City Council Minutes 09-28-2015 SpecialMINUTES
SPECIAL MEETING — MONTICELLO CITY COUNCIL
Monday, September 28, 2015 — 6:00 p.m.
North Mississippi Room, Monticello Community Center
Present: Brian Stumpf, Charlotte Gabler, Lloyd Hilgart, Tom Perrault, Glen Posusta
Absent: None
Others: Jeff O'Neill, Wayne Oberg, City department heads: Angela Schumann, Shibani
Bisson, Tom Moores, Rachel Leonard, Kitty Baltos
1. Call to Order
Mayor Brian Stumpf called the special meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. in the North
Mississippi Room.
2. Purpose of Meeting:
A. Presentations of Department Budgets
Wayne Oberg, Finance Director, presented the preliminary tax levy. He noted that once
the preliminary tax levy is set the final property tax levy cannot exceed the preliminary
levy, but can be lower. The proposed preliminary tax levy is $8,919,000. He mentioned
that the proposed City portion is less than in 2015 even if it would include the HRA levy.
A couple of items that he touched on in the presentation were:
• The City of Monticello has the lowest tax rate in Wright County.
• The increases for the 2016 General Fund include: election budget; refuse &
recycling; Public Works Director, Building Inspector; and wage increases:;r
a total of $304,000.
• Monticello's Tax Capacity will increase again in 2016 as result of Xcel
nuclear power plant improvements.
• If the City Council wanted to add in the $2/hour increase for firefighters it
would be a total increase of $6,000 in the total budget. He commented that
$0.75/hour was currently budgeted.
Glen Posusta questioned what was included in the elections budget. Mr. Oberg
responded that the expenses include judges on election days, judge training, maintenance
on equipment, and supplies. Mr. Posusta also questioned why nothing was budgeted for
FiberNet. Mr. Oberg responded that funds from the liquor store have been moved over to
the FiberNet fund to cover losses. Mr. Posusta thinks these should be separate and
FiberNet should be in budget like everything else and the revenue from the liquor store
should be put back into the general fund. Jeff O'Neill, City Administrator, added that a
budget for FiberNet will be provided in November.
Jeff O'Neill mentioned that the current data requests are taking approximately %4 of a
full -time staff persons hours. This may be something to think about for the future budget.
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3. Adjournment
By consensus the meeting was adjourned at 6:25 p.m.
ARecorder: Jennifer Schreiber
Approved:
Attest: C
City AMinistrator
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