball fields here? You do have them over here? If you throw in the dog park, okay, you can go ten acres here. Do you go with five? Do you split here? So, that was part of a concept plan that was spent. Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 4 of 13 That money was spent. Now, that would also include ball fields. Even if a dog park is not out there, you still need a concept plan to start that process of deciding how is this property going to look when it's developed as a park and what are the needs. So, it's not wasted money, because the concept has to be developed. Now, whether or not that -- any of those concepts are adopted, that's to be decided down the road. But we have got to start that process, so when the time comes in future years when we are -- when we are out there, when it's annexed, all that good stuff. So, that's there. The request by the parks director, he had funds from a grant of the 8th Street parkway and we got a grant for that and he thought, you know, we are talking about this dog park and if we develop this park, can we move that 50,000 dollars into a future fund for a dog park. Okay? Now, yeah, there are -- he has got a committee that's looking at a dog park out there again. Potential. They want more space, so they think, hey, if that's more space, that's where we are looking. But, again, there is no action on that and if it were to go somewhere else, if that fund had been established, they could use that money over there, but, you know, I think that -- that proposal died because of the lack of -- it wasn't in the capital improvement program, if I recall, Councilman Rountree, on that. So -- and, then, future funding, you know, that's far enough down the road where there has not been any allocation for that that I'm aware of, so -- Anderson: There was a move for 50,000 dollars not long ago. Hoaglun: And the 50,000, as I mentioned, was -- he had funds established for an 8th Street halfway to do some work. We got grant funds, so he -- he got grant funds to replace that. So, then, that 50,000 he said, you know, I need to allocate this, because we replaced that money, how about if we move it into a dog park fund and that was the Council -- that proposal died. Anderson: I like dogs and I know dog parks. A ten acre dog park is not what you need. So, whoever designed this thing didn't do their homework. This is elementary. They designed a ten acre dog park. What the world wants is an acre and a half. Call Seattle, Eugene. We do that. And so somebody with ten acres, they don't have a clue. So, the 7,000 might as well have been thrown in the trash. That's my point. That's why the budget now is an issue. Seven thousand dollars, whatever it went four, you can just throw it in the trash, because a ten acre dog park doesn't work. Then, there is a dog pound stuck in the middle of it. Where did that come from? Because the police department is seven miles away. So, whoever thought of that when the police department is seven miles away. You got to go to the -- right now to get adog -- you got a bad dog, okay, you go and you find him at the dog pound at the Ten Mile sewer plant, you drive over to the police department, you get a paper, pay your fine, or whatever, and, then, you got to drive seven miles back over to ten mile. We are two miles further. What is going on that anybody would think of putting a dog park -- I know I'm prejudiced, because I live right next to it and I didn't want it in my backyard. But seven miles back and forth to the dog pound, whoever put this together Ijust -- why don't you talk to me -- Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 5 of 13 De Weerd: Mr. -- but, Mr. Anderson, it's a concept. It's one of four different proposals that has not been determined. It is just in discussion phases. It is not a for granted. So, the 7,000 developed the four different concepts. It conducted public participation outreach and so that money has been spent to determine the conceptual plan that will go through a process and it will be, again, a public process, you will have your opportunity to speak both in front of the Parks Commission, as well as the City Council when a concept will move forward. Anderson: Okay. I wanted to make sure you know -- aware of this. Suddenly, the Borup property come to you guys, there is money being spent on this thing, it's totally inappropriate, it's not industrial, you can't put a dog park there -- dog pound there and, by the way, the dog park, if you put 3,000 dollars into the sewer plant you can yourself a dog park just like that. Hoaglun: Just to clarify, when you dog park, you mean just the open space or are you talking about animal shelter as well? Anderson: I'm talking dog pound. Hoaglun: Dog pound. Animal shelter. Anderson: Shelter, yes. Hoaglun: Not just a park open space to walk dogs? Anderson: At its ten acres, see, and so -- Hoaglun: Now -- Madam Mayor and Mr. Anderson, those are two different concepts you understand. Anderson: It's on the same drawing. Hoaglun: They are on the same drawing, but having a dog park out there may not -- may or may not include an animal shelter. I mean that's -- Anderson: It's on the drawing. De Weerd: It's a concept. Hoaglun: it's on a concept. De Weerd: yeah. Anderson: You get my point. But my advice is 3,000 sewer plant, you got yourself a dog park and you need