WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:30.000 This is all based again on the current increases. However, we're looking at the budget and putting together a plan for for increases. We just don't know what those will be. So I'd like to move down to 6165, which is contracted equipment, repair and maintenance. Again, this one here we haven't used, and I don't know if we'll end up needing to use it, but we want to go ahead and keep it there in case we require some some type of equipment, repair, maintenance. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:57.000 We have an equipment rental. We have $1,000 in here. In the past, we've had up to $3,000, and we purchased our own mini excavator a couple years ago, and that's kind of made it accessible to the cemetery for digging graves, and it's been very useful, but we want to go ahead and keep that $1,000 in case we need to rent a pulverizer for the dirt or something like that. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:03.520 Moving down to 70-10 machinery and equipment, over a thousand. We've got 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:11.519 three thousand dollars for our Ferris zero turn mowers. We're including some 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:18.040 upgrades for those. Any questions on cemetery? You said mowing? Yes, mowers. The 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:23.200 Ferris mowers, there are zero turn mowers and we have, like I said, about 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:29.319 26 acres out there that we have to mow weekly and we have two or three I think 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:32.480 we have three total mowers but two really nice ones that the guys use and 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:40.319 they can go quickly. Yes. Are we budgeting anything for grave sites for the 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:47.560 veterans? As far as upgrading things or cleaning or what do you mean? No I 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:57.560 I thought that we used to have grave sites available for veterans. And we do. We do. Dovie probably can speak to that. That's different than this. Yes. But go ahead, Dovie. 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:16.560 Veterans are not charged for their burial site. They are charged for the grave opening. So there's just no revenue to the city. Okay. And I guess any normal expense, the excavator or anything, any normal burial expense. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:24.520 Dovie, what's a normal bearer? What's a normal? A plot is six hundred and eighty six dollars. So we don't charge veterans for that. 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:31.439 Or infants. There's an infant aisle that the grave is free as well. 00:02:34.099 --> 00:02:36.099 Okay, any other questions on cemetery? 00:02:36.419 --> 00:02:38.419 Alright, I'd like to move on to forestry. 00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:43.699 Again, back to the wages. Same story there. I'm gonna move down to 00:02:43.699 --> 00:02:52.379 to item 6180 so that's the next no there it is yeah we're in good shape there 00:02:52.379 --> 00:02:56.620 contracted vehicle repair and maintenance we're budgeting ten thousand 00:02:56.620 --> 00:03:00.500 dollars for our clam truck repair and inspection we have one of the most 00:03:00.500 --> 00:03:04.259 important piece of equipment for the forestry departments a clam truck and it 00:03:04.259 --> 00:03:08.740 is rather old and it does require a lot of maintenance we've been doing a good 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:13.379 job of doing that in-house unfortunately certain components on that require 00:03:13.379 --> 00:03:19.539 Skillsets that we don't have, you know, mostly hydraulic. It's got a fancy hydraulic swivel on it 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:25.180 So when that stuff gets to leaking we take the thing we take off the cylinders or whatever it is that were that that's 00:03:25.259 --> 00:03:29.539 Hydraulically powered and we send those out and get them repaired and so that's what this is about 00:03:31.340 --> 00:03:36.099 And I'd like to just scoot down to 6765 tree assistance 00:03:36.259 --> 00:03:42.860 So the tree assistance is our contracted tree budget. So this year like the last well since I've been here, which is 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:52.139 the fifth year we contract remove some of the largest scariest trees in the city 00:03:52.139 --> 00:03:57.840 one reason for that is we don't have the equipment to take down trees of a 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:03.539 certain size a very large