The Peekkill Common Council held a work session on Monday, October 20, 2025, at 6:15 p.m. in the Common Council Chamber. The meeting included budget presentations for the Legal Department (1420) and Special Items (1900), followed by several agenda items including the MTA Parking Management Plan, event permits, a FEMA port security grant, and an update on the Payment in Lieu (PILOT) program. The council also discussed liaison reports and concerns, and entered executive session for personnel matters.
To our uh committee of the whole meeting for today, October 20th, 2025. We have a couple of presentations on budget and then an agenda with uh six items and then executive session for discussion of matters concerning the medical financial credit or employment history of a particular person, persons or corporation or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, removal of a particular person, persons, or corporations. So at this time I'll turn it over to our city manager. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. I have um Tony Tracy is going to take us through uh two items. Uh 1420 department, 1420, the legal department, and uh 1900, which is a department that is called special items, and it's not really a department, it's just a location in the budget where we account for contingencies as well as insurance and uh outside council costs, and so Tony's gonna take us through that, and I do would also like to talk to the council and executive afterwards about specific cases that have to that are um part of this discussion. Okay you have your books. This is starts on for the department labeled 1420 on page 27. Good evening, mayor and city council. Good evening, so as the city manager said, I have some explanation discussion about the legal and special items in the budget. Okay, so the first one that I have is in the it's in the 1900 group of the budget items, so yeah, I don't know. I'll give you that. Let me give them that page. So we're gonna start with uh the 1900 part on page 44. Is that the same as your book? Yep, 44. Okay, page 44. Oh, 44. We're starting at four. Which is the general point. Okay. Okay, so the first line in that section is the general liability insurance, which is all of the regular coverages, such as the auto insurance and those types of policies. And this is based on a recommendation from the broker, which is a lion, that they told us to project about an eight percent increase for 2026. And so our number is based on our projection for 2025 of 850,000. So we've projected 918,000 on that line. And then still within that same category. I've grouped a couple of the smaller items together. So we have association dues, which is a NICOM dues for 7,286, taxes on city property, which is approximately $37,000. There's a consultant services line, and that's for things like the CAC, sustainability, grant writing, kind of those miscellaneous type consultants for $50,000. So that totals $94,286. The next one is again some of the lines in that page that you're looking at are combined into contingencies, and these exist for various purposes. So the first one we have judgments, judgments, and claims for 150,000. Those are just for cases that take place. And then we have a contingency line that really is a contingency for anything that the council determines that it's necessary for as we move through the year. So if there's an emergency situation, things like that, then we would address it with the council and ask for your approval to use it for that purpose. That we put in 200,000, and the last line is contingency for the safer grant. This is the grant where the city had hired the six firefighters, and we're building in this contingency that as we move forward toward when the grant ends, we've been building up a little bit of a base toward funding their salaries at that future date. So altogether we have $775,000 in contingency in that grouping. Uh uh, it's it's several lines there within that 900 1900 budget. So it's uh when you're looking in your budget book, it's gonna be Tony. You wanna I don't have line items on this, I'm sorry. Okay, so re so the go back to the line before the the slide before this. Sorry, just get back there. We go. Okay, so uh the first one is 1930. It's 1900, 1930. It's the one to fourth one down. The second one is 1930 0200. The 1930s.