08-09-2007 (City Council) Minutes Wylie City Council
CITY OF WYLIE
Minutes
Special Called Meeting
Thursday, August 9, 2007 - 6:30 pm
Wylie Municipal Complex - Council Chambers
2000 Highway 78 North
CALL TO ORDER
Announce the presence of a Quorum.
Mayor Mondy called the Special Called Work Session to order at 6:37p.m. with the following
Council members present: Mayor Pro Tern Red Byboth (arrived at 7:20 p.m.), Councilwoman
Kathy Spillyards (arrived at 7:10 p.m.), Councilman Merrill Young, Councilman Carter Porter
Councilman David Goss, and Councilman Rick White.
Staff present were: City Manager, Mindy Manson; Assistant City Manager, Jeff Butters; Finance
Director, Larry Williamson; Library Director, Rachel Orozco; Assistant Police Chief, John
Duscio; Fire Chief, Randy Corbin; Public Services Director, Mike Sferra; WEDC Executive
Director, Sam Satterwhite; City Secretary, Carole Ehrlich, and various support staff.
WORK SESSION
• Discussion regarding the City of Wylie FY 2007/2008 Annual Budget. (M. Manson,
City Manager)
Council members reviewed proposed budgets for FY 2007-2008 with individual departments.
Departments presenting their FY2007-2008 budgets during the work session were: City Council,
City Manager, City Secretary, City Attorney, Finance, Facilities, Municipal Court, Human
Resources, Purchasing, Information Technology, Police Department, Fire Department, and
Animal Control. Each department's director/supervisor reviewed the highlights of their budgets
and reported the accomplishments for FY 2006-07 and discussed the objectives for FY2007-
2008 with regard to the individual expense line items requested for the coming year.
Additional information requested by Council included: providing copies of the sick leave buy-
back policy and total cost to the City, adding a safety program/committee as an objective for
Human Resources for the coming year, identifying the employee turnover rate for the past,
initiating an Information Technology Plan, and identifying the cost difference between
advertising with the Dallas Morning News and the Wylie News and the circulation for both
papers for the "official newspaper" designation. The next work session for the proposed budget
will be held August 14, 2007 with the regular scheduled Council meeting. A copy of the
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proposed budget is available for viewing in the City Secretary's Office, The Smith Public Library
or on the City of Wylie webpage.
ADJOURNMENT
With no other business before Council, Mayor Mondy adjourned the meeting at 10:55 p.m.
Consensus of Council was to adjourn.
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Special Called Work Session (Budget Review)
Wylie City Council
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