Good evening.

And we're going to call our special town council meeting to order.

Um I believe all counselors are accounted for.

Councillor Armstrong.

I thought she was already online, but she will be joining us virtually momentarily, so all of us are accounted for except one who will be joining momentarily.

Um next we'll move to item number two, which is the complete actions relative to the proposed fiscal year 2025 budget, including proposed increases to senior and veterans' tax relief amounts.

So with that being said, I'm going to uh turn it over to you, Councilor Naeem.

I don't know if you have anything to add before.

Uh and not much more to add than uh our last meeting.

So thank you so much.

Um I believe we'll have further discussions as motions are made.

So all right.

So I'm not sure what's wrong with this.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right, so um Mr.

Sousa, is there anything that you would like to add or you want us to go straight to the motions?

I think you can just go straight to the motions.

Um we had talked about the potential um reduction um or overall general serv excuse me for general services um last time the three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, and where the council left off was the total um a motion for the total general fund revenue revenue expenditures, which you'll see on um page one of the draft motions.

I didn't bring one.

Thank you, Peter.

When technology fails you, I'm not sure what's I'm like okay.

We want to go to the next page.

All right, thank you.

Yeah, it's just not moving.

All right, so we can move to changes this role.

All right.

So next is the total general fund expenditures.

Is there a motion?

Yes, sir is.

I would like to move to amend the total proposed general fund expenditures for the fiscal year twenty twenty-five budget of one hundred and forty-three million six hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and forty dollars by three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars to one hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred, sorry, one hundred forty-three million three hundred fifteen thousand, eight hundred and forty dollars.

Is there a second second?

Any discussion, counselors?

Councillor Kelke.

I move to uh amend the motion.

Um so instead of a reduction of three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, it's a reduction of one point six five five million dollars uh down to one hundred and forty-two thousand.

I'm sorry, one hundred and forty-two million fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty.

I'll second that thank you, counselor Elvel.

Any uh discussion on the amended motion.

Did you want to describe where you are suggesting that money come from?

Um just don't think we should be spending that much money.

I think uh we still need to make some adjustments.

So you don't have it earmarked for anything.

Oh, I do, but we're not that's not part of this motion.

Okay.

Thank you.

Any other discussion, counselors?

All right, so if we would like to bring it to a vote on the amended motion.

Thank you, Mr.

Belgi.

And if you could just restate that quickly for the sure um so the the motion was instead of 355 thousand written reduction it would be a 1.655 million reduction down to 142 million fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars thank you are we ready for the vote all right all in favor of that amended motion all opposed aye aye all right so yes I I know it failed Mr.

uh LFL thank you very much I'm like quick math so uh that motion does fail um because we just did not pass that one so thank you all right so we're back to the main motion um councillor naim if you would like to restate yes the main motion was to amend the total proposed general fund expenditures of the fiscal year twenty twenty five budget of one hundred and forty three million six hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred forty dollars by three hundred fifty five thousand dollars to one hundred forty three million three hundred fifteen thousand eight hundred forty dollars thank you counselor nae all right and we can bring that to a mayor I just want to add a few more points um j just for clarification of the the public because I know we are doing this as uh additional meeting um we discussed last time the three hundred fifty five thousand dollars to be um cut from general services uh that is reflective of um a uh uh uh error that we had caught due to phase in um for the Great Pond improvement district um we initially did uh uh vote to adopt um all of our other service units budgets um uh as they were proposed uh and so now we're on our general fund expenditures thank you mayor if I may just for the record it is a and and I'm sure I believe Councillor Naeem said it but I just want to restate the $355000 reduction is not a reduction in spending it is just an acknowledgement of an accounting error thank you thank you counselor eleventh any other discussion commentary okay well point of order um counselor uh armstrong is not able to get into the meeting I just she can't get in she can't get in I'm not sure she's got the is she's probably locked again trying to told you no no no I the virtual oh the virtual okay virtual okay um so at this point um are you in communication with her counselor naem yes is there a number that she can call into there should be a number on the agenda as well as within her email okay all right so counselors are you okay if we just take a uh brief five minute recess to try to get counselor naeem on armstrong counselor thank you sorry counselor naeem you are there counselor counselor armstrong on just try to troubleshoot because I know she's driving right all right so we're just going to take a quick five minute recess to help counselor armstrong troubleshoot trying to join the call technology it's wonderful it it is well

Thank you.

And thank you to our viewing audience.

All right.

So we were waiting to have Counselor Armstrong join, and we are told that she should be joining more mentally.

So I don't know.

And then we would bring it to a book.

Okay.

Counselor Armstrong, if that is you, if you could please just identify yourself.