size and two they can be very hazardous so we 00:04:03.539 --> 00:04:08.300 contract those out for those reasons and we're budgeting about $100,000 again 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:16.100 this year and last year we did the same. Yep. And am I understanding that 50 just a 00:04:16.100 --> 00:04:22.620 little over half was used this year? No, no. All the bills probably haven't arrived 00:04:22.620 --> 00:04:33.139 yet. But what you have year-to-date is 50,143. Yes, that's correct. That's what 00:04:33.139 --> 00:04:38.139 we've used so far. Our tree contract for this year, the bill hasn't 00:04:38.139 --> 00:04:43.060 come yet. So the trees that are on here are just emergency trees. We have another 00:04:43.060 --> 00:04:47.560 tree contract that's gonna put that line item over budget this year because we've 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:57.939 had so many storm trees this year. Yeah, what was that, March? We had that big? We had two 00:04:57.939 --> 00:05:01.620 different storms that we had. One had like 28 trees we had to take down and 00:05:01.620 --> 00:05:05.100 another one we had like 30 trees we had to take down and our crews couldn't 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:08.899 handle all of it. It was just it was too much and some of them are just too big. 00:05:08.899 --> 00:05:13.899 So the good news is the faster the more of these things we keep removing the 00:05:13.899 --> 00:05:18.220 fewer we're gonna have coming down and wind storms however I think the first 00:05:18.220 --> 00:05:21.560 year I was here I mean we would just get a normal thunderstorm blowing through and 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:26.620 our guys would be out there I think I I think in 2020 we had a storm sometime in 00:05:26.620 --> 00:05:31.860 July and I think we had 20 trees come down that storm and the more we've been 00:05:31.860 --> 00:05:37.259 taking down these trees on contract the less we've had come down during storms 00:05:37.259 --> 00:05:44.040 it's surprising to a very large tree can cost upwards of $10,000 to remove. Yeah 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:51.939 they get very expensive. Okay with that machinery over $1,000 we're looking at 00:05:51.939 --> 00:05:59.259 purchasing a new saw this year for $1,500 and a grinder chopper attachment for the 00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:05.540 skid steer or the or the mini excavator and what that's gonna allow us to do is 00:06:05.540 --> 00:06:11.240 is a takeout brush along the dry, you know, along the road siding. So especially Henderson 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:16.060 Road is a real problem. There's a lot of brush there. It's very steep. There's not a great 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:21.699 way to get to that. This grinder will allow us to more efficiently remove all the debris 00:06:21.699 --> 00:06:27.699 that grows up along the road siding. So we're planning to purchase that in 25. And then 00:06:27.699 --> 00:06:31.899 last we've got a couple of trim saws. So it's equipment under a thousand, a couple of trim 00:06:31.899 --> 00:06:38.620 Saws, or a trim saw and a pull saw. So trim saws are small, and by the way, the saws we buy, they're 00:06:38.620 --> 00:06:45.899 magnesium framed. We use a lot of, they're used quite a bit, and they're built for continuous use, 00:06:45.899 --> 00:06:58.069 not like your normal home chain saw. Any questions on forestry? All right, I'd like to go to animal 00:06:58.069 --> 00:07:06.870 control. Thank you, Curt. Again, wages, and there's really not a whole lot here besides wages and 00:07:06.870 --> 00:07:20.370 and Withholdings. We are budgeting some nominal amounts for equipment and maintenance, repair and fuel and vet services and machinery. 00:07:20.370 --> 00:07:25.370 This year we're looking to get a tranquilizer gun when you have a very aggressive dog. 00:07:25.370 --> 00:07:34.370 It's nice to have an extra tool in your tool belt that you can take a dog down without it getting the person in harm's way. 00:07:34.370 --> 00:07:42.290 We last couple years we bought some new snares but having an extra capability is going to be good so 00:07:43.250 --> 00:07:47.170 we budgeted for that this year. Any questions on animal control? 00:07:48.930 --> 00:07:54.370 If I could, do we have anything on backup on training and backup on 00:07:56.610 --> 00:08:03.970 our licensing back for larger animals? We are working on with the staff that's 00:08:03.970 --> 00:08:07.089 is interested at the street department to help us out. 00:08:07.089 --> 00:08:10.250 But right now, we're a little bit in a holding pattern 00:08:10.250 --> 00:08:14.050 as we're waiting for the outcome on our current animal 00:08:14.050 --> 00:08:17.410 controls health situation. 