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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, April 20, 2020 <br />Page 11 <br />$328,000 ahead of last year's. There generally is a 60 -day lag which means when we receive the <br />money versus when the employers are actually paying it so I would expect to see as RITA starts <br />getting April receipts to pay us in May what the impact on our tax collections are going to take as <br />a result of the virus. I am trying to work with RITA to kind of quantify that so I can report back <br />to Council. In addition to reductions in income tax, we can expect to see reductions in our <br />investment earnings, admissions tax, hotel tax, gasoline tax, and local government funding from <br />the State. Again, I will try and quantify all of those with a Council report in the next couple weeks <br />of what we can expect moving forward. <br />Council President Schutt stated, thank you Ron. Any questions? <br />There were none. <br />ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried <br />NAYS: None Financial Reports for <br />March 2020 Acknowledged <br />And Approved as Submitted <br />Motion to amend the budget to allow for the hiring of three additional full-time <br />Firefighters. (Fire Department) <br />Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Marquardt, made a motion to amend the budget to allow for the <br />hiring of three additional full-time Firefighters. (Fire Department) <br />Council President Schutt asked, discussion? <br />Mr. Wynne stated, I will comment on this also, Council President. The cost for a Class C <br />firefighter for a full year, assuming that individual is married and has a family is $125,000, so for <br />a full year this would be $375,000 amended to the budget. The earliest we would start this would <br />be May 1s1 so we are looking at only 8/12ths for the year so the impact to the budget would be an <br />additional $250,000 and then to that number there would be reductions. It won't be a dollar for <br />dollar reduction, but there will be reductions for reduced need of part-time help as well as reduced <br />overtime for our current full-time staff when we add the additional bodies. <br />Council President Schutt stated, thank you Ron. Any questions? <br />Mr. Murphy asked, Ron, that's worst-case scenario, right? <br />Mr. Wynne replied, yes. <br />Council President Schutt asked, any other questions? <br />There were none. <br />ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried <br />NAYS: None Budget Amendment Authorized <br />