The Joplin City Council met informally on June 16, 2025, to receive a financial update from Finance Director Leslie Hawes, a quarterly update from Downtown Joplin Alliance Executive Director Lori Hahn, and to make numerous appointments to boards and commissions.
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the informal meeting of the Joplin City Council on this Monday, June the 16th, 2025. First item on our agenda today is a financial information update. Good evening, Mrs. Hawes. Good evening, Mayor. Council. I have the June sales tax information. We are actually up for June compared to June of last year. However, for the year, we are up one almost 1.4%. So not quite at what we budgeted yet. Use tax, however, is down for June compared to June of last year by three about 3%. We're still up 6% for the year. And then marijuana tax, we're up a lot for the month, but a lot of that is timing. If you look at May, some of it should have been posted in May. So it seems to be generally overall about what it has been in the past. Any question on the taxes before I move to the financials? Okay. On the general fund financials, if you look at the the columns, it says year-to-date budget and year to date actual. Total operating revenue, we are coming in over the year-to-date budget by about $96,943. Operating expenditures, we are under, so that's good. Over on revenue, under on expenditures by about 1.2 million. A lot of that is timing though. And then on the one-time revenue, we're actually under budget, just a little bit about $18,000, but that's pretty close. One-time expenditures. We are under budget. And so overall, our net gain is uh well ahead of budget, but as I mentioned, a lot of that is timing. And then the graph uh that shows our projections going out. Uh we are working on budget, so in the coming months we'll we'll have an updated graph and updated numbers. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Council, Mr. Cobble. Um Leslie, on the first page, you know, where we have the what our sales tax receipts are. Uh-huh. Would it be possible to add what our projected uh growth or decline is supposed to be for the year, just so it keeps it in our mind? Um, so we don't have to you know a remember for 12 months or B, we can kind of get a better feel for where we're at. Yeah, I actually want to change that last column. I've been meaning to do that, and I just I had a chance, but I actually want to change that last column. That last column really just doesn't mean anything. I actually want to I want to show where we are compared to budget. Um so we will we will get that updated. Okay, but yeah, just because we're projecting a two percent growth. So just somewhere on there, like in down in the yellow section or just somewhere. Yes, just a single line. This is hey, this is what we projected. Just yes, we'll we'll get this updated. Um I I have not been happy with with that very fact. So fantastic. Thank you, ma'am. Thanks, sir. Anyone else?