00:08:17.410 --> 00:08:19.050 Thank you. 00:08:19.050 --> 00:08:21.370 You said health situation stuff? 00:08:21.370 --> 00:08:21.850 Yeah. 00:08:21.850 --> 00:08:23.769 What does that mean? 00:08:23.769 --> 00:08:24.810 Just health. 00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:26.410 He's out for health reasons. 00:08:26.410 --> 00:08:28.730 Oh, we don't have no one right now. 00:08:28.730 --> 00:08:31.930 Well, we will cover the calls over the weekend. 00:08:31.930 --> 00:08:33.610 It's on a rotating basis. 00:08:33.610 --> 00:08:37.129 but our permanent animal control person is not here. 00:08:37.129 --> 00:08:40.899 Okay. 00:08:40.899 --> 00:08:44.360 Okay, moving on with traffic engineering. 00:08:45.940 --> 00:08:49.940 Last year we budgeted for a new signal 00:08:49.940 --> 00:08:54.899 and crossing signals at Berchard and Empire. 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:57.899 This year we're looking to replace or repair 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.259 the FHN crosswalk at Stevenson 00:09:03.379 --> 00:09:05.700 and Route 75 at Honeywell. 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:08.899 Those signals have been in place for many, many years 00:09:08.899 --> 00:09:12.059 and are in unreliable condition. 00:09:12.059 --> 00:09:16.740 So we're budgeting about $60,000 for that. 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:20.279 Other than that, not much else to talk about in terms 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:21.899 of traffic engineering. 00:09:21.899 --> 00:09:23.779 Any questions? 00:09:23.779 --> 00:09:27.500 What did you say about Route 75? 00:09:27.500 --> 00:09:32.580 The walk signal at 75, I guess, was Stevenson at Honeywell, 00:09:32.580 --> 00:09:33.220 plant one. 00:09:33.220 --> 00:09:34.019 Oh, OK. 00:09:34.019 --> 00:09:37.009 That's Commercial Avenue. 00:09:37.009 --> 00:09:37.509 Hmm? 00:09:37.509 --> 00:09:39.370 Commercial Avenue? 00:09:39.370 --> 00:09:43.639 Oh, OK, yes. 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:47.039 Again, the budget for this activity looks so low for 24 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:51.639 because the bill for the Berchard Lights is not in yet. 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:58.440 And those were just replaced about two weeks ago. 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.399 OK, with that, I'd like to move on. 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:00.679 Okay, with that, I'd like to move on to street lights. 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:07.559 So street lights, again, we're talking about the city-owned street lights, most of which are in the downtown. 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.480 We have a handful of other ones sprinkled throughout the city, 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:17.519 but almost all other street lights that you see out there, if they're not in the downtown, they're most likely ComEd lights. 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.440 So each year we budget for the electrical expense. We're budgeting about 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:28.919 $300,000 for the street light expense and we're also budgeting $20,000 for repair and maintenance. 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:35.480 Every once in a while we'll have a large, we'll have like a ice storm or we'll have some line pull 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:42.120 something down and we'll have to go repair it and it can be very expensive. So any questions on 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:47.159 street lights? How much did you say downtown street lights were? 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:55.240 We primarily had those replaced under a grant, a distress communities grant. If 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.679 you're talking about the downtown LED lights that we installed, those were 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:04.600 basically free. We had those installed on a ComEd distress communities grant, and I 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:10.639 think we spent about $7,500 on incidentals and some additional labor, but 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:16.919 overall we didn't have to spend anything on those. As I recall, they're, what do 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:24.200 They cost a piece sir. Those are bigger powered ones, those are I think around $300 a head 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:29.720 for the Cobra Head itself and then the labor but we've been trying to get another distressed 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:34.299 community grant to address some of these other ones in the main corridors we just have not 00:11:34.299 --> 00:11:44.460 been successful yet. Any other questions on Sri La? Yes. Carriage Hills, that's one of 00:11:44.460 --> 00:11:52.460 Yeah, Carriage Hills light that's out is because the wires cut, don't know where it is, and we haven't had a chance to really track that down. 00:11:52.460 --> 00:11:54.460 Okay, that's why. 00:11:54.460 --> 00:11:59.460 Yeah, you're talking about the one across from the, well, the address, excuse me. 00:11:59.460 --> 00:12:02.460 In general, but understand they're different. 