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CITY OF ANNA AGENDA NOTICE -CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL
BUDGET WORKSHOP MEETING
May 29,2009 8:30 AM -Anna City Hall Administration Building
The City Council of the City of Anna met in Special Budget Workshop Session at
8:30 a.m., May 29,2009, at the Anna City Hall Administration Building, located
at 111 North Powell Parkway (Hwy 5), regarding the following items.
1. Call to Order
Mayor Darren R Driskell called the meeting to order at 8:32 am.
2. Roll Call and Establishment of Quorum.
Mayor Darren R Driskell and Council Members Mike Crist, Keith Green Marc
Hendricks and Becky Glover were present. Council Member Kevin Anderson was
absent.
3. Consider/DiscuSS/Action regarding funding for fireworks for July 4, 2009.
Mayor Driskell excused himself (left the room) for discussion of this item. Mayor
Pro Tern, Keith Green took over the meeting for discussion of this item. City
Manager, Philip Sanders reviewed the agreement and answered council
members questions. City Attorney, Clark McCoy noted some minor errors and
changes to the resolution. Council Member Glover made the motion to approve
with the changes. Council Member Hendricks seconded the motion. Motion
passes.
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Mayor Driskell returned to the meeting.
4. Workshop: The following Items/issues will be discussed. No action will
be taken on any item.
1. Discussion regarding Mid-year financial review.
2. Discussion regarding 2009-2010 Budget
City Manager, Philip Sanders led the discussion outlining how the discussion
would proceed. Assistant City Manager, Wayne Cummings started the
discussion giving council a FY 2009 Financial Update. Mr. Cummings reviewed
revenues collected to date and expenditures made to date. Mr. Sanders
reviewed the revenue forecast for FY 2010 indicating that revenues will be down
but recommended investing more in services for the next fiscal year.
Mr. Sanders went into the break down of departments for the FY 2010 budget.
General Administration will be broken down into budgets for City Council, City
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Manager, City Secretary and City Attorney this FY instead of being lumped
together as in past budgets. Council Members discussed if going to be raising
taxes must give a justification to tax payers on what it is going towards and the
City should try to cut expenses were it can and show tax payers where those
cuts took place. Mr. Sanders stated that Finance would consist of accounting,
human resources, customer service and IT support. He would like to see a
separate contract for IT rather than staff trying to keep up with the server,
computer equipment and software needs. Development Services will be a
department consisting of Community & Parks Planning, Building Inspections and
Code Enforcement. City Manager, Philip Sanders stated that he would like to add
a full time code enforcement officer and Maurice Schwanke, Director of Planning
and Development added that he would like to have cash for mowing, clean up,
etc. Mr. Sanders and Public Works Director, James Parkman covered Public
Works issues such as easement r-o-w for FM 455 improvements; county road
bond projects; street maintenance; reallocating the EDC sales tax for streets;
updating treatment water processing for NTMWD intake; and proposing a Parks
maintenance foreman. Police Chief, Kenny Jenks stated that he would be asking
for another police officer, he will be funding a traffic enforcement unit, he will be
adding a new vehicle. Larry Bridges, Fire Chief stated that he will be asking for
raises and possibly adding a new person, truck maintenance and eventually
another truck. Chief Bridges suggested that it is probably getting to where the fire
department needs to be under the City. Ambulance Service will still be a contract
item.
City Manager, Philip Sanders summarized the discussion. Council Members
shared their views on maintaining streets, parks, property assessments going
down, possibility raising taxes and reallocating half cent sales tax from EDC, etc.
5. Adjourn.
Council Member Crist made the motion to adjourn at 11:34 am. Council
Member Green seconded the motion. Motion passes.
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ATTEST: APPROVED:
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