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CALL THIS MEETING OF THE FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE TO ORDER.UM, FIRST ON THE AGENDA WE HAVE APPROVED.
UM, I'LL NOTE THAT, UM, SUPERVISOR WINFREY IS, UH, UNABLE TO MAKE IT TODAY DUE ANO DUE TO ANOTHER COUNTY COMMITMENT, BUT WE DO HAVE A QUORUM HERE.
UH, FIRST ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM OUR FEBRUARY 4TH, 2025 MEETING.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND? DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I'M SORRY.
I MOVE TO APPROVE MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 4TH, 2025.
UM, NEXT I WILL TURN IT OVER TO MS. CAVE, I BELIEVE.
UH, FOR THE 2025 THIRD QUARTER PROJECTIONS.
SO YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU THE THIRD QUARTER PROJECTIONS.
UM, ON THE REVENUE SIDE, IT IS LOOKING LIKE WE ARE GONNA COME OUT ABOUT $8.7 MILLION HIGHER THAN WE BUDGETED.
THAT IS PRIMARILY DUE TO, UM, A LARGE INCREASE IN BUILDING PERMIT FEES, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF PROJECT ROCKY, WHICH WE CAN NOW CALL AMAZON, BUT ALSO JUST DUE TO COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE DEVELOPED THIS BUDGET OVER A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
UM, SO THAT'S ABOUT $4 MILLION OF OUR SURPLUS, OR NOT SURPLUS, BUT OUR REVENUES COMING IN HIGHER THAN BUDGETED.
ANOTHER PIECE OF THAT IS OUR PERSONAL PROPERTY.
WE BUDGETED FAIRLY, UH, CONSERVATIVELY FOR THAT.
THAT'LL BE ANOTHER $4 MILLION HIGHER.
OUR INTEREST DID NOT REALLY DECREASE LIKE WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA COME IN HIGHER ON INTEREST.
AND LASTLY, OUR EMS COST RECOVERY WILL BE HIGHER THAN WE BUDGETED DUE TO A LAG FROM FY 24, UM, COST RECOVERIES THAT WAS TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN DUE TO A BREACH INSECURITY BY OUR VENDOR.
ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, NOTHING DIFFERENT THAN A TYPICAL YEAR.
I'M LOOKING, I'M THINKING WE'LL COME IN ABOUT $2 MILLION OF UNUSED DEPARTMENT MONIES, MOSTLY DUE TO VACANCY SAVINGS.
AFTER OUR ACTUAL REVENUES AT 105 MILLION AND OUR ACTUAL EXPENDITURES AT 89 MILLION, WE'VE GOT A, UH, SURPLUS OF 16 AND A HALF MILLION.
BUT AS YOU KNOW, WE FUND OUR CIP AND OUR, UM, CSA PROGRAM OUT OF THOSE MONIES.
AND I'M THINKING WE WILL RETURN $8.9 MILLION OF OUR GENERAL FUND BACK INTO OUR FUND BALANCE.
SO 8.9 MILLION WILL LIKELY BE OUR SURPLUS LIST.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? I DO HAVE ONE.
UM, THOSE INCREASED FEES, WERE THOSE A PULL FORWARD IN TERMS OF THE TIMELINE? UM, WAS AHEAD, WAS, UM, AHEAD OF IT WHAT IT WAS EXPECTED OR WERE THOSE JUST GREATER FEES THAN WE EXPECTED BUILDING PERMIT? YES.
UM, I THINK IT WAS A LOT MORE ACTIVITY THAN WE EXPECTED.
WE ALSO, UM, DID NOT CAPTURE PROJECT ROCKY AT ALL OKAY.
IN BUILDING PERMIT FEES BECAUSE WE WEREN'T POSITIVE IT WOULD COME THROUGH WHEN WE BUILT THE BUDGET.
AND ARE WE ABLE TO GO INTO THE 20 25, 22 6 BUDGET AND JUST SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT IF WHAT IMPACT THAT, LET'S CALL IT PULL FORWARD OF FEES? UM, YES.
POTENTIALLY MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT IF NEEDED.
SO THAT WE JUST DIDN'T GET, GET 'EM PAID EARLIER, BUT THEN WE LOSE IT FROM PROJECTIONS.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
AS YOU RECALL, WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT POLICIES SEVERAL TIMES IN THE PAST FEW YEARS.
