Town Council Work Session
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But I would like to get a consensus from the group. What we're going to do is we have items on the board already. We have not voted on. They were simply put up. But I'm going to ask if the council would prefer that we do whatever item that we want to bring up, we need to have four votes to discuss and talk about. And then to keep it on the board or to put it on the board, we need to have five votes, the majority. Is that acceptable to everybody that we do it that way? Anybody have any problems with that? Just because it's the supermajority that you're going to have to have for the budget. If you don't want to do five and you want to do four and then take it
out.
It does. It takes five.
Okay. Can we get a clarification on that from the town attorney?
There is no legal ramifications to it. It's just how we want to run it.
The budget is four. The tax rate is five. So in order to approve it, the tax rate, you need the supermajority. The budget itself is just a regular vote. But if you're voting on the tax rate, that's a supermajority.
Yes, we got that. So if you don't want to do it that way, let me know so we can adjust how, if you want to leave it at, if you want to do it at four, if you want to do it at none, I need to hear from you as to how you want to do this. Anybody
else have an objection? He
wants to do just
four.
Well, it's done different ways. In the last number of years, it's been four. So we can keep it four or we can make it more efficient and do five. It doesn't matter. However, the majority of people want to do it. You want four? You're looking at four? Four?
For clarification, it's going to require five votes.
At the end, it will require it for the budget, not for the tax rate on the budget. So if we have someone who feels very strongly about it, we can do four. Okay. Anybody have a problem with that? Nope. All right. Okay. So now I'm going to ask us to go through. the items that are on that have been put up there. And then when we've gone through all of these items, I will ask for any new additional items put on. So the first item that we put on there was, uh, to double the planning commission stipend with the board of architectural review and the board of zoning. Um, the reason being that they, and I put this one up, um, the reason being that they have not had an increase in, uh, since 2013, but their workload has dramatically increased.
And they are presenting applications to us that they meet multiple times on to get it to the point that it's pretty clean by the time it gets to us. So for all their efforts, it seemed like it was time to finally allow them to get a pay increase, a stipend increase. They're not paid. It's a stipend. So are there forum votes that would like to double the stipend for the Planning Commission, the Board of Architecture Review, and the Board of Zoning Appeal? All right, do I need to name them off? I just have a question. Yes,
ma'am. I would be willing to support this, but since it's going to change the tax rate, can we find a way to find the money? Can we move stuff around so it doesn't change the tax rate? Does that make sense?
We have not found that yet, so not at this point. All right. Alright, so the for that so again, I'll ask do we have four votes that one adult that would be willing to support the doubling the Planning Commission Board of Architecture review and the planning zoning appeal Yes, sir.
Can we see what it looks like with that taken out? What the impact of the tax rate is if you if you just delete that so Cell 7 c7 Yeah, if you take those out, what is the impact to the actual tax
rate? So just a little clarification, none of them are added at this point, so the tax rate's at $1,774, and if you approve those double, then it goes up to $1,779. And I
can tell you the $6,000 from Parks and Rec is coming out. They don't need it. Anyway, that's the only one I know that is coming out. So any other questions? So do we have four votes to keep it in? Yes, ma'am.
What if I just want to support one of them and not all three? Can we vote on them separately?
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Agenda
4 items
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–9:31
2
How does the council decide the voting thresholds for agenda items?
9:31–23:27
3
Why is the council proposing a double stipend for the Planning Commission and related boards?
23:27–45:56
4
What funding is being requested for the Diversity Commission and how will it be allocated?
45:56–1:40:08
Speakers
7 identified
Kelly Burk 24 min
Zach Cummings 4 min
Neil Steinberg 3 min
Patrick Wilt 3 min
Todd Cimino-Johnson 2 min
Kari Nacy 1 min
Jennifer Canton 1 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.