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Council Minutes of 12-20-2022 • Finance Committee discussed the 2023 temporary budget, Ordinance 2022-122. This is projected as a $31.2 Million budget. Some ARPA funds are included within this budget. On Revenue: Revenues for 2021 have exceeded expectations, most uniquely in Income Tax net withholdings. Therefore, Director Copfer is projecting a 15% decline in Income Tax collections vs 2021. Property tax collections will be flat with the exception of a decrease due to the expiration of the paid off 0.4 mill Fire Station Levy. • Revenue projections will be revisited in January for the permanent budget. On Expense: Presentations were made for the office of the Mayor, HR, Recreation, Springvale, Senior Center, Youth Services, Ox Cart Pantry, Mayor's Court, Finance, Law, Council, Safety, Fire, Police, Dispatch and Building. Notable Items included: 1. Personnel Changes- City Engineer and Building Commissioner services will be changed. Dispatch will gain a supervisor and an IT professional. Fire will gain 3 EMS/Firefighters. Police, Service and Wastewater will retain changes made during 2022. 2. HR is budgeting for a 16% increase in healthcare costs. This will result in approximately a $30 monthly increase in costs for employees. 3. Recreation will expand programming and maintenance funding. 4. Springvale will replace its parking lot and finish interior remodeling. 5. Fire's staffing increases are intended to increase the ability of the city running 3 crews at a time, instead of the 2 crews typically available now. 6. Police will include new equipment and vehicle replacements. A new IT professional in Dispatch will lead to a police detective being re -deployed back to police. 7. Dispatch's two personnel increases will increase the number of dispatchers by one FTE. This will mitigate some overtime costs, but double the normal overtime utilization remains budgeted for 2023. 8. Finance is budgeting approximately $180k for new software, travel, training and new personnel time management systems. 9. The debts associated with the purchase of the Spruce, Forrest, and future land acquisition costs are being paid off within the budget. Council remains concerned with planning for future expenses including the recreation center pool, land acquisition, capital repair/replacement, computer/IT capital costs, and inflationary costs. The legislation was held in Committee by a vote of 3-0. The Finance Committee met on December 13, 2022 beginning at 7:00 p.m. and ending at 9:04 p.m. Present were Committee Members Glassburn and Limpert and Council Members Hemann, Gilchrist and Scarl, Council President Brossard, Mayor Jones, Finance Director Copfer, Director of Economic and Community Development Upton, Service Director Kearney, Special Assistant to the Mayor Massarolo, Keith Sperling and guests. • Finance Committee continued discussion on the 2023 temporary budget. On Expenses: Presentations were made for the Service Department, Building Maintenance, Streets, Forestry, Storm, Fleet, WasteWater, Economic Development, Engineering and IT resumed. Notable Items included: 1. Streets upcoming large projects include Clague Road North of Lorain and Lorain Road itself. Clague is scheduled to occur with major sewer infrastructure replacements. 2. Fleet is still awaiting some of last year's major purchases. 3. WWTP rates will increase by 2% and is continuing with its rotating 5 -year