07-27-1988 (City Council) Minutes 68
CALLED CITY COUNCIL
MEETING MINUTES
JULY 27, 1988
The Wylie City Council met in a called session on Wednesday,
July 27 , 1988 at 6:30 P.M. in the Council Chambers of the
Municipal Complex . 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
John Akin, Council Members Orite Messenger , Jim Swartz , Bud
Naish and Chris DiTota, City Manager John Pitstick, City
Secretary Carolyn Jones , and Finance Director James Johnson.
Councilman Marvin Blakey was absent.
Mayor Trimble called the meeting to order and Mayor Pro Tem
Akin gave the invocation.
City Manager John Pitstick gave an account of the
organization chart of departments for the City. Staff is
working on a program budget this year and the budget sheets
will give a description of jobs in each department. The
Council will be receiving print outs of the budgets for the
last three years and the proposed 88/89 budget . On Tuesday,
each department head will come before Council and present
their base budget. On Saturday, each department head will
come before Council and present their new programs for the
upcoming budget year .
Councilman Messenger wanted to know if staff had thought
about going with pre sort first class mailing for $.21 .
Finance Director James Johnson said there are seven routes
in Wylie and when we tried to get this , we discovered our
system would not hold enough numbers to pre sort with. Mr .
Johnson also said the one problem with pre sort is return
mail . Mr . Johnson presented the proposed General Fund
Revenues as follows :
Cut Tax Roll 1987 $275 ,230 , 878 .
Cut Tax Roll 1988 $293 ,142 ,666.
The City of Wylie is due for re-appraisal this year , there
shows to be more Ag exemption than last year . In 1987 there
was $17 ,255 ,415 Ag use and in 1988 there is $35,574 ,680. ,
over 65 exemptions in 1987 were $5 ,870 ,330 . and in 1988
$6,455 ,552 . and there was $51 ,500 in VA exemptions and 1988
there is $50 ,500 in VA exemptions. The total value after
exemptions for 1987 is $277 ,256 ,443 . and in 1988
$293 ,142,666 . If the Council stays with 50 cents per $100
valuation, projected revenues from Taxes will be $2 ,342 ,000 .
and if Council chooses to go to $.5125 per $100 valuation,
projected revenues will be $2 ,375 ,650 . After some
discussion, it was suggested to raise the library fines,
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increase the school guard share from Wylie ISD as there will
be another elementary school needing a crossing guard. It
was noted by Mr . Johnson that the projected revenues for the
1988/89 budget year are under the 1987/88 revenues.
There being no other matters of business, ion was made
to adjourn with all in favor .
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