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06192018407 It 1� i►[iin*l CITY OF DUNN DUNN, NORTH CAROLINA The City Council of the City of Dunn held a Budget Work Session on Thursday, June 19, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. in the Dunn Municipal Building. Present was Mayor Oscar N. Harris, Mayor Pro Tem Billy Barfield, Council Members Buddy Maness, Dr. Gwen McNeill, Frank McLean, Billy Tart, and Chuck Turnage. Also present was City Manager Steven Neuschafer, Finance Director Mark Stephens, Public Works Director Dean Gaster, Recreation Director Brian McNeill, Human Resources Director Anne Thompson, Librarian Mike Williams and Attorney P. Tilghman Pope INVOCATION Mayor Harris opened the meeting at 7:00 p.m Special recognition to Lisa Farmer from The Daily Record for coming out to help share with the interpretation of the budget for 2018-2019, with the citizens of Dunn. Afterwards, he gave the Invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance was repeated. AGENDA ADJUSTMENT AND APPROVAL Motion by Council Member Maness and seconded by Council Member Barfield to adopt the June 19, 2018 meeting agenda with changes, if any, as listed below. Agenda Items Added: • none Agenda Items Removed: • none Motion unanimously approved. ITEM FOR DISCUSSION AND/OR DECISION Proposed Budget FY 2018-2019 Motion by Council Member Tumage and seconded by Council Member Maness to approve the budget as presented Council Member McNeill expressed concern with the current fee increase request for the Park and Recreation that is already $400.00 for rental and $300.00 for deposit. Item is located on page 7 of 14, Parks and Recreation. Council Member Barfield believes everyone has done a pretty good job on the budget with the exception of going from $5 to $30 on the Vehicle Registration fee. It is his opinion that SIO is a sufficient amount at this time to go up with the economy as it is and he asks that the Council would consider going up $10 rather than $30. Council Member McLean agrees with Mr. Barfield, and doesn't think that folks can handle the $30. Council Member Barfield added that it used to be $1, for that registration, and it changed to $5. Now we want to go to $30. He thinks it's just too much right now and he would ask that we make it $10 rather than $30. Council Member Tumage stated that a lot of times our City Official's, meaning City Manager, Public Works workers and those most inclined with roads, have already addressed any kinds of outside money grants or otherwise. The $30 increase has already been approved by the state and many of the local communities around here are increasing to the $30 as well. Increasing by only $10, will not bring in enough funds for the paving project that the citizens want. The only way to raise the money for that paving project, along with the Powell Bill Fund that the city gets from the state, is to increase this fee. And then we would have a viable source of income. The reasons why we can't tap into the fond balance have been discussed explaining that the extra funds from the $30 increase, are earmarked and can't be touched for anything other than the paving of the roads. Council Member Maness stated that the people of the city may not know the cost of undertaking the repaving and repairs. The public should know about what happened when the General Assembly changed the formula in funding the Powell Bill Fund. He asks for the Mayor or City Manager to correct him if he was wrong in his knowledge, that the Powell Bill Fund was changed from miles to lanes. Which gave a distinct advantage to the large municipalities with multiple lanes of roads. Before when it was miles, it was an equal allocation. It was based on miles in a town or a municipality. Now it's skewed to the larger Municipalities that have multi lane roads. Mr. Maness continued discussion on the costs that we receive, which are not enough for the street maintenance or repairs that the town requires. He states that the only other source to replace what this registration fee increase is going to provide, would be a two and a half cent (2 1/2) increase in the tax rate, to the City of Dunn. Council Member Tumage added that the money would go to the worst surfaced roads. Council Member Maness added that there are 26 paving projects currently on the map, at a proposed cost of $3.6 million dollars. It takes serious dollars to accomplish this task. Council Member Barfield said "We thought Rooms To Go was going to be a salvation for us. But all the money we get, Erwin, Angier, Coats, and Lillington also get part of that sales tax. The City of Dunn doesn't get all of it." 408 There was further discussion on the sales tax process of Rooms To Go. Council Member Maness added that the sales tax was one of those set by the General Assembly and the City of Dunn doesn't have any control over that. Mayor Harris asked all of those in favor say aye, those opposed. Motion carried 4 (four) to 2 (two). Mayor Harris asked if there was anything else to come before the Council. Motion made by 3 (three) Council Member's and seconded by the other 3 (three) Council Member's to adjourn the meeting at 7:19 p.m. Motion unanimously approved. 0 � t i scar N. Harris Rd ttk- Ma tti, C Deputy ClerkM Mayor ���ururrr�� ` OITY O JORPOR4 2'. SEAL '•�,��rCAROV%"