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Minutes for the special called meeting on November 22, 2004
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SPECIAL CALLED MEETING-NOVEMBER 22, 2004
The Jonesboro City Council met Monday, November 22, 2004, at 12:00 p.m. in a special called meeting of the Jonesboro City Council. A full quorum was in attendance. Present were: Mayor Hubert Brodell, City Clerk, Donna K. Jackson, and seven council members. Those members were: Farmer, Province, Hargis, Street, Dover, Furr, and McCall.
The purpose of the called meeting was to distribute a preliminary draft of Mayor Brodell’s proposed budget for 2005. He explained they were projecting 32.5 million dollars in revenues and 37.5 million dollars in expenditures which included all fixed asset requests, Plan B of the Condrey Salary recommendations, and all Capital Improvement requests. Mayor Brodell recommended three positions: Additional personnel in Cemeteries, Human Resources, and to make Mr. Brian Wadley the Assistant Planner. He explained the budget included a summation of personnel requests by other departments. Mayor Brodell provided a list of current revenues totaling $37,472,550 and estimated the final balance would be $33,000,000 by the end of the year.
Councilman Farmer informed members of changes that will impact the bottom line of the 2004 budget. Those were: Drainage and Traffic Studies with hopes of grant money that will not be available until 2005; Financial Software that was $40,000 more than originally estimated; two fire trucks had to be purchased when only one had been budgeted for; Excavator was purchased to replace one that did not work.
Discussion was held regarding Capital Improvements for 2005. Councilman Farmer stated $250,000 had been set aside as reserves in the 2004 Capital Improvement fund to close the old landfill and $750,000 to open the new landfill. He questioned if the amounts in Mayor Brodell’s proposed 2005 budget took into account the million dollars set aside for the landfill. Mr. Flowers explained those amounts woul...
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