Note: The meeting transcript indicates the meeting occurred on June 16, 2025, but the provided date is June 20, 2025. This summary uses the provided date. The meeting included a work session and a regular session, covering financial reports, recreation projects, oak tree ordinance revisions, special events policy reconsideration, and various routine matters.
Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome. Today is June sixteenth, two thousand twenty five. We appreciate everyone being here. Um, we're gonna go ahead and uh open it up to public comments. Citizens are now invited to comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Isaiah City Council and items list uh items listed on the closed session agenda. The council asks that you keep your comments concise and positive. Creative criticism represented or presented with appropriate courtesy is welcome. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes, and a timer will notify you when your time is expired. Please begin your comments by stating and spelling your name and providing your city of residence. Anyone wishing to speak at this time, please come forward. All right, so we're gonna go ahead and close public comments, and we will go on to work session item number one new employee introductions. Uh Chief, and you you're the one taking care of this one. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor and Council members. It's my pleasure this afternoon to introduce two new Vice Lady Police Department employees. Well, thank you so much, ladies. If you'd like to come on up, uh shake our hands. Share, yeah. Come on up. Uh shake our hands, and we like to welcome you aboard. So we see it. Okay, thank you very much. Next, we're gonna go on to item number two, which is a fiscal year two thousand twenty-five-two thousand twenty-six mid-cycle financial report. And looks like Renee is doing this one, so go ahead. Good evening, Council. Renee Nagel, Finance and Technology Director for the City of Isalia. And tonight I'm here to present the fiscal year twenty-five-twenty-six mid-cycle financial um review. Let me just kind of get some of my stuff squared away real quick. Um, let's just first kind of go over how the budget cycle works. Um, because what most people don't understand is that we have an adopted two-year budget, which council approved in June of twenty twenty four, which was for fiscal year twenty-four-twenty-five, which ends in two weeks. And then we have the second year, which is twenty-five twenty-six, which starts on July one. And so we did the first budget review, which is called mid year for and it focuses on fiscal year 24-25. We did that in April, and that is where we project the revenues and expenditures for both budget years, and then we do our forecast as well. And then we turn around and we come back literally almost two months later, and we do the second budget review, which is also called the mid-cycle. And so this more focuses on fiscal year 25-26. This is where we report any changes that we've become aware of from April to today. So we didn't re-project all the numbers. We don't go back out and re-download and work with all the departments. We more plug in what we know about. So if we know of any additional increases of contracts or just additional costs that we become aware of, then we'll put those in here. And so we also can request um revisions for expenditures for the year we're ending or for next year as well. And so we more focus on the general fund because that's our largest single fund. And then any other funds if there's any changes that we know about. So this next slide talks about some of a change, some of our changes that we've done from mid-year, which again, we just came here in April. So this is just going to kind of just talk about that. So for fiscal year 24-25, we do not have any changes that we're projecting from what when we came last month. Um for fiscal year 25-26, we do have a couple more changes that we've added to our forecast, which we've changed the property tax from a 1% or excuse me, from a 2% to a 3%. Um for health costs, that cost did go up. We got our what our numbers are going to be for that one. Originally we were projecting four for the city.