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2025年5月22日温斯顿-塞勒姆市议会全体委员会预算研讨会

Meeting PortalThursday, May 22, 2025
BodyWinston Salem, North Carolina
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DateThursday, May 22, 2025
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0:05

Good afternoon.

0:06

I'm Alan Joy.

0:07

Mayor Woods my pleasure to call the order the city council meeting as a committee of the whole and ask City Clerk.

0:16

Councilmember joiner.

0:17

Present.

0:18

Councilmember Clark.

0:19

Here.

0:19

Councilmember Andrew Bowen.

0:21

Councilmember Scipio.

0:23

President.

0:23

Mayor Pratim Adams.

0:25

Here.

0:25

Councilmember Taylor.

0:26

President.

0:26

Councilmember Hall.

0:27

Present.

0:28

And Councilmember Burke here.

0:30

Thank you very much.

0:31

It's now my pleasure to turn the meeting over to the chair of the five committee.

0:34

Councilman McCarthy.

0:36

Thank you, Mr.

0:36

Mayor.

0:37

Glad everybody could be here today.

0:41

Mr.

0:41

City Manager, do you have any introductory comments?

0:44

No, sir.

0:45

Well, I'll turn right over to Mr.

0:47

Tesh to continue from the process.

0:49

Mr.

0:49

Tish, you have an agenda you could bring up on the screen.

0:53

I believe uh the city clerk may be able to do that.

0:56

The agenda is my computer up.

0:58

It's essentially a presentation and then discussion topics if you have those afterwards.

1:03

Let me mention a couple things before we start.

1:06

First off, if questions come up and you would the archetype that you can ask in 20 seconds.

1:13

Mr.

1:13

Tesh and Mr.

1:15

Rao, uh City Manager, all available if you want to go over your questions with them.

1:20

And also if you have any questions or concerns on the budget you'd like to discuss with me, I am available.

1:26

Well, I'm on the third floor most days.

1:29

With that go.

1:32

Chairman Clark, uh, mayor joins Mayor Pro Tem Adams and members of the council.

1:37

Um glad to be back for for day two.

1:39

Yesterday, we talked substantially about the operating budget, a second budget workshop with city council as always dedicated to the capital plan.

1:48

And we will spend uh just about five minutes here at the end of the capital plan talking about community agency funding, uh the local process that we changed this year at a very high level.

1:56

I did spill the beans yesterday and say that community agency funding in the operating budget for those local agencies is the exact same in FY26 as it was in FY25.

2:06

Uh, but we'll talk about the process and the number of requests there.

2:10

So generally speaking, just like we did yesterday, we'll we'll talk a little bit about the kind of overall uh environment for capital improvement planning.

2:18

We'll go through a summary of the proposed capital plan uh by service area, looking at individual projects of note in those areas, and then talk about the unfunded section.

2:28

Again, we we have an unfunded section in our capital plan that for many years has shown a lot of transportation projects as unfunded ones that even if we had money and staff to do, you couldn't get to in many years.

2:38

But we're gonna talk about uh what the future of the capital plan will look like going forward after this year and potentially trimming back some of those uh unfunded uh uh requests or or unfunded projects that realistically staff would have no capacity to get to in the next 10 to 20 years, even if they wanted to.

2:54

Um having said that, uh so current capital environments.

2:58

Last year when we did this, uh we started with a slide similar to this as a reminder of the amount of debt that the city has uh authorized uh in general obligation bonds, limited obligation bonds, and and two-thirds geo is another form of general obligation bonds.

3:13

And so you can see since 2014, more than 400 million dollars worth of authorized projects have been out there, and in terms of unobligated funds, this is just in debt financing, still more than a hundred dollars worth, uh hundred million dollars uh worth of those projects uh outstanding.

3:28

Uh we'll talk about some of the areas and additional monies that are out there.

3:32

You heard me say yesterday more than 200 million dollars.

3:34

Again, this is simply representative just of one type or the the general government debt that we have doesn't include things that we funded with local money or intergovernmental money uh of a different kind.

3:45

So just kind of a context note that there have been a lot of projects that have been authorized over the course of the last decade.

3:52

Uh staff has also completed a lot of projects, uh grabbed just a couple of pictures here, uh Fire Station Three as well as uh Nelson Millowey Park.

3:59

You can see a couple of bullet points there.

Discussion Breakdown — Share of Meeting
Engineering And Infrastructure████████████████████████████28%
Budget Equity Analysis████████████12%
Community Engagement███████████11%
Procedural██████████10%
Water And Wastewater Management████████8%
Fiscal Sustainability████████8%
Public Engagement██████6%
Transportation Safety███3%
Affordable Housing███3%
Summary of Proceedings

2025年5月22日温斯顿-塞勒姆市议会全体委员会预算研讨会

2025年5月22日下午4点,温斯顿-塞勒姆市议会以全体委员会形式召开预算研讨会,由预算与绩效管理主任Scott Tesh主持。会议重点讨论了2025-2026财年资本预算、六年资本改善计划以及社区机构资助的流程变化。议员Scott Andree-Bowen缺席,其余8名议员出席。会议于下午5点03分结束。

