This meeting, uh this special city commission meeting uh in order to handle one very important item.

We'll we'll begin with a prayer and honor our flags.

Lord, thank you for your goodness and your grace and mercy shown to us daily.

God, we thank you for your favor and blessing on Clovis and Canon and our our beloved community.

We ask for continued favor, we ask for wisdom as those elected by our neighbors to uh make decisions concerning budget and policy and vision.

Lord, we thank you that that you you provide wisdom.

Uh Lord, we pray you'd continue to pour your blessings out, and we ask all of this.

I ask all of this in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God.

We are called to order with the clerk.

Please call roll.

Commissioner Porter.

Here.

Commissioner Cassaus.

Commissioner Garza?

Here.

Commissioner Paula.

Here.

Commissioner Zamora.

Here.

Commissioner Tarsen?

Here.

Mayor Po Tim Bryant?

Here.

Mayor Morris.

Here.

Thank you, Ms.

Reyes.

Next we have approval of the agenda.

Are there any objections?

And hearing and seeing no objections, the agenda is adopted and yes, votes are recorded for each of the members that has a set new business where we'll take up the one item that you'll be asked to consider this morning, and it is request for approval of the fiscal year two thousand twenty-six preliminary budget.

At this point each of you have had the opportunity to spend time with the city manager and the finance director going over this proposed budget and have your questions uh answered and your suggestions accepted.

Um however, I believe we have a a good summary presentation uh that Ms.

Melanson is going to provide.

Is that right?

Yes.

Ms.

Melanson, you have the floor.

Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Cham and Commissioners.

It is that time again.

Preliminary budget.

It is due to our oversight at DFA by June first at midnight.

Umce this is approved, everything is ready.

I have all signatures that I need, everything's in the form, so I will be uploading it this afternoon.

Easily meeting that.

Um so department directors again continue their knowledge and our use of the MUNIS software and my understanding and how it all works as making it easier, um faster process we did start earlier this year.

Um again, we review all of the budgets with making any necessary adjustments to our utilities and our fuel.

And most of the capital outlay is money that has been funded within their departments.

There were a few exceptions for some necessary vehicles to maintain fleet and funding for our animal control that are being paid for out of general fund cash reserves.

Our review of gross receipts, which we'll look at later in the presentation compared, is showing that over we are about an average of 18% over budget.

We do monitor that.

We will monitor that.

And property tax has been calculated with the 2024 valuations.

And the one mil the transfer for the one mil established for the general fund to the U Water Project is in there.

And as of yet, we don't have any information about the veterans tax exemption that was approved during the 2025 legislative session.

So we will continue to monitor that and see how that impacts our property tax.

There are two new positions in the budget, one for the administration department.

We are at a point in our city in our operations that we are going to split the position that I currently hold.

I am the city clerk and the finance director.