some dog parks. I love dogs. We got them. We go to the Nampa one all the time. One is too big. You only -- what you need is a neighborhood Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 6 of 13 dog park and that's where the money ought to go. So, whatever the 7001 was for -- don't know who got the money, but they really didn't do their homework. Okay? De Weerd: Okay. Anderson: Want me to -- De Weerd: No. But thank you for coming tonight and for wading through a big stack of budget numbers. Anderson: I tell you, that's unbelievable. De Weerd: Yes. Anderson: Wow. Hoaglun: Sixty-five million dollars worth. De Weerd: It's entertaining reading. But thank you for being here. Kilchenmann: Okay. Do you need me to just do the next item? De Weerd: I just need to first ask if there is any other member of the public who would like to provide testimony on this item. Okay. Okay. Stacy. Kilchenmann: Okay. We are ready for the 2011 budget, so -- De Weerd: Well, I will first need to -- Kilchenmann: Oh. De Weerd: -- close the public hearing. Yeah. Kilchenmann: I'm just so excited. De Weerd: We love to see you excited. Okay. Council, anything further on the 2010 amended budget? Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we close the public hearing on the FY 2010 amended budget. Zaremba: Second. Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 7 of 13 De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on Item 3. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move that we bring forward this ordinance or resolution on the amended ordinance -- I move that bring forward an ordnance showing the FY 2010 amended budget. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to move forward with the ordinance for the 2010 amended budget. If there is no discussion, Madam Clerk, will you call role. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 4: Public Hearing: FY2011 Proposed Budget De Weerd: Item No. 4 is a public hearing on the FY 2011 proposed budget and I will turn this over to our CFO. Kilchenmann: Okay. Just to do a brief recap of what we are looking at in 2011. I think the most important we are not taking the three percent allowable amount of tax -- property tax increase, but we are maintaining our current level of service, with the exception of an increase in the level of service for the police department with a combination of our COPS grant and some General Fund money. We are also doing some additional maintenance for Kleiner Park, along with some small additions to different parks savings account. We added one position in the fire department and replaced several police and fire vehicles. The water and sewer utilities concentrated on replacement, improvement for their existing infrastructure, continuing their reclaimed water project, master planning for future water sources and a computer system that monitors the water supply and distribution system. So, I won't go through the definition of common budget -- well, we do have an audience member, so I will. So, budget base is what we typically call personnel and operating expense. We also use it to refer to the initial budget that's been stripped each year of the one time enhancements and adjustment. So, that's kind of our starting point and we just talked about the original budget compared to the budget -- that's a budget approved before amendments and the final budget, which we just approved for 2010. Carry forward, of course, are those Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 8 of 13 capital operating projects we didn't finish in the current year, so we are bringing forward to reappropriate in the next year and, then, we have transfers where we make allocations between funds and departments. So, just a quick summary of the transfers we make. I think everybody is aware of it. It's in the financial statement. But 50 percent of the finance, IT, and construction manager go to the Enterprise Fund, 15 percent of the Mayor's office, excluding the Mayor, go to the Enterprise Fund. City Hall costs as split with all departments in the building according to square footage. Three planning department are considered General Fund, other government transfers. Then, we transferred 25 percent of the city clerk's office to planning and 50 percent of the legal department to planning. Those we know we talked about during the budget workshop, how we go through the budget -- the revenue projections. And just to recap some of the important points for this year's production, for development, our development services growth, we are keeping it at or below the levels of the last three years, so we're projecting it about 600 residential building permits and we're not really anticipating any big increase in new commercial activity. We're planning that interest rates will be rock bottom, at between one and 2.5 percent. We expect state revenue sharing to remain flat. In other words, we don't expect a lot of consumer spending, but we think that we will get revenue at least equal to the current year 2010. We will not have an increase in the utility operating revenue. In other words, we haven't budgeted for an increase. And we have just shown a slight increase in the account number growth. We're also looking in assessment revenue as remaining fairly flat. We have actually budgeted a little bit below the level that it's actually