Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 09-24-1990 Special — reading text

1 MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING OF THE CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH. FLORIDA SEPTEMBER 24, 1990 I Nl'RODUCTION A special meeting of theCity Council of Fort Walton I Beach, at the Mayor Florida, 5: 00 p. m., following William J. in was the held members present: Roberts, Monday, September 24, 1990, on Council Chambers at City Hall, with III ( arrived at 5: 55 p. m.) Councilmen: Jim Wyatt, Mayor Pro Tem J. C. " Buck" Smith Sidney Rosenbaum David deVaux C. Thomas Maney Dennis Nicholson Cissy Wyninegar Also present: Charles Keeler, City Manager; Charles Evans, Finance Director; Helen Spencer. City Clerk; Department Heads; news media. CALL TO ORDER The Mayor Pro Tem called the Special Council meeting for the purpose of discussing the 1990/ 91 Budget to order. INVOCATION The Mayor Pro Tem gave the invocation and led in the Pledge of Allegiance. 90/ 91 BUDGET The Mayor Pro Tem stated Mr. deVaux has a presentation to make to Council regarding the budget and if no one had anything else to discuss he would turn the meeting over to Mr. deVaux. Mr. deVaux said staff provided him the actual payroll for one year and the total actual payroll with supplementary checks for 26 pay periods; the actual payroll of the City for one year would be $ 6, 132, 932, which is only off a few dollars from the $ 6, 119. 672 reported by the City Manager at the last meeting. He said the total gross pay includes all overtime, auto allowance, deferred compensation, fire and police incentive pay, and food allowance; anyone that received I a pay check from the City is proposed sheet includes handed payroll salaries out included in the $ 6, 132, 932. the total payroll actually paid for one whole year. of $ 6, 377 , 503 by the from the General, The City in the Manager Water budget, and last on meeting, Sewer Fund the as stated on the sheet; to compare both the proposed payroll and the actual payroll, you have to add the overtime in the General Fund which is not on the sheet provided by the City Manager, only the figures for line item 1201 for each department is shown. 2 9- 24- 90 90/ 91 BUDGET ( CONT.) Mr. deVaux pointed out the overtime was broken out on the computer sheet, General Fund $ 187, 000, Water 10, 000, Sewer $ 6, 000, CDBG had no overtime. and CRA had 200; the salaries in the CDBG Fund were $ 15, 100 and CRA salaries were $ 70, 500; deferred compensation $ 6. 422; Police Incentive Pay $ 95, 000; Fire Incentive Pay 1 33, 000; Food Allowance $ 11, 500 and automobile Allowance 12, 700; also you have to add $ 43. 985 for the two Fire Department employees inadvertently left out of the budget. This is a total proposed payroll budget of 6, 869, 218. Mr. deVaux stated he had taken the actual payroll of $ 6, 132, 932 and the proposed budget payroll of 6. 869. 218; compared them and there is a difference of 736. 286. FICA taxes were put only on the difference because FICA would be paid on that money; by adding 56, 325 for FICA onto the $ 736. 286, there is a total of 792. 611. what he calls budgeted payroll over between the actual amount we are spending now and what is in the proposed budget. if we pass this budget. Mr. deVaux went on to say, as we keep overstating payroll, you keep adding the FICA taxes to it, the numbers have a domino effect and gets larger each year. If we looking to save $ 700, 000. we are would go with the actual payroll and, if we approve the same payroll approved last year, we would save $ 792, 611. If we gave a 5% pay raise effective October 1st, which would be a full 5%, you could basically take 5% of the $ 6, 132, 932 which would be about $ 300, 000. The 5% pay raise would be only on the base pay, not the car allowance, food allowance or incentive pay, etc. In the years past we have not added the 5% on those items. If we give a 5% pay raise January 1st have done as few we in the last years, it would be less than $ 300, 000, if we gave a 5% October 1st; if we gave 5% pay raise January 1st as we have done the last couple of years, the $ 300, 000 would be less; so if you add $ 300, 000 to the $ 6. 132, 932, you are only talking $ 6, 432, 000. subtract it from the