City of Biloxi, MS City Council meetings, 10 Sep 2019

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The Biloxi City Council held a special called meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 to discuss and approve the municipal 2019-2020 fiscal budget. To see the agenda, visit https://biloxi.ms.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/091019smcou2.pdf.

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Welcome to the special meeting of the Biloxi City Council do I have a motion to amend the agenda, a motion by mr. Lawrence second by mr. Gaines, all in favor. That's what ginés.

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Will read that amendments here in a minute.

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To our policy agenda were substituting the attachment sheets for resolution for a concerning the budget.

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Could you repeat that Mrs E.

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We we are substituting the attachment sheets to the resolution on the budget.

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In favor of the amendment unanimous vote,.

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And going and dimming is a post.

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Okay, we'll move on to Mary's report.

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Would like to read in the minutes and the council clerk has a copy of the fiscal year. 2020 budget highlights it's a one-page sheet that I'd like to have read in the minutes that.

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The song ends, I needs.

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Apart mental reports.

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On a counselor foot report doing had.

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A very good ward, five meeting last night appreciate mr. Leonard appearing and we didn't need a legal opinion. Some mr. Abady didn't need to be there. We had about between 45 and 50 people. There appreciate Jerry creel, Mary Williams, who was in for Christie lebot, are and who else?

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Mr. I guess inspector detective Moran, whatever with the the NOLA cameras and major Lassner who's, always a barrel of laughs. So I appreciate everybody who took the time to come out and and hear what was said and what was discussed about the issues in Ward 5. Thank you.

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Beak, so if you wouldn't reach the best, please state your name aloud and your address for the record as well as write it down. Anyone on my left inside your rights would like to come, speak anyone at all. Anyone on my right, your left that would like to come, speak that.

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Good evening, I'm Sarah from the Harrison County, Library System and my address is 980 courthouse, Road, Gulfport and I just wanted to take just a moment and I appreciate your time very much to reiterate that if you are able at in this budget or in the future in your planning process, to grant our request for funding for computers, it would help our Biloxi libraries remain able to provide services to the citizens of Biloxi.

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As you know, I simply send a follow-up letter from the previous budget hearings, reiterating our need and also noting I I'm, not sure that it was clear in our previous presentation, that of the $12,000 you are granting us, for which we are very grateful.

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Approximately 7500 of that is going towards the PIRs increase, so that only leaves about 5,000 dollars left for our computer project and that will purchase that will not purchase very many machines.

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As you can imagine, the the base price is about seven hundred and fifty two dollars per machine, so we just hope that you might be able to help us out with this request and again we appreciate what you have, what you are able to give us and we we hope that we'll be able to improve our services by replacing these almost ten year old machines to keep our libraries functioning again thanks for your time. Thank.

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You anyone else on my right. Your left I would like to come speak if not citizen comments are not closed. Move on to the policy agenda.

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Do okay come on yes, sir.

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Thank you all for your time. Please.

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State your name and address for the record bit my.

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Name is John, Stratton I live right out there there's some of us that want to work and we're trying to get jobs, and if there's any city we know time is really hard to work. There's nothing I'm! If there's any city jobs that people don't want to do, some of us want to work and I can help find out the guys out there that are willing to work, and we just want to work. That's it. No and I. Don't want to be a strain on any taxpayers.

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I don't want to go to jail anymore, for sleeping on property. I just want to get on my feet and I want to help other people get on their feet, and if anybody has any any advice or any comments, please help me help. Thank.

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Anyone else like to speak: okay, well close citizen comments now.

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Resolution to adopt the fiscal year, 2019, 20, municipalities,.

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To Glavin and mr. Gaines mr. Garvin is not here mr. Goines anything, you would like to say any questions comments.

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You have nothing all right, so I'll start with mr. Barrett mr. Tisdale yeah.

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Question I just noticed this I appreciate you have emailed us the documents Mike to look at yesterday on the statement of all revenues on line 15. It says homestead reimbursement, it it's listed 48,000 and in previous documents that had been listed at 388,000, okay, okay, and also on that same document and I'm, assuming that this says Harrison County, ad valorem, I'm, assuming it was previously at 512 thousand. Now it's that figure is 2 million I'm. Assuming that's what the mill generates. That's the port and harbor mill from okay.

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It's all I had thank you.

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Mr. Demming mr. gang you're Lawrence how about it.

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On this one that he was talking about that uh the mill you said that two mill I mean the one: that's two million dollars, one.

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And five: yes,.

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uh Millaa millaa five, the other five hundred thousand, goes to the barn all.

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I was 1.5, goes into the port and, and he said, I was trying to be out what he said it was listed at on here too, to mean. What's that, sir, on one of these sheets in.

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The capital project.

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It's the first number on the port column, the two million 12,800.

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On this sheet,.

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On this sheet,.

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Said 44 as to me and eight: what is that.

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And a budget of 2.2 million.

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Essentially, what.