UM, WE'VE MOST RECENTLY READOPTED THEM, MADE A FEW CHANGES IN MARCH, MARCH OF 2025 THIS YEAR SINCE THEN, UM, MR. LYLE, WHO IS IN THE AUDIENCE, HE'S NOT OFFICIAL COMMITTEE MEMBER, BUT HE HAS, UM, TAKEN THESE AND SIMPLIFIED THE WORDING, WHICH I THINK WAS GREAT.
UM, HE HAS ALSO INSERTED A LOT OF CHARTS WITH HISTORICAL DATA, AND I WILL SAY, AND I'LL LET, CAN WE LET HIM SPEAK TO THAT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
UM, I WILL SAY I DON'T THINK IT'S VERY TYPICAL FOR POLICIES TO INCLUDE THIS AMOUNT OF DETAIL.
UM, BUT IT DOES, I UNDERSTAND THE REASONING, AND THAT DOESN'T JUST 'CAUSE IT DOES NOT TYPICAL, DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T DO THAT.
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THIS IS, THESE ARE OUR POLICIES.WE CAN MAKE THEM LOOK HOW WE WANT, BUT I'LL LET HIM SPEAK TO THESE CHANGES.
AND, AND I'VE SHARED THIS WITH YOU ALL LAST WEEK SOMETIME.
CLARITY IS WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR.
UM, AND I DON'T HAVE A RICE OR UVA MASTERS WHERE NUMBERS SPEAK TO ME.
AND SO WHEN I SAY 60% OF THE SUBSEQUENT YEARS GENERAL FUND, IT'S LIKE, WHAT IS THAT IN THE NUMBERS? SO THAT'S WHY THE CHARTS ARE IN THERE.
BUT I CONCUR HAVING THEM IN THERE IS, UH, I DON'T WANNA SAY DISTRACTING, BUT I WAS GOING FOR CLARITY, WHAT DOES 60% OF THE SUBSEQUENT YEARS, UH, PROJECTED BUDGET? AND, AND I WAS TRYING TO CALCULATE THAT.
UH, I KNOW WHEN THIS WAS ADOPTED IN MARCH, UH, AND WE ADJUSTED THE, UH, RESERVE NUMBERS FROM 60 TARGET DOWN TO 30 35.
UH, CHAIRMAN SPOON, I ASKED, WELL, WHAT IS THAT NUMBER? AND WE DIDN'T KNOW.
AND I THINK IT WORKED OUT TO BE ABOUT 5 MILLION AS I RECALL.
BUT THAT WAS THE PURPOSE THERE.
MY HOPE IS THAT WE JUST HAVE A CLEAR, UNDERSTANDABLE DOCUMENT.
IF IT'S AN APPENDIX, THAT'S GREAT.
BUT, UM, MY WIFE WAS BORN OVERSEAS.
ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE.
AND I ASKED HER TO READ IT, THE ORIGINAL, COULD YOU UNDERSTAND THIS SWEETHEART? AND IT WAS NO.
AND, AND SO I'M NOT SAYING I'M DUMBING IT DOWN, BUT I'M SAYING I'M SIMPLIFYING IT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S MY GOAL.
UM, AND I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS THAT IT IS MORE UNDERSTANDABLE.
UH, THERE'S STILL PROBABLY IS A PAR CIVIL WAR TWO NEAR DANGLING, BUT BY AND LARGE IT JUST, CAN WE MAKE IT EASIER TO UNDERSTAND? CHARTS ARE FOR ME AS MUCH AS ANYBODY ELSE, BUT IF THEY'RE APPENDIX, THAT'S GREAT.
BUT I LIKE TO KNOW WHEN I'M VOTING ON, I GO AHEAD.
I LIKE THE CHARTS BEING WHERE THEY ARE.
I PREFER THAT THEY NOT BE APPENDIX JUST BECAUSE IT, IT ALLOWS ANYBODY TO JUST COME AND, AND FOLLOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE POLICIES ARE, ARE TALKING TO.
I THINK THAT IT'S A GOOD PLACEMENT AS, AS IT RELATES TO A POLICY.
I WOULD SAY WE PROBABLY WANT TO LEAN TOWARDS EXAMPLES VERSUS CHARTS WITH FIRM DATA ONLY BECAUSE WE DO HAVE, IN OUR POLICY NUMBER FIVE ON OPERATING BUDGET POLICIES, BUDGET MONITORING, WE, I MEAN, WHAT'S IN THE SHOULD BE IN A BUDGET MONITORING DOCUMENT FORMAT VERSUS IN A POLICY.
