WEBVTT 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:33.990 We can call the meeting to order. Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please. Mayor Miller? Here. Alderperson, Klemm will be marked absent for the moment. Monroe is also absent. Simmons? Here. Parker? Here. Stacy? Here. Shadle? Here. Sanders is absent. And Sellers? Here. We have the quorum. We have a quorum. Yes. Sorry, Chair. If you could join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:34.110 --> 00:00:49.710 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:54.010 --> 00:00:56.550 And item four is approval of the agenda. 00:00:57.310 --> 00:01:01.490 Oh, I'm sorry. Do we have Alderperson Klemm or not yet, Curt? 00:01:02.250 --> 00:01:02.770 Okay. 00:01:02.930 --> 00:01:03.850 Oh, I'm sorry. 00:01:03.930 --> 00:01:05.350 We'll need to vote him in, please. 00:01:05.350 --> 00:01:09.910 We need a motion for that 00:01:09.910 --> 00:01:11.050 Yes, please 00:01:11.050 --> 00:01:12.090 So moved 00:01:12.090 --> 00:01:12.850 Second 00:01:12.850 --> 00:01:22.010 Motion by Parker, second by Sellers to have Alderman Clem attend remotely, all in favor? 00:01:22.310 --> 00:01:22.570 Aye 00:01:22.570 --> 00:01:27.430 And I'm so sorry, Chair, because it's remote, all votes will need to be roll call 00:01:27.430 --> 00:01:30.010 Okay, if you could call the roll then, please 00:01:30.010 --> 00:01:30.730 Simmons 00:01:30.730 --> 00:01:32.150 Aye 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:33.070 Parker 00:01:33.070 --> 00:01:33.890 Aye 00:01:33.890 --> 00:01:34.570 Stacey 00:01:34.570 --> 00:01:36.370 Aye 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:37.370 Shadle 00:01:37.370 --> 00:01:38.090 Aye 00:01:38.090 --> 00:01:39.570 And Sellers 00:01:39.570 --> 00:01:39.910 Aye 00:01:39.910 --> 00:01:42.010 The motion passes 5-0 00:01:42.010 --> 00:01:46.390 Alderman Clem will be marked present at 521 p.m. 00:01:46.790 --> 00:01:51.960 Can we hear from Alderman Clem? 00:01:52.020 --> 00:01:52.780 Make sure he's in 00:01:52.780 --> 00:01:54.680 Yes, I'm here 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:55.920 Thank you 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:56.900 I'm here 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:00.980 Item 4 is approval of the agenda 00:02:00.980 --> 00:02:03.360 So move 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:05.360 Second 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:07.720 Motion by Sellers 00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:08.720 Second by Parker 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:23.030 Madam Clerk, Clem, Alder Person, Clem, this is approval of the agenda, what say you? 00:02:24.790 --> 00:02:27.290 Simmons? Aye. 00:02:27.770 --> 00:02:34.220 I just realized I am on the wrong sheet, that will be my problem later. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:35.800 Parker? Aye. 00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:38.600 Stacey? Aye. 00:02:39.020 --> 00:02:39.760 Shadle? Aye. 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:41.340 And Sellers? Aye. 00:02:41.340 --> 00:02:44.220 The motion passes, 6-0. 00:02:46.980 --> 00:02:50.140 And public comments on agenda items? 00:02:50.140 --> 00:02:54.200 Darin, could you check, please? 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.510 I don't think there was anyone else. 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:02.180 Nothing on that. 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:10.180 We would go to item six is discussion of the following budgets by Manager Boyer and Director Richter. 00:03:11.180 --> 00:03:25.580 We're going to be covering street improvement fund, water operating budget, sewer operating budget, storm operating budget, capital equipment fund, capital budget water, capital budget sewer, and capital budget storm. 00:03:25.580 --> 00:03:57.380 Manager Boyer. Yep. Thank you. And good evening, council. So we'll go ahead and get started on capital projects. The first slide here has transportation facilities and water projects. So I'm just going to kind of go over some of the major projects we're working with. And after we get done with that, we'll move on to the water fund. So one of the we're still finishing up work on Adams Avenue, we got about a million dollars left of work out there. So that will probably 00:03:57.380 --> 00:04:03.140 come through the finance department sometime early next year. So we went ahead and budgeted a million 00:04:03.140 --> 00:04:10.320 dollars to finish out the Adams Avenue project. We've also budgeted $500,000 for the Hancock Bridge. We won't 00:04:10.320 --> 00:04:16.060 be moving forward with it rapidly, but we need some money in the budget so that when we complete the 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:21.340 viaduct, we were able to move forward with the Hancock Bridge. So we were estimating about $500,000 00:04:21.340 --> 00:04:52.700 dollars worth of work there the viaduct we've added in the street portion we budgeted about eight hundred thousand dollars that would get us moving forward on the street portion of the viaduct but there's a couple other sections that the viaduct falls under one is stormwater one is sewer and water we've also got cracked ceiling and hot mix in this particular so that would be I'm sorry I didn't realize it's a touch screen here we've got a million dollars scheduled for that 00:04:52.720 --> 00:05:20.500 and that'll be through MFT. And then our street maintenance plan, we have $3 million budgeted and that would be our 2025 street program and that's funded through the 1% sales tax. We've got a $500,000 electric vehicle EV charging infrastructure and that's, assuming we get it, there's about a $320,000 was the total grant with a 20% match which is about $180,000. 00:05:20.500 --> 00:05:50.020 Now we've got a downtown parking lot replacements. As you know, the city, the municipal lot in front of the Stewart Center and also the lot next to the Lindo or, you know, that the Lindo uses but across the street from Lickie's is in pretty bad shape and so we're budgeting about $2 million and we're going to be pursuing grant money for that. So that project will move forward assuming we receive those grants. Under the police, under facilities, we're looking at a new police department. 00:05:50.020 --> 00:06:18.420 Department. So we're budgeting $1.7 million for building rehab, $300,000 for a purchase price. So that gets us moving forward with the new police station. If you're unfamiliar, the current police station, due to its age and the very extensive HVAC work that's necessary, it is very expensive. I think it would cost around $600,000 to $800,000 to do that repair. And the police department is pretty much outgrowing their current facility. 00:06:18.420 --> 00:06:43.980 City Hall, we're budgeting $200,000 for storm windows. Again, the City Hall is a historic building and one of the issues we've had is, of course, we have single pane windows here in the wintertime that makes it more expensive to heat and it creates issues of draftiness and also in the freezing temperatures, the ice builds up on the inside of the windows as the condensation freezes. 00:06:43.980 --> 00:07:13.960 Last year we painted all the window frames appropriately and this in 2025 we would like to go ahead and put storm windows on there. Now they are special storm windows that are acceptable to the historic building preservation people. Moving along we've got the fuel island at the city yards and we're budgeting $330,000 for that renovation that is required. We passed the resolution earlier 00:07:13.960 --> 00:07:43.940 this year and we'll be moving forward with that repair as soon as as soon as we can after the end of the year and we've got the salt shed so we've got a couple of structures out at the city yards that contain our road salt for snow plowing and snow removal and both of those are kind of a pole barn or a pole construction the poles are suffering damage at the base for the end of the ground and there's really no way to to fix 00:07:43.940 --> 00:08:13.860 that except to replace them, so we're budgeting $500,000 to replace the salt, at least one, possibly two of the salt sheds. Under water projects, we received a $1.6 million appropriations from Senator, I'm sorry, Congressman Sorensen, sorry, didn't want to give him a promotion without a vote, but Congressman Sorensen has found $1.6 million for the city, so this will be integrated with our road 00:08:13.860 --> 00:08:21.200 Program for next year. So as we go through and do these roads, we'll be replacing the water mains in areas that it's necessary. Yes. 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:33.380 Will this be used for the water mains on the roads, the city roads that are on the list for 2025? Yes. Okay. 00:08:35.880 --> 00:08:43.080 Also, we budgeted a million dollars, just anticipating the additional water main heading out west on Stevenson. 00:08:45.100 --> 00:09:12.300 We also have the viaduct. So there's about $160,000 of water main work that needs to be done at Shawnee at the viaduct. So we're budgeting for that in our capital plan. Also budgeting here, we have about a million dollars left on phase three of the lead service line replacement program. So we'll be budgeting about a million dollars. Again, that's going to be through the EPA forgivable loan funds. We haven't had a match on that. 00:09:12.300 --> 00:09:20.220 that is just money that the EPA has given to the city of Freeport. Yes. Back up to the Westward Water Main Project. 00:09:20.500 --> 00:09:27.180 Yes. Is that the Open Bible? Yes, that is Open Bible, Highland College, and about 11 residences. 00:09:32.100 --> 00:09:43.400 So we also have lead service fees. Question? Yes. Yes, I'm sorry. So is that just us making the mains go out? Essentially, that's what it is. 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:57.260 if we don't, if we don't, I know that this is still under consideration, but we felt necessary to at least include it in the capital plan because it does impact other individuals and entities, so. 00:09:57.680 --> 00:09:58.580 Just one more question. 00:09:58.780 --> 00:09:59.000 Yes. 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:27.860 One more question. Yes. Didn't we already okay, was it $69,000? Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Did we already okay $69,000 for, okay, the design? That would be in this year's budget. Oh, okay. Right, so that was for design engineering for this particular project, and it also will give us something to submit for grant funding, right, so. City Manager? Yes. Just as a side note, 00:10:27.860 --> 00:10:47.060 You skipped over the side note that says that we're budgeting that pursuing grants. Yes, I was just kind of getting into that. So this would be, you know, pursuing grant funds. We need to have the design so we can pursue the grant funds. Okay, so the viaduct, any questions on the viaduct? 00:10:47.060 --> 00:11:18.380 No, but I do have a question back up in the transportation project. I know the downtown parking lots, I know it's saying pursuing available grants. Yes. But somebody, so what are we going to do if we don't get the grants for the parking lots? Well, we're going to have to do something different, but right now the funding source is going to be through grant funding. So, and I think we have a chance at it. Okay. Yep. Because I know that, that one that's with 00:11:18.380 --> 00:11:48.320 with the lendo uses and stuff. It is very bad. Sure. I fell my own self in there in a hole. So that's why I'm saying I think that's very important to get those parking lots. We don't want somebody else to fall and get hurt. Right. Right. Anyway, on lead services, phase four, that's coming up. That should get started. What would you think about the summer of next year? Okay. So phase four, we're budgeting about two million. And then similar to this 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:55.120 here. We've got another million in 2026. And that is, again, forgivable loan funds through the EPA. 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:03.380 Then we have Phase 3 and Well 12 of the water structures, Phase 3 and Well 12. In that particular 00:12:03.380 --> 00:12:12.000 case, we're kind of breaking that over a couple years. So $7,025,000 and $7,026,000. And just as a reminder, 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:41.980 here. The funding source on that is we have forgivable loan funds of about $5 million from the EPA, $7 million in emerging contaminants money, and we received about $1 million from Congressman Sorensen for this project. Also, I know we had talked, said a little bit about the, oh, I'm sorry. No, go ahead. Talked a little bit about the lawsuit that went through. Yes. And some of that money 00:12:41.980 --> 00:13:06.340 was going to be used for maybe some of that? It could be part of that as well. We haven't received it yet. We've submitted several documents to Shacolny, the attorney that's handling the class action suit. So we should be receiving funds anytime. I'm guessing sometime this year or early next year. 00:13:06.340 --> 00:13:14.980 What is LED services phase three and LED services phase four? What is that exactly? 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:32.700 That is the LED service remediation program we've been working on since 2020. So when we've replaced LED services to individual homes, I think we started out in third and fifth ward, moved through seventh, and I think we're into fourth and seventh ward as well. 00:13:32.700 --> 00:14:05.180 so yeah so that was removing the lead services that go to homes and replacing that with a new service line and that was with forgivable loans yes we received something like 12 million dollars in total forgivable loans from the EPA on that and I might add I don't know of any other community that's getting that you said 12 million yes any other questions on lead services 00:14:05.180 --> 00:14:07.400 One more 00:14:07.400 --> 00:14:09.300 Go ahead 00:14:09.300 --> 00:14:17.640 You also had mentioned I think one time that you said that Freeport might be the first one to get all the lead services 00:14:17.640 --> 00:14:22.420 That's my hope as a community of our size I'd like to see us be the first one 00:14:22.420 --> 00:14:31.580 I know I've talked to other city managers and they're scheduling a 40-year replacement program doing 20 per year for 40 years 00:14:31.580 --> 00:15:01.560 so we're busy doing three and four and six 700 a year I mean it really depends on which grant it was but yeah we're moving rapidly and that EPA funding is allowing us to do that okay so moving down we have water structures phase three so that's well 12 as I mentioned we're still looking for the appropriate site for that but we're hopeful we're gonna get something nailed down soon water main phase 00:15:01.560 --> 00:15:31.540 Phase 4 and Phase 5. These are placekeepers for water main replacements and ensuing years. Generator well 8. So there's no backup, current dedicated backup generator for well 8 at Carroll. So one of the things we want to do there is put a generator backup on that well. It is one of our production wells. And in addition to that, the water tank and water plant there has no perimeter security. 00:15:31.560 --> 00:16:03.430 Security, so we want to go ahead and put a fence around the overall site. That's something that needs to be done basically at every water treatment plant or every site that manages municipal water. And then we've got, let's see here, we've got the Carroll Tank Rehab coming up. So Carroll Tank is due for a paint job. I don't know the last time we had one. Was it in the, maybe in the 00:16:03.430 --> 00:16:35.240 2000s or yeah unfortunately this this type of work needs to be done you need to be doing this about the outside probably needs to be done every five years and anyway a total clean and paint job is necessary at Carol tank so we budgeted some funds for that and that's kind of everything on water projects I mean we've got the brick street water plant demo we can talk about that if you wish but we are we're a 00:16:35.240 --> 00:17:03.140 a little short on time, so we're going to have to keep moving here, and then, and we're looking to water phase eight, possibly involving Stevenson, new water main on Stevenson, which is the 1880s. So on the water, wastewater projects for next year, it would be the, including the phase one project that'll complete in 2026. We got a lot of work scheduled for next year for wastewater facility phase one. 00:17:03.140 --> 00:17:33.120 We've also planned in a renovation of the pumps at the park station park lift station and also we've put a million and a half dollars in for sewer linings so as we do street reconstructs we want to make sure that we have budget for the lining because obviously activity on top of the ground can be detrimental to the collection system and we're also planning for new equipment to be installed 00:17:33.120 --> 00:18:02.000 Hall, and the aeration tank at the wastewater plant, namely the aeration diffusers, and the installation of a lift station generator at the park station, the campus station, and the Galena lift station. So these are all remote sites, and when power goes out for any period of time whatsoever, we need to make sure that we have uninterruptible supply of power to these locations so we maintain our utility. 00:18:03.120 --> 00:18:26.280 In addition to that, the Walnut lift station, that is a new lift station that is scheduled to be installed at the corner of Lamb Road and Walnut or near that area that will convey the wastewater from industry that's generated down on the south end of town through to the interceptor north along Walnut Road. 00:18:26.280 --> 00:18:54.180 the lift stations necessary because currently everybody on the south end of town is running through an inverted section of sewer main and that creates a bottleneck and we have some pretty significant water users there and we need to make sure that there won't be any issues there. In addition to that, we've got the Meadows and West Demeter sewer on sewer communities program. 00:18:54.180 --> 00:19:24.160 Graham. So these two streets don't have any collection system whatsoever. And we're pursuing unsewered communities grant through the EPA for this addition. So Meadowbrook has been one of the streets that needs to be redone, but it also does not have any sewer. There's a handful of places that have lift stations going up the hill, which is sort of a problem. And there's a handful of other people that have septic tanks, but septic tanks have a lifetime. And if 00:19:24.180 --> 00:19:31.480 if you aren't replacing them, if you don't have additional land, which most places don't, you can't redo your leech field. 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:36.300 So we want to make sure that we're expanding the collection system to that area. 00:19:37.120 --> 00:19:39.780 So anyway, stormwater projects, moving along. 00:19:40.820 --> 00:19:44.700 We've budgeted $150,000 for inlet repairs. 00:19:44.840 --> 00:19:47.580 So these are your catch basins along the road. 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:53.080 Many of them were put together with brick and mortar, and the brick and mortar is failing, 00:19:53.080 --> 00:19:57.980 and some of them are caving in. When they cave in, the water erodes the road base and then everything. 00:19:57.980 --> 00:20:25.680 Water erodes the road base and then everything kind of goes into the stormwater system. So we've budgeted $150,000 this year for repairs of that. We've got $250,000 for stormwater for the viaduct at Hancock and Shawnee. That is the stormwater portion that I mentioned earlier. Then we have a large downtown stormwater program. One of the issues is the Benton and Jackson outfall. That is a wood structure that is slowly failing. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:55.980 and we desperately need to get that renovated. So we're pursuing EPA storm grant money for that and there's a 55-45 match on that. We've also got a few other stormwater projects in the plan here but they're in the future years. As far as vehicles and equipment, so vehicles and equipment, large ticket items are part of our capital plan. This year we're budgeting for a 10-yard dump truck for the water and sewer department. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:26.000 Department, a meter truck with topper for the Water and Sewer Department, a new service truck with a crane for the Water and Sewer Department. We've also budgeted a five-yard dump truck for the Street Department, a one-ton truck for the Street Department, and we've got some other equipment there for 2026. You can have a look at that when time allows. We're also looking at a new street sweeper, one of the challenges for our 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:39.840 The construction season has been getting the streets cleaned up and prepared for the tack coat. So we're hoping to purchase an additional street sweeper for that and also sweeping the streets. 00:21:41.060 --> 00:21:42.200 Oh, Stacey. 00:21:42.980 --> 00:21:53.140 Yes, back up to the top. Is this the same type of vehicle dump truck that we had budgeted for two for this year? 00:21:53.740 --> 00:21:54.020 Yes. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:26.330 So we're also looking at our fleet at the police department. We're budgeting for three squads this year. In addition to that, we're needing an additional speed trailer. A lot of complaints and a lot of folks requesting a speed trailer we put out at different locations with all the road work, people are speeding more. 00:22:26.330 --> 00:22:34.850 and then PDAs also request an evidence drying cabinet and portable radios for 2025. 00:22:36.450 --> 00:22:37.330 Oh, Greg. 00:22:37.710 --> 00:22:38.070 Yes. 00:22:38.490 --> 00:22:39.270 What is that? 00:22:39.510 --> 00:22:40.250 Thank you. 00:22:40.490 --> 00:22:42.590 What is that evidence drying cabinet? 00:22:42.870 --> 00:22:43.490 What is that? 00:22:44.690 --> 00:22:46.750 I'll let the deputy chief answer that. 00:22:48.310 --> 00:22:52.290 So it kind of is exactly what it says, but it's a modern one. 00:22:52.290 --> 00:23:21.410 So if we have a scene that has evidence that's wet by any other means, then we can safely put it in there, it has filtration to make sure that it dries and that we can maintain the chain of custody and that it doesn't get, you know, kind of messed up. So usually for your more serious crime scenes and the evidence that comes out of there. Okay. Thank you. Okay. 00:23:21.410 --> 00:23:53.920 in the interest of time I'd like to move on to Street Improvement Fund so the Street Improvement Fund we've got revenue and expenses as you'll notice at the top we're going to start with item three one eight zero zero zero four zero six five and that is the municipal home rule tax so this includes the one percent sales tax that was approved and in place the month of October we received our first allotment from the 00:23:53.920 --> 00:24:00.140 State, and it turned totaled about $307,000. So this is the money we're using to pay for all the street 00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:10.180 reconstructs. In addition to that, revenue coming into that fund includes the electricity tax. About 40% of 00:24:10.180 --> 00:24:20.420 that goes to tax payments from ComEd. So 40% of that is from ComEd. Then on the natural gas, again, about 40% 00:24:20.420 --> 00:24:29.680 of that tax comes to the city and through NICOR. In addition to that, we've got the road improvement fees. 00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:40.980 So that's, as mentioned there, it's $253,000. That's the $2 on your water bill for streets. So as everybody, you know, a lot of folks question that on their utility bill. 00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:48.980 They say, well, what's this $2? Why aren't you fixing my street? It generates $253,000 a year and is currently dedicated to servicing bonds 00:24:48.980 --> 00:25:13.180 bonds that have already been taken out to perform road repairs that are already complete. In addition to that, we've got bad debt expense. Obviously, that's annual write-offs of bank fees of $1,200, so that includes the bank fees from two bonds annually. 00:25:13.180 --> 00:25:43.180 and then moving along down here we've included rock road material and supplies for street markings moving them out of the street budget not completely but in good part and moving them into 318 and then capital outlay we're receiving three million four hundred and ninety six thousand dollars for the 2025 road program so we're budgeting three point five million dollars for the 25 road program then under transfer out to 00:25:43.180 --> 00:26:12.740 Debt Service. We've got the 2019 and 2021 bonds and those payments are approximately $477,000 a year. Any questions on the Street Improvement Fund? Yes, I have one. Yes, the miscellaneous local sour. Why in 2023 and 2024 it was zero and now it's the $92,000? How did that? In the Street Improvement Fund? 00:26:13.180 --> 00:26:42.580 Yes. Yes. Oh. Oh. Oh. 47-50. Yep. That odd number there was a reimbursement made by NICOR for Adams Avenue for something that happened there. Oh, okay. Was that for sidewalk? It was for sidewalk. Yeah. Yeah. They had to relocate a high-pressure gas main. Mm-hmm. They relocated it and redid the sidewalk at the same time. Oh, okay. So that was a good question. 00:26:42.580 --> 00:27:16.190 thank you any other questions on the street improvement fund okay with that let's move to capital equipment funds so our revenue city gas tax it's two cents a gallon from any gas station Freeport generates a hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year court supervision fees is about two hundred fifty thousand and we get that from the circuit clerk and then fund balance transfers a hundred 00:27:16.190 --> 00:27:46.170 and we're anticipating a carryover from fiscal year 24 of $100,000. And then we have a transfer in part and that is coming from the general fund at $726,000. So in the capital equipment fund as we kind of went over with the larger spreadsheet there, we're looking at 10 new radio, portable radios for PD, three police vehicles, the speed trailer, which we already discussed, 00:27:46.190 --> 00:28:18.230 Trust, $310,000 for the five-yard dump truck and one-ton truck. Then machinery and equipment under $1,000. We have this, I'm sorry, over $1,000 of Street Sweeper and other enterprise lease vehicle payments. Also, lease interest payments. We currently lease a number of our light-duty vehicles, and so we've got about $3,600 budgeted for that, and it also includes the Toolcat lease. 00:28:18.750 --> 00:28:53.040 actually it's a it's a loan on the toolcat and then a two hook left truck payments and then lastly we've got the lease principal payments so that's again the the principal portion of these loans at $93,000 any questions on capital equipment funds all right we'll get into the water fund the revenue in the water fund is going to be we're we're estimating 5.5 million 00:28:53.040 --> 00:29:18.840 through grant revenue. However, when we receive that grant revenue and how much it's going to be is going to be something we don't know for sure. We're estimating 5.5, but it could be quite a bit more than that. If you'll go down to industrial services, we receive approximately $240,000 a year in industrial water users. 00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:51.630 on regular business users. We receive about $385,000 a year. So from public entities like the Park District, we receive about $46,000 a year. Under the private fire protection fee, we receive another $105,000 under fire systems. Under service order fees, about $40,000. 00:29:51.630 --> 00:29:56.030 so non-pay turn-on fees and transfer fees these are all 00:29:56.030 --> 00:30:20.960 Answer Fees. These are all revenue codes. So miscellaneous fees, $180,000, that's mostly credit card fees. Capital improvement surcharge, that's the item on your water bill for capital improvement. We receive about $2.1 million per year. And then we've got city reimbursement fees, so that's garbage billing reimbursement. That comes to about $8,600 a year. 00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:52.500 and then other revenue we return the scrap that we generate on site and we bring that into graylings and put that back in the budget so we're budgeting about a hundred about a thousand dollars in revenue there and then other revenue through rent and lease income about thirty six hundred dollars and interest income totals about a hundred and fifty thousand so any questions on the water revenue side okay we're getting short on time 00:30:52.500 --> 00:31:26.680 Fund fairly rapidly. Again, as we're looking at wages, we simply included last, or our projected normal 3% increase on wages. However, we're looking at what we can do for our AFSCME people, some of whom are under the water fund. Let's see. So, let's see, the OBEB, OPEB pension expense is about $5,000 a year. That's item 5252. 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:36.600 PEP employer contribution $52.95 is about $15,000, close to $16,000 per year. 00:31:38.840 --> 00:31:46.860 Administrative expense to the city is about $51,000. That covers miscellaneous expenses bore by the city, whether that's legal, insurance, or whatever. 00:31:48.780 --> 00:31:55.580 Bad debt expense, so this is, we're budgeting about $50,000 here, so this is the annual write-off of unpaid water bills, 00:31:55.580 --> 00:32:25.580 and we haven't completed this yet for 2024 but we are working on that and that will be coming before council here before too long. Consulting services again this is got about $6,500 budgeted for that under lead service line replacements we've got about $3.4 million budgeted for those bearing in mind those are also forgivable loan funds through the EPA 00:32:25.580 --> 00:32:48.740 Asset Retirement Obligation Amortization, so we're budgeting about $25,000 for that, so that's booked at the end of each year by the auditors. Emergency Cash Fund Reserve, we're maintaining, I'm sorry, electrical expense, we've got about $250,000, and there's an increase due to the fact that we have the new water plant online. 00:32:48.740 --> 00:33:20.280 everything in the plant is is electric so there's no gas heaters or anything like that in engineering we're looking at $500,000 on the water side so the water portion of the 2025 Street program the lead services the water operations support and so on and fee in lieu of property tax so this is a fee in lieu of tax remitted to the city and we're budgeting about $41,000 00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:47.520 $1,000 there. There's quite a few other items here, but again, diesel and fuel are carryovers from what we anticipate. We're going to use lab and vendors. Lab testing vendors is pretty standard. That's our testing companies that do the water tests that we cannot perform ourselves. Moving on to item 6580, postage and freight. Yes, oh, sorry. 00:33:47.520 --> 00:33:55.600 I have a question. The emergency fund cash, I see we budget zero all the way across, so why in 2024 00:33:55.600 --> 00:34:02.480 we did $150,000? What was that all about? I think we're, well, Michelle can speak to this a little bit 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.820 more, but I think at this point we're holding off on adding anything to that item until we see where we 00:34:06.820 --> 00:34:11.180 end up with the overall budget, but Michelle, do you have anything you want to add? Yeah, I agree with 00:34:11.180 --> 00:34:41.160 what manager Boyer said and a line item called cash reserve. It's more of a indicator to you. It's not a true expense. I can't write a check per se to a person for that. It's basically a one bank account to another bank account kind of thing. So what it does is just inform the council, hey, at the end of the year, we do want to put into our savings bank account. 00:34:41.180 --> 00:35:09.340 out, $150,000, and like Manager Boyer said, we still, this budget that's presented to you is 99% there. We do plan on presenting any changes again in the middle of November, but we want to, we will relook at everything all over again, and that's one of the lines we kind of wait until the very end. 00:35:09.340 --> 00:35:40.840 Okay. Okay. With that, I'd like to move on to item 6700, main and manholes. Typically speaking, these are our supplies that we need in the distribution and collection system. We've added 10 more iHydrants this year. In 2024, we installed, I think we've got eight of them installed and we've got two more left to go. These are hydrants that give us some telemetry on what's going on within the collection system and actually can 00:35:40.840 --> 00:36:09.340 predict and give us an idea of a water main break that's in the process of occurring. I'd like to move down now to 7010 machinery and equipment. That is enterprise vehicles. So those are the pickup trucks and so forth that we're leasing. Computer software. We've got $112,000 budgeted this year. So this is going to include an Office 360 licensing and updates to our 00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:31.880 our GIS software, so that's the mapping of the water mains and the sewer and all that. We have to keep that up to date so we can continue to use it. Also, we're budgeting $100,000 in land acquisition. That would be for water system expansion, as I might have touched on earlier. 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:42.760 there. I'd like to skip down to 8061 interest. So in the central bank, so we financed what's called meter 00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:49.900 interface units back in 2022, and this is essentially the interest on those, I'm sorry, the payment, 00:36:50.140 --> 00:36:59.420 the interest on the MIUs. Then we have interest on Illinois EPA loan L175642, and that is the 00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:25.100 Birchard Water Treatment Plant and we began payments in 2024 and that will go to 2043. The next one down is 56 or IEPA 5614 loan. That is for well 11 and the water main replacements we did in 2024. Again, that's about $34,000 and it will go until 2043. 00:37:25.100 --> 00:37:50.860 A couple more loans left, $30.84, that's back in 2015 when we did the big four projects, that's about $46,000 a year in interest, and then we have $5,271, which is phase B, that was started in 2018, and that's about $70,000 per year, and that will go until 2037. 00:37:50.860 --> 00:38:26.910 Okay, so with that I'd like to go to the sewer fund. We'll start with revenue and I think that's all I'm really going to have time left to get through. Just for residential services we're bringing in about $2.9 million on the sewer side with industrial services including $360,000 per year and commercial services at about $955,000 per year. 00:38:26.910 --> 00:38:47.770 Capital Improvement Surcharge. As you recall, we did an increase in the capital improvement to pay for the wastewater treatment plant, and we're anticipating about $4.5 million generated through that, as well as city reimbursement fees. That's item 45-45, and that's garbage billing reimbursement. 00:38:47.770 --> 00:38:59.070 on the expense side, and I'll see if I can, Mayor, you can stop me whenever, but I'm going to go ahead and get started. I don't have a tremendous amount, but I don't think we're going to get through everything we tried to get done here. 00:39:00.950 --> 00:39:14.290 Again, talking about the labor, we haven't quite gotten to that place yet, so we've just budgeted in what we were planning to spend with that standard 3% increase. However, we're looking at the wages for 2025. 00:39:14.290 --> 00:39:47.170 Let's see, chemical costs, we're down at $6,115. We're budgeting about $175,000 for chemicals. We've seen a steady increase in the cost of chlorine and the various water treatment chemicals. That just continues to go. If you will, look at $6170, contracted infrastructure and maintenance. That is sewer lining. So about $450,000 of that is sewer lining. The rest is general repairs. 00:39:47.330 --> 00:39:54.050 so we're budgeting about $630,000 there and if you'll skip down to $65,000. 00:39:54.050 --> 00:40:21.820 Skip down to $65.10 NPDES permit fee. This is an annual fee we pay to the EPA when we have our national discharge permit renewed. So that's coming up. Also, again, $50,000 in postage and billing. And then if you'll skip down to $66.55 sludge management. So we've got increased cost on labor and also there's been an EPA 00:40:21.820 --> 00:40:57.150 mandated changes to how the sludge from the wastewater plant is spread onto farm fields so that is included and that's for the reason for the increase on sludge handling. If you will, let's see, we're going to the next one here, if you'll skip to 7010 machinery and equipment, those are sewer related vehicle enterprise leases there that $1,860. 00:40:57.150 --> 00:41:11.330 Again, computer software, we've got $112,000 in the budget. Again, a portion of that's going to be for the new office, 360 upgrade, ESRI, and then licensing and consulting. 00:41:14.830 --> 00:41:27.050 Under interest, I'd like to move down to $80,60. Again, this is the enterprise-leash vehicles in terms of the interest on the existing fleet. 00:41:27.150 --> 00:41:59.180 the other one was a new vehicle and I did get that right correct Michelle the difference between 7010 and 8060 difference between there's just different components to when those lease payments come in there's a maintenance component and interest component okay and then skipping down to 8090 the vac truck which council approved recently 00:41:59.180 --> 00:42:15.200 about $24,000 there. And it looks like we're going to be making our last bond payment for bond 2014A on December of 2024. So that one will be dropping off. That's why that one's a zero. 00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:29.630 What number is that? That is 2014A. As I understand, what will happen is the normal payment will just roll over to 2014B until that one's paid off. 00:42:29.630 --> 00:43:00.880 and then interest so we've got also EPA loan $39.76 and that was again for the big four started in 2015 and there's a $46,000 budget for interest on that loan. All I've got left is Storm. Manager Boyer. Yes. Yes, I have a question. Why do we have two line items for uniforms? Who are these uniforms? We have this one that is the $67.75 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:27.650 and then we have uniforms. Where's the other uniform? Joy, I think it's between the water and the sewer. So when we have folks that are getting the uniform, they're getting, essentially, they get uniforms through Phelps and we split it depending on who is getting them. So you got water operators to get them and you got wastewater operators to get them. They go separately. 00:43:27.650 --> 00:43:33.750 Okay, so there are two different departments that are getting uniforms, right? 00:43:33.750 --> 00:43:34.770 Right, correct. 00:43:37.690 --> 00:43:41.710 Okay, storm sewer fund, this should go rather rapidly. 00:43:42.470 --> 00:43:49.050 We have on the revenue side, you can have a look at that, but the capital improvement surcharge, 00:43:49.650 --> 00:43:57.790 it's roughly $4 per resident, so that's item 4535, and essentially that's coming on your water bill, 00:43:57.790 --> 00:44:24.990 So that's generating at $507,000 per year. And then on the stormwater labor, we have one employee dedicated to the storm system. However, that position currently isn't filled, but we budgeted $52,000 for that. We also saw an increase, and I probably should have mentioned this earlier, IMRF had an increase from 1.08 to 2.06. So we're counting that water, sewer, and storm. 00:44:24.990 --> 00:44:54.990 obviously also workman's comp this year went up substantially to 2445 well in the storm section is 2445 however enterprise-wide we're paying 30% more on workman's comp bad debt expense we got about $20,000 in write-offs in the storm budget and depreciation expense if you'll go down anticipated Adams project completions and associated depreciation so that's 00:44:54.990 --> 00:45:24.110 about $440,000 this year, 2025. And then engineering, we're adding $150,000 for downtown storm projects and other projects related to stormwater and streets. Again, the storm carries some of the bonds as well. I'll just touch on a couple or this one here, which is 2015A, and that interest amounts about $150,000 a year. I'm not sure when that one is coming to a close. I'm guessing probably in the 2035 range. 00:45:24.990 --> 00:45:27.390 I'm hesitant to make a guess. 00:45:27.470 --> 00:45:27.710 Okay. 00:45:27.950 --> 00:45:28.310 Gotcha. 00:45:28.470 --> 00:45:28.990 Maybe 24. 00:45:29.310 --> 00:45:29.490 Anyway. 00:45:31.310 --> 00:45:31.870 Okay. 00:45:32.070 --> 00:45:35.850 That concludes the budget cow for what I have tonight. 00:45:35.970 --> 00:45:38.250 Any questions on overall questions or anything? 00:45:42.040 --> 00:45:42.740 Seeing none. 00:45:42.860 --> 00:45:43.280 Thank you. 00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:43.660 Okay. 00:45:46.040 --> 00:45:52.760 Next item on the agenda would be public comments from the finance cow. 00:45:53.200 --> 00:45:56.960 No public comments. 00:45:57.060 --> 00:45:58.400 I'd take a motion for adjournment. 00:45:58.540 --> 00:45:59.180 So move. 00:45:59.180 --> 00:46:24.800 Second. Motion by Sellers, second by Parker, all in favor, do we? Aye. Roll. Aye. We have to take a roll call. Clem, Simmons, thank you. Aye. Parker? Aye. Stacey? Aye. Shadle? Aye. And Sellers? Aye. Motion passes. We'll give a couple minutes.