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But it is there but, as as you pointed out, appropriate for that.

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So we're enduring that, like upgrade the hall was there when you used up, we could use that money there, they're, not Harper's or whatever right. Okay and I see wait, but the insurance thing back to the I'm glad you did that because we self-insure we have a committee handles that and it should be listed. The number of negative five to one hundred thousand that I will have to see if that works out, to be data to be left in that.

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Than a quarterly basis to keep that you know in in tow, that's why I think our position is that we look at it. You know and we're encouraging our employees to take advantage. I. Think we consummate is that we talked about forty percent of the people are taking advantage of. You know the sixty percent, who would not you know doing the things that we've already allocated with some of the systems, so we're going to encourage that and him work that number yeah.

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I'll tell that's going to work out. You know we're talking to Mike yesterday said I, look like it'll, be money, 104 mm hundred for the $1,000 out to five hundred thousand, which is good. It won't be as bad as we thought it was was something we still have to look at to make sure we keep it. Even you know, because there's a rich playing upon employees and we're trying to keep the best weekend.

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I think if they all get involved in this thing, was that new health didn't it it's going to help they got to realize this plan can only work if help us do it all the employees I think y'all doing all that now with enrollments upload, another one is I was talking to kin, and this 25,000, our children, would maintenance need to be listed on the baseball that is trip to 25,000 maintenance under the baseball that nothing do.

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It trust an agency at 25,000 we give 25 and the two team give 25, there's maintenance, trickling for the stadium itself, so there's nothing new anything else other than baseball. So there has to be listed under the baseball. The baseball is a separate entity of the city, you know directly all the rust they think we do knows a part of the city. This is not a normal city function, yep.

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That that is its if Scouters own slipper fund is called the baseball stadium capital maintenance fund. It is combined, it is listed over there and that trust an agency only because that was the way that it was set up. That was the classification that they gave it.

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You know I mean this past year, we've used it a lot, but in years past it was just sitting there building money, you know, and we put money towards it and the baseball team puts money towards it, but it was set up originally as a trust account. Not a agency trust account, and so they call on that trust to do capital maintenance and you have to transfer monies out to do that maintenance. So.

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The actual title of the fund is the capital maintenance, restricted. Exactly exertions that you know, the monies can only be used for capital exactly.

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I'm not I, said you'd only listed under the baseball at all. Well,.

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It'd be listed under the baseball, let's separate here we do it's just combined. We have some agency funds like the school, the school taxes that the money flows through is combined with that construct and agency.

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As a group, it is kind of it is a trust fund, but it's combined with these agency funds, because that's just a category- and so you got the school tax money in in that, and it's just in that category and it's combined all together on our combining fund statement because we have like we have maybe 40 funds all together, but they combine up to different categories and.

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Maybe I'm just not getting this straight to you. That has nothing to do with the city. All the other stuff is dealing with the city. So I got cities function, I got you.

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Baseball is separate completely outside.

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Sits outside the city, I got a shot.

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Normal routine, no.

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It's not not agree with that. So.

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That money should actually stay under the baseball and probably everything else of the baseball should be under the baseball stadium. But that's the only thing we have that's just like that. We.

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Actually have two different fonts: one is the one where we show show the ticket sales revenue and the rent monies that we get from the baseball stadium Annette and that's in like a special revenue account. But this one that takes care to capital maintenance is actually in a trust category. And so you know they're two separate funds once the baseball revenues that we get from the baseball stadium and then you have the capital maintenance, one. So they're.

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Separate you know we understand where you're going councilman you're. What you're really looking for is a one, a picture that shows exactly everything that's coming and going and with regards to the MGM part, whether it be debt service that based sale of tickets, the rent, it's tax sales tax coming back rebate coming to us I think we could pull those together on a single sheet of paper for you, it's sometime and do a report to Council, but this particular sheet.

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It doesn't really reflect everything that's going on with regards to baseball, because, obviously the big kahuna, that's not showing up is that is the debt service. Yes,.

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And that debt service it shows up in the the debt service funds column. That's where the debt is so really.

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When you've considered all together, you're.

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With three different funds for that baseball stadium, one is the debt service which goes through the debt service fund, because it's a geo bond and then you have this capital maintenance, trust.

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And then you have the baseball stadium operations account. So that's three different funds: where money for the baseball stadium flows or expense flows as.

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I said been: all it to me should be listed, took them, they even a debt, even a debt. The means that we pay for the note should be listed on there, because this is just not a normal operation. Artist.

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I understand I, understand what you're saying yeah you.

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The numbers are all.

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There we just they just can't pick them out of this this sheet, but but I think we could do an annual report. That shows well.

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The outcome of the net last fiscal year and the baseball fun: here's well you're on debt service, here's where we are and so forth, and so on. Another.

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Thing we did was totally different, see if it work helped downtown blocks, help everybody, but it's just something we took a shot would, but it's not a normal function of the city. That's the main point. Yeah.

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And I got that point. I do understand that.