turned out to be for this year, so we feel that's pretty conservative. We probably have a good chance of beating that projection. And, again, we will not take the three percent allowable property tax increase. So, if we look at the total city, we are going to look -- I think we have spent a lot of time in the workshop and so forth looking at individual departments, we will just take kind of a look at the city as a whole that we normally might not take. So, the total City of Meridian revenue, not -- not use the fund balance, but new revenue is about 54 million and this kind of shows you what the two big pieces of that pie are if we look at the total city, it's property tax and the utility sales and water and sewer sales. Building a base budget. That's the next step after the revenue. We have talked about how we go through all the line items. We do the trend reports. We work with the departments, the Council, the Mayor. We adjust wages for any -- and salaries for equity changes. Adjust the current actual and this budget does include a three percent merit pool and police plan step increase. So, if we look at the total cost or the total budget, the new budget that is excluding carry forward for 2011 for the total city is 56 million and personnel makes up 50 percent of that, with operating at 34 percent and then, capital at 16 percent. If we add the carry forward in, our budget is 68.2 million and so when we commonly talk about the total City of Meridian budget it does include the carry forward. So, we can see carry forward is still fairly substantial at 17 percent of our budget, with personnel going down to 42 percent, operating down to 28 percent and, then, 13 percent new capital. If we just look at our personnel and operating budget, it's 47.4 million and this pie chart breaks it down into all our major functional areas. So, public safety is by far the biggest piece of the City of Meridian's pie and that's total, including the Enterprise Fund. If we look at are new capital request, the focus shifts to the wastewater treatment plant. That is probably are largest use of capital by the water department and, then, a smaller piece for Parks and Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 9 of 13 public safety is mostly vehicle replacement. So, if we look -- if we compare where we were at this time in 2010 to where we are right now, comparing the two budgets, that kind of gives you a picture. We were at 65 million is where we started in 2010. So, that -- or column graphs show you how all the major classes compare from year to year. So, just to briefly breakdown the carry forward. We are caring 2.2 million dollars forward in operating and those are typical large consulting projects that have not -- that have not been completed in the current year. So, again, the biggest piece of that is water and wastewater to be big master planning projects that just don't get completed in a year time frame. In the capitol carry forward we have 9.6 million, which I actually believe is less than we carried forward last year. And, again, the big piece of those big projects in water and wastewater at 7.2 million. And, then, a smaller amount in parks at 1.2 million. So, over the years we have carried substantially -- we had a big carry forward in parks and we have completed projects that carry forward has definitely shrunk. Okay. The General Fund we are going to talk about each fund now individually and we know what the General Fund is. The biggest piece of the General Fund is public safety at 76 percent of the General Fund base when we take out development services. The revenue side, of course, the biggest part of that is from property tax revenue. So, if we look at our revenue as a whole for the General Fund and development services, we have projected in our budget 30.4 million. So, the first chart gives you sort of -- kind of a history of where those revenues have been and you can see they -- you know, it's all in the property tax. We have had intergovernmental, which is like our state revenue sharing. It's been fairly flat. And, then, we have lost some in the development services fees, whereas our General Fund fees have stayed fairly steady. And, then, again, if we look at that -- that pie and break them apart, the biggest part is property tax. If we look at history and we say of our base -- or of our personnel and operating, if we take our revenue and we subtract out that stripped base where we need to just maintain current level of service what does it look like, the base is the dark blue part of that bar and it shows -- and the light blue is our discretionary revenue. In other words, that's the revenue that we have to spend on enhancement requests, vehicle replacements, et cetera. That gives you a history of kind of where we have been. You can see 2007, 2008, we had big pieces of that revenue and, then, how now we are kind of growing the base and the revenue, we are in a little shrinkage of the revenue, or not an expansion of the revenue like you were. So, because property tax is the General Fund or -- and it's so important to the General Fund, I just want to talk a little bit about what we are looking at for property tax in FY 2011. So, the three percent that we re not taking is about a half a million -- 550,000 dollars, so if we apply that per 100,000 dollars of residential home