Good

afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you so much for showing tonight.

Um, I call this special meeting of the new Bronfields City Council to order.

Today's date is September 10, 2026, and it's 6 o'clock P.M.

We

request that all cell phones and other devices be on silent except on for emergency on call personnel.

Madam Secretary, can you please call roll?

Councilmember Carter here.

Mayor Pro Tim Capisi.

Here.

Councilmember Edwards.

Here.

Councilmember Sproadley.

Here.

Councilmember Lebowski.

Here.

Councilmember Shaw.

Here.

And Mayor Franch.

I am present.

A quorum is present.

We shall succeed.

Uh proceed.

Please join me in the invocation brought to you by Mayor Pro Tem Capizi, followed by the pledges of allegiance.

Heavenly Fathers, we bring this budget season into the home stretch.

We thank you for the resources entrusted to our city and to the up and for the opportunity to serve.

Keep this council humble, grateful, and mindful of those less fortunate.

And give us the wisdom to be good stewards of what we have been given and never let us lose sight of the people we serve.

We ask these things in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Under God's straw.

One state under our

extend my my uh my heartfelt thanks to our management to staff and our fellow city council members for their tireless work over the past several months on this city's budget.

Uh

managing the public's tax dollars is profound responsibility, and it is ultimately rests on us to ensure that we invest very wisely by focusing on our resources and our services infrastructure and safety measures that matter most.

We ensure that the Nebronville's continues to run successfully, securely, and effectively for every single resident.

The

safety, security, and the well-being of our families, our environment, and our entire community remain at our highest priorities, and this budget ensures that every resident is truly cared for.

Thank

you, Mayor, members of council.

Uh, as we've typically done in prior years for the folks that may be joining us in this budget process for the first time, we typically have a presentation that provides a broad overview uh of the budget.

And so I'm gonna go through that.

It's about 30 slides.

I'll go through it rather quickly as it's um mostly information from previous presentations, but uh I feel like it's still good to set a good baseline for anyone that is just recently joining us.

Again, the uh proposed budget highlights slide.

I won't go through these in details.

As we know, we're gonna talk about the proposed tax rate this evening, which is equal to the no-new revenue

rate.

Uh I'll go into some additional detail on property values and some of the recent trends that we're seeing and how those have differed significantly over what we've seen over the past 10 to 15 years.

Uh you'll remember from our initial budget presentations that we try um to tie back the funded initiatives to the citywide strategic plan.

Proud to report that approximately 13 million dollars in initiatives and investments align back to that plan.

Uh

based on the adjustment provided by city council, which will end with that this evening.

Uh the budget currently has a three percent cost of living adjustment for all uh city employees, as well as step increases for eligible swarm personnel.

Uh as we talked about as well, uh, another challenge for fiscal year 27 revolved around our city's self-insurance fund, where we had an increase premiums in almost nine years, and certainly hit a point where we needed to do that.

And uh the budget includes both premium increases for employees but substantial uh contribution increases for uh the city as well.

So to maintain to maintain equity uh between the cost between the employer and the employee.

Across all funds, the budget includes 25 positions to support service delivery service delivery and organizational needs.

Uh we've talked about the funding for the firefighters.