The Marietta City Council convened multiple committee meetings on September 4, 2025, covering Finance, Parks and Recreation, Judicial and Legislative, and Public Works. Key actions included approval of various reports, discussion of a new SRO MOU with Marietta City Schools, appointment considerations for the Board of Lights and Water, insurance renewal decisions, and numerous traffic calming and pedestrian safety studies.
Order the finance committee meeting. First item on the agenda our approval of the minutes for June 20. Make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor, raise your hand. Three oh so move. Next item we'll take and I guess the next three items, the hotel motel tax, auto rental tax, and finance update. Good afternoon, council. Good evening. So the first item I have is the hotel motel tax for the month of June. There was a collections of 336,259. This ended our fiscal year with a um total annual collections of 3.762 million dollars for our hotel motel. Um although our budget for the city collections for the general fund um was 1.282 million. Our actuals ended up at 1.074. So we were just shy of that of about 208,000. Um as we indicated before, there's been change in some of the hotels at the time that affected the um actuals for the year. So we do anticipate, especially with some of the events that we um have coming on within the next fiscal year throughout the city to have an uptick in that um for FY26. Moving on to the auto three percent auto for the year. We came just uh for the month, I'm sorry. We came out at um one point uh I'm sorry, for the the um amounts that I mentioned before, the one point oh seven four was actually for the um auto, three percent auto. Um so we were just shy of um the total for that. The total for hotel motel was just under at 77,000. We had 3.839 budgeted and ended up with 3.762 for the annual, which is a just short of uh 77,000. Okay. So um we anticipate that we will be able to bounce back next fiscal year as we're entering in the current uh we're all ready um planning for an increase. We do have um the uh partial reserves for year end we did for overall um for what we anticipated um to be distributed, we did come in um slightly higher because although we were budgeted for that amount, we um did not distribute the full um amount that we could. So we have a hundred and fourteen thousand that will for the auto that'll go into reserves and another twenty-five thousand for hotel motel that'll go into reserves. Okay. Um overall financially for the general fund for this fiscal year. Um we are in the middle of closing um for our ACFA. That process um can take up to six months. Um we are progressing quickly in that. Our pre-limin preliminary numbers has a um positive of 2.8 million that we would be able to utilize for to pay out any last um invoices, unpaid um accounts, or to go towards our capital for year end. So um we had budgeted um right at 2.8 million dollars for our um year-in capital, and so uh we were able to come in pretty much on target for that. Um we like I said, we may have a few um additional expenses as they come through for um the month of June that will reduce that slightly. These aren't are not final numbers, but we should be pretty close. Okay. And so those three I ask that um the council will receive motion to receive and second, second. Motion to receive and fire. Second. So move. All those in favor. All right. This is 3 0. The next item on the Finance Committee agenda is to revised MOU and SRO for Marietta City Schools. Okay. So this is a memorandum of understanding between the Board of Education and City of Marietta. This is a five-year contract that we renew periodically. So it is up for renewal. It ended as of June 2025.