value, that's about 12 dollars. And our levy rate --and let you know is not final, because they will still make little adjustments here and there in that, so -- but I -- it's probably pretty close. So, the total taxable value of Meridian property as a whole, if we look at the whole city, residential -- or the whole, including commercial and residential, dropped almost 11 percent, which is fairly substantial. Residential properties dropped anywhere 16, 17, 18 percent. So, with or without changes in our levy, those people will likely see decreases in property tax due to their falling property values and there was a piece of legislation that we have talked about a bit that was passed by the legislature this winter that can change the way new construction is calculated and the way property under development is added to new construction, so if the development -- if a property's under Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 10 of 13 development and it's considered as new construction and, then, it's changed at a later point, because the development starts, so it's reverted back to agriculture, the value of the new construction is subtracted from our property tax rolls, which can revert considerable distance in the past, so we had 24 million dollars removed from our new construction -- new construction values this year, which that's fairly -- that makes a fairly substantial impact. So, what always happens when our taxable value goes down, our levy rate goes up. So, these two graphs just illustrate the dramatic changes in the taxable value and, then, how that affects our levy rate. De Weerd: Excuse me, Stacy. Just for the record, Councilman Bird had to leave. His son was in an accident and -- grandson. Grandson. And he's going to the hospital, so -- Kilchenmann: Oh, no. Okay. So, if we look at the expense side of our General Fund budget, we have 25.3 million in personnel and operating, which is broken down by department and we have 2.2 million in new capital, which that pie chart shows broken down by department. So, our new budget request is 27.5 million and, then, if we add the carry forward we had it's 28.7 million. So, just -- just to zing through what we are adding in the -- as enhancements, first we look at the police department and that columnar graph shows 2011, again, compared to w010. So, they had 1.2 million in new enhancement and capital replacement requests. They had the three sergeants, the animal control officer, the COPS grant, four positions. Some up -- upgrade to their current phone system. And capital replacement of 381,000 dollars. The fire department added a division chief, refurbishing an engine, a small amount for strategic plan consulting and capital replacements of about 20,000. The Parks Department has funding for some additional staff and maintenance for Kleiner Park. A city arborist and some operating costs to go along with that. Maintenance costs for the Ten Mile median once it's been landscaped. Some money to put aside for Settlers Village Square phase two out of our impact fee fund. Money to put toward to field house fund at 25,000. And some land and construction documents for relocating a new maintenance shop. And a used van for the recreation department. The General Fund -- and I -- I did this pie, which is a very busy pie, but just to show that administration had -- is kind of a collection of all little parts and pieces, so that when we talk about administration, there are a lot of functions and activities that take place in administration. So, their new enhancement replacement request was 223,000 dollars. They have some amounts for IT. A small amount for a city survey. To actually do the Ten Mile landscaping. Some money for the storm water program and we are splitting some project management software with the Enterprise Fund. And, then, we have computer equipment replacement. For Development Services, which is Building Department, Planning Department, Economic Development, this is looking at their revenue. I think something we have looked at before. The -- or the direction the revenue is going. If we look at this one, this is that same kind of graph where it shows what -- how much of their revenue goes for their base and how much is discretionary and can see in the growth years where we made all those big adjustments -- or additions to the Capital Improvement Fund, that's for discretionary revenue, and, then, 2009 things kind of went sinking into the fund balance. In 2010 and 2011 we have balanced that fund and so we are not going into fund Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 11 of 13 balance anymore, so -- and I'm not going to the next slide. There. So, we have -- have a break apart as far as the three functions. They have two small requests, the consolidated plan to assessed housing needs in the city. Oops. Too excited. And, then, comprehensive plan to get public participation in the fields district, which I learned today is north Meridian and it's called fields because the plan has fields, which I thought was really nice. But Anna said not necessarily likely. Okay. So, the Enterprise Fund, our last fund, we have two components. We always talk about Enterprise Fund; we talk about the operation side, which is the water and sewer usage, and the construction side, which is the infrastructure side. So, their total