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From YouTube: City of Charleston Council Budget Workshop 10/27/20
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City of Charleston Council Budget Workshop 10/27/20
A
Or
from
different
venues
commenting
on
sea
level
rise
versus,
I
can
remember
one
time,
mr
millway,
it
seems
like
we
were
the
only
ones
you
and
council
the
only
one
talking
about
that.
Now,
I'm
hearing
it
from
my
pleasure,
I'm
hearing
it
from
the
county.
You
know
you're
hearing
it
from
different
different
stakeholders
in
the
region.
B
F
Enough
fun,
I'm
going
to
call
this
city
council
budget
workshop
and
we're
going
to
hear
about
the
budget.
F
F
It
really
is
a
remarkable
achievement
in
this
year
of
of
coven
19,
with
the
budgetary
impacts
that
we've
had
and
most
and
councilmember
waring
was
commenting
on
this
this
morning
at
the
charleston
water
service
board
meeting,
who
also
enjoys
a
triple
a
credit
written
somewhat
in
thanks,
I
think,
to
the
city
of
charleston,
but
also
because
of
their
own
fine
efforts.
F
Collectively
in
the
last
year,
between
just
the
city
and
charleston
water
refinancing,
some
bonds,
we've
saved
our
citizens
well
over
20
million
dollars,
maybe
even
double
that,
because
the
water
service
had
a
bunch
of
bonds
that
they
were
able
to
refinance
just
timing
wise.
So
those
ratings
really
mean
something
to
to
us
in
our
city,
and
so
I've
said
it
before.
So
I
spent
one
more
time.
Thank
you
amy,
and
thank
you
to
all
your
staff
for
your
incredible
work
on
that.
F
So
with
that
being
said,
I
guess
I
skipped
over
having
a
moment
of
silence
I'll
ask
you
to
join
me
in
a
moment
of
challenge
as
we
pray
for
our
our
stewardship
of
our
great
city,
going
forward.
F
Amen,
thank
you
so
much
okay.
So
I'm
gonna
go
right
ahead
and
turn
this
over
to
amy.
To
give
us
an
update
on
both
this
year's
budget,
which
was
recently
amended,
and
next
year's
budget
amy.
G
G
So
the
amendment
tonight
will
take
into
consideration
all
the
reductions
and
the
transfers
in
from
the
tourism
funds
and.
G
G
If
I
need
to
open
up
my
computer,
I
can,
I
didn't
think
to
do
that
like
I
did
the
last
time.
So
just
let
me
know,
but
the
reductions
in
the
tourism
funds
and
also
we
had
reduction
in
loss
and
franchise
fees
and
also
the
issue
that
we're
having
with
our
enterprise
funds
as
well.
G
So
this
is
what
the
revenues
look
like
for
the
amendment
that
is
going
like.
I
said
second
and
third
reading
tonight,
so
we
went
from
195
million
in
revenues
to
100
and
almost
94
million
we
had,
like,
I
said:
property
taxes
and
business
licenses,
helped
us
a
lot
this
year
with
that
expenditures.
There's
a
12
million
dollar
reduction
that
we
had
went
from:
206
million,
a
pr
approved
budget
to
193.8
million,
and
then
enterprise
funds.
G
That's
where
we,
you
know.
We
took
a
13
million
dollar
hit
in
revenues
and
cut
2.6
million
dollars,
and
we
had
that
11
million
dollars
that
helped
us
balance
the
budget
in
20
for
2020.
To
begin
with
that,
we
had
to
kind
of
cover
because
the
enterprise
funds
cannot
could
not
provide
that
to
us.
So
that
was
a
lot
of
our
general
fund
issue
that
we
have
for
do
you
have
any
questions
on
that.
B
B
Yeah,
that's
it
so
that
you're
adjusting
our
ex
income
at
one
to
one
point:
nine:
three
million
193
million.
