05/19/2025 Council Special Meeting [52:37-57:37]

Page 32 is the riverboat fund. You only get about 150,000 in that fund in the year. This is the fund that can be really used for any purpose. We did build in some capital alloys from your capital and put that plan into this fund. I mean, it's not a lot of money that you get everywhere, but you've got some money in there in case you need to purchase some small capital items. Page 33 is the statewide 9-1-1 fund. This one has some kind of excess reserves. But we can't shift into the payment act. So, just if you've got some capital items that come up, feel free to that, you know, you're applicable to statewide 9-1-1. Feel free to use the fund balance here, ended 2024 with 879,000 roughly. But you're able to fund your budget without any issues, so that's good. And that's just funded so quickly on the state distributions. Page 34 is the motor vehicle highway restricted. New ended 2024 with about 1.9 million, very strong cash reserves. So, you can utilize that for capital items, road projects, the matching grant. We've built that in there on 9-9, $400,000 a year for the community cost zones grant match. Which is a good use for that fund. But you can also use it for projects as well. Page 35, it was a bridge because it is funded with property tax. We do have that Senate volume 1 loss in there. It's about a hundred and almost $200,000. But we have sufficient cash reserves to cover those losses, if you need to. And again, as we know, for the projects, we can work them in. We did work in one of the capital projects that all we have was $450,000,000. But if there's others you would like for us to work in, we'll absolutely do that. Here you have the development. It's on page 36. And again, that one's funded with property tax, so we've got that shortfall due to Senate volume 1. It's small, like 18,000 and 20, 26, and then it waps up to 36,000. We've got some good cash reserves and that fund for capital projects and replacements. And in fact, we've built in, we had $110,000 a year. I don't remember what that was, but we built that in to your, to your disfers about slide item. And now, supplemented data. Have I completely overrun you? Yeah, looks like that, you know. On page 30, on page 37, 38, I'm not going to read through this. Don't worry. These are your major funds and we have a description that is the statutory description. I still want you to use it to this funds fund, just for your reference. I find it's probably good if you're not sure what you're trying to use for. Page 39, we always like to look at budget to actual. So how did you perform against your budget? And here's something I really like. Again, it is that, meanwhile, I can tell you your budgets are accurate in the general fund and there's no fluff in there. And the way I can tell about it is because you spend anywhere between 95 and 100% of your general fund budget. I like it. I like it a lot. Because sometimes I go into counties and they're only spending 80% that tells me that the budget really isn't that accurate if you're every year and spending 80% of it. And then counties are telling me, well, we don't want to go through the additional preparation process. It's not that difficult of a process. The reason why I like accurate budgets is because it's easier to manage. If you don't come to me and say, hey, can we afford 3% raises and you don't have accurate budget? And they say, no, you're outspending your receipt. You can't afford that. But in reality, you can't because you're not spending your whole budget. See what I'm saying? But you have very accurate budgets in the general fund. Now, there's a few of these funds that are only spending 80% there in the web, highlighted in web, 85%. But I'm not sure why that is and we can maybe get into the details, but that tells me that each year, I mean, it's been consistent with some of these funds. They're not spending their whole budget. So, again, me, I love to say, please build accurate budgets. There's been a misconception that's lasted for years that you have to budget high to get your full maximum revenue. So that you're all with property tax dollars. That's not true at all. Your property tax revenue is set by the state.