City of Binghamton, NY Board of Estimate & Apportionment, 6 Oct 2021

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Motion to call the meeting to order uh first thing is the approval of the minutes from september 29th. We.

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Have a motion motion.

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Second, kenneth, I think you got a second.

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All in favor all.

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The first uh piece of legislation here is for a budget amendment 21 188, to amend the cdbg budget to adjust for excess program income. This is the issue that we've had with these hud and cdbg and home programs for years that it's finally been reconciled, and I don't actually see the transaction here.

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So the first one is we're adjusting the program income. You know where the thing is on this one. The second one is the home.

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I don't see it, though.

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What what the first one's doing is removing money out of program income that the city does not have to spend out of the cdbg account? The second.

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Rl 189 is adding money back to the home budget from program income of a hundred, and I think it's sixty three thousand hundred sixty two thousand nine twenty seven.

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Jen, can we approve this the way it is.

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Okay: here's what it's doing! It's increasing line cd, eight, six, six, eight five, three: three: five: oh nine, cdy 46 home owner rehab by 321, 000 and increasing.

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Federal aid, community development, cd4910.

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That's the way it's written, I guess it is so we're increasing expense line. Homeowner rehab in the cdbg account and increasing the revenue line, 321 thousand dollars. We have a motion.

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Motion second,.

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All in favor all.

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The second rl um the 189 is taking decreasing expense lines for home ownership rehab from years 36 44 and 45 totaling 162, 927, 22 and decreasing the revenue uh program, income line, um four, four: nine, eight, nine promotion promotion. Second,.

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The next uh amendment here is to amend the 21 risk management budget for salary adjustments for the assistant engineering physician. um This is a position that we're increasing the wage of the individual by 635 hours dating back to. I think, it's august, 9th emotion, motion.

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I'll second, the motion, but um how do we back date it to august 9th.

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That was by request that one, let it go back to that date.

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Yeah that can't we can only go back to a current pay period.

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We can't make a retroactive pay adjustment just with just within an existing pay period.

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And is there a new annual salary related to this.

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What what's the new annual salary.

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And this is a situation where an employee came in at a higher salary than the current employee, with less experience.

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I mean we can change it so that, from whatever the existing pay period is through the end of the year, they end up with the same annual salary. But I can't do it retroactively to august 9.

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Okay, so if we make this the the moving, the money is 695 000 or six hundred. Ninety five dollars takes care of that situation. Then I can just run that through payroll and then adjust it at the beginning of next year, if you're, okay, with that.

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Yes, yeah, that's fine. I've gotta double check the legislation to make sure we've added the new annual salary.

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It is not on there. I have the rl right here in front of me: the legislation, okay.

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We need to we need to amend that lee before this evening to amend that budget line.

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You know to change the annual salary from x to y and then to do that from a certain date through the end of the year requires the this addition, these additional funds.

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I I misunderstood that when I saw the rl, I don't think the legislation is correct.

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The next uh legislation is 198. That's to amend that 21.

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Can we go back, I don't think I don't think we voted on.

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This we can, we can approve it.

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Subject to those.

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Changes amending.

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The proposed include the new annual salary.

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The new salary count is 45062.

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and we have a motion to approve that with the amendments that we discussed here motion. Second, second, all in favor.

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The next one is to move money in the police budget uh and what we're doing here is we're defunding, a assistant police chief, we're adding a captain to the police force.

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And we're purchasing some additional capital equipment for it and the parks department, along with dpw.

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We have a motion.

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Second, second, all in favor all right.

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The next rl is to amend the 21 beaches and school temporary services during the summer. They use more temporary services for lifeguards than what was originally budgeted for so we're moving money out of other parks lines to cover for that for a total of twenty three thousand dollars. A motion.

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Second, second, all in favor, aye.

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The next rl rl 200 is to amend the 21 capital fund to transfer purchases for road castings we're transferring money from the cso upgrades into the casting lines for 26 000 motion.

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Second, second, all in favor.

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Can do we have to do the refunding of the bond ordinance.

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We should approve that as.

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Okay, we'll make a motion uh we're refunding the 2015 bond saving. Basically, I think it's 1.2 million dollars over the remaining 19 years. Promotion motion. Second, second, all in favor, hi, hi.

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The next um legislation, which is not being voted on tonight, I don't believe correct- is to move money to do the demolition of the demolition and geotech study for the water street garage of 1.6 million dollars. We're taking that out of the city's fund balance uh to do that, demolition.

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Promotion promotion.

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And the last piece of legislation here is 214 is to move money from general fund contingency account of 39 172 52 to the improvement line for city hall, improvements for the city council chambers ron. You want to talk about that.

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Yes, this is this is to do some improvements to the roof so that we can get a guarantee for the for the new roof. The old plans showed that there was blocking all the way around the edge which there wasn't so we have to go in and do that before we can actually meet code, because code says we have to meet the manufacturer's recommendation for installation and that's what's required to meet that installation requirements by the manufacturer.

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You have a motion motion a second second, all in favor.

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We do we have any other add-ons okay motion to adjourn.

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Motion second, second,.

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All in favor all.

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