H
H
A
G
D
G
Welcome
so
that's
what
we
did
to
balance,
we
implemented
the
hiring
freeze
and
we
cut
expenses,
and
I
talked
about
the
11
million
dollars,
so
the
plus
from
enterprise
funds
that
we
had
originally
balanced
the
budget
and
then
how
we
had
to
cover
that,
in
addition
to
some
of
the
tourism
transfers
in
as
well
and
we'll
you'll
see
we'll
have
that
same
issue
for
2021
as
well.
G
So,
let's
start
talking
about
the
2021
projected
revenues
right
now,
we're
at
186
million
dollars
in
productive
revenues
and
those
are
the
different
categories.
Obviously
business
licenses.
When
we
met
with
ad
hoc
last
week,
we
had
a
we,
our
business
license.
Staff
went
in
and
did
a
deep
dive
into
it,
a
little
bit
and
really
looked
at
each
of
the
areas
in
the
city
and
which,
which
businesses
we
were
losing
the
most
and
kind
of
adjusted
the
number
a
little
bit.
So
we
were
at,
I
think,
27.6
million
as
revenue.
G
G
Everybody
good
so
property
taxes,
the
74.3
mills
as
determined
with
2020
reassessment,
rollback
calculation,
which
we
talked
about
last
council
meeting.
When
I
did
that
other
presentation,
that's
a
decrease
of
5.3
mills
as
compared
to
2019
and
then
includes
the
tax
credit
factor
that
we
do
with
using
the
reduced
loss
projections,
our
growth
rates
for
charleston,
county,
two
percent
for
vehicles
and
three
percent
for
other
property,
berkeley,
county
grocery,
zero
percent
for
vehicles
and
five
percent
for
all
other
property.
And
it's
a
4.88
million
dollar
value
over
estimate
over
2020.
G
H
G
So
I
just
did
a
prop
or
property
tax
revenue
comparison.
Well,
I
didn't
kathy,
did
it,
but
because.
G
Hoc
meetings,
you're
talking
about
the
assessed
values
and
how
they
increase,
and
it
doesn't
always
judge
with
how
much
our
our
property
tax
revenue
is.
So
we
just
did
this
comparison
over
the
last
few
years
and
you
see
in
2021
some
of
the
reason
why
we're
not
seeing
as
much
of
the
increase
in
revenue
is
because
tip
districts,
so
it
jumped
up
a
lot.
G
A
G
G
G
You
and
so
then
business
licenses
we
had
talked
about
by
category
how
we
calculated
the
reduction
and
we
went
back
through.
So
this
is
really
where
the
reductions
lie
for
all
of
the
different
categories
of
business:
license
fees
with
the
highest
being,
obviously,
hospitality
and
personal
services,
retail,
wholesale
and
professional.
G
F
And
I
meant
to
ask
you
when
you
had
the
chart
up
about
our
revenues
for
next
year,
the
state
of
south
carolina,
I
think,
said:
23
million.
F
G
We'll
recognize
that
when
we
receive
it
right
now,
what
we
asked
for
from
cares
was
free.
Around
300,
000
and
40
000
from
fema
sits
on
a
significant
amount
of
money,
and
I
know
we
have
to
do
that
second
round
by
november
15th,
which
we
need
to
work
on
as
well.
G
So
permits
and
fees
we
also,
you
obviously
have
been
seeing
some
reductions
in
uber
and
lyft,
so
we
reduced
that
by
from
250
thousand
dollars
to
175
000
for
2021
nissa
core
fees,
we
reduced
that
income
worked
with
lakeisha
a
lot
on
that.
G
Any
questions
and
then
enterprise
funds
most
facilities.
We
projected
a
full
year
of
operations
with
no
shutdowns,
so
that's
what
we're
hoping
for,
but
less
visitation.
Just
just
because
of
the
way
things
are
right.
Now
we
talked
about
the
golf
course
fees
and
the
projections
they
were
all
presented
to
you.
