The Fayetteville City Council met on September 1, 2026, at 5:00 PM to discuss financial reports, zoning requests, a grant resolution, and a historic district matter. Key actions included approving a rezoning on Dean Solomon by a tie-breaking mayoral vote, passing a drug task force grant with one dissent, and sending the South Fayetteville Historic District back to the commission with a recommendation to exclude Jefferson School. Several items were tabled to the next meeting.
Mr. Barna. Here. Ms. Bunch. Here. Ms. Turk. Here. Minister Jones. President. Mr. Stafford. Here. Here. Dr. Jones. Here. Ms. Moore. Here. Mayor Ron. Here. Please join me as we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pardon me. Our first item up is our sales tax and monthly financial report from our Chief Financial Officer Stephen Dotson. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Council. This is the June sales tax report. In June, we saw taxable sales in the city totaling approximately 293.5 million. And that was an increase of 1.4% of from uh June of 2025. Retail trade was down in the month of June, around 1% or around $1.5 million. And we also saw accommodation in food services. That sector was down as well, around $1.9% or around 778,000. We did see uh gains in wholesale trade. That was up around 34% or 7.3 million. And we also noted that manufacturing was up 22% or roughly 2.7 million. Uh and moving on to our actual tax collection results. Um the City 1 penny sales tax was up 1.34% compared to 2025, or approximately $37,000. The uh county portion of the city was up 0.4% or approximately $9,000, uh, resulting in a total combined sales tax collection increase of 0.9% or around $47,000 compared to 2025. Now when we look at that comparison to uh what was budgeted um in June of 2026, the City 1 Penny was down approximately 1.6 percent or around 46,000. The county portion was down 2.5 percent uh for a combined total for the month, down 2% compared to budget or roughly 100,000. And cumulatively, that's gonna put the city on a year to date basis down approximately 1.2 percent or 451,000 compared to budget through the month of June. Uh once again, we do have some uh bigger months uh coming up and it it's it appears that we are uh slowly closing that gap on uh on what we had budgeted versus uh what our uh tax revenues uh actually have been. Can I answer any questions for anybody on the sales tax report? Stephen, and I don't know if this is something you'd have to tell us in the future, but I thought I heard you say manufacturing was up 22 percent. I didn't know if you knew and looked into some of the drivers of that at all. It's very difficult for us to tell you. Okay, that's what I know they masked that. Pull some real general data down from the state, but we're having a real hard time getting behind those numbers.