Well welcome everyone if I can get the uh oh okay oh one minute one more minute oh okay now you're getting all right now welcome good morning Wednesday morning I know everyone was so excited about being here this morning so uh here you get to get to experience your dream uh thank you uh I want to just start though before we do the invocation and uh and the pledge making sure I don't forget uh Doug we're okay I just want all of Doug and his team to stand will you just stand and just give them a uh a big hand for uh what what they've accomplished thank thank you so much appreciate you and then thank you all for uh collaborating working communicating with his team and where we're here today to make some uh probably challenging decisions but uh hopefully good decisions for our city uh Peter I've asked Peter to bring the invocation and the pledge so we'll stand and do that next Father God Lord we ask that you be with us uh this morning and throughout the day as we make important decisions for the future of our city Lord thank you for each person that is here uh we acknowledge the budget team and the hard work that they've done Lord be with our city council all of the rest of our city leaders uh the public that's attending or watching and listening please guide us in our thoughts and our conversations and our discussion we pray these things in Jesus' name amen I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God is raw thank you peter okay I think uh as far as my notes that you that share is so kind in uh presenting with me the next is Doug you're up are you ready to roll no roll call oh roll call I'm sorry forget that Doug you're not up yet look at you go roll call as priority I better better remember this council or I'll be in real trouble okay Scott present Jingula here bells Reynolds Rodriguez Griffin all present mayor would like to uh ask for a budget amendment for council to consider and uh instead of uh going directly into uh all the summary items uh is to allow council members to express uh the hot button items so that uh we can focus there and uh and then mesh with finances uh summary work that's that's the intent um is to uh this can go council and mayor and counsel as quickly or as long as council desires um the intent is to speed this as effectively quickly as possible without skipping the the the public input into what we're what we're setting as the the budget base for the f FY27 but the intent is to hit those items up front the big items and then come back and do a very um top line approval of the budgets by fund instead of by department so we would go General Gov Street Airport in that sequence and that's part of my what's in my initial presentation so that's the intent if council overall supports that well again uh I think it'd be helpful for you and uh for council if council members have some hot button items that we get those known and or discussed and then let you uh proceed in there uh rather than going through stuff and then we turn around spend one to two hours changing everything so question uh council president is is is this a motion that you want to make there's a motion I'm wanting to make and and the other question is do you then want to uh pass by uh Doug's uh summary or do you want these uh hot button issues if this passes to happen uh right off the bat here right off the bat uh ahead of part one and

If council members have some hot button items that we get those known and/or discussed, and then let you uh proceed in there uh rather than going through stuff and then we turn around and spend one to two hours changing everything.

So question uh council president is is is this a motion that you want to make?

There's a motion I'm wanting to make.

Okay, and and the other question is do you then want to uh pass by uh Doug's uh summary or do you want these uh hot button issues if this passes to happen uh right off the bat here?

Right off the bat uh ahead of part one, and then uh depending on those discussions that will guide finance on uh how much uh summary and what we need to do there.

We have a second.

I second okay.

Any discussion, Mr.

Mayor, I just have a comment.

So uh I I uh concur with uh councilman bills on part of this.

Uh I just want to remind people that this is the most important thing that we do as city council um is our budget, and uh there's certain things that need to be discussed at length.

And uh so hopefully uh everybody has those in order so we can pull them out and discuss them.

And then uh other than that, I agree with councilman bills about uh some of the items uh being able to go through and just get them taken care of.

Yeah, I I appreciate the comment because what I'm looking at as I believe 80 80 percent of the budget is pretty straightforward.

I think there's 20 percent based on uh different council members uh viewpoints that is where we need to focus, not to throw Doug and team such a curveball, but it really gets those issues brought up to where everything else can flow pretty quick thereafter, I believe.

So we we support the the rapid uh uh review approval because that was part of the outline of my presentation to say we've already shared this with the public, we've shared it with you six or seven times in previous meetings.

It's been shared in private meetings and reviews, so it's been well vetted as a budget, so we can move rapidly.

This isn't new to anybody, and it's been a year where we have kept the budget very much consistent with prior years with very minimal changes, so there's little risk in that.

Okay.

So uh I see we have two attorneys here, but Doug, you're you're in person and in Preston Sillo.

Is there any challenges with changing the agenda as far as the order of at this point in time?

Mayor and council, there's nothing inappropriate inappropriate about changing the sequence of the agenda.

Okay, so if there's no other further discussion, I believe a roll call is in order.

Changula.

Yes.

Reynolds, yes, Rodriguez.

Yes, Griffin, yes, Scog, yes, Bills, yes, all in favor, motion carries.

So, mayor, if it's possible, I'd appreciate taking the lead and then allow other counselors to follow uh with their hot topics.

Mayor and uh counselor, may I just interject a little bit?

There's a little bit of as you and counselors prepare proposed changes.

We need to track those because we're gonna have to come back and give the approval of the budget numbers with those changes in them.

So as you approve and settle on something, I don't know the mechanism if it requires an action item to make that change, or you just tell it and then we vote for it.

I'm not sure of that legal process, but mechanically, we'll have Diana here tracking the changes you approve as council, adjusting the budgets on the fly.

Then we get to the approval, we will give you the total of the budget for that fund with the adjustment in it.

But I don't know if there's any other legal need to do uh an action item for a change in the budget that we haven't yet approved, so I don't know that mechanism.

I think uh initially it's uh to give you uh the feedback or input uh as to the changes for as the actual adoption.

Um I I see each issue can be kind of the council could say yay or nay on them, and we know that's gonna change, and then the formality of of adopting the budget subject to the changes that have been discussed.

Right uh can happen that way with the motions.

Right.

So I just wanted that that because that's what mechanically we will do.

I would suggest, however, if you get to an issue that is too complex to resolve in this because there are issues that may not be present before us that we uh find a way to approve it and then let finance come back in the next couple weeks and do the uh necessary accounting moves to make it to fulfill the council's wishes.

So we'll have to if we come up with something that's that's complex, it may be broader than just this meeting to adopt, but we'll do our best to accommodate that as we go.

Okay, well we'll move that direction.

Diana, do you have your speed fingers on?

Okay, all right.

So again, the purpose is is because I believe council members have uh certain items that are uh um near and dear because I do, and so to get those out on the table, uh I'll start and then potentially mayor.

We we just move on and move move down the line.

Move and and get those issues known.

We won't go into the details immediately, but then we'd come back and go ahead and talk about them and know where where we're gonna stand on those.

Um, and then we'll work out uh the details to meet so that that's the approach.

Okay, hot topics uh VRT.

For me, uh there's a couple of things there is whether we take the choice of VRT, it was uh roughly in that 489 uh and leave uh funding to VRT.

I'm personally more of a 400 number or none.

And uh so I wanted to put my thoughts out there.

The county animal shelter, there's been discussion this year about uh uh what are we doing with that?

That Kenyon County, Caldwell, and NAMPA were going to split one third, one third, one third.

Uh the last time I talked to uh Captain Scoglin, uh it seemed that was ambiguous as to what was happening with the county, and uh so whether we're gonna have an agreement there or not, I don't think uh NAPA should put in any more than 300 towards uh the animal shelter issue.

Uh so I'm gonna be hard and fast in that in that realm, and how we're gonna work that out with the other entities or whether we uh figure out a new program on that issue.

That's what I see as one item.