In
a
prior
workshop
parking,
we
looked
at
2019
for
normal
operating
revenues
and
compared
it
to
2020..
G
Let's
see
the
percentage
of
19
revenue
that
we're
receiving
each
month
in
2020
and
kind
of
based
it
off
of
that
for
2021
in
terms
of
how
much
revenue
we
think
that
we'll
we'll
we'll
get
for
each
of
those
months.
That's
how
we
came
up
with
those
projections,
so
enterprise
funds,
we're
at
about
34
million
dollars,
said
last
year,
we're
at
42
when
we
budgeted
so
we're
down
pretty
significantly
for
our
enterprise
funds.
Most
of
that
being
parking,
obviously,
and
then
expenditures,
yeah.
B
One
quick
question
amy
on
the
baseball
park
is:
has
there
been
any
discussion
at
all
about
model
league
clubs
resuming
play
next
year
at
all?
Are
they.
G
I
have
not
heard
anything
I
don't
know.
I
haven't
heard
anything
from
dave
in
a
while.
So
I'm
I'm
not
sure
if
I'm
ashamed.
G
G
G
G
G
Deficit
enterprise
fund
expenses,
we're
ending
up
with
a
modest
surplus
in
enterprise
funds
of
four
million
dollars,
based
on
what
we're
looking
at
now,.
G
And
then
just
to
kind
of
go
over
some
citywide
expenditures,
because
always
talk
about
those
fact
of
life
increases
right
now.
This
budget
includes
no
cola,
the
hiring
freeze
will
continue
into
2021,
and
it
also
does
not
include
and
include
any
increases
to
minimum
wage
professional
services
and
contracts
increased
by
about
472
000.
Because
of
the
new
garbage
trash
collection
contracts,
one
of
them
has
been
awarded
the
other
one
has
not
it's.
I
think
the
selection
committee
will
be
meeting
soon
to
select
that
contractor
for
west
ashley
and
john's
island
fringe
benefits.
G
The
state
you
know
always
had
that
one
percent
increase
per
year
through
2023
they
they
I
want.
I
said
they
forgave
it.
They
probably
that's,
probably
not
the
best
word.
They
stalled
it.
I
should
say
in
2020
we're
really
not
sure
what
they're
going
to
do
for
2021,
so
we
budgeted
for
the
increase
just
to
be
on
the
safe
side.
Healthcare
increased
1.1
million
general
insurance
kind
of
killed
us
this
year
as
well,
27.6
increase
in
premiums,
that's
about
a
900
000
increase.
G
A
lot
of
that
is
tort,
liability
premiums
which
increased
by
50
for
police
officers
and
25
for
everyone
else,
and
that
was
more
than
half
of
that
increase.
B
So,
no
matter
what
what's
happened
in
your
local
community,
this
is
just
a
broad
brush.
Yes,
premium
increase.
That
is
just
an
amazing
amount
for
them
to
jump
that
high
up
there
yeah,
but
what
so?
What
about
the
25
for
all
other
employees?
I
mean:
what's
happened
to
justify
that.
G
I'm
not
really
sure
how's
my
shade
I
can
have.
We
can
look
into
that
a
little
bit
more,
but
yeah
500,
almost
576
thousand
dollars
of
that
900
000
was
just
for
toward
light
movie.
B
G
Lee's
purchase
we
actually
cut
at
least
purchase
back
a
lot
this
year.
You
know.
Last
year
we
had
increased
it
a
lot
just
trying
to
get
caught
up
in
some
of
our
outdated
fleet.
So
we
reduced
the
three-year
lease
by
300
000
from
2020.
Those
are
our
police
vehicles.
We
we
talked
with
them,
and
1.3
million
is
what
we
will
do
for
2021.
G
four-year
lease.
We
are
not
borrowing
anything
for
regular
fleet
and
I'll
explain
why
environmental
services
is
725.
