The council met on May 5, 2026, to discuss the proposed FY27 budget education session schedule, a budget amendment for the Raccoon Mountain water project, and a presentation on the Class A power project at the wastewater plant. No public comments were heard.
From our last second. All right. Minutes will stand as published. So today we're going to be hearing first from Councilman Henderson, who's our budget chair for this upcoming budget year. He's going to talk to us about the proposed schedule. And then we have Mark Heinzer from our stormwater division here to talk to us about the class A. Wastewater. Sorry. No worries. About the Class A power project that they have going on at Mox and Ben. And that is our agenda for today. So with that being said, I'll turn it over to you, Councilman Henderson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Council, in your folders, you'll find a sheet of paper labeled FY27 budget education sessions schedule. Basically, what we'll do is start on Tuesday, May the 12th. Start at 10, go to 2 30. We will have a break. And then we'll do the same schedule on Tuesday, May the 19th. What what I would like to do, I'm going to try to do this a little bit differently than what we've kind of done in the past. I would like for each council chair of the particular budget of their particular committee to lead the discussion in the budget session. Okay. So that you become number one more familiar with the budget for your department that you're over or your chairing. And then I would like to develop this further. I I didn't want to take it too far this time, but I'd like to develop this further into maybe even breaking this out into small information sessions in the future where the committee chairs would be in charge of you know determining their time when they want to set it up. It doesn't necessarily, you know, I'd like to have it to where we didn't necessarily have to do it on a Tuesday and on go for so long. Maybe you know you want to schedule it at some point uh during the week, and and but uh and my thought would be to have uh council people assigned to different groups so that you could attend everyone if you wanted to, but if you didn't want to, you would uh just be in you know in in that small group. And then uh my thought was um on uh the 26th, any follow-up is needed, we would uh as a group come back and discuss uh maybe anything, any tweaks that needed to be made or or um uh concerns that needed to be addressed. So uh what I'm gonna ask the council to do is if you have questions, and by the way, we're going to get our uh budget books after the council meeting today. Uh but look at it, study it uh this weekend. If you have any questions about a particular item, email the council uh chair of that committee. Oh, of the committee of the committee, like um councilman Elliott's uh legislative, and if you'll look out to the side, his budget responsibilities would be city council judges and executive. So if you have questions about any of those budgets, email councilman Elliott, and then that way as he leads the discussion, he can uh propose those questions and hopefully get those answered uh questions answered. Uh same thing, Councilwoman Dotley, uh community development. If you have questions about community development, email councilwoman Dotley as she leads that session, uh she can present those questions as well. That way each um each chair of those committees is a little bit more involved in this budget process and hopefully uh gain a little bit uh broader knowledge uh of the budget, particularly the budget that your uh committee is in charge of. So are there any questions about this sheet of paper and maybe kind of how this thing is gonna work or flow? You do first of all, this is fantastic. I like this a bunch. Well, thank you. Uh this is very I mean, I like this a lot. So me and Councilwoman Hill have uh because affordable housing is of course house on the economic development. So we're both scheduled for that day. So do you want us to do like 30 minutes apiece or how do you want to gauge that? Um actually, and I'll be honest, I so that really uh affordable housing was just gonna be under economic development at as far as budget discussions was was going. Okay. So I guess we can share, I guess when it gets to that space. Yeah, I mean we could we could share that. Um obviously under economic development, we've got that budget uh portion in the hotel motel. Um and then you know that's that's the one thing that uh you know affordable housing is really important and I think it deserves its own time within our priorities.