The Plymouth City Council got reviews of its ending fiscal year and upcoming new fiscal year in a staff budget workshop Wednesday night in Plymouth City Hall. Mayor Jon Colburn convened the special meeting, with Vice Mayor Pat Fordyce and council members Patricia Shackleton and Greg Baldwin attending. City Manager Dixon Flynn started the workshop with a presentation of the fiscal 2007-2008 accounts payable records that compared the payments of this ending year with those of 2006-2007. Most notably, he showed payments to the Amador Water Agency had dropped by 162,000 dollars. In 2006-2007, it was 270,000 dollars and it dropped to just over 108,000 dollars this fiscal year. “I felt pretty good about the costs going down, but this is the only sheet with costs going down,” Flynn said. But the contract with the Amador County Sheriff’s Office had declined a little too, from 101,000 dollars to 95,900 dollars this year. Dixon reported that engineering payments had risen by 150,000 dollars over last year, totaling nearly 250,000 dollars. Councilman Baldwin said he thought that increase was due to Federal Emergency Management Association work requirements. Another big rise came in planning costs. Flynn said the city spent 394,000 dollars, up from 169,000 dollars last fiscal year. “We’re probably going to be recovering 60 to 70 percent of that cost,” Flynn said. The fiscal budget was expected to come up short 42,000 dollars, with revenue projected at 564,000 dollars. The city had come in under budgeting in all other areas. Planning overrun of 87,700 dollars equaled the budget deficit almost entirely. Colburn asked that the next meeting have city facilities manager Selby Beck there to help with some questions. Gardner said after hopefully two or three more budget meetings they will finish the budget. The Plymouth City Council next meets Tuesday, August 26 in a joint meeting with the Plymouth Planning Commission to work on the city’s general plan. The council has a regular meeting scheduled Thursday, Aug. 28th.
Friday, 22 August 2008 05:05
Plymouth Holds Special Budget Workshop
The Plymouth City Council got reviews of its ending fiscal year and upcoming new fiscal year in a staff budget workshop Wednesday night in Plymouth City Hall. Mayor Jon Colburn convened the special meeting, with Vice Mayor Pat Fordyce and council members Patricia Shackleton and Greg Baldwin attending. City Manager Dixon Flynn started the workshop with a presentation of the fiscal 2007-2008 accounts payable records that compared the payments of this ending year with those of 2006-2007. Most notably, he showed payments to the Amador Water Agency had dropped by 162,000 dollars. In 2006-2007, it was 270,000 dollars and it dropped to just over 108,000 dollars this fiscal year. “I felt pretty good about the costs going down, but this is the only sheet with costs going down,” Flynn said. But the contract with the Amador County Sheriff’s Office had declined a little too, from 101,000 dollars to 95,900 dollars this year. Dixon reported that engineering payments had risen by 150,000 dollars over last year, totaling nearly 250,000 dollars. Councilman Baldwin said he thought that increase was due to Federal Emergency Management Association work requirements. Another big rise came in planning costs. Flynn said the city spent 394,000 dollars, up from 169,000 dollars last fiscal year. “We’re probably going to be recovering 60 to 70 percent of that cost,” Flynn said. The fiscal budget was expected to come up short 42,000 dollars, with revenue projected at 564,000 dollars. The city had come in under budgeting in all other areas. Planning overrun of 87,700 dollars equaled the budget deficit almost entirely. Colburn asked that the next meeting have city facilities manager Selby Beck there to help with some questions. Gardner said after hopefully two or three more budget meetings they will finish the budget. The Plymouth City Council next meets Tuesday, August 26 in a joint meeting with the Plymouth Planning Commission to work on the city’s general plan. The council has a regular meeting scheduled Thursday, Aug. 28th.