000..
Fire
is
2.8
for
the
apparatus
that
we
need
to
get
an
infrared
information
technology
at
580,
000.
we're
borrowing,
almost
5.5
million,
which
is
a
decrease
of
almost
3.6
million
from
2020..
G
So
what
we
did?
We
have
savings
from
the
2018
to
2019
these
purchase
borrowings
so
we're
utilizing
those
savings
to
purchase
regular
fleet
replacements
rather
than
putting
it
on
these
please
purchase
in
2021
and
the
same
with
it
and
then
you'll
see
tonight
on
the
agenda.
The
fire
department
is
purchasing
a
used
fire
truck
as
one
of
the
reserve
trucks,
they're,
actually
selling
one
and
purchasing
this
one.
That
is
better
for
their
needs,
so
we
should
get
some
revenue
from
that.
G
E
G
Obviously
the
larger
dollar,
like
fire
trucks,
is
better
to
do
on
these
purchase,
but
if
we
have
the
opportunity
to
go
ahead
and
just
buy
them
outright,
we
you
know
we
can
do
that
and
it
will
save
us
a
debt
payment
for
the
next
few
years,
because
I
feel
like
this
is
going
to
be
at
least
a
three-year
problem.
Not
a
one-year
problem,
so
it'll
help
us
going
forward
as
well.
E
And
then
do
we
get
to
depreciate
or
how
do
we
end
up?
You
know
taking
them
off
the
books
once
we
we
just
sell
what.
G
And
then
we
can
sell
them
same
with
lease
for
anything
on
these
purchases.
It's
the
same
thing
we
own
them,
so
we
can
sell
them
outright
after
so
debt
increase.
We
have
debt
service,
increase,
981
000
from
2020
466.
G
000
of
that
is
interest,
expense
for
the
ban,
the
tan,
the
new
iprb
and
the
for
the
ctc
parking
garage,
and
then
the
reindeer
is
just
increases
in
principle
and
interest
expense
on
current
bonds.
This
budget
also
does
not
include
any
community
assistance
grants.
We
had
talked
about
that
before
that
there
were
a
way
for
us
to
incorporate
that
in.
We
would,
but
I
don't
see
how
we'd
possibly
be
able
to
do
that
at
this
point.
G
So
our
preliminary
2021
draft
budget
kind
of
looks
like
this
you've
seen
all
the
separate
categories
for
revenues
and
expenses.
It
just
won't
fit
on
the
slide,
if
I
put
them
all
in
there,
so
20
million
dollar
deficit
and
general
fund.
We
add
the
enterprise
funds
in
so
we're
at
about
a
16
million
dollar
deficit.
Right
now,.
G
So
what
are
we
going
to
do
like?
I
said:
16
million
dollar
deficit
ad
hoc
budget
committee
committee
meeting
on
thursday,
so
we
have
a
lot
to
do
items
to
discuss
to
kind
of
whittle
this
down
that
we
have
discussed
and
we'll
we'll
talk
about
more
on
thursday.
Is
the
local
option
sales
tax?
Not
giving
100
of
that
back?
If
we
kept
25
percent
gave
75
percent
back.
That
would
produce
an
approximate
two
million
dollars
in
additional
revenue.
G
Fifty
percent
of
the
revenue
rolling
back
fifty
percent
were
produced
approximately
four
point:
one
million
dollars
in
additional
revenue,
and
I
included
those
calculations,
because
I
know
you
guys
like
to
see
what
that
will
do
to
a
tax,
a
property
tax
bill.
So
that's
charleston
county
75.
It
would
increase
at
by
21.
and
then
fifty
percent
would
increase
by
forty
five
dollars
on
an
average
on
the
three
hundred
thousand
dollar
home
and
then
berkeley
county,
ten
dollars
and
eighty
cents
and
twenty
one
dollars
and
sixty.
