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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of July 10, 2017 — Budget workshop Page 2 of 3 Presentation: City Manager Randy Newlon introduced Finance Director Rebecca Bowman who gave a PowerPoint presentation covering in detail the projected revenues and proposed expenditures for Fiscal Year 2018 City Budget including revenue and expenditure comparisons, personnel related matters, debt service, and proposed capital improvements program projects. Community Development Director Randy Woodruff, Police Chief Larry Krantz and Public Works Director Mark Gisclar presented highlights relating to their respective departments for FY 2018. Ms. Bowman advised that the total proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018 is $47,281,884, representing an overall increase of approximately $306,068 or .65% over the adopted budget for FY 2017 of $46,975,816. It was noted that debt service had decreased $505,369 due to the fact that the final payment on the purchase of the golf course would take place in FY 2017, and that transfers had increased $564,025 primarily due to an increase in overhead transfers and the return on investment from the Utility Fund. Ms. Bowman further advised that the proposed budget included a 3% increase in employee salaries effective January 1, 2018 which would apply to all employees with the exceptions of the City Commission and the City Manager. It was also noted that total staffing was increased from 193 to 198, which included 190 full-time and 8 part-time employees. The City Manager requested that the millage rate be set at 3.1201 mills for FY 2018. Discussion: Discussion ensued during the presentations regarding various subjects including the following: upcoming and ongoing improvement projects; salary increases and additional staff positions; economic development and redevelopment planning and strategies contained in the in the Comprehensive Plan; revenues and expenditures affecting the various fund balances; Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software; brownfreld cleanup costs; explanations for the increases and decreases shown in the proposed budget; debt service; historic and current population trends; parks deficiencies and maintenance needs; crime rate concerns; de -certification of the Publics Works Blue Collar Union and its effect on salaries; priorities identified at the Commission's Strategic Planning Workshop held earlier in the year; feasibility study relating to the relocation of the Police Department property; and feasibility of a decrease in the millage rate and the effect a decrease would have on projected revenues. Commissioner Meadows was in favor of a small reduction in the millage rate setting it at the PCI (Per Capital Income) rate of 3.0433. No changes to the proposed budget were discussed by the City Commission other than the possibility of a reduction in the millage rate. CONSENSUS: City Commission consensus was to set the tentative millage rate at 3.1201 mills. The City Commission will set the tentative millage rate at the July 24, 2017 regular meeting. Once the tentative millage rate is set, the City Commission may reduce the millage rate at the public hearings, but they cannot exceed the tentative millage rate set at the July 24, 2017 meeting. The first public hearing for the millage rate and budget for Fiscal Year 2018 is scheduled for September 11, 2017. The final public hearing and adoption of the millage rate and budget for Fiscal Year 2018 is scheduled for September 25, 2017. A copy of the City Manager's June 30, 2017 Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Message outlining the proposed budget, and a copy of the PowerPoint presentation utilized at the budget workshop are attached to and made a part of these minutes.