讨论项目

1. 2025-2026财年资本预算与六年资本改善计划概述

  • Scott Tesh介绍了资本预算的总体环境,指出自2014年以来已授权超过4亿美元的一般债务项目,但仍有超过1亿美元未用款。他强调,许多已拨款的旧项目尚未完成,因疫情后成本上升和承包商短缺,项目成本显著增加。过去三年,仅因成本超支,市政就追加了约1000万美元的地方资金。
  • 2025-2026财年资本预算总额约1.03亿美元,六年期总计划超过5亿美元,其中环境健康(水务和污水处理)占75%以上。Tesh指出,本年度不再使用三分之二债券(two-thirds bonds)用于维护项目,而是从普通基金转移1.3美分税率(约500万美元)覆盖维护。
  • Tesh展示了未资助项目清单,总额约12亿美元,其中近一半为人行道项目。其他未资助需求包括消防站、经济适用房、展览场改进、自行车与步行项目等。
  • 市议会讨论了设施状况评估(facility condition assessment)的时间表,助理城市经理表示尚未发布RFP,预计需要6-12个月研究时间。议员还询问了Hanes Mill垃圾填埋场的寿命(预计至2042年)以及未来垃圾填埋场的规划。
  • 议员要求提供其他城市的一般政府债务对比数据,以及2018年一般责任债券未发行余额(3200万美元)和2023年有限义务债券的发行情况。

2. 社区机构资助演示与审查

  • Tesh指出,2025-2026财年社区机构资助总额与2024-2025财年持平,共收到50份本地资助申请,总请求额超过400万美元,但仅有约100万美元可用(即维持现有资助水平),导致近300万美元的未资助需求。
  • Tesh解释了2024年8月改革的申请流程:将联邦和本地申请分开,简化了本地申请(特别是小额资助),并引入员工评分制,取代了此前难以召开会议的社区机构分配委员会。
  • 在50份申请中,46份与市议会的经济繁荣战略目标直接或间接相关,涵盖庇护服务、儿童保育、教育辅导、劳动力发展等。Tesh提到,未来可能采用基于人口增长的人均资助增长模式。
  • 议员询问了机构效果评估方式,Tesh表示机构需提交季度和年度报告,并计划增加现场访问。议员还要求将占用税资助机构(如国际黑人戏剧节、River Run、PMOT、Triad电影委员会、Old Salem)与普通基金资助机构分开标注。

3. 其他讨论主题

  • 议员James Taylor Jr.询问何时讨论消防员应计休假时间问题,会议主席表示将在后续全体委员会会议上安排。
  • Tesh确认美国救援计划法案(ARPA)资助机构的进展报告计划于2025年秋季提交。

关键成果

  • 未进行正式投票。会议仅为研讨会,无决策。
  • 明确后续步骤:
    • 2025年5月28日(周四)下午4点:下一次全体委员会预算研讨会。
    • 2025年6月2日(周一)晚上6点:市议会公共听证会。
    • 2025年6月16日(周一)晚上6点:市议会预算采纳会议。
  • 将向议员提供其他城市债务对比数据、2018年债券未发行余额详情、以及ARPA项目报告(2025年秋季)。
  • 计划在未来资本计划中采用20年以上的长期规划视角,并利用设施状况评估指导优先项目。

Meeting Transcript

Good afternoon. I'm Alan Joy. Mayor Woods my pleasure to call the order the city council meeting as a committee of the whole and ask City Clerk. Councilmember joiner. Present. Councilmember Clark. Here. Councilmember Andrew Bowen. Councilmember Scipio. President. Mayor Pratim Adams. Here. Councilmember Taylor. President. Councilmember Hall. Present. And Councilmember Burke here. Thank you very much. It's now my pleasure to turn the meeting over to the chair of the five committee. Councilman McCarthy. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Glad everybody could be here today. Mr. City Manager, do you have any introductory comments? No, sir. Well, I'll turn right over to Mr. Tesh to continue from the process. Mr. Tish, you have an agenda you could bring up on the screen. I believe uh the city clerk may be able to do that. The agenda is my computer up. It's essentially a presentation and then discussion topics if you have those afterwards. Let me mention a couple things before we start. First off, if questions come up and you would the archetype that you can ask in 20 seconds. Mr. Tesh and Mr. Rao, uh City Manager, all available if you want to go over your questions with them. And also if you have any questions or concerns on the budget you'd like to discuss with me, I am available. Well, I'm on the third floor most days. With that go. Chairman Clark, uh, mayor joins Mayor Pro Tem Adams and members of the council. Um glad to be back for for day two. Yesterday, we talked substantially about the operating budget, a second budget workshop with city council as always dedicated to the capital plan. And we will spend uh just about five minutes here at the end of the capital plan talking about community agency funding, uh the local process that we changed this year at a very high level. I did spill the beans yesterday and say that community agency funding in the operating budget for those local agencies is the exact same in FY26 as it was in FY25. Uh, but we'll talk about the process and the number of requests there. So generally speaking, just like we did yesterday, we'll we'll talk a little bit about the kind of overall uh environment for capital improvement planning. We'll go through a summary of the proposed capital plan uh by service area, looking at individual projects of note in those areas, and then talk about the unfunded section. Again, we we have an unfunded section in our capital plan that for many years has shown a lot of transportation projects as unfunded ones that even if we had money and staff to do, you couldn't get to in many years.

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