revenue that we're projecting for 2011 is 26.6 million and this, again, is a pie chart of where that revenue comes from. We see most of its from utility sales. In other years or if growth picks up, the connection fee revenue can considerably expand that. So, here is their history for the recent last five years, see where connection revenue was up in the growth years and has fallen off and, then, where the utility sales are trending. So, again, during that same base comparison for them just with their operating, we don't consider their construction or capital costs in here and see where -- how their base budget is going, how they dipped into the fund balance, but how they are fully coming out of that position and starting to have more discretionary revenue. So, their -- the way their budget breaks down for their new budget, with their PC, their OE and their capital is 26.7 million. And that pie chart shows the distribution between their major functions. Their new capital budget request of 6.7 million, you can see most of that is in the wastewater treatment plant. If we look at them -- if we look at their total budget, which includes their carry forward, see their carry forward is -- or their total budget is 35 million, with carry forward being 24 percent and operating 40, their personnel down to 17 percent. And then, again, we can look at it by department with wastewater being a big chunk of that. Okay. So, to go through their request, if we break them apart -- and I'm going to do them by PC and OE and, then, I'll do capital. So, on the waterside, they only have 1.7 million in their PC and only a request. So, the biggest chunk of that is water. They have some planning and I grouped these. I'm not reading each individual one; I have kind of grouped them into classes. So, we have water source and systems planning. Water systems, electronic and communication upgrades. Miscellaneous equipment. Wastewater, they -- this is the only position they added is a mechanic. Facility planning and flow monitoring. Electronic system upgrades. And apart-time GIS position for Public Works. From the capitol side they have it -- you know, one of those filter buildings. Some water main -- or sewer replacement. Secondary clarifier. And, again, these are the biggest of the projects. Reclaimed water. Sewer line extension. On the water side, well construction and water main replacement. Some water line extensions. Well 29, which I think is, actually, going to be called 10-B. Second ground reservoir. And, again, the electronic upgrades. The project management software. And some work to the Public Works office, just some additions for additional staff that are moving from the treatment plant. So, that is the end of my formal presentation. Are there any questions? De Weerd: Thank you, Stacy. Council, any questions? Rountree: I have none. Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 12 of 13 De Weerd: Thank you. This is a public hearing. Is there any member of our public would like to provide testimony on this agenda item? Mr. Anderson, I did see you sign up on this as well. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Seeing no public comment, any other comments from any of the directors? Canning: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yes, Anna. Canning: Members of the Council, this is just for Mr. Anderson's benefit. I thought he was going to speak again and I would safe that for that, but the Planning and Zoning Commission next month will consider some code amendments to allow neighborhood dog parks, which were -- were spoken of as an amenity for a subdivision. So, I can -- like instead of providing a pool, you could provide a fenced area for dogs, with dog cleanup stations and that would count an amenity for those subdivisions when they are required. So, it may take awhile, we will have to wait until development gears up again, but we hope to get some neighborhood dog parks through -- through providing that incentive. De Weerd: And so those are private? Canning: Those were the private, yes. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Okay. Anything further from any of the other directors? Council? Rountree: I have nothing. De Weerd: Nothing further, I would entertain a motion to close. Hoaglun: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun. Hoaglun: I move that we close the public hearing on the FY 2011 proposed budget. Zaremba: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on this item. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Hoaglun: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun. Meridian City Council Special Pre-Council Budget Hearing August 24, 2010 Page 13 of 13 Hoaglun: I move the -- it was the ordinance again, Mr. Mary? Preparation -- approval of a preparation of an ordinance for the FY 2011 proposed budget as presented. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to instruct city attorney to prepare an ordinance to approve the FY 2011 budget. If there is no discussion, Madam Clerk, will you, please, call role. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: We're at the end of our special agenda, if I have a motion to adjourn. Rountree: So moved. Hoaglun: Second. De Weerd: All those in favor? All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. 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