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

a for He month it he said and saw around ago, Mr. Council should analyze what we need to do and then what it cost to do it; and we haven' t done it, we have spent a lot of time talking about the golf course. 6 9- 24- 90 90/ 91 BUDGET ( CONT.) Mr. Maney said if the of Council is do sense they not want this budget, he is prepared to make a motion that they have in effect kind continuing resolution a of which would following: amount to the that we would have a budget for 1990/ 91 of exactly the same amount of money of the actual expenditures and income that we have this year, there would be a freeze on hiring. a freeze on raises, a freeze on purchases except for that which we have done for the past year, and that would take them far enough into the year for Council job, to do its which is to analyze item by budget to see item in the where they can save money. He said as an example, there is $ 200, 000 for overtime; it might be possible by either hiring someone or rearranging schedules, they would not need $ 200, 000 for overtime; and there is a long list of things they can do to save money, but Council has not taken the time to look into it. He said he is ready to say let' s put a hold on it until Council gets cracking and does its job. Mr. Rosenbaum asked if Mr. Maney is suggesting they adopt a budget that has the revenues as estimated by staff and the expenditures as they were actually expended in 1989/ 90 fiscal year. Mr. Maney said yes, that is what he has in mind. Mr. Rosenbaum said that would require a budget amendment about six or eight weeks down the road. Mr. Maney said that would be OK, but that means maybe they don' t need to hit the taxpayers with a big tax increase, we have done our job. Mr. deVaux said another thing he wanted to bring up was the possibility of converting City vehicles to natural gas. He said they might not be able to save this year on gasoline cost. but if they just converted half the vehicles they may pick up a savings if the price of gasoline goes to $ 2. 00 a gallon. Mr. Wyatt said he thought all those creative ideas need to be looked at, but not in this years budget. Mr. Smith asked for staff' s comments on the comparison of the labor budget and why Mr. deVaux' s is so much over. Mr. Wyatt asked the Finance Director to address the labor difference first. Mr. deVaux said the payroll sheet given him shows $ 6, 132, 932. 13 for 26 weeks for payroll, with the supplement checks. The Finance Director explained the current payroll, based upon data provided last week. as of the end of that pay period was $ 6. 817. 069; that has nothing do to with overtime or incentive pay; that is basic payroll. they did not address overtime or incentive pay; the Police Department and Fire Department have incentive pay.  7 9- 24- 90 90/ 91 BUDGET ( CONT.) The Finance Director pointed out Mr. deVaux' s recap sheet has Block Grant and the RDA, which is not part of the city' s calculation and, if you recall, there was no one employed in the RDA during this current calendar year, there was a girl friday off and on, there was no Executive Director and the salary paid, other than the time person hired, not charged to RDA; I part was so 6, 800, 00 is roughly $ 85, 000 high. Mr. deVaux noted the CRA proposed budget has payroll of $ 1, 000. The Finance Director said his point is you can reduce the $ 6, 825, 000 by roughly $ 85. 000. He referred to the figure provided previously of $ 6, 081, 769, the current payroll being paid at that particular time; that payroll included no overtime or incentive pay, only base pay. He said the payroll provided by Mr. deVaux of $ 6, 132, 932j the difference between that and the amount provided to you that day was the fact we had a payday Friday and we knew the exact amount, as of now we have completed 26 pay days. He said to take the $ 6, 132, 932, and realize that was 3 1/ 2 months at one pay and roughly 8 1/ 2 months at the 6% cost of living; so you are not comparing fiscal year to fiscal year, so you have roughly 2% there. He said last year when they estimated what would be spent for 1989 the whole net difference from the audit was missed by less than $ 5, 000 four months earlier; and it would be less that $ 100, 000 this year and