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The Finance Committee, chaired by Council Member Robert C. Clark, met on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 4:00 PM. The committee considered consent agenda items, temporary staffing services, winter shelter funding, a driver’s license restoration program extension, and an update on the Marshall Street redevelopment. Key votes were taken on three general agenda items.
G-1: Temporary Staffing Services Contract Extension (The Resource Company – $3,500,000)
G-2: Additional Funding for Winter Shelter Operations ($50,000)
G-3: Forsyth Driver’s License Restoration Program (DRIVE) Agreement Extension
G-4: Update on Proposed Modification to Financial Assistance for Redevelopment of 1007 and 1001 Marshall Street
You're watching WSTV Digital Media. Call to order the October Finance Committee and welcome everybody here this afternoon. Nice to be crowd. They heard we're giving away money. Everybody showed up. Anyway. Uh y'all hang on. I got a guess now. Okay, now I'm signed in, y'all can hear me. We will start with a consent. I've been asked by staff to pull and hold in committee C three and C four. We still need to do some work on those. So those are without objection, we'll pull those off the agenda for today, keep them in committee. Are there any other items that anyone would like pull from consent? Hearing none, can I get a motion to approve the balance? Motion to approve the balance of the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion second to approve the balance. We will do a voice vote on this. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Those are approved. We will now move on to the general agenda. And we have we will start with G one. City Clerk will please read this. Item G one resolution awarding contract extension for temporary staffing services, the resource company estimated amount of three point five million. Hours during a six-month period. The total spend for fiscal year 2026 from July 1 of 2025 through June 30th, 2026, you'll see that listed here. Um, and those numbers are before you. So the top three departments that utilize or had the most spend was public assemblies, um, sanitation, and then third was utilities. Um, so you have that information before you. The next slide is the last one, please. Um, it is the actual spend with the department, the job titles and assignments are listed there, the number of unique employees, so the unique employee could have been employed three different times, but that is the number of unique employees. Then you have the average assignment based on weeks, the average percentage rate for the turnover, and um the annual spin, including the resources 32 percent markup. And so um just a few things to note. Um, I already talked about the unique number of employees, positive path, and the SOAR programs, the resource does not actually recruit for those positions, those candidates are given to them. The resource just facilitates the hiring. All right, and then the average um turnover percentage rate is calculated based on terminations and quits. So it is not that the assignment ended. Um, so that they're not those numbers or those employees are not counted in the turnover rate. And then you have the one of the questions, an additional question was um is it more advantageous to hire full-time employees versus contracted employees or temporary employees? And so you have um the difference there of the total cost of these uh full-time employee um at five, just over five million, and then what the contracted or temporary cost is at 4.3. Um, the difference are cost savings of about 758,000, and this does include benefits, etc. What this also does not reflect are the indirect savings that the city has from the administrative fees for if we were to hire hundreds of more employees. Um the city does not take on any risk for workers' comp in this instance, and um that's it. All right, and so then I do have a a little bit more information based on some other questions that were received after the presentation was prepared, and so I do want to talk about that a little