H
G
And
then
another
option,
because
our
problem
right
now
is
revenues.
It's
not
necessarily
expenditures.
We've
we've
cut
a
lot
in
expenditures
where,
if
we
cut
any
more,
then
we're
going
to
impact
services
without
a
doubt,
so,
as
you
can
see
with
the
enterprise
funds,
you
know
normally
that
would
help
the
general
fund
a
lot.
It's
just
not
able
to
do
that.
So
our
problem
is
revenues
more
so
than
expenditures.
G
So
we
also
could
do
a
straight
millage
increase.
Everybody
was
asking
me
about
what
our
millage
bank
is
right.
Now,
a
value
of
a
mill
for
us
is
1.6
million
dollars.
It's
gone
up
a
little
bit
from
last
year,
millage
bank.
We
could
raise
taxes
by
3.6
mills
just
to
let
you
know
that
and
then
that's
what
it
would
look
like,
and
I
and
we
did
it
kind
of
with
the
both
options,
including
local
options,
sales
tax
and
just
a
straight
millage.
So
if
we
just
increase,
millage
it'd
be
an
increase
of
38.40.
G
G
Yeah,
because
if
you,
if
you
just
did
a
straight
knowledge
like
say
you
just
raised
3.6-
which
I
know
we
won't
do,
I
just
gave
you
the
full
amount
that
would
be
a
38
and
40
increase
to
a
charleston
county
resident.
But
if
you
also,
if
you
did
look
that
plus
kept
25
of
the
local
options
sales
tax,
then
their
tax
bill
would
increase
by
59
and
40
cents.
G
A
G
G
Operating
that
doesn't
include
the
four
for
drainage
and
three
for
public
safety
infrastructure,
but
yeah,
so
it
was
79.6
before
reassessment
rolled
it
back
to
74.3.
If
we
raised
it
3.6,
it
would
go
to
77.5.
A
A
G
G
And
then
the
other
options
expenditure
decreases,
like
I
said
I
think
we've
cut
departmental
budgets
as
much
as
we
can
without
impacting
services.
G
We've
talked
with
recreation
and
looking
at
some
programs
and
possibly
reducing
hours
of
facilities,
parks
they're,
looking
through
their
professional
services
contracts
right
now
to
see
where
we
might
be
able
to
cut
back
on
some
right
way,
maintenance
and
things
like
that.
So
we
will
have
that
information
on
thursday
for
ad
hoc
and
then
other
other
options
we
would
have
is
to
reduce
our
arms
and
other
facilities
as
well.
G
The
most
unpopular
is
for
lowe's
40
hours
would
save
2.2
million
dollars
and
80
hours.
Let's
say:
4.4
million
dollars.
G
G
Another
full
council
workshop
the
week
of
the
17th
to
present
the
final
draft
budget
to
you,
because
we've
been
doing
that
for
the
last
few
years,
I'm
assuming
that
you
would
want
to
still
do
that
again
this
year,
so
we'll
try
to
set
something
up
with
account
with
the
clerk's
office.
For
that
and
that's
really
all
I
have
unless
you
have
questions.
B
Amy,
yes,
just
to
recap,
this
we're
looking
at
a
20,
a
16
million
deficit
so
and
the
two
big
items
that
we're
that
we're
looking
at
is
this:
this
rollback
on
property
taxes,
which
could
save
us
as
much
as
four
million
dollars
and
then
the
they.
Neither
these
options
that
we're
happy
with
and
then
the
furlough,
the
most
you
get
out
of,
that
is
four
million
dollars.
Yeah.
B
G
So
we
have
that
option
only
because
we've
been
trying
every
which
way
not
to
to
use
it,
knowing
that
21
was
going
to
be
tough,
but
that
would
be
the
last
time
we
could
use
fund
balance.
