Minutes
Town of Shalimar
Budget Workshop II
June 24, 2003
CALL
TO ORDER: The
Mayor called the workshop to order at
ROLL CALL FOR THE RECORD:
| Mayor Gary Combs - present | |
| Mayor Pro Tem Rik Larson - absent | |
| Commissioner Ursel Behnken - present | |
| Commissioner Jerry McCallister - present | |
| Commissioner Kevin Reeves - present |
Others
in attendance: Town Manager
PURPOSE
OF BUDGET WORKSHOP 1: Establish a
preliminary budget and propose a tentative millage rate for the upcoming fiscal
year.
1.
Finance Commissioner Comments/Discussion. Workshop
1 review as required.
Commissioner
McCallister presented the salary schedule and proposed budget documents from
Budget Workshop One. The Mayor and
Commissioner McCallister suggested setting the tentative millage rate at 2.8
mills as discussed in the previous workshop and all Commissioners agreed.
Commissioner McCallister and Manager Burns briefed the expected income of
a 2.8 millage rate, and reviewed proposed expenditures as discussed in workshop
one. Proposed salary schedule and
expenditures were agreed upon. Manager
Burns asked the Commission to consider adding an employee benefit for next FY
that would split the costs of family health insurance between the town and
employees desiring this coverage. The
Mayor said that such an item should have been considered previously and that the
commission had no empirical data on such a proposal.
The Mayor also suggested that current salary raises would offset this
expense to employees for the upcoming FY. It
was agreed upon to shelve any further discussion of this benefit.
The Mayor questioned Manager Burns about the budgeted line item for
bank fees. Manager Burns related
that a recent meeting with AmSouth Bank officials had resulted in no changes to
current fees or services being offered. The
Mayor directed Manager Burns to request AmSouth's participation in a discussion
of these fees at the next Commission meeting and to invite the other banks
holding current Shalimar Business licenses (Bank of America and Vanguard Bank)
to attend the meeting.
2.
Capital Improvement/Equipment Discussion.
The
mayor suggested that all previous discussions on proposed capital projects and
equipment expenditures were OK as agreed upon in workshop one.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Town
Manager Update Manager Burns briefly updated status of the two ongoing construction projects. |
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| Next Commission
Meeting, |
ADJOURNMENT:
Commissioner
McCallister moved that the meeting adjourn at