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On October 14, 2026, the Peekskill Common Council held a Special Work Session Budget Meeting to discuss the fee schedule, third-quarter budget review, proposed budget adjustments, and a draft presentation for the upcoming public hearing. City Manager Matt, Comptroller Tony Tracy, and council members reviewed financial details, with the goal of presenting a final budget for adoption on November 9, 2026.
Good evening and welcome to our committee of the whole meeting for today, October 14th, 2026. We have a finance uh budget discussion, then liaison reports in the 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 or removal of a particular person or persons or corporations. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. So we have a couple of items that we want to go over with you. So Tony Tracy, our comptroller is going to uh again revisit the fee schedule and just recap uh that the way it is and ask if there is any questions about that. We have passed it around staff again, and um I believe there were a couple of very minor edits that we made, and you're gonna are you gonna summarize those? Um yeah, we only had two last week changes to uh so Tony will summarize those, then we're gonna talk about um the third quarter review, and so we've got a third quarter review to share with you. We'll uh talk about how we use that for the budget and how we keep um an eye on whether or not our projections fall in line with that review, and then uh Tony's gonna talk about the common council budget. If the council is in agreement, uh we will wrap up with a proposed uh budget presentation draft for the October 26th public hearing. Hello. Oh, good evening, Mayor and City Council. Good evening, evening. So as the city manager said, we're starting off with the fee schedule, which I have up here on the screen. It is probably about 30 pages in total, but each one is a it's a breakdown by department of the fees charged within those departments, and we had gone over this earlier in the process. There are certain fees we did not increase the building permit extensions was new last year, so we did not increase that fee. Senior parking fees were not increased, some of the recreation fees, but overall, we did a three percent increase across the board on all of the fees, and there's a little bit of rounding in there just to make the numbers flow a little better. So at this point, I'm just asking the council if you have any recommendations or changes you would like to see. Oh, and as the city manager mentioned, we did make two additions today. One was for a mobile office fee, so for a company setting up kind of on the on the street, maybe um a health insurance company, somebody like that would pay a fee to open up for the day and have people come in and visit their mobile office. And we also did a uh change to the uh military banners. We only had one fee out there for a one-sided banner, so we also put a fee for a two-sided banner. So those are the two new changes that we had. So that you could have, I don't know if it's necessarily a person on each side, or if you want to purchase both sides for one person, but the banners that go on the poll to uh for veterans. No, there's a picture on one side, and then the on the other side it says city of peak skill, something with military banners. Right. So I guess now they're offering an option to make that a two-sided banner. So we're gonna charge people to make a two-sided banner to go up. I mean, right, I guess not for that city of peak skill. I'm assuming if it's if somebody maybe is honoring two different veterans with a banner and they put someone on each side. I I haven't heard that. That was a last-minute addition at the end of the day. Oh, that was from uh from uh Stephanie. Okay. I think we set those rates as the um when we first set that plan up. Right, it didn't have a two-sided option initially, so that was an addition. So maybe it's a new option that they've they've given the city that you can have two options. Right, but I think that's a good one. And so there'll be a charge if you have two. But the fee. I I propose that we wait until we introduce that option to the whole public.