Providence Committee on Finance-Thursday, April25, 2024-5:30 PM

So before I start, I would like to have our deputy director, mister Linda, walk through the documents. It looks a little bit different this year. You may have noticed that your budget looks different. That's all

They're fancy. Thank you, Crystal.

But you were brought up last week. Thank you for this.

Matter of fact, I believe Councilman Sanchez commented with you. No. That they were very fancy. You probably missed it. But if you go back and see the I

was I

was in here, so definitely..

One of my favorite features is it's embedded with Google Translate, so it's multilingual, which is a first in the history of the city. Awesome. So it's not perfect multilingual, but it is something the document is a little different this year, so I just wanna kind of walk through them before we get into the... You and me with the discussion. The first document in the package is the narrative that we provide every year.

That's the snapshot and primary of what's happening in the budget. The second packet is what we we are gonna be using to replace the three box report. It'd a core model document that looks like this with some kind of information we can use to analyze the budget and the changes year over year. So starting from the left or to the right, you can see that we have the fiscal year twenty four adopted budget, what's being proposed to fiscal year twenty twenty five, the variance in dollars, and the variance in percent. Wherefore?

Sorry. Yeah. It's not good. It should be this right after this. So there's two pages of this, and then this document should be enough.

I'm sure I can have a better document in my settings so that it's easier to read because it is scrunched a little bit in that view, and I

I apologize for that. Alright.

Great. Yeah.

Is the... Is this the same thing as in here?

It's a little... It it is. The only difference is that this also calculates the difference Oh. Year over year for you. So it's the same numbers.

Yeah. But if you wanna look at, for example, fiscal twenty four year date versus adopted, this this report gives you the number. You don't have to do the mental math for it. So it's an easier way to kinda just look at the year over year changes. Maybe.

Would you

guys like a copy? Sir?.

I mean, if it's this Yeah.

--. Yeah. That's the thing. Okay. Yeah.

We'll think that. We'll we'll make sure that the clerk takes it in a format so it prints a little easier to read because I know the numbers are. The next set of documents should be with public property. It looks like this. Yep.

This is from the online budget book. And what we've done this year is it includes narratives that identify the department's description, their goals and objectives for the upcoming fiscal year, along with some performance metrics that you can use to track this. And then the rest of the information will be identical to what is in the above your book. Okay. And then the other documentation you be directed by is just work chart at a pretty.

Are there any questions on the documents before I direct the reading to the narrative overview?

No questions.

No.. Please go. Starting with the narrative, in beginning with public property, revenue in fiscal twenty five is scheduled at 228,000. This is an increase of 2,874, and this increase is primarily due to increased insurance penalties. Okay.

Also, offset by a reduction in the Aramark capital improvement grant that we have had. That was a five year grant that expired in fiscal twenty four. So that grant is no longer being recommended. Moving on to expenditures. Total salaries, fiscal twenty five are reports at $108,133,907 dollars.

This is a decrease of $38,760 to the '24 budget, and then following the change of the policy of the department. A transfer of a labor conservative to public works at a reduction of $45,397, create a senior project manager, which is funded by the TIP, so there's no general fund budget effect, change in title and compensation for the mayor to mayor of public property and a net change... I'm sorry, a change of $17,981. The total benefits for fiscal twenty five are proposed at $1,150,262, a decrease of $225,280 from the '24 budget. And this increase is primarily...

I'm sorry.. Moving on to services. Total services for fiscal twenty five are proposed at $2,505,080, an increase in seven... Of $743,720. And this increase is primarily due to sewer ease of service created with the installation of the throughout the city.

Moving on to supply. Total supply for fiscal twenty five are proposed at $3,878,100, an increase of $436,500, and this increase is primarily due to increase in maintenance block of key city building. The capital budget for '25 is proposed at $2,010,000, decrease of 5,300,000 for the '24 budget. And this is the budget for the urgent capital needs. And so this is just a carryover of what we think won't be finished by the end of fiscal twenty four and the carryover to fiscal twenty five.

And would you like me to continue through purchasing, or did you wanna stop here and go on the release of it?

Together. Councilwoman and the ball went together. So we can be.

Perfectly. This is not a revenue generating department that there's no revenue budget. Moving on to expenditures, Salary, fiscal twenty five, are proposed at $438,641, an increase of $21,736. There are not... There are no requests for any organizational changes.

Total benefits in '25 is proposed at $237,006. Moving on to services. Total services for fiscal year twenty five are proposed at 35,200, an increase of $900, and that is primarily due to increased cost exposure of parking and the hubs and offset with the reduction of due to the. Total salaries in fiscal twenty five are proposed at $7,900, an increase of $2,500, and that is due to additional funding for office supplies and training, and there

is no capital budgeted with the. So at

this time, I would like to turn it over to the director of the department to answer any questions. Sure.

Thank Thank you for the presentation, and thank you guys for being here tonight. I have a few questions, so if that's okay. Well, it is okay, and thank you for answering them. A few specifics on the new high level ones. So a high level one for public property.

Can you talk a little bit about how public property is involved in school construction and specifically, like, who on your team is creating the RFPs and making the big decisions? And are you sitting in with the reviews for PPSD and Ride, or is that down? So can you talk a little bit about who on your team is handling those pieces?

It's actually everybody you mentioned. We do have monthly meetings, sometimes quarterly meetings with PBSD and Dallas Construction. We have

And for the, like, RFPs, are you creating those? Is the manager... Or deputy director creating those? Like, who is managing those... That type of project?

The RFP is done by the project manager,

which is.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. And then what is driving the increased maintenance cost in the building? So that was a pretty significant increase.

Just in the the more we have plans to do on that. Okay.

Was there, like, for maintenance or something? Or There... We... I took what we spend with each of our, like, contractors that we use,

say, for electrical or plumbing,

and I predicted that's what we're

already spending with each of those contractor.

Then... It's okay if I just keep going.

Keep going.

Okay. Thanks, Kevin. On the first page of public property, you see the f y twenty four budget expenditures. It's, like, quite a big middle finger there. What

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