You
know
we're
being
pretty
short
on
balance,
and
that
was,
I
think,
one
of
the
reasons
why
I
think
that
was
probably
one
of
the
main
reasons
why
we
maintained
our
triple
a
because
I
I
just
had
to
show
them
all
of
our
fund
balance.
G
Even
in
tourism,
they
were
very
concerned
of
us
being
able
to
pay
debt
and
they
were
talking
about
giving
us
a
negative
outlook
until
we
showed
them
exactly
our
debt
payment
plan
and
also
all
of
the
fund
balances
we
have
in
tourism
funds
and
our
enterprise
funds,
so
that
really
kind
of
saved
us.
So
we
need
to.
We
need
to
preserve
those
as
much
as
we
can.
D
Okay,
at
the
risk
of
decreasing
public
safety,
though.
D
It
trust
I
understand,
I
understand
clearly
the
the
next
question
is
what
what
what
would
have
been
the
amount
for
the
minimum
wage
increase.
G
D
G
A
Amy
amy:
that's
the
key:
how
many?
How
much
do
we
spend
in
part-time
employees.
G
F
J
H
G
I
G
So,
like
I've
said,
obviously
we
paid
fund
balances
back
first
and
then
you
know
whatever.
So
it
could
be
some
of
the
requests
that
the
departments
ask
for
that
are
one-time
expenses
that
we
weren't
able
to
provide.
We
can
do
that
with
those,
but
you
can't
use
one-time
revenue
for
ongoing
expenses.
So
you
don't
want
to
build
up
your
budget
to
a
certain
degree
for
ongoing
expenses
and
expect
the
revenue
that
we
have
for
one
year.
Then
you're
going
to
be
in
the
same
situation
next
year,
because
we
won't
have
the
revenue
next
year.
G
D
And
amy
this
is
deadly.
The
same
principle
applies
with
regard
to
selling
assets
for
re
reoccurring,
debt.
Wouldn't
it.
F
All
right
so
amy,
I
know
we
have
a
couple
of
other
feed
proposals.
One
was
from
the
rights
of
way
that
tracy
and
keith
benjamin
are
working
on.
I
don't
know
if
you've
included
that
it
was
only
about
four
or
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
a
year,
but
at
this
point
every
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
a
year,
you
know
helps-
and
I
I
did
ask
ask
her
and
ask
you
if
there
are
any
other
fees
in
our
allowable
permitting
fees
or
other
fees
that
we
could
could
increase
for
next
year.
F
Boy
now
would
be
time
to
look
at
it.
G
H
G
We
have
it
because
we
didn't
feel
like
they
would
be
ready
in
time
in
order
for
us
to
include
them
in
this
budget.
That's.
The
last
thing
I
have
heard
is
that
we
really
wouldn't
have
the
package
together
to
get
everything
and
all
the
approvals
that
we
would
need
in
order
to
incorporate
it
into
this
budget.
F
A
Okay,
well
one
thing
I'd
like
to
say,
mr
mayor
is
amy
really
laid
it
out
succinctly.
You
know
where
the
choices
are
to
be
made,
and
I
certainly
appreciate
that.
I
don't
think
anybody's
going
to
get
off
of
this
zoom
call
thinking.
You
know
what
what
do
we
need
to
do?
Next,
I
mean
we
know
where
the
hard
choices
are.
A
C
Yes,
mr
mayor,
I
would
like
to
thank
amy
for
going
through
it's
a
hard
job.
We
got
to
make
the
tough
decisions,
there's
going
to
be
some
tough
decisions
we
have
to
make,
and
we
just
have
to
explain
to
the
community
and
let
them
know
these
are.
This
is
tough
times
and
tough
decisions.
We
have
to
do
to
keep
the
city
operating,
so
I
don't
know
what
else
we
can
be
able
to
do
unless
someone
drop
some
money
down
from
the
sky
for
us,
yup.
F
All
right,
I
heard
all
that
any
other
thoughts
or
questions
before
we
adjourn
for
our
next
one.