12-23-2025 Council Meeting [21:56-26:56]

Any questions? I'll send it with the endkeeper's text. Yes, ma'am. What did you say, Jamie? All funded with the endkeeper's text. Okay. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next, the next question is, follow-ups. Did we need to vote on this? Do we have to vote to approve this budget? Is this just... Did we have to vote on your budget, Daniel? Just an approval by the board. So, I'm going to move. Yeah. Five, have followed. Is it even? Right. One thing. Mission is for private health. Okay. Okay. I'm here for the sales bar. I helped personally get a budget for $2026. A total of the private goods, $814,300, $69.22. However, only $262,000, $116,000, $119,000, $0.519,000, $0.220,000, That is $2026,000. Actually, no. That's the funding we were originally going to give hay, and then $1,000 were uped out, so it changed $266,000, $112,000, and $72,000. It's new funding. So, this is what makes up the difference, is funding was still left. The river that we have not submitted to that. We're pretty conservative for the private department. So, we're looking to mute. We knew that there were gonna be some major changes in for 26 and 27, 27 is going to be the same amount that I mentioned, the 262 plus. So we actually took what was left in our fund, divided it in half, and we're looking at spending it over the next two years, I mean in 2027, when the state does their budget in, we don't know a lot of what if we're going to need these two years after that. This is budget funds, our school gates on positions, and some other positions it gives, what do they call it, marked adjustments for our staff, and a pay for all social security, the retirement, the insurance, if there's a position that's funded by this, our part-time positions are funded by this, as well as office supplies, utilities, and I can go over this in the 20, or if you've had a chance to look over, then I'll just go over some highlights. Richard, you prefer that question. So the market adjustments set mean a 10% for these employees? Yes, it is. It's a 10% that's paid out of Health First Indiana to pay the last three years, two years a long spend going on, and we're starting to get rid of the state, and we first started doing it because we were having such a lost staff, qualified staff, and by doing this, we were able to retain, and like our part-time employees actually make $15 an hour. We have a very hard time. In fact, we've got a part-time employee positions up and down, but very hard time filling those because they run the front desk, they have to know vaccine schedules. They have to have a lot of knowledge that may be your average part-time, and I'm not saying average from the county, but your average part-time person is working retail or fast food that they have, and so we have found these things at Health also with nursing or with our more skilled positions. Now, 6% is for the scale employees, and 10% are for the skilled skills. So our more skilled scale employees, let's just say that way, I feel like everybody's knowledgeable in their position, but the ones that require degree or extra training, we gave a little bit of extra to them, and we have, this is the 10th and the last 2-1-2-1-3 years. Are those rates also recommended by the state, or those that look like? What we did, and what I've done in the past, I didn't bring it in this time, but I've actually, there's a couple of studies that are done for similar positions in our area, which are based on those, and then agreed by the state. Okay, and the question is for Paul on this one, Martha, this one doesn't require both. Yes. This one doesn't require both.