07-06-1987 (City Council) Minutes 241
CALLED CITY COUNCIL
MEETING - MINUTES
JULY 6, 1987
6: 00 P.M.
The Wylie City Council met in a called session on Monday,
July 6 , 1987 in the Conference Room at City Hall . A quorum
was present and notice of the meeting had been posted in the
time and manner required by law. Those present were Mayor
Chuck Trimble, Mayor Pro Tem Donovan , Council Members Chris
DiTota, John Akin, Calvin Westerhof, Marvin Blakey, and Kent
Crane, Acting City Manager James Johnson, City Secretary
Carolyn Jones .
Mayor Trimble called the meeting to order and Councilman
Akin gave the invocation. Mayor Trimble adjourned the
regular meeting and convened the workshop.
WORKSHOP REGARDING 1986-87 AMENDED BUDGET: City Manager
James Johnson stated that the revenues were down in both the
general and utility funds.
Councilman Akin asked City Manager James Johnson how many
more customers did the water department have over this time
last year . City Manager James Johnson said approximately
400 more. Councilman Akin asked City Manager James Johnson
if he compared the last four months of last year to what
this year looked like, and did he have those figures with
him. City Manager James Johnson said he took the eighth
(8th) month revenue report and figured from there, and that
all franchise taxes have dropped from last year .
Councilman Crane said the problem he has is that council is
proposing to accept a budget with a quarter million dollar
deficit. City Manager James Johnson said the council can
borrow it and pay it back next year . Councilman Crane said
that he had reworked the budget that came with the packets
and has it down to a $40 ,000 . deficit . Mayor Pro Tem
Donovan asked Councilman Crane if he talked with the past
city manager Gus Pappas about this budget . Councilman Crane
said yes , and that he had talked with City Manager James
Johnson and department heads of the city as well as
employees . Councilman Crane handed out a summary sheet of
what he had done on the budget . Councilman Crane said he
called City Manager James Johnson on Friday about some
addition problems he found in the budget that was in the
packets . Councilman Crane stated that he knows that City
Manager James Johnson has more than one area to look after
and that there is a lot of problems that he is having to
deal with.
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The Council took the summary sheet and compared the big
differences . After much discussion of the summary sheet ,
Councilman Crane said that one thing that was bothering him
was that Council has approved to pay for things where there
was no money, such as rate studies .
Mayor Pro Tem Donovan said she felt we needed to be fair to
everyone and take both budgets and study them before making
a decision After each of us have studied these budgets ,
then havethe work shop.
Councilman Crane said that he does not say his proposal of
the budget' is correct, but that staff is already down by
nine (9) people and yet council is thinking about letting
seven (7) more go. Councilman Crane said he had a problem
with letting trained people go and in a few months hiring
again and having to retrain.
Councilman Akin said he did not like to think of letting
people go, but we have to do what has to be done. In
looking over 85-86 budget , we added a lot of people, maybe
we should have stopped during this time.
Mayor Trimble said what we have done is built up a good
employee force over the last few years , maybe some of these
could have been left off . Mayor Trimble also stated that
Councilman Crane had a good question of what to do with a
quarter million dollar deficit .
Councilman DiTota wanted to know what benefit it was to
discuss this budget with Gus Pappas . Councilman Crane said
there were a lot of questions of why and how they arrived at
the figures shown in the budget . Councilman Crane also
stated that sometimes you are fed information to get you
where you are, I want to talk with any one, past council
members and city managers, department heads , that might have
some answers . AS a council member I am going to seek
information and will not bar any one from talking with me.
Councilman Akin said to be a successful council , you have to
be an open council . Everyone should be involved and not
just one or two .
Mayor and Council had a discussion on a new business that
maybe coming into Wylie, in regards to questions from this
business .
Mayor and Council also discussed the vacancies on the
various boards of the City and requested a work session or
pre meeting prior to the next Council meeting .
Motion was made to adjourn with all in favor .
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Trimble, Mayor
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