This joint meeting of the Marietta City Council and its committees covered a wide range of topics including financial reports regarding tourism and budget reconciliation, personnel appointments, code amendments for fire service scheduling, and various infrastructure projects. The session concluded with a special work session moving to an executive session regarding pending litigation.
Note: There was a discrepancy in the transcript regarding the date of the minutes being reviewed. The transcript begins by referencing "August 26th" minutes but quickly corrects to "September 30th" minutes for the finance committee, while the Parks/Recreation and Judicial committees also reference September 30th minutes. The summary reflects the September 30th dates as they were the confirmed items of business.
And uh is the meeting minutes from August the 26th, 2025. Um September 30th right there. Yeah. Okay. Um what am I looking at? I think you might be looking at the minutes. Okay. September 30th. Yeah, I got it. Okay. At the wrong one. Um make a motion to approve the minutes from September 30th, 2025. All those in favor. Three three zero. The next items we'll take, I guess, in uh sequence, the hotel motel auto rental tax and a quarterly financial report. Yes, sir. Thank you so much, Chairman. Um the first item is the hotel motel. The hotel collections um continue to fall below the um monthly collections um for prior years. This is the lowest September that we've seen since um fiscal year 2022. The fiscal year-to-date collections um uh are in line um with the budget, so we are above our budget, but it is lower than prior years. So our budgeted we're budgeted at um year to date at 1.24 million um through period three, and our actual collections is 1.34 million, so we are above budget um year to date. Taking a look at our 3% auto rental, our auto rental is again at its second lowest fiscal year to date um in the past four years. The month of September totaled 93.6,000, while the fiscal year to date is 426,000. Um the actual exceeded the budget by about 26,000 for um fiscal year to date. Um the hotel motel collections fell just shy of their distribution requirements, but again, we are ahead year to date, so we have not had to um fall into our reserves and in order to meet our distribution requirements. Moving ahead to our quarterly financial report, our financials look really good for Q1. Um at the end of Q1, we are 20%, 21%, I'm sorry, of our fiscal year budget for our revenue, and that um equates to about 1.2 million ahead of last year's Q1. And the primary areas for those increases include property taxes, insurance premiums, and intergovernmental transfers. So those were um the most impactful areas for our revenue so far. Um we are closing out period four, which is October, and the revenue drivers for Q2 will be our tax equity uh reimbursement or the SDS. So that is coming in a little bit higher than we projected, and our property tax um deadline is also approaching, and so we are um anticip we are in line with our budget for that thus far, and so we'll have the deadline for that at the end of this week. From an extended expenditure standpoint, our expenses and encumbrances are at 25 percent of the full year budget, which you would anticipate one-fourth of the way through the year. Our operating services are ahead of schedule. That's primarily because of the contractual maintenance. Normally those um uh contracts are renewed on an annual basis, so that put our expenses a little bit higher in Q1, but it'll level out as we go out through the um the remainder of the year. Um but collectively between the operating and the capital, we are on par yet a date. Um if you take a look at the golf course fund, which is the last page of the packet. The first quarter revenue is 35 percent of the budget, which is just two thousand thirty-two thousand short of last use last year's revenue to date. Um, and the operating expenses are also 35 percent of the budget. Although our revenues exceed our expenses, the profitability is down by 146,000, but that includes 25% of the um transfer of the general fund for an annual basis, and it also includes 161,000 of unbudgeted emergency facility improvements that we had to do, and that had to do with the pipes that we um put in for the um golf course. So that was not included in the budget, but it was something that we had to make immediate repairs for this year. So that's included in that overage. And that concludes my um financial report, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Are there any questions? Yes, sir. Absolutely. So my banks paid now. Are there any areas that you are concerned or watching closer? Um we are um hotel motel is um one that we're looking at, even though we made some adjustments for that from a budgetary standpoint.