07-18-2017 (City Council) Minutes Wylie City Council
CITY OF WYLIE
Minutes
Special Called Work Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 — 6:00 p.m.
Wylie Municipal Complex— Council Chambers
300 Country Club Road, Bldg. 100
Wylie, TX 75098
CALL TO ORDER
Announce the presence of a Quorum.
Mayor Eric Hogue called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. City Secretary Carole Ehrlich took
roll call with the following City Council members present: Mayor pro tern Keith Stephens,
Councilwoman Diane Culver, Councilman Jeff Forrester, Councilwoman Candy Arrington, and
Councilman David Dahl.
Staff present were: City Manager, Mindy Manson; Assistant City Manager, Chris Hoisted; Fire
Chief, Brent Parker; City Engineer, Tim Porter; Human Resource Director, Lety Yanez; Wylie
Economic Development Director, Sam Satterwhite; Police Chief, Anthony Henderson; Public
Information Officer, Craig Kelly; Public Services Director, Mike Sferra; Finance Director, Linda
Bantz; City Secretary, Carole Ehrlich, and various support staff.
INVOCATION & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Pastor Jeff Denton gave the invocation and City Engineer Tim Porter led the Pledge of
Allegiance.
Mayor Hogue convened into work session at 6:05 p.m.
WORK SESSION
• FY 2017-2018 Budget Discussion and Department Presentations to Council (L. Bantz,
Finance Director)
Citizen Jerry Smith addressed Council regarding the proposed budget.
The following departments provided presentations for City Council regarding their FY 2017/2018
proposed budget, including expenditures and revenues. Additionally the departments provided
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accomplishments completed in FY 2016/17 and objectives for the new FY 2017/18 budget.
Staff answered questions regarding line items within their FY 2017/2018 budget. The
departments included:
Police Department
Animal control
City Secretary's Office
Public Art Fund
City Council
City Manager's Office
Combined Services
Utility Fund
Parks 4B Fund
Occupancy Tax Fund
City Manager Manson gave recommendations for department ELS requests to be included in
the proposed budget. Manson gave scenarios of available funding if certain tax reductions were
requested by Council and the overall spending limitations for each. She asked Council to give
some direction regarding a tax rate so a proposed budget could be presented to Council at the
next regular meeting for further discussion.
Direction from Council to staff was to input a $0.02 tax reduction with a balanced budget for
further consideration and discussion.
Citizen Matthew Porter spoke in regard to the proposed budget.
RECONVENE INTO REGULAR SESSION
Mayor Hogue reconvened into Regular Session at 9:02 p.m.
ADJOURNMENT
A motion was made by Councilwoman Culver, seconded Councilman Dahl to adjourn the
meeting at 9:04 p.m. A vote was taken and the motion passed 6-0 with Mayor pro tern
Stephens absent.
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