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06252018409 MINUTES CITY OF DUNN DUNN, NORTH CAROLINA The City Council of the City of Dunn held a Budget Work Session on Thursday, June 25, 2018, at 5:00 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 5:00 p.m. and thanked everyone for agreeing to come back on the vote that they recently had on the 2018-2019 Budget. He gave the invocation. Afterwards, the Pledge of Allegiance was repeated. ITEM FOR DISCUSSION AND/OR DECISION Proposed Budget FY 201-2019 AGENDA ADJUSTMENT AND APPROVAL Motion by Council Member Turnage and seconded by Council Member Tart to adopt the June 25, 2018 meeting agenda with changes, if any, as listed below. Agenda Items Added: • none Agenda Items Removed: • none Motion unanimously approved. Mayor Harris explained that when he heard that Council Member McLean had said that he had voted no on the budget issue, he was concerned about that, so he called Mr. McLean, and asked about his vote. Mr. McLean stated "Yes, that he did vote no." Mayor Harris stated that he was not aware that Mr. McLean had voted no. He thought Mr. McLean did not vote at all so Mayor Harris ruled on that. Mayor Harris stated that there is a difference in not voting versus voting no. Mayor Harris told Council Member McLean that he would not hold him to the decision of not voting, if he indeed wanted it to go on record as a no vote towards the budget issue. Mayor Harris then decided, after clearing with the City Attorney, to call a special meeting for the purpose of clarity on the voting. Mayor Harris went on to explain how things work in subject to the vote issue. It can be said, in the declaration, that the prior vote passed and prior motion is back on the table. That means that we do not have to make another motion. Mayor Harris will resend the vote that was previously taken and call for a revote of the budget as motion was made. Council Member Turnage asked to please state the motion. City Manager Neuschafer stated that the motion was made by Mr. Turnage to adopt the budget as presented and was seconded by Mr. Maness. Mayor Harris asked if there were any questions on what they were voting on and if not, he then asked the Council Members to raise their right hand on all of those in favor, (Buddy Maness, Billy Tart, and Chuck Tumage.) All of those opposed, Gwen McNeill, Frank McLean and Billy Barfield. With that being said, Mayor Harris voted affirmative and the budget was approved. A copy of (02018-06) Budget Ordinance FY 2018-2019 and Fee Schedule is incorporated into these minutes as Attachment #1. Mayor Harris stated that that is what he would have done had he not misread what took place at the previous council meeting and he does not fault Council Member McLean for holding up to how he wanted to vote and he appreciates Mr. McLean corresponding with him on this. He stated that he would not let that decision stand until they brought it back into session to address the issue properly. Mayor Harris then stated that he thought Council Member Maness had a comment he wanted to make. Council Member Maness stated that he did and he appreciates the privilege in doing so. He stated that he was made aware on Friday, that a statement he had made at the last special called meeting, about the Powell Bill Fund, was inaccurate. He wanted to say that he was wrong in his information and that the Powell Bill Fund formula had in fact, not been changed. He y stated that he honestly thought that it had and that perhaps there were others that were led to believe the same. Even though there was a lot of discussion in the General Assembly about changing it, it was never adopted. Therefore, he wanted to go on the record correcting his misstatement and apologizing, both to those watching and to those that may have read it. Upon notification of finding out of his mistake, he immediately called Lisa Farmer, at The Daily Record, and informed her that he had made a mistake. Council Member Turnage added that the City had looked at developing some fact sheets for reference. He then asked Mark, to make sure those facts gets changed back, about the Powell Bill Fund, to what it was. Finance Director Stephens stated that it already has been. Mayor Harris stated that he had the corrected fact sheets. 410 Council Member Turnage stated that the fact sheets should be added to the City website so people can go in and look at some of the situations that the council deals with. It's a very informative way for the citizens to review and see nothing but the facts as they apply to some of the decisions the Council makes. Council Member Barfield would like to comment on a letter from Ms. Elmore about the problems at her office, the NC License Plate Agency. Some residents don't have their vehicles registered in the proper city. Discussion continued on the location of whether vehicles are registered properly because since the budget passed on the new Vehicle Registration Fee, everyone will be checked. He just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention. Discussion on where the Shrine trailer was registered and located. Council Member Maness added that trailers are not affected by this. The only thing that's affected are cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats are not but golf carts are if it's a licensed tag cart. But, trailers are not affected and neither are boats. Council Member Barfield gave more discussion on where the Shrine trailer has always been registered. Motion by Council Member Barfield and seconded by Council Member Tart to adjourn th meeting at 5:13 p.m. Motion unanimously approved. uuiscar N. Harris CITY pF Mayor A s: ehssa R. Matti, Deputy Clerk :'GORP0�T :Gz O.. SEAL ' �e'lyCAROV 01%