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The Whitehall City Council Committee met on May 26, 2026, at 6:30 PM to discuss the city's financial status, proposed rules of procedure changes, and eight pieces of draft legislation. Key topics included a strong financial report, a deer feeding ban, drive-through safety standards, and a new state law restricting transparency on economic development incentives.
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Whitehall City Council Committee meeting agenda. Tuesday, May 26, 2026. We'll start with uh administration council on the whole matters. And uh Alexander wishes to make a presentation for stuff. Yes, Julie will give me going. I'm gonna go down here since I could get in full presentation mode. I will try to be brief as you all know I can go long. 30 seconds fine. Change his name to Wendy. Change your name to Wendy. So I have two presentations. The first one should be very short. Second one would be uh the materials I presented at the uh community conversation. We missed you there, Mr. Adams. Um I think it was imperative that I also present that information to the council in real time. So uh we had our draft financial statements uh presented to us again during draft format, this is subject to review. But I wanted to highlight some of the key metrics and indicators from uh those financial statements. Again, this is not the audit itself that is coming later next month. This is just financial statements that are being audited. I meet with the consultants tomorrow to finalize and approve them. So in 2025, every indicator that I look at the time of professionals show that the financial position of the city improved. Uh, net position increased by 11 million or about 33.8 percent over 2020 uh through 2025. That's a citywide figure, including governmental and non-governmental activities. Uh net position tells you whether the financial uh position of the city either improved or diminished, and I think the 33 almost 34% uh increase is a great improvement. Uh general fund balance grew by about 4.2 million, about 25% year over year, and that again is our main operating fund, uh funded by about 85% income tax every year. And our TIFF fund balance grew by 2 million or about 26%, and 11.4 million was invested through infrastructure through the uh uh that we see every day through the Ohio Water Development Authority loan that we have that is paid back through that water so we're serving charge tax we pay to improve our water and sewer lines that have been drastically overdue. So those are the main highlights, and uh not sure if you can see this the lighting on this kind of next slide, please. Okay, that's kind of weird. But um welcome from left to right with another major funds.