WHAT I WAS GONNA DO IS I, I DID GO THROUGH MR. OHIO'S COMMENTS AND I WAS GONNA GO SIDE BY SIDE, UH, WITH OUR EXISTING DOCUMENTS.
SO, UH, AND, AND JUST LOOK AT WORDSMITHING, UM, WITH THE, UM, WHAT WORD IS ESCAPED ME, THE INTERPRETATION, UH, FOCUS AND MAKING IT EASIER TO INTERPRET.
UM, AND, AND THEN REVERT BACK TO THE BOARD, I'M SORRY, THE COMMITTEE TO, UH, SEE HOW THE, HOW THE COMMITTEE FELT ABOUT THOSE CHANGES.
I MEAN, I, I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S, THE HARD NUMBERS ARE AN EXAMPLE.
SO EVEN IF IT IS AN EXAMPLE, IT'S STILL ACHIEVING THE SAME, THE SAME END.
I, MR. CHAIRMAN, I LIKE THE IDEA.
I THINK IT'S VERY MUCH, MUCH MORE READABLE.
IT READ LIKE A TRAINING DOCUMENT AND, BUT I THINK HAVING THE ACTUAL DETAILS OF THE BUDGET AND THE POLICY MEANS YOU'LL HAVE TO CHANGE IT EVERY YEAR.
AND YOU MAY HAVE TO CHANGE IT MORE THAN ONCE.
'CAUSE NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MAYBE GOING BACK AND REDOING OUR FORECAST FOR NEXT YEAR BASED ON FEES.
AND SO THAT WOULD BE A, IT WOULD BE A BIT OF A CHALLENGE TO MAINTAIN THE POLICY.
BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE A EITHER A REPORT THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT THAT SAYS, HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS NEXT YEAR, UM, THAT WE CAN KEEP ONLINE AND SAY, HERE'S HOW WE'RE TRACKING WOULD BE VERY BENEFICIAL.
I DO HAVE, UM, I DO HAVE SOME IDEAS ON HOW WE CAN USE ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES.
WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO UPDATE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
AND UH, I JUST NEED TO DEVOTE SOME TIME TO IT.
UM, AND IT'S GREAT THAT WE GOT THIS SUGGESTION FROM MR. LYLE AND NOT JUST A SUGGESTION, BUT A DRAFT.
SO, UM, WANNA MAKE SURE IT GETS INCORPORATED, UH, APPROPRIATELY.
I COME FROM THE MARKETING ARENA AND ONE OF THE
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ABSOLUTE CONCRETE RULES IS THAT GREATEST MOTIVATION IN LIFE ISN'T ANYTHING EXCEPT TO CHANGE SOMEBODY ELSE'S COPY THAT YOU ALWAYS WANT TO GO THROUGH AND REWRITE WITH SOMEBODY HAS DONE, WHICH I'M GUILTY OF.'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT I JUST DID.
SO I FULLY EXPECT, WE ALWAYS GAVE CLIENTS TWO FREE REWRITES AND THEN WE START CHARGING.
I'M NOT IN A POSITION TO CHARGE, BUT I FULLY EXPECT THIS CAN BE APPROVED.
UH, BUT I, I, AGAIN, USING MY HOME ENVIRONMENT, WHEN LARISSA READ IT THE SECOND TIME SAYS, OH, OKAY, NOW I START TO UNDERSTAND IT A LITTLE BETTER.
SO I'LL STOP TALKING, BUT THERE YOU, I WAS WELL INTENDED.
IT REALLY MEANT FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THIS.
IT'S ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE TOO.
UH, ONE THING, JUST AN IDEA POPPED IN MY HEAD IS I THINK MAYBE THE POLICY COULD PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS OF WHERE TO GO IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS.
I, I KNOW THAT, UH, MS. GABE IS PROBABLY WINCING AS I SAY THAT, UM, BUT BETTER TO HEAD OFF QUESTIONS BEFORE THEY BECOME, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE GOING DOWN A RABBITS HOLE MM-HMM
UH, SO I THINK THAT WOULD, THAT WAY WHEN THEY OPEN THE POLICY, THEY KNOW THEY'VE GOT A, UH, SUPPORT AND, UM, AND WE'RE, WE'RE KEEPING THAT IN MIND THAT, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY AROUND ASSIGNED UN UNASSIGNED, SOME OF THOSE, SOME OF THAT VERBIAGE.
