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(STILLWATER,
OKLA. / April 13, 2015) —
The City of Stillwater City Council met for its regular meeting Monday, April
6, 2015. (View
agenda here.)
Consent
Docket
a.
Budget
amendment to the storm water budget to obligate $147,319 to the 2014 Small
Cities Set-Aside Program contract #16111 CDBG 14 and authorize the mayor to
sign the documents
Council approved 5-0.
General
Orders
a.
Preliminary
presentation and discussion of the FY 2015-16 fiscal budget
Presentations made by City
Manager Dan Galloway, Public Safety Director Norman McNickle, Chief Financial
Officer Marcy Lamb, External Services Director John McClenny, Stillwater
Utilities and Authority Director Dan Blankenship.
Galloway said there was no
increase in the City Manager’s department.
Lamb said budget increases for
the Finance Department were mostly due to reorganization. Increases in IT were
due to maintenance contracts on software. The Bid Division would have the same
budget until it could bring forward its budget at the end of the fiscal year.
Capital items to be funded were all in the IT Department, including a fiber
optic network. Another item was the OneSolution software for employees. One of
the more critical items was the Storage Area Network because the current
provider is going out of business.
Vice Mayor Joe Weaver said the
Council needed to discuss how much the fund balance should be on the city and
Stillwater Utilities Authority side. Lamb said there is also a small
contingency funded each year.
McNickle discussed the Airport,
Police, Fire and Emergency Management. The airport, the 4th busiest
in Oklahoma, set a record for flights. Major airport funding was replacement
and maintenance of buildings and runways. Emergency Management, Police and
Animal Welfare are budgeted together. Capital projects include a use-of-force
simulator, new incinerator and repairs to doors for Animal Welfare, funding to
maintain rain and street systems and close circuit cameras for Emergency
Management.
McClenny discussed Transportation,
Human Resources, Parks and Recreation, Development Services and Operations.
Transportation funding includes road maintenance and repair. Human Resources
had no capital projects. Parks and Recreation is looking to expand programs for
the developmentally disabled among other things, but had a decreased budget due
to movement of something things to Operations and a contract for city sports
programs. Development Services projects include form-based codes, building
safety and planning progression, and paperless land use application (electronic
documents). Operations has general and SUA fund components. McClenny presented
the general fund component. Capital projects include replacing sun deck at
Boomer Lake, buying an asphalt patch truck, and implementation of the
skills-based pay plan.
McClenny and Blankenship also
both discussed the consolidation and efficiency of the department. Blankenship
discussed the SUA budget. The electric department is responsible for the Power
Generation Station. Capital items include two bucket truck replacements,
battery bank replacements in the substations. The top expenditure in the SUA is
purchasing electricity. Capital projects for the water department include new
water system components, a water tank mixer, trench shoring equipment, replacing
variable frequency drives, lime system replacement design and inspection of the
water towers. Wastewater projects include evaluating digesters and designing
permanent improvements of the south interceptor. Waste management had no
proposed capital, but there were possible additions of solar trash compactors.
Galloway and staff closed with
thoughts about other miscellaneous budget items, such as updating the City of
Stillwater website.
Councilor Gina Noble asked
residents to email the City Council with comments and questions.
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