Good afternoon, everyone.

I'm Alan Jones, Mayor of Windows.

My honor to call to order this meeting of the City Council acting as a committee of the whole.

And would ask the city clerk to call the roll, please.

Councilmember joyner.

Present.

Councilmember Clark.

Here.

Councilmember Andrew Bowen.

Councilmember Scipio.

Present.

Mayor Prantim Adams.

Here.

Councilmember Taylor.

Present.

Councilmember Hall.

Present.

And Councilmember Burke.

Here.

Councilmember Burke is joining us by Zoom.

Welcome, Councilmember Burke.

I will now turn the meeting over to the Chairman of the Finance Committee, Councilmember Clark.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just a few comments before we get going with today's agenda.

It is my intention to at the June 9th committee, the whole meeting, to convene a finance committee meeting at that time for the finance committee to actually endorse the budget.

Now when we do that, there's a number of different things that we're not just one motion, it's a series of motions.

But uh I'm gonna wait till then because I I'm trying to meet with everyone, not just the finance committee members, to get a feel.

And I will talk with each one of y'all individually, and I will try to come up with some type of consensus and present that for the finance committee to vote on.

Now that will then go to the full committee, which will be the next date that is.

Somebody give me a 16th.

And the full council will then vote on the same motions again, and that will be for everyone to do it.

So uh what we have had are sessions where the staff has taken comments back, and I'm gonna make some comment uh before before after Scott finishes whatever he's going to do.

Uh but continue to ask questions.

Uh and you may certainly reach out to me.

I will be reaching out to each one of y'all, but you may certainly reach out as well on any specific items.

This is a very thick book.

And what may tweak your answers may not tweak someone else's, but please uh the my door is always open, but as the finance chairman, I try to pull it all together and come up with something that I think will somewhat be happy with.

Anyway, with that, Mr.

Tisch.

You may speak good afternoon, Chairman, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the City Council.

Uh before we get started, I do want to note at all of your seats, you will see a hand piece of paper.

Um several years ago, the General Assembly passed a law uh that uh essentially says that you can't vote on uh conflicts of interest with nonprofits on on which any elected official uh may sit on the board, be employed by or otherwise have otherwise have an association with.

Uh we've tried to reach out uh via email.

We want to make sure that we're hitting all of our bases.

So if you would take just a few minutes at some point uh today or or the next day, um make sure that we have the correct list of the boards that you sit on or otherwise have an affiliation with.

Uh we will have to draw the ordinances based on all of those uh that are filled out uh when we come back to you with those recommendations for approval.

So we do have a very um quick uh slideshow representation over the course of the last uh two budget um workshops.

There have been some questions asked.

We do have some responses to a few of those.

There are quite a few of them.

I've spoken with the city manager and have noted um they may require a healthier response in the form of an actual report back to the city council, either in a weekly update or even more formally uh in committees here in the late summer or early fall to make sure that we're not just giving you a paragraph on the situation, but that you're fully briefed on the questions uh that have been asked.

Uh so to that end, I'm going to attempt to answer a couple of those questions.

Uh, would also note that we did have our two public uh budget input sessions last night at Little Creek Recreation Center and a week ago uh at the Carl Russell recenter.

Uh they were well attended by council members uh and and the public was there as well.

I believe many of you saw the types of questions that were asked, but they ranged the gamut from housing to infrastructure, uh, and there were quite a few people who were notably interested in revaluation and property taxes and the like.

Uh so we will uh look to how we would continue those in the future and how we would expand on getting uh more people to those.

But I do think that the people that came were engaged, they did have good questions, and that we were able to provide them uh at least a semblance of the type of information that they were looking for, even if they didn't like the answer.

So uh to that end, a couple of questions uh or a couple of responses here.

Well we will get it up on the screen for you.

There we go.