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And I was just looking at somebody she's on off y'all any questions on that. The projects that have been the same for others have been listed, except.

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That 1.5 is now on there, the 1.5, it's just in a holding account until it's appropriated. It's now on there at the last one right, yeah, it's the port port millage. The last last project. There's one point: five: it's on there, that's it for.

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The record the ending cash balance only changed by twenty thousand, since you last saw this dysfunction that twenty thousand was twenty thousand. We put into non non Department for the Kroc Center. That's the only change to the not to the total bottom line, who.

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Is that to meet our of what 20,000.

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For the Kroc Center, oh.

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That's the one that Felix, that was what you suggested on the Kroc Center.

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Explain to him yep.

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Still had Europe.

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You still had your combined fund statement from two weeks ago. For a week, the bottom line would have been four million two. Oh four one. One eight is now four million 104 $20,000 difference. So.

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On that, on that, what does that get us at the Kroc Center as.

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That gives us about 200 Alma right at 200, dividuals, 200, kids in the.

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That's a substantial amount. Do.

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They have to live.

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A certain area or.

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Directly, a residence on that we.

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Want the kids that live in the immediate area, first, the east side of Alexi, the recreation so we're talking about a 20.

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Have you been to war market?

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Have you seen our recreation out there.

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All right, that's all.

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Why the question.

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uh You know that on the top part on line 9 coming across to the general fund, you got 6.4 million. It's just says others. So wait. That's 6.4 million come from. Where does others I like to have another six point for me and yeah.

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Yeah, that's a number of different accounts, but probably the largest one. Some part of it is the administrative fee is lumped in there, but it's a number of different accounts, mr. George, that buying up and go in that category, but the admin fee is probably 1.4 million of that or something like that so and.

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The board pays about two hundred thousand. That I think we did discuss this before these enterprise funds have to pay to the general fund for the support they get from the city staff.

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That's just part of being an enterprise fund. The enterprise fund, the port enterprise for fun, for example, doesn't have any attorneys. So when they need legal service, we provide it from the general fund. They don't have accounting services. We provide that from the general fund and so forth and in the way that they pay back is that there is a formula. That's established that our auditors have looked at over the years. That shows as a percentage of revenue, what they pay for those services and that's money from those funds back to the general fund.

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There's a port of Waterloo orders said any money, not.

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Is paying that that.

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The total amount is being paid which.

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Is man yeah four.

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Hundred something.

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9:35 this number down here on line 53 under the general fund.

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That's the water sewer amount that it owes the general fund.

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The last thing that y'all will get my chart straight y'all, working that out I'm gonna, make it right. Okay, you now we're gonna we're not gonna do any. We get that done right, go back to where it was before. Then we have to do because you got a couple things on there, don't even exist that we never supported something. You gotta make sure that's right, because this council has to put these things in place: I'm gonna, sweat it. You suggest it and we deal with you how we work together. The mayor and you know yeah.

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So all right I could.

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I haven't already said it.

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Is there anyone else that would be willing to adhere to the library's request.

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Well, I would love to see that pig your increased, but but here we are at the eleventh hour and.

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I, don't know that we're able to do that. I, don't know if, at this point to move forward, I mean we're here to.

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Appreciate budget check our six month, that's.

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Right we've suya, we've been through.

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We've been through a number of workshops and I know we. When we talked about the Coast Transit Authority, we said we'd, look at that in six months and I think that's a good suggestion when I think it'd be nice to take a look at the library again in six months.

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We discussed about her needing more computers and that we told her. We would give her, however, much to do so every year, and then we took that back this year. So are you gonna be okay in six months for us to review and where we're sitting that we I love that that would be.

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So you'd be okay with that I'll be okay with that, because, but if we don't make.

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Will be very much in the hole for you know the Twilight for the windows. 7 is this year we bought 16 computers so far we can buy like six ish so and you have over 50 computers in your library. So that tells you where, where we'll be stuck so it would be wonderful if y'all could review it and help us reach that goal and later.

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You're asking for about 20,000, more correct, so is there anyone that's willing to give 20,000 more to the library right now?

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No one else! Okay! Thank you. Thank you.

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How much as I would much.

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As I would love.

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To but I think it's prudent to do is what mr. Lawrence said, and that is just see where we are we're pretty and.

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The reason I say that is six months exactly.

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But we've gotten really good at projecting our revenue and I. Don't know that we're gonna get much more revenue than this, but if we do, we would see some sort of trend or have some indication six months from now. That's that's! Why, six months be it a good time to look at this again.

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Thank you, okay, any other discussion.

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Mr. Leonard had mentioned that he was going to spread the summary sheet in the mayor's report. Did he did he state that in the meeting yeah? Okay.

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No other discussion call for the question all in favor.

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To adjourn by mr. Felix, oh.

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George and then second.

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If I feel like going favor, Lawrence and gasps Lawrence, gals Lords.

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Guys meeting adjourned.