UM, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE VERBAL LEARNERS AS OPPOSED TO, UH, ON PAPER.
I DID TRY TO INCORPORATE THAT THERE TO EVEN THEN I HAD TO BE FOUND THAT BLANK.
BECAUSE I DID NOT, I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO IT ON OUR, UH, LEFT SIDE, BUT CAN WE, CAN YOU PUT YOUR MOUSE OVER A WORD AND HOW IT POP UP WITH A INSTRUCT, WHAT IT MEANS? MM-HMM
SEE, WE, WE ARE JUST BRINGING FORTH AI OPPORTUNITIES ON A DAILY, ON A SECOND BY SECOND BASIS HERE.
UM, AND NOTHING SPEAKS TO MR. WELL'S EARLIER COMMENT THAN, UM, IN AN AI UNIVERSE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE BETTER EDITORS.
SO, UM, IF OUR FIRST DRAFTS ARE LARGELY DONE, UM, THERE, THERE WERE A COUPLE WHERE THE RISKS ASKED ME WHAT IS SUBSEQUENT IS THAT LAST YEAR I SAID, NO, THAT'S NEXT YEAR.
I SAID, WHY DON'T YOU SAY NEXT YEAR? AND IT'S LIKE, 'CAUSE IT SAYS SUBSEQUENT SWEETIE.
AND, AND I THINK WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON, DID WE SAY SUBSEQUENT OR NEXT YEAR AND RAIN DAY FUND, I KNOW IS NOT A PRECISE PHRASE, BUT IT GETS USED IN COMMON CONVERSATION ALL THE TIME.
SO IT'S PARENTHETICALLY IN THERE WE CALL IT THE REVENUE STABILIZATION FUND, I BELIEVE.
AND MOST COUNTIES CALL THEIR UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE THEIR RAINY DAY FUND.
DO THEY REALLY? YEAH, BECAUSE WE HAVE TWO RAIN DAY FUNDS HERE IN, IT'S BEEN A WET SPRING
UM, I'M GONNA EXCUSE MYSELF FROM THE, I THINK MY WORK HERE IS DONE.
SO YOU WANNA RECALL THE WITNESS? NO, THAT'S FINE.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE? WILL ENDEAVOR TO HAVE A, UM, UPDATED DRAFT FOR THE NEXT BOARD MEETING AND UM, I'LL GET YOU COMMENTS IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO.
MOVING ON TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM, UM, OTHER BUSINESS.
DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER BUSINESS TO NOTE? OH, UH, ONE PIECE I WANTED TO BRING UP ANOTHER BUSINESS IS A SUGGESTION WAS POSED TO ME, AND I TEND TO LIKE IT, UM, ABOUT EX MOVING OUR BUDGET ADOPTION, UH, DEADLINE TO MID TO LATE MAY.
UM, WITH THE REASONING BEING WE PUT IN A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT AND IT SEEMS YEAR OVER YEAR, THIS IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING INTO WHAT DO WE THINK OUR, UM, NEIGHBORS AND LARGELY AS IT GOES FOR HUMAN CAPITAL COMPETITORS ARE DOING.
AND FOR A COUNTY OF OUR SIZE, WE ARE PLAYING WITH A LOT OF, UH, PONDS,
I JUST THINK THAT THEY CAN SO EASILY HEAR WHAT WE'RE DOING AND IMMEDIATELY MAKE A CHANGE THAT HAS A GREATER IMPACT ON OUR BUDGET.
SO I WOULD LEAN TOWARDS US TAKING THE ONE THING WE DO HAVE IN OUR FAVOR, WHICH IS WE ARE A SMALLER COUNTY.
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SHOULD HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT A NEW BUDGET MUCH FASTER THAN A LARGE COUNTY WITH MUCH MORE CUMBERSOME PROCESSES.SO THAT WOULD, UM, LEAN TOWARD OR, UH, LEND ITSELF TO A, LIKE I SAID, MID-MAY END OF MAY, UM, BUDGET ADOPTION.
AND AS IT RELATES TO HUMAN CAPITAL, I MEAN, IN A VERY COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT, I THINK, UM, I DON'T, I I WANT TO EXPLORE OPTIONS FOR US TO, UM, BENCHMARK, UM, SO THAT WE'RE NOT DOING, UH, WE'RE DOING LESS OF WHAT IFS AND, AND, UH, INSTEAD OF THAT DOING INACTION OF A POLICY, YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME SORT FORMULA OR POLICY THAT WE PUT IN PLACE THAT UM, 'CAUSE THAT, YOU KNOW, AS IT RELATES TO OUR STAFF, UH, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO STAY IN LINE WITH THE BROADER MARKETS AND, UM, DON'T WANT TO BE A LAGGER, DON'T WANT TO BE, UM, NOT REVIEWING THIS ENOUGH.