00:12:02.460 --> 00:12:09.460 Yeah, they had installed those pedestal lights and, you know, the ambiance thing. 00:12:09.460 --> 00:12:13.460 So that becomes the city's issue? 00:12:13.460 --> 00:12:20.899 those are the city lights so okay with that we could yes I mean there's there's 00:12:20.899 --> 00:12:24.860 a handful of city-owned street lights sprinkled out throughout the city of 00:12:24.860 --> 00:12:35.299 Freeport but most like over 90% of them are ComEd owned all right I'd like to 00:12:35.299 --> 00:12:46.740 move on to motor fuel fund so this year we're expecting to receive $480,000 in 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:51.600 and the transportation renewal fund and 500,000 in MFT tax 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:58.139 allotments with an additional 50,000 income interest. 00:12:58.139 --> 00:13:01.019 And that comes out to about a million dollars. 00:13:01.019 --> 00:13:05.399 This has all been budgeted for the 2025 street program. 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:10.700 So you look down at the next item, which is expenses. 00:13:10.700 --> 00:13:12.980 You've got 125,000 in crack ceiling, 00:13:12.980 --> 00:13:15.180 which is just part of maintenance that we need to do. 00:13:15.180 --> 00:13:19.340 so we can make those new streets that we've just done last longer that's why 00:13:19.340 --> 00:13:23.379 we need to do the crack ceiling and then rock and road material as you can see 00:13:23.379 --> 00:13:26.700 there is nine hundred thousand those will get that money will be expended on 00:13:26.700 --> 00:13:39.960 street reconstructs in 2025. That's coming from the motor fuel fund or that's 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:50.440 coming from the street fund? That is that's from motor fuel tax. Any other 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:59.220 questions on MFT? Okay well that concludes the budget planning session. I did have a 00:13:59.220 --> 00:14:13.460 Sure. On the first page? Yeah. Curt, could you go back that up? So we're at 101, 141, 5,000? It was 00:14:13.460 --> 00:14:24.180 pertaining to us budgeting 60,000. Yeah, hang on one second while we get backed up 00:14:24.180 --> 00:14:46.149 there. I'm just trying to understand it. Yeah, yeah, he's backing it up. I'm just 00:14:46.149 --> 00:15:16.149 He was on at 141. There you go. There you go. Okay, so if you see on the 2024 budget, those are items that were budgeted. 2024 activity. None of them have been expended. 2025, we're not budgeting anything for public works. In this case, this is for the public works director. And that is because Darren is our contract public works director, and that comes out in a different place in the budget. 00:15:16.149 --> 00:15:22.899 that is that's why you see that at zeros. So the non-bargaining are the people 00:15:22.899 --> 00:15:34.700 that's not in a union. Correct. And we budgeted 60,000 but we use none of it. 00:15:34.700 --> 00:15:39.779 That's correct. And that'll just be re-budgeted at the end of the year and 00:15:39.779 --> 00:15:45.339 it'll go in when we when we do the re-budget. But on 2025 it says zero. 00:15:45.339 --> 00:15:48.460 That's because we're not spending anything out of this account next year 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:59.430 because we have a contract Public Works Director. It's just going to be out of a 00:15:59.430 --> 00:16:10.730 different line item. There was screen improvement funds we had on the agenda 00:16:10.730 --> 00:16:16.809 here yet. I missed it. Thank you, Michelle. Apologies. We'll have it ready for you 00:16:16.809 --> 00:16:21.970 next time. Well, the numbers are here. I don't have it on your sheet. That's fine. 00:16:21.970 --> 00:16:34.750 We'll catch it next. That's fine. Any other discussion? Thank you. Any any public 00:16:34.750 --> 00:16:45.389 comments? Nobody here. I would make a motion for adjournment. Motion by Klemm, second 00:16:45.389 --> 00:16:52.309 by Parker. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? We are adjourned.