“for tonight we have conducting the public hearing and the proposed budget to the public and the purpose is not to address the market values but that uh residents we had a few calls on that brenda has dealt with those on a one-on-one basis so we would receive any public comment and it appears that we may have scared them away at this point”

“what we'll be discussing tonight is that 21 cents that comes back to the city here is our showing our certified levee for 2021 we were at three million five hundred eighty two thousand three hundred thirty dollars based on our preliminary levy which is also option one tonight uh we would have an increase of five percent to that levy or 179 thousand eighty dollars and then we also do have option two uh to consider uh that's a four point five percent uh increase in the levy or 161 thousand one hundred and fifty dollars”

“yes i'm mightily impressed that we've been able to decrease the level of city tax rate relative to our pure cities of the county um year after year despite having uh increases what it tells me is that as a city we've done a good job being moderate in our approach and not spending too much”

“the other two cities that were in front of us are lower than us in the past would be wiper township and badness heights and their biggest reason for jumping is they have had some deferred investment I would say in their public streets”

“I will make a motion that would go with the five percent thank you because I was a could have done that too I'll be the heavy this year somebody else's turn next year we will have uh no cost a month is not that great there's uh potentially salary increases that are coming up that we need to we need to deal with and that five percent will will help a lot more”

“budget outcomes of course our balanced budget and to continue to maintain city services um we do have an increase of seasonal staff wages of two dollars per hour we did in the proposed 2022 budget we have a 0.3 fte additional hours for one of our positions and uh additional three months are included in the budget as you remember we deferred the hiring of the code enforcement rental housing coordinator until uh the second quarter of 2021 so that is now a full year fte position or it's a part-time position but it's budgeted for a full year”

“we have a balanced budget and so here first of all is the expenditure side we've got 4 million three hundred eighty three thousand three hundred and ten dollars uh for that budget in expenditures the largest portion is forty one percent for police services”

“let's have one more motion to do the reduction in the debt levy as council knows we have a scheduled levy for the public works building of 183 618-75 we pay that with our water and sewer fund and so we can certify that levy at zero zero”