I MEAN SOMETIMES WE CAN, IT CAN BE OVERKILL TO REVIEW TOO MANY TIMES DURING THE COURSE OF THE CALENDAR YEAR VERSUS JUST KNOWING WHAT THAT IS GONNA UM, BE.
AND IN THE BUDGETING PROCESS WE CAN ALSO IN THOSE CAN BE THE LAST PIECES TO FILL IN.
UM, AND UH, WE WILL KNOW WHEN THOSE DISCUSSIONS ARE MOST EFFECTIVE.
YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY MID TO LATE APRIL, UM, IN SETTING THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
IT ALSO SEEMS LIKE WE ADOPT OUR BUDGET RIGHT BEFORE THE STATE FINALIZES ITS BUDGET.
SO THAT MIGHT HELP WITH HARD NUMBERS AS WELL.
UM, HAVING LOOKED AT THIS IN THE PAST, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE ADOPT OUR BUDGET WHEN WE DO IS BECAUSE THE TREASURER AND THE COMMISSIONER REVENUE WE'RE AWAITING THE TAX RATES IN ORDER TO GET THE TAX BILLS OUT IN TIME TO BE PAID IN JUNE, JUNE 5TH.
SO YOU, IF YOU WANT TO ADOPT THE WHOLE BUDGET LATER, ONE THOUGHT WOULD BE DO YOU BREAK OUT THE TAX RATE AND ADOPT THAT? WOULD THAT WORK AS LONG AS WE HAVE THE TAX RATE THAT, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU COULD SET THE TAX RATE IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE BUDGET WAS GOING TO BE AND WHAT YOU NEEDED.
UM, THIS YEAR THE BUDGET AND TAX RATE WAS APPROVED ON APRIL 16TH.
UM, AND WE DID GET THE BILLS OUT BY MAY 1ST.
UM, IF WE'RE GONNA HAVE A JUNE 5TH DUE DATE, WE NEED THE BILLS OUT IN UNTIL LATER THAN MAY 5TH.
EVERYTHING JUST LINED THIS YEAR AND WENT VERY WELL.
SO IF YOU'RE GONNA MOVE IT BACK MORE THAN ABOUT A WEEK FROM WHAT YOU DO NOW, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO START THINKING ABOUT CHANGING THE DUE DATE.
AND IF YOU CHANGE THE DUE DATE, THEN IT'S GONNA GO ACROSS FISCAL YEARS.
WHICH IS WHY THEY NEVER WANT TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A SHORT CALL.
SO IT KIND OF PUTS US WHEN WE WENT TO TWICE A YEAR BILLING AND WE GOT THAT WINDFALL THAT ONE YEAR BECAUSE WE, WE GOT MORE MONEY IN ONE TAX THAN WE DID THE OTHER.
IT'S KIND OF PUT US IN A AWKWARD POSITION ABOUT MAKING ANY CHANGES AS FAR AS WHEN WE APPROVE BUDGET.
I'M NOT OPPOSED TO PROVING THE BUDGET LATER, I'M JUST WANTING YOU TO KNOW WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MIGHT BE OF DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO IMPACT OUR COLLECTION OF FUNDS FOR EFFICIENCY'S SAKE.
UM, MS. KAY, HAVE YOU SEEN ANY ISSUES WITH BEING ABLE TO HAVE A SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSION ON OUR TAX RATE IN ADVANCE? I MEAN, NO, I DON'T SEE ANY ISSUES.
WELL I THINK WE CAN, WE CAN STILL WORK TO SET THAT FOR A EARLIER MID-APRIL.
UM, AS LONG AS THAT'S DONE AND WE CAN CONTINUE.
I MEAN IT DOESN'T, WOULDN'T AFFECT THAT DUE DATE IN ANY WAY UNLESS LATER ON WHEN YOU'RE APPROVING THE BUDGET, YOU DETERMINE THAT THE TAX RATE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING OTHER THAN IT IS BECAUSE THE BILL WILL ALREADY HAVE BEEN ONE BENEFIT OF THAT IS THAT I SEE IS THE TAX RATE COULD BE A DISCUSSION THAT DOESN'T GET, UM, LOST IN THE ALL THE LINE ITEMS OF BUDGET AND THOSE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS, WHICH CAN SOMETIMES BE, UM, AN HOUR OR SO LONG.
SO WE COULD HAVE IN MARCH OR APRIL TIMEFRAME TAX RATE SPECIFIC, UM, DISCUSSIONS AND YEAH.
AND THAT WOULD BE AWESOME TOO IF, IF Y'ALL ALLOWED TO BREAK IT OUT THAT WAY TO EVEN HAVE A TEXTBOOK APPROVED A LITTLE WEEK OR TWO EARLY.
LIKE I SAID, THIS YEAR EVERYTHING WENT LIKE CLOCKWORK.
BUT IF WE RUN INTO PROBLEMS IN ANY WAY WITH DATA FILES AND SO FORTH, THERE WAS VERY LITTLE CUSHION.
THERE ALWAYS IS ON THE FIRST HALF.
SECOND HALF IS WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME.
'CAUSE WHEN START EARLIER THE RATES, BUT THE
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FIRST HALF IS ALWAYS NOT MUCH CUSHION IN THERE.WE USUALLY PREPARE THE BUDGET BASED ON WHAT WE THINK THE TAX RATE IS GONNA BE.
SO IF WE SAY IT'S GONNA STAY AT 53, WE'RE WORKING ON 53.
IF WE, IF WE, THE BOARD AGREES THAT WE'RE GONNA LOWER IT, WE'LL WE CAN WORK WITH THAT.
IT PUTS THE ONUS ON THE SUPERVISORS IF YOU WANT TO PROPOSE A TAX RATE.
UM, IF YOU WANT TO, UM, MAKE THAT PROPOSAL, JUST BRING IT FORWARD EARLIER.
SO I THINK WHAT I CAN DO IS BRING IT UP AT THE NEXT TWO BY TWO MEETINGS.
MAYBE HAVE SOME MORE DETAILS ON HOW WE DO IT.
THE BENEFIT IS WE HAVE SIX TO 11 MONTHS TO, UH, GET THIS RIGHT.
IF PEOPLE GENERALLY LIKE THE PROPOSAL CHAIRMAN BAR.
IF I MIGHT, I JUST WOULD ADVOCATE FOR SCHOOLS THAT A LITTLE LONGER TIME PERIOD PREVENTS US FROM HAVING TO DO THAT AMENDED BUDGET.
WHICH THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING TOO.
WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING THAT TO PRESENT TO OUR BOARD NEXT WEEK AND IT JUST GETS CONFUSING I THINK WHEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S SO CLOSE TO WHEN THE ACTUAL BUDGET WAS ADOPTED.
UM, JUST CREATES A LOT OF WORK FOR US AND FOR YOU.
SO THAT MIGHT HELP ALLEVIATE SOME OF THAT PRESSURE AS WELL.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? SEND OUT CONTRACTS.
WE DO SEND OUT, WE DO TRY TO SEND OUT CONTRACTS WHEN THE BUDGET IS, UM, YOU KNOW, APPROPRIATED, BUT WE HAVE LANGUAGE IN THE CONTRACTS THEMSELVES THAT SAY, YOU KNOW, THAT IT IS CONTINUING ON FUNDING.
SO I THINK WE COULD GET AWAY, YOU KNOW, GOING AHEAD AND RELEASING THEM BEFORE
I WILL NOW MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
MS. MOORE, I, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR, UM, MAKING THIS A LITTLE BIT EASIER FOR ME.
UM, BUT THIS IS CALLED BUDGET FOR DUMMIES,
UM, UM, NOT THAT I'M A DUMMY, BUT I MEAN, UH, UH, SOMETIMES I HAVE TO, WHEN I READ A DOCUMENT, I HAVE TO GO BACK AND, AND USE THE
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS AND FOR GIVING ME A COPY OF IT SO THAT I, I DON'T HAVE TO PULL IT OFFLINE.
THANK YOU FOR USING THAT TERM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO ENCOURAGE ANYONE TO LEARN GOVERNMENT NEEDS
ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS? OKAY, SEEING NONE, I WILL CALL.
UH, DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? I MOVE TO ADJOURN.
UM, WE WILL NOW ADJOURN TO THE AUGUST 5TH, 2025, UM, UH, FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING.